Meet the 2024 bursaries and grants recipients
The Supporting Act Foundation
We’re proud to announce our third annual funding round!
With the backing of WeTransfer, the foundation has donated €800.000 to 32 emerging artists and community-focused initiatives, all selected by our wonderful independent jury.
This brings the total sum distributed in grants and bursaries to nearly €2 million since 2022, all given without any strings attached.
Our grants: Creative Bursary + Impact Grant
This summer, we received more than 300 applications from artists and organizations around the world in response to our open call. 32 of these were selected, with our jury identifying 12 organizations to receive our Impact Grant (€50,000) and 20 emerging artists who will benefit from our Creative Bursary (€10,000).
The Impact Grant recipients include collaborative digital platforms preserving marginalized cultures, promoting equitable film-making, or empowering female, lesbian, intersex, trans, agender and non-binary migrants. They line up alongside theater groups empowering those experiencing homelessness and a magazine championing Ukrainian artists and dialogues, among others.
Our Creative Bursary supports individual artists and practitioners across genres and oeuvres: electronic music producers, painters, filmmakers, illustrators, photographers, sound designers, and classical composers make up just a handful of the selected beneficiaries.
An independent jury, committed to change
Each year the foundation assembles a jury of artists, educators and organizers that shares its commitment to promoting diversity in the arts and empowering marginalized communities.
2024 sees three former grantees join our panel: interdisciplinary artist Halar Soomro, Hannah Robathan of shado mag, and Lara Parmiani of the LegalAliens theater company.
Alongside them are educator and social transformation campaigner Anaïs Esmeraldo, author and cultural producer Chrisoula Lionis, designer Marika Seo, award-winning artist and innovator Charlotte Hochman, technological justice advocate Maya Richman, and co—matter founder Severin Matusek. These nine are joined by Lina Ruiz, director of social responsibility at WeTransfer, the foundation’s key supporter.
This year the jury were once again hard-pressed to select grantees from the hundreds of diverse and impressive applications. As jury member Severin Matusek explained, he was “inspired by people and projects taking action; identifying and addressing a problem, creating meaningful change by and for those that directly experience it and are affected by it” and “by projects that are creating new formats and platforms that bring people together, that foster discourse, exchange and solidarity.”
Impact Grant 2024:
Creative Bursary 2024:
Mahshad Rezai
You can read more about our grantees here: Impact Grant + Creative Bursary, and about our Jury here.
