Spring 2010  

The Arab puppet theatre foundation invites you to participate in the art residency specialized in Puppet Theatre.   This residency serves as an intensive training for people interested in the different fields of the dolls theatre’s domain including creativity, education field and social work.

The residency lasts for three weeks in Beirut – Lebanon during the spring of 2010, in which participants work with local and global artists and experienced people in the field of Puppet Theatre.  

The residency focuses on the arts of Puppet Theatre along with the origins and the present of this kind of ancient theatre arts, its types, dolls’ making, ways of moving them, light and sound, direction and acting, the story teller, scenario development and how to initiate local companies for Puppet Theatre.  

At the end of the residency participants will work, with trainers’ guidance, on developing and performing play dolls’ shows in the form of a concluding festival in Beirut.  

For more information and subscription:  
www.arabpuppettheatre.org

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Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Fellows (Scholarships for Arab students at international universities)

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation offers graduate scholarships for Arab students through its Fellows Programme. The Programme aims at developing the knowledge capabilities of talented youth across the Arab World, by offering scholarships to pursue Master’s Degree programmes in Business Administration (MBA), Public Administration (MPA), Public Policy (MPP) and Finance at leading international universities.

http://www.mbrfoundation.ae/English/Knowledge/Pages/Fellows.aspx

The program aims at encouraging and supporting a new generation of Arab artists and authors, and that’s by funding their first projects, in addition to providing them with artistic productive and administrative advice and helping them producing and promoting their creative works.

Applications will be accepted from young artists and authors from all Arab countries to produce creative works in all artistic and literary fields. Each grant will vary between $ 500-5000 or equivalent in Arab countries. Al Mawred Al Thakafi foundation welcomes applications from females.

The applications of those who had productive grants previously from Al Mawred Al Thakafi foundation will be rejected unless after 3 years from the date they received the grant.

Terms for applying for productive grants:

1-    The applicant should be aged between 15-35 by the 1^st of January.  Applications of whose older will not be considered.

2-    Application must be in Arabic on the specified form on our website www.mawred.org

3-    The application must include a detailed description of the artistic or literal project, with no less than 3 pages.

4-    The application must include the CV of the applicant.

5-    The application must include a model of former work of the applicant; such as an audio or optical tape, photograph or written forms. Applications with no former work will not be taken into consideration.

6-    In case applying for the fields of video, theater or music, recorded parts from previous works must be detached with the form submitted.

7-    The application must include a detailed budget for the artistic or literal project to be achieved, and that should be by the local current of the applicants’ country, noting that the grant can’t be used for buying devices or equipment.

8-    The application must include a photo of the identity card, passport or birth certificate.

9-    For those under 18, the application must include the approval of his/her parent for applying for a grant. It also should include a photo of his/her parent identity card.

10- The project applied for will be produces after the 10^th January 2010 and not before.

11- If the budget exceeds $ 500, the applicant must clarify other sources for funding the project applied for.

The deadline for accepting applications is on the 30^th September 2010 and applications will not be considered after that date.

You can get an application from our website: www.mawred.org

Applications should be sent to the email: awards@mawred.org

Or to the regional center:  P.O box: 175 al muhandeseen- cairo- Egypt

For more information write to : info@mawred.org  or Fax num: +(202) 2 362