As every year, the Cultural Department of the City of Thun offers grants, scholarships and sponsorship awards for artists. Bands from Thun and the municipalities of the Thun Regional Cultural Conference can now also apply for the cultural promotion prize.
All calls for proposals for artists and cultural practitioners from the Thun region are issued at the same time. The following are awarded: the Thun Cultural Promotion Prize, a scholarship for an artist's studio in Genoa and contributions to monographic publications, catalogs of works or CD-ROMs in the field of visual arts.
Genoa artists' studio
Since July 2011, the Städtekonferenz Kultur (SKK), of which the city of Thun is a member, has been running two studios in the center of Genoa in Italy, where artists from two Swiss cities live and work at the same time. For the second time since 2011, the city of Thun is inviting applications for this studio for the period from June 2 to August 30, 2014. At the same time, an artist from Vevey will be staying in the studio.
The studio is provided free of charge and the city of Thun pays a monthly contribution of CHF 1,500 towards the residency. Professional artists of all disciplines and cultural mediators from Thun or from one of the 40 municipalities of the Thun Regional Cultural Conference (RKK) are eligible to participate.
Applications must be submitted by mail no later than May 15, 2013 (date of postmark) to:
Cultural Department City of Thun, Stephan Schneider, Town Hall, P.O. Box 145, 3602 Thun.
The registration form for the studio can be found at www.thun.ch/kulturevents under "Kulturförderung/Auslandateliers", a detailed documentation and the occupancy plan on www.skk-cvc.ch under "Foreign studios".
