Arian Moayed’s Waterwell team and nonprofit Nimruz award grants to Iranian artists
Arian Moayed’s Waterwell has partnered with nonprofit Nimruz to launch a grant program to support emerging Iranian creatives to tell their stories.
Led by an invisible grant from Iranian artists, the initiative will provide emerging artists in the Greater Iranian diaspora community with a platform for funding, guiding and transcending works across narrative disciplines such as film, drama and other, especially those works, especially those narrative disciplines that explore Iranian identity, cultural diversity and modern issues. The program will offer three to five grants ranging from $10,000 to $25,000. Applications will expire on September 15 and grantees will be reminded on November 15.
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“There’s so much about Iran’s culture, humanity and art, just misunderstanding of headlines and destructive stereotypes that don’t need to be repeated. For decades, we’ve rarely seen Iranians tell our stories in narratives without Western lenses.” succession The star said in the statement. “These invisible Iranian grants allow our Iranian storytellers to create art in their own way and build a community and network of artists from our own diverse Iranian communities.”
Sepanta Mohseni, executive director of Nimruz, added: “We are looking to explore stories of identifying, uniting and diversifying voices in our communities, especially those with undernumbered numbers. By investing in these stories, we hope to promote cultural rehabilitation and unity and support artists who reflect the depth and wide range of Iranians today.”
News about grants follows a collaboration between Waterwell and Nimruth, which has enabled the organization to develop programming to support blind Warehouse in St. Ann. The work was created by the Iranian theater group Mehr Theatre Group and was produced as part of the Radar Music Festival and performed for three weeks.
More information about the grant is here.
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