Subsidies 2017 from the canton of Zug
The Government Council of the Canton of Zug has awarded grants of between CHF 10,000 and CHF 14,000 to four musicians. The Zuger Werkjahr, endowed with 50,000 francs, goes to the freelance theater director Karin Arnold.
Twenty-three applications for a grant and six applications for a Zug Work Year were received in 2017, writes the Canton of Zug. The grants in the music category went to Fabienne Ambühl and Samuel Büttiker (CHF 14,000 each) and Valerie Koloszár and Christof Zurbuchen (CHF 10,000).
CHF 120,000 is available, which can be used for independent artistic creation, the realization of a specific project or as a contribution to further education. The grants and the work year are financed from the lottery fund.
The Zug Work Year, endowed with 50,000 Swiss francs, goes to theater artist Karin Arnold. Karin Arnold was born in 1974 and lived in Zug until 1995. She completed her artistic training at the Hochschule Musik und Theater in Zurich (now Zurich University of the Arts). She has been working as a freelance director since 2006 and founded the "mercimax" collective in the same year.
