Where: The Hague, NL
What: Subsidy

The Fund for Amateur Art and Performing Arts is the national fund in the Netherlands that gives grants to amateur artists and professional performing artists, groups and ensembles whose projects contribute to the quality, advancement and variety of the arts and their dissemination abroad. The Fund also takes part in cultural and political debates and promotes both sectors in the Netherlands and abroad.

The Fund for Amateur Art and Performing Arts works mainly on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has a budget of approximately fourteen million euros a year.

The Fund encourages greater unity between the work of amateur, semi-professional and professional artists working in the performing arts and other artistic fields and promotes international activities carried out in and in collaboration with the artists' countries of origin, and supports cultural diversity.

Website: http://www.fapk.nl