COVID-19 When resilience matters the most.

Mimeta is now designing a financial response mechanism to the pressures COVID-19 puts on established organizations, platforms and performers within arts and culture. In 2020 we will hopefully be able to provide organizational support to our established partners in MENA and Africa South of Sahara so that they will be able to continue their efforts on behalf of the local arts- and culture sectors. 

However, a major part of their latest proposals shows us a need for urgent support of art platforms and artists to enable livelihood and continuity. Mimeta will therefore ask our partners to manage the disbursement of smaller funds toward their constituencies, preferably in partnerships with other leading culture sector development organizations in their geography. Again - this is wat we hope we will be able to support.

 In our view we don’t need to launch any innovative approach, as “use this time to develop distant learning and video-concerts”, as this already happens all over the globe, but we are open for proposals - as long as it is a substantially new way to give marginalized people their right bound access to arts and culture. 

Syria: Research To Strengthen 'Culture of Knowledge'

Our partner Ettijahat is grounded in the belief that independent culture and arts are created in the core of great transition processes, even more, that they pave the way for them in a direct or indirect way. Ettijahat is grounded in the conviction that independent culture promotes active citizenship and encourages a change in behavior and not only ideas.
It is grounded in the conviction that Syria is multiple, diverse, intellectually productive, artistically authentic and always believing in culture to be the right of each Syrian citizen.
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The Africa call

In 2013 Mimeta and Prince Claus Fund joined forces in an attempt to develop synergies by publishing a joint geographical call for proposals. The call had a special focus on freedom of speech, censorship, marginalized groups and culture and conflict. 18 projects were selected from the call in total and below you will find the six projects co-funded by Mimeta.
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Ciné+ Association culturelle et cinématographique : The Litarary Café, Algeria

The project consists of organising meetings about literature to connect authors with the public. The invited authors engage in a discussion, concluding with a debate about the content of their literary work. Subsequently, a literary bulletin will be produced, that reflects on the meetings and provides a more extensive analysis of the presented works by eminent critics.
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MoLi: Lutte Contre le Silence, Burundi

MoLi documents hate crimes and abuse based on sexual orientation, gender expression or identity. MoLi encourages the LGBT community to express itself through art in order to fight against discrimination and promote tolerance, as well as to build confidence. The project Lutte Contre le Silence will initiate six artistic workshops focusing on poetry, writing, theatre, photography, drawing and singing under the guidance of established artists.
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