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Editorial Lab Mutante A project by Librería Mutante A series of workshops for 30 participants will be held over the course of a year by Librería Mutante, an independent bookshop and publishing group run by young people in Medellin. Over the course of the workshops a diverse range of publications will be created by the participants. The project will democratise access to literature for young people in Medellin, both as readers and as writers. The city of Medellin was one of the areas of Colombia most damaged by decades of armed conflict, and was regarded as ‘the murder capital of the world’. Since the peace agreement, the city has begun to emerge culturally, but the process is fragile and funding opportunities are rare. Books are typically much more expensive than in Europe. Literature is perceived as an inaccessible and elitist pursuit. However since Librería Mutante began operating (in an area of Medellín otherwise known for drugs, crime and prostitution) it has been very clear that there is an audience of young people with a strong desire to get more involved with literature. As well as its publishing activities, the space has been selling second hand books at affordable prices, which has made a real difference for many people. _**Outputs**_ 

· Training sessions for 30 participant in creation and self-publishing.  

· A diverse series of publications in different forms and themes created by a group of young writers, illustrators, critics and editors

· The production of 40 “Mutant Suitcases”, each containing the books and zines produced over the course of the project.

· A 25 minute documentary on the process.

_**Outcomes**_ 

· Creative work by young writers and artists in Medellin will be created and disseminated. 

· Knowledge and capacities for the production of books and zines will be shared. 

_**Impact**_ 

· Young people in Medellin becoming more engaged with literature and feeling able to express themselves through reading and writing. Artists, Youth
32° EAST Prince Claus Fund Network Partners 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust was founded in Kampala in 2012 as an independent art space, the mission of 32° East is to support the creation and exploration of contemporary arts in Uganda. The organisation has a strong track record in the arts and culture sector in Uganda, it is the only space that has at its core an intent to allow artists the space to experiment with more conceptual forms of art. In 2012 they co-organised the contemporary art biennale KLA ART for the first time, in 2014 they took on sole responsibility for the festival. 32° East has a strong network of artists, practitioners and organisations – in Uganda, throughout the continent, as well as internationally. They also focus on public outreach, especially through KLA ART, and try to engage the Ugandan general public with the arts and social issues through their programming. The organisation is run by a team of Ugandan women under the age of 30, and whilst the founders were European, they handed over the organisation to local leadership in 2015. This year’s festival has just taken place, and by all accounts from the external advisors it was a success. The organisation is well regarded, both locally and internationally. They have experience in managing a wide variety of activities, with a small team, and as such there is trust in their absorption capacity, management and team. Through the Network Partnership programme 32° East proposes a series of new activities named the Labs. This three year programme will focus on alternative ways of learning, process and production – with a focus on public art. The Labs consist of a series of intensive seminars, residencies, commissioned work and a publication all rooted in peer learning, international exchange and social practice. The Labs are designed as a three year in depth run-up to KLA ART 2020. In 2019 the programme will begin with a series of workshops on topics designed to explore social practice but with an emphasis on practical skills such as concept development, research, documentation and critique. The methodology will be designed through an open call for pedagogies, and 32° East hopes to be able to activate the network in this phase by having them contribute ideas on how to develop a curriculum focused on skills development through public art practice. The workshops will be open to artists, curators and creative producers – both from the local context and from 32° East’s international network.
Magamba Network Next Generation Partnerships Magamba Network is Zimbabwe’s leading creative organization, and works on the cutting edge of culture, activism, new media and innovation. Magamba was founded in 2007 and its mission is to use creative forms of youth activism to open up democratic space in Zimbabwe. Magamba’s intended impact is a free and just Zimbabwe with participatory democracy, strong alternative media and a thriving creative economy. Magamba’s target demographic is young men and women between 16 - 35 years old in the urban and peri-urban areas. Magamba plans to use the NextGen Partnership to expand on its current activities and benefit young people in various interconnected ways, all of which fall under the Umbrella of their proposed project _Safe To Create_. This project aims to build networks between creative safe spaces, foster new ways of the thinking and incubate alternative narratives. The programme, to be primarily carried out through the existing infrastructure of the Moto Republik and Shoko Festival initiatives, would focus on creating exchanges between young creatives on the continent while developing platforms that encourage free expression that challenge dominant societal norms and narratives. The main activities of this project will include annual creative residencies and artist tours within the Southern African region, artist incubation and production through creative labs, the expansion and formalization of a network of cultural spaces in the region and the creation of a tool or publication for the sharing of best practice between spaces, as well as a series of workshops and trainings.
Intersextion: Mentorship a project by Weekly Projects Intersextion is a yearlong mentorship programme intended to create space for the development of the artistic practice of young queer artists. The project aims to develop diverse artistic practices with a strong research foundation that start a conversation about identity and self-acceptance. The project will allow participants to explore a range of ideas and issues surrounding queer experience. In Jamaica homosexuality is illegal, and the country has a history of violent attacks on gay men and women that attests to an entrenched cultural homophobia. In large parts of society homosexuality if not accepted and being openly gay can lead to emotional and physical abuse. The visual art community in Kingston is at the forefront of changing social attitudes and offers artists a safe space to express themselves openly. Because of this making artwork that explores LGBT-related issues is becoming increasingly more accepted. Despite this there is still a lack of safe spaces where young LGBT artists, participants and audiences can safely explore and develop their identities without being marginalized or hiding. The aim of this mentorship program is to empower young queer artist with the tools to creatively and confidently challenge restrictive gender-norms and to create and explore their own narrative. ++Outputs++ 

5 mentorship pairings with 10 monthly meetings per pair

5 information seminars with at least 20 attendees per seminar

Public event/exhibition with 50-100 visitors

++Outcomes++ 

Support the creative exploration of young queer artists in film, literature, performance arts and visual arts

To build a support network for young queer artists

To provide the participants with the tools to further their careers as artists

To provide national co-ordination, communication and information-sharing, by engaging queer artists as mentors and mentees

++Impact++ young queer artists
Locally Powered Heritage Risk & Response Teams a project by Friends of Art in the Andes During this project Friends of Art in the Andes, led by FAC 2018 alumni Michaela Novotna, will train 10 local emergency preparedness and response teams for man-made fire hazard and building collapse caused by earthquakes in the Region of Puno, in the high Andes in Peru. Central to this initiative are 10 catholic churches, which have been selected on the bases of their cultural and historical value. They are still an important part of the living cultures of the local communities, and are central to their cultural, religious and social life. The heritage risk and response team will consist of representatives from the church, the community, the local first responders and the municipality. They will all receive training adapted to the context of the church and the region, which will provide them with the skills of identifying hazards and vulnerabilities, disaster risk and prevention actions, disaster preparedness and first aid for culture. Afterwards, with close involvement of the regional branch of the Ministry of Culture, the teams will be guided and provided assistance in acquiring materials, project planning and fundraising. The project will contribute to the long-term preservation of the churches, as well as to the capacity building to prevent their loss in disaster situations. The training of 10 local emergency preparedness and response teams, one at each priority districts, for man-made fire hazard and building collapse caused by earthquakes. Project activities include:

· Research among stakeholders and on-site

· Preparation of the training (materials)

· Public Awareness, including a website and project exhibit

· Capacity training of the teams

· Evaluation and project replication meetings
Preserving the Maalim Idris Library Collection A project by Zanzibar Institute for Archives and Records Zanzibar institute of Archival Records (ZIAR) and Zanzibar Comorian Trust (ZCT) along with Mr. Scott Reese have proposed to preserve the collection of manuscripts and printed material of the Maalim Idris Library. 

Maalim Idris was a prominent Zanzibari religious leader, a teacher, a writer and a scholar, who worked for the preservation of Islamic heritage and hence had a huge impact on the local Zanzibari community. His collection is a culmination of many historical libraries collected by him over the course of 50 years, which consists of scholarly libraries from the local Zanzibari families and books and other material from his own Mosque in Zanzibar Stone Town, making the collection unique and valuable. 

The organization aims to conserve the manuscripts and the printed material and safely store those into boxes. For this method, locals will be trained in a 15 days’ workshop by conservator Michaelle Biddle. The collection currently is in danger of getting damaged due to pests, humidity, and it also has the problem of water damage in the rainy season. The activities proposed will be focussed on the stabilization and treatment of the material and then storing the material in safe boxes away from light and humidity. 

These activities will be covered in around 40 weeks and in four phases. Two archivists from ZIAR and six trainees from ZIAR and ZCT are involved in the project. The concrete outcome of the project will be the preservation of the manuscripts, books and other printed material from the Maalim Idris Library collection in Zanzibar by making the collections available to the general public in the archives. This project will contribute to the preservation of this valuable archival heritage, by the formation of a strong team of experts in Zanzibar.
PREE. Caribbean. Writing. A project by PREE The project will engage young writers to edit and produce content for two issues, focusing on gender roles and climate change, of PREE, a literary magazine that showcases Caribbean writing. Selected young writers will attend a creative writing workshop and the Calabash Literary Festival. Participants will share a platform with well-known writers and the aim is that they learn from each other. In recent years the Anglophone Caribbean has seen major new additions to the literary landscape in the form of internationally oriented literary festivals such as Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica and Bocas LitFest in Trinidad and Tobago. In addition, there are assorted writing workshops, competitions, and literary awards, but the ecosystem has been deficient in sustained and credible publishing platforms for creative writing, either in the way of traditional publishers or digital ones. PREE, an open access online platform for creative writing, was created to address this gap. ++Outputs++ 

Publishing 2 issues of PREE

2 paid internships to learn from and assist in the editing and producing of the magazine

5 participants in a week-long creative writing workshop with well-known writers

1 print edition of PREE with a focus on young writers

++Outcomes++ 

Showcase and promote the writing of new, young talent in the region

Expand the existing infrastructure for nurturing and supporting such talent

Creating opportunities for young writers to be published and recognised 

++Impact++ young people 15-30
Managua Furiosa Next Generation Partnerships Managua Furiosa, a popular independent digital media outlet specialized in art, culture and human rights in Nicaragua, has developed a 3 year plan for the Next Gen Partnership in which they will focus on 5 offline and online activities: A baseline / investigation among Nicaraguan youth regarding gender equality, gender roles and diversity; An artist in residency programme at a safe space in Nicaragua; The creation of 4 short documentaries on Nicaraguan artists in exile; The creation of 4 short fiction films, which will be a continuation of their popular youth web series Managua Furiosa, La Serie (What happened to the characters after the political crisis? How are their lives in exile?) and 15 online workshops on digital Illustration, photography, cultural journalism, cyber security and stencil and activism. - Breaking stereotypes and stimulating critical thinking, self-acceptance and egalitarian relationships among Nicaraguan youth.
- Providing opportunities for the LGBTI community, young women and activists in Nicaragua.
- Raising awareness on and creating opportunities for Nicaraguan artists and activists in exile.

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Señales en Común Laboratorio de Investigación en Resonanci y Expresión de la Naturaleza In this project Laboratorio de Investigación en Resonanci y Expresión de la Naturaleza will build a mobile platform with high-quality audio equipment to be able to create sound art performances in public spaces across Mexico. They will design and produce four sound landscapes with recordings from the archive they have been building since the 1990’s. The public interventions will include performances by the Laboratorio team that accompany the sound productions. The project also includes the creation of a manifesto and printed publication about their work. Through the above Laboratorio aim to create awareness amongst the public about the detrimental and irreversible effects of climate change and human interference on the biodiversity and natural heritage of the country. The project is intentionally in a mobile form, so that they can take their outside the walls of art spaces and institutions and reach a wider audience. Mexico is one of the countries with the highest level of biodiversity, however deforestation, overexploitation, the destruction of ecosystems, invasive species and climate change are causing a rapid loss of biodiversity in the country. In a study by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in 2011 it was estimated that almost 30% of the country has lost its natural ecosystems. It is expected that climate change will accelerate this loss and lead to irreparable damage of the countries biodiversity. With this project Laboratorio de Investigación en Resonanci y Expresión de la Naturaleza aim to generate awareness and appreciation of the importance of biodiversity and ecosystems, encouraging people to be interested in and knowledgeable about how to care for the environment. ++Outputs++

Design & building of the mobile platform

Design & production of four sound-scapes

26 collective listening sound and performance experiences in public spaces across Mexico – 1300 people total

Publication of the manifesto

Creation of a web platform that follows the development of the project, this will also act as an archive of the project

++Outcome++_s_

Foster curiosity reflection and awareness about the biodiversity and natural heritage of Mexico, and the detrimental effects climate change and human interference have in that

Reach new audiences who have little access to arts institutions in Mexico

 Promote dialogue about the ned to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems

++Impact++

The broader impact that Laboratorio de Investigación en Resonanci y Expresión de la Naturaleza aims for with this project is that through raising awareness and reconnecting people with the natural heritage of the country people will make an effort to ensure that biodiversity is safeguarded. general public
Marakwet Community Traditional Furrows System in Kerio Valley, Kenya A project by Marakwet Community Heritage Group Kenya is classified by the United Nations as a chronically water scarce country due to its low natural water replenishment rates. The people living in the Marakwet escarpment have developed a system of furrows which dates back to pre-colonial times. The irrigation systems runs for more than 40 kilometers and descends from 1,500 to 1,200 meters. The furrow irrigation system is owned by the clans living there and also take over water management. The Traditional Marakwet Community Furrow Irrigation System not only is a provider of water for the community, it is also a tangible heritage which makes it of outstanding universal value in the entire landscape. The irrigation system is a testimony to a civilization that has withstood the test of time despite the challenges it faces. As a fragile piece of heritage, urgent and precise interventions need to be undertaken to safeguard the traditional furrows for posterity. The system is threatened by landslides which have increased in the last seven years. The project aims at creating a landslide susceptibility map for the affected areas and to define the factors leading to landslides. This information is to be shared with the local community. 1) Construct landslide susceptibility map for affected areas

2) Identify and map out factors responsible for landslides occurrence

3) Provide baseline information for local community

4) Via GPS locate areas that are prone to landslides in order to empower the local community and thus mitigate the impacts of the landslides

5) Conduct results dissemination, community engagement and public awareness on emergency preparedness to stakeholders and the local community.

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Abrir Monte (Open Mountain) a project by Maria Rojas Arias Abrir Monte is a project proposed by the young artist Maria Rojas Arias. It aims to establish a laboratory for ten young artists with research and archive-based practises who will explore the history of the armed conflict in Colombia through their audiovisual work. The result of the lab will be presented in a publication and in an exhibition that will take place in Museum of Art of Tolima, Colombia. The Colombian armed conflict lasted from the mid-1960s until a peace agreement was signed between the government and the rebel forces of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was signed in 2016. The country is now undergoing post-conflict transition. 

Tolima and the neighbouring department of Cauca were among the areas ruled and controlled by the guerrilla movement FARC during the conflict. A study in 2017 conducted by Observatory of Democracy of the Universidad de los Andes declared the post-conflict transition in these regions to have been relatively smooth and orderly. However the peace process is unstable and the role of memory in the transition has been complex. This project aims to challenge the official written history of the armed conflict in Colombia through creative practices with the archive. _++Outputs: ++_

· 1 Laboratory, a space that will serve for research and collective creation, for 10 young artists

· 1 polyphonic audio-visual essay – collective work by the 10 artists, with three public screenings.

· 1 exhibition in which the materials are presented

· 1 book (400 copies) on the laboratory

_++Outcomes:++_

· The official written history of the armed conflict in Colombian region that has been presented as a “pillar” of existence to the younger generations questioned and reinvented.

· Images created and produced that reveal stories related to the history of the armed conflict in Colombia that have remained on the margins of the official discourse.

· Replications of this more innovative way of working with archival materials - when thinking of the archive as an organism that is constantly alive.

_++Impact:++_

· Awareness is created of the one-sidedness of official written history (by providing multiple voices to narrate histories when working with archive material).

· The true historical record of the conflict preserved in the archives is passed on to the next generation. Young Colombian artists
Restoration of Sayeed Stepwell A project by Gram Bharati Samiti Throughout India, stepwells have provided water for drinking, washing, bathing, and the irrigation of crops and were used by the local inhabitants as well as travelers for centuries. They were available to both genders and every religion and served as important social meeting points. It is estimated that by the 19th century, several thousand of these often highly decorated architecture objects had been built throughout India and that one-fourth of the patrons who had commissioned a stepwell were female (www.britannica.com). Most stepwells had fallen into disuse by the early 21st century as they were deemed unhygienic and were substituted by modern taps or tanks so that they collapsed or are threatened to be damaged. The project proposals aims at monitoring, cleaning, repairing, deepening and restoring the Sayeed step well in Jaipur, Rajasthan. India is among the world’s most water-stressed countries, according to Worldbank. Groundwater makes up 40 % of the country's water supply but has been depleting for years. According to an official announcement of June 2019, also two-thirds of India's reservoirs are running below normal water levels, according to CNN. 1. Formation and training of Project Implementation and Monitoring Committee (PIMC)

2. Cleaning garbage, silt and puddle form inside the step well

3. Repairing of infrastructural parts of step well i.e. walls and pillars

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4. Cleaning drainage and deepening water holes 10-15 meters to get sufficient water

5. Restoring paintings, collages, sculpture etc.

6. Monitoring and evaluation

7. Follow up

8. Submitting final report