The Finnish Institute in Japan’s TelepART funding programme helps emerging performing artists showcase their work internationally. The rapid-access style funding is designed to support the expenses for Finnish artists travelling to Japan or Japanese artists travelling to Finland. The Finnish Institute in Japan promotes artistic collaboration between Finland and Japan. TelepART funding will help Finland’s most exciting new performing artists to break into the international scene. The funding is designed especially for emerging talent in performing arts (theatre, circus, music and dance).
The programme enables artists to react quickly to opportunities due to its new rapid-access funding. Grants will only be considered for projects where the organiser, performer and their representatives are committed to the production. Applicants must be able to demonstrate high artistic value, the production must be a collaboration between at least two countries and the performer(s) must receive reasonable compensation for their work. TelepART funding is open for applications throughout the year.
The Finnish Institute in Japan makes the grant decisions with the expert performing arts organisations Music Finland, Dance Info Finland, TINFO and CircusInfo Finland. Applications will be processed within two weeks.
TelepART was launched by the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux in 2016.
The project is supported by the Wihuri Foundation and the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.
Apply for TelepART funding HERE.
Thank you for your interest in TelepART programme. Our TelepART funding for artistic projects has been allocated for the year 2024, therefore we are not accepting new applications at the moment.
Science call is still open.
We can hopefully continue funding TelepART projects again in the spring of 2025.
We wish you all the best in your upcoming projects!
More information: telepart(at)finstitute.jp