Theatre & Dance
Olland-Buisman Stichting
The Olland-Buisman Foundation supports young professional performing artists or students with professional ambitions in this field. The foundation contributes to innovative productions and educational programmes with social relevance. To receive a financial contribution, you need to formulate a clear artistic research or artistic objective related to your personal development. A condition is that you have a connection with Zwolle or Amsterdam. You can apply once a year; the 2024 deadline is 1 April. In November, an extra application round focuses on research and innovation within the performing arts.
Makersregeling Cultuurfonds Gelderland
Applying for the Gelderland Makers Fund allows makers from all art disciplines to do an artistic project, experiment, or creative process. You can think of developing an idea or text, making new work, or a public presentation, exchange, and collaboration. You live and work in Gelderland. You graduated max. five years ago from an MBO or HBO art course, or you have been working as an art professional for a maximum of five years if you are an autodidact. The Gelderland Makers is a partnership between Cultuur Oost and Voordekunst.
Fonds Podiumkunsten
The Performing Arts Fund is the cultural fund for music, theater, dance, theater-dance, and festivals. The fund offers individual grants, project grants, and multi-year activity grants. You can apply for a subsidy for text and composition, making and producing, interdisciplinary projects, and the programming of stages and festivals. There is a handy online subsidy guide to determine which subsidy suits your plans.
Stroomversneller Arnhem, Schakel025
Schakel025 is a platform that shares knowledge about the business and organizational side of working in the art and culture sector. The website is regularly updated with new information or current developments. The Stroomversneller is a subsidy that supports new initiatives in their artistic development for experimentation. You can apply for a maximum of € 3,000. Conditions are that you are a professional who wants to make a good product and present it to the public. The project is relevant, distinctive, and in addition to what is going on in the city of Arnhem. Your project must have a provable connection with Arnhem and occur in the city. Your application concerns project-related activities: activities that take place within a defined time frame, there is a clear beginning and end.
Heij Konijn Fonds
The Heij Konijn Fund in Arnhem annually supports ten to fifteen young artists with a financial donation of up to 2,500 euros per person for your further professional development as a visual and performing artist. A condition is that as an applicant, you are not older than 30 years, and you live, work or study in Arnhem and the surrounding area (this condition of location Arnhem does not apply to musicians). You can still be a student or graduate.
The Startversneller Gelderland en Overijssel
The Starversneller helps entrepreneurs in Gelderland and Overijssel successfully start their businesses by improving their entrepreneurial skills. Your company needs to be registered in Gelderland or Overijssel. In Gelderland you can qualify for coaching and request an extra voucher for a professional training course. In Overijssel you can apply for coaching, and you can participate in four meetings with other starting entrepreneurs to learn from each other, spar, and network. You are no longer than five years registered with the Chamber of Commerce to be eligible.
Janivo Foundation
The Janivo Foundation supports performing arts projects in the Netherlands for and or by children, young people, and young adults up to 25. The foundation opts for projects that focus on youth performances, young makers (within five years after graduation), and art education. Projects in theatre, dance, and music are supported, and new initiatives are appreciated. A grant lies between €1,000 and €5,000 per project. Sometimes a higher donation is possible based on the artistic value, broad reach, or expected impact of a project. This grant is open to foundations and associations. Please always contact the foundation first.
Fonds ZOZ
Fund ZOZ supports artists and online and offline creatives who want to contribute to Dutch society. You can apply for a project involving professional artists from the performing arts, new media, visual arts, film, and music. With your project, you try to bridge differences between people and breakthrough fixed thinking frameworks. With the power of stories, you want to strengthen the resilience in society and reduce polarization. If you want to test an initiative or idea, you can apply to the ZOZ Academy. Every year, ten projects are selected, and you receive a financial contribution of a maximum of € 5,000 to develop your concept into a first try-out, pilot, or prototyp.
AFK Stimuleringsregeling Eigentijdse Dans
The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) supports all art forms in every district of Amsterdam. The Contemporary Dance Incentive supports you as a freelance dance professional in your professional practice. It covers the rental costs for rehearsal and editing rooms and research, rehearsal, and editing. To be eligible for a contribution, you must live in Amsterdam or have established your professional practice there.
VandenEnde Foundation
The foundation helps young and established artists by providing grants or donations to the fields of theatre, music, dance, film, and TV. It offers scholarships to young talents to stimulate them in their development, such as professional actors, theater makers, singers, musicians,s, film-makers or dancers. The foundation promotes cultural participation and stimulates cultural entrepreneurship.
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
The fund supports projects in visual arts, historic preservation, history & literature, music, nature, theatre, dance, film, and neighborhood culture. The Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds also awards several prizes, grants, and stipends every year. To honor volunteers, to encourage talent, or to crown an oeuvre. In addition, the fund offers grants and stipends for emerging and proven talent. As an alumnus, you can look at the Applications for individuals page. Here you will find subsidies for musicians, visual artists, glass artists, voice and language use, playwrights, and documentary makers. The Cultuurfonds grants are for graduates of HBO or university for further education or research abroad or the purchase of a musical instrument. If you want to continue studying abroad next year, you can apply for a scholarship between 1 February and 1 April 2023. The fund applies to all studies, from a completed bachelor's degree in art to a master's degree in medicine. A Cultuurfonds grant from the Cultuurfonds can help you take your next step.
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
The fund for architecture, design, digital culture, and possible crossovers. It supports unique and innovative projects and activities by designers, makers, and cultural institutions in the creative industry. The interdisciplinary interaction between the cultural, social, and economic domains is essential in an application.
Werktuig PPO
PPO stands for permanent professional development and is a program of Platform ACCT (Labour Market Cultural and Creative Future). It finances development plans for everyone working in the creative or cultural sector, both for employees and self-employed people. Everyone should regularly consider whether their skills align with the rapidly changing market. PPO finances 1/3 of the total costs of your development plan with a maximum of € 2,000 (including VAT). Assuming your employer or client contributes 1/3, you pay the remaining amount yourself.
VSB Fonds
The VSB Fund supports projects across the Art & Culture sector spectrum, from performing arts to cultural heritage and from new media to visual arts and cultural education. The fund supports cultural education projects, impact productions, and community art projects. In Art & Culture, they contribute to performances, exhibitions, and festivals.
Mingler Scholarship
The Mingler Scholarship originated from the Mingler network, initiated by the Academy of Arts and De Jonge Akademie. They are both members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Once a year, a Mingler Scholarship is made available to collaborate between a scientist and an artist. The Scholarship is intended for artists (from all artistic disciplines) and scientists (researchers from the humanities, social, and natural sciences) who want to start a research project together. Only collaborations between art and science are eligible. The Scholarship consists of an amount of € 10.000, made available by the Niemeijer Fund Foundatio
Cultuurlening
The Cultuurlening is an initiative of Cultuur+Ondernemen and made possible by the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science in the context of the Talent Development Policy. It is a loan of a maximum of € 40,000 at a low-interest rate of 1%. The loan is intended for individuals and organizations from all disciplines in the creative sector who have a professional practice. You must live and work in the Netherlands, and you want to take a concrete next step in your development. The loan is for investments in your professional practice that you can earn back. Artists, creatives, recent graduates, or cultural institutions that participate in a talent development program of the 'culture funds' (film, visual arts, literature, creative industry, performing arts, urban arts) are eligible for the Culture Loan in any case. If this does not apply to you, but you think you qualify for the loan, you can submit an application with a personal motivation of no more than one A4 sheet and an external reference. The Culture Loan is not tied to specific disciplines and is open to original ideas, projects, artists, and creatives.
NORMA fonds
The NORMA fund is a rights organization that represents all performing artists, such as (voice) actors, musicians, and dancers. They collect and distribute, among other things, several collective compensations, such as the compensation for TV broadcasting and Thuiskopie. To ensure that you, as the rightsholder, receive fair financial compensation for the use of your work in the Netherlands and abroad. NORMA also distributes grants to performers for projects or activities that promote performers' cultural, social, and professional interests.
Amarte Fonds
Filmmakers, musicians, theater makers, visual artists, and writers in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books can apply for a development grant (writing fee) or a project contribution from Amarte. In addition to a financial contribution, you can also receive extra professional support from an expert.
DutchCulture | TransArtists
DutchCulture | TransArtists combines and shares knowledge and experience on artist-in-residence programmes and other international opportunities for creative professionals to temporarily stay and work elsewhere. They offer you all about facts, use and value of international artist-in-residence opportunities.
On the Move
If you are looking for funding for artistic projects in or outside the Netherlands, you can check out the Cultural Mobility Funding Guide on the website of DutchCulture. On the Move and DutchCulture have teamed up to provide you with this updated guide including information and tips on how and where to find funding for your mobility as an artist, a cultural professional or a cultural organisation to and from the Netherlands. They provide resources for artists and arts workers at all stages of their careers. Their open call listings span all art forms and disciplines, and focus on cross-border projects which cover at least some of the costs of travel. The funding guides, produced in collaboration with other organisations, detail regular schemes on a national or transnational basis.