The IFPC is a fund which seeks to promote creativity and the arts, supporting the artistic expression and the professionalization of youth in culture and the arts. The Fund supports young artists and their projects which contribute to sustainable development.
In a snapshot:
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The IFPC provides financial and technical support directly to artists by cofounding their projects;
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The IFPC provides support for the production of artistic and cultural works and public events to promote cultural diversity and artistic expression, particularly for under-represented art forms on the global arts scene;
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The IFPC promotes projects that advance the role of culture for sustainable development, with priority given to grassroot projects promoting gender equality, international and regional cooperation, peace and social stability.
Within this framework the IFPC launches annual calls for projects which are open to individual artists, not for profit and non-governmental organisation, as well as public institutions across the globe.
Two calls have been launched and 18 projects have been approved for co-financing. These projects were chosen for their artistic and creative content, their partnership and resource mobilization, and their potential for sustainable impact:
Projects approved for co-financing under the 2014 call:
1. First African Circus Arts Festival (Ethiopia)
2. Badilisha Poetry Exchange: production of 80 podcasts featuring African poetry (Botswana, Ethiopia, South Africa, United republic of Tanzania)
3. Youth, film and filmmaking in Uganda (Uganda)
4. Al Sununu Palestinian children’s choirs (Palestine)
5. Inheriting Harappa: the clay works of Mohammad Nawaz and Sheherezade Alam and creative interpretations by young Pakistani artists (Pakistan)
6. Huacas burbujas y rock n’roll (Peru)
7. 6th Salta international mime and clown festival (Argentina)
8. British Sign Language theatre production (UK)
9. Flaneur: a fresh photographic look about urban culture nowadays (Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain)
Projects co-financed under the 2013 call:
Cape Town Carnival Trust (South Africa)
24th International Poetry Festival Medellin (Colombia)
Filming the Other (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Window to Diversity (Guatemala, Peru, Indonesia, Spain)
Jewels of the Cultural Treasure (Pakistan)
I can move (Palestine)
Coaching Court 2014 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea)
This is not Chick Lit: Stories by ordinary women in and beyond turmoil (Egypt and Libya)