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Mekong Cultural Hub: Call for Local Gathering Hosts in Asia (Online / Remote, Vietnam)

On the Move — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:23:21 +0000

Every 18 months, Mekong Cultural Hub organises Meeting Point, a regional gathering for people interested in art and social action in Asia.

MCH is currently seeking people to host Local Gatherings as part of the 2024 Meeting Point. The aims of this programme are to expand the community of people engaged with the Meeting Point platform, and to give practitioners micro-grants to organise events in their local communities.

A Local Gathering can be an activity such as a talk, workshop, seminar or creative action which engages people in connection and exchange in relation to the theme of the 2024 Meeting Point, ‘Perspectives from the Grassroots’. It can be a short event (e.g. half a day) or happen over 2-3 days. It can be for a big group or a small group, depending on the topics you want to engage on and the format of your gathering.

By creating a network of multiple local gatherings happening in parallel, MCH aims to generate collective energy to feed into the Meeting Point and to create a sense of connection and solidarity between communities.

After organising their local event (anytime between 8-16 March 2023), hosts will take part in an in-person programme in Hanoi from 21-23 March 2024. There will also be exchange workshops for local gathering hosts (2 hours per month online between November 2023 and February 2024, and 1 full day in-person in Hanoi on 20 March 2024).

MCH offers a grant of between $500-1500 USD to organise your gathering, and will cover all costs for one representative per Gathering to attend the Meeting Point in Hanoi.

Deadline: 10 September 2023

More info and apply: https://www.mekongculturalhub.org/news/2023/07/local-gatherings-2024/

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Mekong Cultural Hub: Program Manager, Networks & Alliances (Remote / Cambodia / Taiwan)

On the Move — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:13:57 +0000

Mekong Cultural Hub (MCH) is a non-profit organisation, whose mission is to empower diverse cultural practitioners to bring to life their visions for a sustainable and inclusive Asia. They initiate projects and work on collaborations all around Asia, particularly focusing on Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Since 2018, they have connected more than 200 artists and other cultural workers from the region for professional exchange, co-creation and collaboration.

MCH is now recruiting a new position of Program Manager, responsible for leading programs and projects related to Networks & Alliances. The Program Manager will work alongside existing Program Manager, Jennifer Lee, who leads on programs and projects related to Fellowships & Training, and Frances Rudgard, Director of MCH.

MCH are creating this new role because a core aspect of MCH’s strategic plan for 2023-2027 is to further develop the MCH network, by expanding its ‘hub and spoke’ model. They are doing this by establishing at least one formal ‘hub partnership’ in each of their six focus countries. The hub partners are local organisations or networks who can work, with MCH and with each other, to share, deliver and create opportunities for cultural practitioners looking to connect and collaborate across Asia, and in doing so build a regional community of practitioners working across art, culture and society.

In the short to medium term, MCH is providing structure, resources and facilitation to support the hubs network to develop. The Program Manager, Network & Alliances will be the lead MCH staff member growing and coordinating this network.

The position is open to candidates from and based in South-East Asia and Taiwan. If the selected candidate is based in either Phnom Penh or Taipei they may work at a Living Arts International office. Otherwise, they will work remotely, with approximately 1-2 trips within South-East Asia and Taiwan per year.

Starting salary is 1800 USD per month, based on LAI’s salary scale indexed to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The salary may be negotiated based on location of the selected candidate.

Deadline: 27 August 2023

More info and apply: https://www.mekongculturalhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Job-Vacancy-at-MCH-Program-Manager_Networks-Alliances-2023.pdf

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/mekong-cultural-hub-program-manager-networks-alliances-remote-cambodia-taiwan

Mekong Cultural Hub: Curated Conferences 2024 (Vietnam / Online)

On the Move — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:30:25 +0000

Mekong Cultural Hub is announcing an open call for applications from art and cultural practitioners from across Asia to participate in the Curated Conference 2024. The programme is a part of Meeting Point 2024 which will take place in March 2024, with an in-person gathering in Hanoi from 21-23 March.

The aim of this programme is to create space for diverse cultural practitioners to discuss and explore topics that concern them, and to be able to share the outcomes of their discussions with a wider public audience. There are two topics for this year’s conference programme:

Life Cycles of Grassroots Cultural Organisations in Asia, curated by Phloeun Prim (Cambodia).
Hitting Pause: Examining Purpose & Practice, curated by Kathy Rowland, Arts Equator (Malaysia/Singapore).

The selected conference Fellows will be assigned to one group (according to the preference they express at the application stage). From June until December 2023, the Fellows will meet online approximately once per month, for a series of conversations facilitated by their Curator, starting from the prompt statement shared in the programme overview, and evolving with the inputs of the group. During January and February 2024, the Fellows and their Curator will focus on preparing the content and format for the public sharing sessions they will host during the Meeting Point on Art & Social Action in March 2024.

Key information:

Designed for: Diverse cultural practitioners (including artists) with interest and experience to contribute to a durational conference on one of the two topics proposed by the curators.
From: Anywhere in Asia.
Total participants: Two groups of 4-6 people.
Structure & timeline:
- Monthly online exchanges June-December 2023.
- Preparation for public sharing Jan-Feb 2024.
- Public sharing, March 2024.
Working language: English.

MCH covers all expenses for participating in Meeting Point and a $300 USD stipend per participant

Deadline: 26 April 2023

More info and apply: https://www.mekongculturalhub.org/news/2023/03/call-for-applications-curated-conferences-2024/

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Mekong Cultural Hub: Experiments in Community Collaboration (Malaysia / Remote)

On the Move — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:15:00 +0000

Mekong Cultural Hub is calling for applications from community arts practitioners with at least two years of experience to join their learning programme ‘Experiments in Community Collaboration’.

The Experiments in Community Collaboration programme aims to support existing community arts practitioners to develop their skills and practice in working with communities through arts-based processes. A total of 8-10 people (‘Fellows’) will be selected to take part in the programme, which will take place over six months, from June – November 2023. Each Fellow will come to the programme with a specific goal for their own learning, related to something they want to improve or to try out in their community arts practice.

Key information:

Designed for: Community arts practitioners with at least 2 years of experience.
From: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.
Structure & timeline:
- Introduction & small group exchange, June and July 2023 (online).
- Planning & reflection workshop, August 2023 (Kuala Lumpur).
- Individual learning experiments, September & October 2023 (in participant’s local community).
- Final reflection workshop, November 2023 (online).
Working language: English.

The programme offers all expenses for participating in the Kuala Lumpur workshop, and a $700 USD micro-grant per participant to support a learning experiment.

Deadline: 23 April 2023

More info and apply: https://www.mekongculturalhub.org/news/2023/03/call-for-applications-experiments-in-community-collaboration/

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Mekong Cultural Hub: Professional Exchange Programme (Online)

On the Move — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 12:03:14 +0000

Mekong Cultural Hub is pleased to announce its 2022 Professional Exchange Programme – a Peer-to-Peer Professional Exchange space for art and culture practitioners who work at the intersection of art and society in Mekong Region and Taiwan.

There are three focus topics:

Project development and management of art / cultural projects.
Workshop design and facilitation of engaging communities into art projects and art making process.
Ethics in socially-engaged and community-based art projects.

Each topic will be explored by one small group, who will bring together their individual experiences to exchange with each other and to draw out some common lessons learnt, and any innovation and advice they believe they can share with others. Participants will engage in 3-5 online gatherings with each other to share their local knowledge, on-the-ground practices and real projects as case studies. The Peer Facilitators will support and guide the conversations. And at the end of the Exchange each group will produce a simple document which will allow the learning to be shared to a wider audience.

Activities run over the period from August – November 2022. There is a bursary of 500 USD for each participant who completes the programme.

Deadline: 17 July 2022

More info and apply: https://www.mekongculturalhub.org/news/2022/06/professional-exchange-program-2022-open-call-for-participation/

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Mekong Cultural Hub > Regional Representatives Wanted from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam

On the Move — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:25:59 +0000

Mekong Cultural Hub works to provide personal and professional development opportunities for creative cultural practitioners in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand. They are currently looking to appoint Regional Representatives for these countries for a two-year period, during 2021 and 2022.

The MCH Regional Representatives are a very important part of the MCH team and network. They have two main responsibilities: one is to give input, advice and direction to MCH as it develops programmes and services, and the other is to be a two-way promoter of opportunities between their local arts community and the regional network (which can be via MCH but also beyond). It is a part-time role, and something that would be suitable for somebody who is already quite active in their own community, who is interested in developing their own regional network, and who is excited about the idea of shaping and initiating more projects and collaborations between countries.

The programme is open for art practitioners from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam (2 from each country) who have been in the field for least 5 years and have a diverse network in their own context.

Benefits:

Build up your own regional network
Travel within the region (with all expenses covered by MCH).
Professional development.
MCH supports you to find funding, learning and promotion opportunities.
Become part of the MCH Alumni Network, which means you get access to things like training sessions and small grant opportunities made available specifically for the MCH alumni community.
Stipend of $800 USD per year.

Deadline: 3 January 2021

More info and apply: https://on-the-move.org/files/MCH-Regional-Representative-2nd-Group.pdf

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Mekong Cultural Hub > Call for Curated Conferences (Taiwan)

On the Move — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:39:52 +0000

Mekong Cultural Hub is arranging a Meeting Point for people concerned with arts and social action in Asia. The theme for this meeting point is ‘Revealing Contexts’. The Meeting Point will take place at C-Lab, Taipei, from 20-22 May 2021.

In preparation for the Meeting Point, MCH are launching an open call for people who would like to take part in three small ‘curated conferences’ that will be part of the Meeting Point programme.

This will involve joining a series of online sessions with a small group of 4-6 others, facilitated by a curator; these sessions will take place between November 2020 and April 2021.

In May 2021, the groups will meet in person in Taipei (all costs covered by MCH) and then share their ideas and exchanges to the wider audience at the Meeting Point.

The topics for the three curated conferences are:

‘Artistic action in practice in the Mekong Region’, CHUNG Shefong.
‘Perspectives on socially-engaged arts/culture in Asia’, Janet Pillai.
‘In the wake of COVID-19: altered contexts and prospects for the arts in Asia’, Anmol Vellani.

Applicants should be citizens of an Asian country.

Deadline: 11 October 2020

Find all details online

Deadline: 11 October 2020

More info and apply: https://mekongculturalhub.org/portfolio/exchange/

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Mekong Cultural Hub / British Council > SEAΔ 2020-2021

On the Move — Mon, 11 May 2020 18:52:00 +0000

SEAΔ is a programme co-created by Mekong Cultural Hub and British Council that creates space for cultural practitioners to reflect on how their work in arts and culture can contribute to sustainable development within South East Asia through their individual and collective leadership. The focus area for sustainable development in 2020-2021, is Biotrade.

The programme has four main gatherings spread over a one-year period where the SEAΔ Fellows get together. Each gathering takes place in a different country and has a unique purpose: exchange, create, share and reflect.

SEAΔ is designed for all kinds of creative and cultural practitioners (from artists to administrators, managers and policymakers) who are interested in:

Connecting their artistic and cultural work to the challenges of the SDGs (sustainable development goals).
Creating partnerships and collaborations with peers around and with the region.
Enlarging the space for the arts and culture in South East Asia.
Building civil society through arts and culture.
Creating new opportunities for others to grow and develop.
Working with people from outside the arts and culture sector.

Each year 10 Fellows are selected from 10 countries: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.

The approach of SEAΔ is experiential learning. The programme is designed to allow for co-creation, collective working and collaboration, and to give Fellows opportunities to develop confidence, resourcefulness, entrepreneurialism and other skills. The programme will actively grow the Fellows’ networks in and understanding of South East Asia, increase mutual learning and seed collaborations between arts and other sectors.

The programme has four stages:

SEAΔ EXCHANGE: 12-16 November 2020 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
SEAΔ CREATE: 3-4 days between January and March 2021 in Laos, Myanmar or Vietnam (various provinces).
SEAΔ SHARE: 14-17 June 2021 in Manila, Philippines.
SEAΔ REFLECT: 14-16 September 2021 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The programme is fully funded, i.e. economy class travel, accommodation, meals and the cost of all activities included are covered by the programme.

Deadline: 15 July 2020

More info and apply: https://mekongculturalhub.org/wp-content/uploads/SEAD-Application-pack-2020-21-FINAL-1-1.pdf

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