NCCA to roll out P95 million for arts, culture projects

Friday 27th of July 2012

DAVAO CITY, July 27 -- The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is making available a P95 million fund for various arts and culture projects that will be rolled out under the NCCA Grants Program.

It is calling on cultural and arts groups, academic institutions, local government units, government agencies, local arts organizations, non-government organizations and private Individuals involved in arts and culture to submit their project proposals until August 30, 2012.

Renee Talavera, head of NCCA Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts Section said that NCCA allots P5 million to each of the 19 NCCA committees to fund the project proposals that best suit their respective concerns.

Under NCCA’s Sub-commission on the Arts are the committees on Architecture and Allied Arts, Cinema, Dance, Dramatic Arts, Literary Arts, Music and Visual Arts. The Sub-commission on Cultural Dissemination includes the committees on Language and Translation, Communication and Cultural Education.

NCCA’s Sub-commission on Cultural Heritage handles six committees on Archives, Art Galleries, Historical Research, Libraries and Information Services, Monuments and Sites, and Museums, and the Sub-commission on Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts oversees three committees on Central Cultural Communities, Northern Cultural Communities and Southern Cultural Communities.

Priority projects of the National Committee on Architecture and Allied Arts are production and development of multi-media interactive CD Rom, monograph and audio-visual materials, exhibition, lecture series and research.

The National Committee on Cinema is looking for project proposals on screenplay development, post-production, workshops, film festival for non-government organizations, film festival for LGUs/ state universities and colleges/ national government agencies, publication or archiving.

The National Committee on Dance prioritizes proposals on dance workshop for teachers in special programs for the arts, dance production grant, LGU cultural assistance program, dance competitions and dance curriculum design.

The National Commission on Dramatic arts would like to have proposals on regional network building, theater craft development and capability building, production grant, traditional theatre Program.

The National Commission on Literary Arts is looking for proposals on creative writing workshops, training workshop for translation, training workshop for criticism, literary competitions, publication of anthologies with translation, writing of literary biographies and literary performances/reading programs.

The National Committee on Music prefers proposals on applied music training/workshop, annotated performance, music creation while the National Committee on Visual Arts prioritizes proposals on research and dissemination on creative industries, visual arts residency, visual arts competitions, visual arts workshops, publication of catalogues, arts in public spaces, urban landscape design competition.

Meanwhile, the NCCA Sub-commission on Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts is looking for project proposals preferably on trainings/seminars/workshops/ for a/lecture/congress/conference, lakbay-aral, arts camp, community assembly, research and community festivals.

The Sub-commission on Cultural Heritage accommodates proposals on local training, local apprenticeship and research; lectures/seminars/workshops, cultural maps/research and exhibitions; audio-visual production, capability-building programs and publications; local history conference, production of institutional materials on history and translation of historical materials; collection enhancement of libraries, conferences and publications; conservation of historical sites, conservation management plan, Seminar-Workshop on LGU initiatives for Cultural Heritage, geographic information system, research on formulation of policy on cultural property, and module development and seminar workshop on cultural heritage. (PIA-11/ Jeanevive Duron-Abangan)