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Creative Residencies at Las Cigarreras Selected by the Ministry of Culture for Grants

Creative Residencies at Las Cigarreras Selected by the Ministry of Culture for Grants

The Alicante cultural centre is the only one in the region chosen by the Government for its artistic work grants.

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Martes, 28 de enero 2025, 14:40

Las Cigarreras' Creative Residencies programme, developed by the Department of Culture, will continue and be strengthened this year. The Ministry of Culture has selected the Alicante artistic residencies programme as one of the 24 venues for creative projects funded by a grant from the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts, with a total of two million euros. The venues are spread across various parts of Spain, and Alicante is the only one chosen in the Valencian Community. Additionally, the Local Government Board has approved the classification of bidders to develop the Creative Residencies programme funded by the City Council.

Antonio Peral, the acting Councillor for Culture, highlights that "the selection of Las Cigarreras as a venue for the development of artistic residencies funded by the Ministry of Culture is a boost to the fantastic work that the Alicante cultural centre has been doing in recent years in this area, with residency programmes that cover multiple areas of the creative universe and have served to promote and showcase emerging Alicante artists from various disciplines." The councillor adds that "the grants awarded by the Ministry will be complemented by those that we will once again call from the City Council for the development of these creative residencies."

The Ministry's call offers a maintenance grant of 1,300 euros and another of up to 1,800 euros for accommodation. This is in addition to a budget of up to 20,000 euros for project production. At the end of the one-year residency period, the works created will be exhibited in a joint exhibition at the Tabacalera centre in Madrid.

Municipal Call

These grants will be added to those promoted by the City Council at Las Cigarreras. The City Council has approved in the Local Government Board the classification of the competition to contract the service for the creation and execution of the Creative Residencies programme at Las Cigarreras for the year 2025, with the possibility of extending it in 2026. The proposal with the highest score is the one presented by 'Todobien Investigación Artística y Cultura Contemporánea S.L.', with a financial offer of 48,158 euros.

This year, six projects from any artistic or cultural discipline will be selected, and the residency will last for one month, in October or November. The six residents will live in the workspace of the boxes, studios located in the basement of Las Cigarreras, and a public presentation of the works carried out by each of them will be made at the end.

This tendered service consists of the creation, through a conceptual design, of the bases for residency calls for cultural creators in different spaces of the Las Cigarreras cultural centre. It also includes the dissemination, design, and layout of these bases, the search and coordination of a jury, and the management of the entire call process until the selection of residents.

Secondly, the successful bidder will be responsible for the organisation and management of the previously selected residencies, as well as the accompaniment and assistance to each resident, culminating in a public presentation of each project developed during them. This aims to encourage and stimulate the city's artistic fabric and to highlight Alicante as an attractive focus for contemporary culture, both nationally and internationally. The call will be open to all types of creative projects (performing arts, visual arts, digital culture, audiovisual, territory and landscape, experimental electronic music, or any other form of contemporary cultural expression), with the aim of creating, researching, experimenting, producing, and/or developing them.

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