Hermanos Saíz Association artistic creation grants for young artists and writers
Stimulate artistic and literary creation among youth
Annual calls are launched for the following grants:
· Frenesis, to stimulate the writing of novels
· La Noche, to promote the creation of works for children and youth
· Milanés, an incentive for creation in the performing arts
· Chicuelo, for writing documentary film scripts
· Ignacio Villa, for music composition.
· Ernesto Che Guevara’s Thought
· Juan Francisco Elso Creation Visual Arts Grant
· Juan Francisco Elso Research Grant
· Antonia Eiriz Creation Grant
· The Kingdom of This World Artistic and Research Grant
· Rita Longa, for sculpture.
Juries are constituted by outstanding artists and young talents of renown. (See Additional Annex 4.)
Recognition of young talents and dissemination of their work.
Each winner receives a monthly payment of 600.00 CUPs . In the case of the Antonia Eiriz Creation Grant and the Juan Francisco Elso Visual Arts Grant, the winner receives 1,000.00 CUCs.
These grants have benefited talented youth regardless of their social standing and professional training, by enabling them to develop and gain access to creative circles and visualizing their work and its results. They have contributed to the participation and insertion of these actions in the country’s cultural life and social transformation processes.