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AI-Powered App Measures Creative Health Program Outcomes

06-04-2025

A research partnership between Kenji Health, Queen Mary University, and four arts organizations in London has reimagined how we can evaluate the impacts of arts and health programs in rigorous and engaging ways.

Suggested Reading: “Expanding the Path to Equitable Arts Funding”

06-04-2025

The Lewis Prize for Music Co-founder Dalouge Smith challenges funders to reconsider grantmaking priorities in a recent article for Grantmakers in the Arts.

Classics for Kids Offers Matching Grants

06-04-2025

Classics for Kids Foundation offers matching grants to help build sustainable music programs within US-based K–12 schools and nonprofit organizations.

Call for Proposals: Spaces of Culture

06-04-2025

Arts and cultural organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa interested in partnering with European artists and cultural professionals are encouraged to apply for EUNIC’s Spaces of Culture program.

UNDP timbuktoo Creatives Lab Opens Applications

05-07-2025

We’re sharing this one just under the wire! Applications are due today for the timbuktoo Creatives Lab, a mentorship program run by the United Nations Development Programme and Craft and Design Institute to help grow creative businesses in South Africa and across the continent.

UNGA Healing Arts Week Call For Proposals

05-07-2025

Many of us have witnessed the arts’ positive impact on the health and wellbeing of our communities. The Jameel Arts & Health Lab invites you to share your experiences as a practitioner, educator, or researcher as part of their annual symposium “Re-Imagining Health Through the Arts” on September 22 at New York University.

Between Tradition and Innovation: Reimagining Teacher Training at NEOJIBA

José Henrique de Campos, Educational Director, NEOJIBA

05-07-2025

When trying to renew an initiative that has existed for almost a decade, our great challenge is to find that precise balance between valuing tradition and proposing something new. At NEOJIBA State Nuclei for Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Bahia, this balance is fundamental to our continuous search for improvement—praising what already works, recognizing what can be improved, and having the tranquility to suggest something innovative without losing the essence of an idea.

It was in this spirit that in 2023, on a sunny afternoon during Bahia’s “eternal summer,” we began to redesign PROCEC, our collective teacher training program.

Music Cities Awards Application Is Now Open

04-02-2025

Applications for the 2025 Music Cities Awards are now open through April 28, honoring music initiatives creating social, cultural, and economic impact on a local or international level.

Applications Open for the Creativity Pioneers Fund

04-02-2025

NGOs using creativity as a core value to respond to community- and youth-driven needs are invited to apply for a micro-grant from the Creativity Pioneers Fund.

Ed Sheeran Leads Call for UK to Invest in Music Education

04-02-2025

Some of the UK’s biggest musicians are calling on UK politicians to restore funding for music education.

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