The Caribbean Culture Fund provides grants and funding opportunities to support artists, cultural practitioners, and organizations across the region. Our programs are designed to fuel creativity, preserve traditions, and build sustainable cultural industries. By investing in people and projects, we help ensure Caribbean culture continues to thrive at home and on the global stage.

From music and dance to film, heritage preservation, and digital storytelling, we believe in the power of culture to transform lives and communities.

The CCF invites individuals, organizations, and institutions to submit their cultural and creative projects. Selection will be based on respect for the values and criteria defined below, the alignment with the requirements, the quality and feasibility of proposals, and on the proven abilities of project leaders. We invite applicants to write their projects simply and clearly, paying particular attention to the relationship between objectives and budget, and to consider implementation constraints.

Call 4.1: Art for Change

CCF will award 10 grants of USD 10,000 for projects that demonstrate the use of arts and culture to catalyze change.

The Art for Change theme invites creatives and cultural organizations to explore the transformative power of art in shaping the Caribbean we envision. We seek projects that give voice to the region’s aspirations, challenges, and triumphs, and that address the changes artists wish to see in their communities, nations, and the broader Caribbean. This theme encourages artists to imagine, critique, and reimagine the Caribbean, using their work as a catalyst for social commentary, engagement, education, reflection, and positive change and new developments. We welcome proposals that showcase innovative and impactful art practices, from visual arts to performance, literature, and beyond, that contribute to a vibrant and inclusive Caribbean narrative.

Call 4.2: Caribbean Collaboration

CCF will award 4 grants of USD 25,000 for projects that reflect or catalyze intra-regional cooperation and the promotion of arts across linguistic and geographic boundaries within the Caribbean and its Diasporas.

This theme invites projects to reflect connections between the Caribbean community. Applicants must be working with a collaborator based in another Caribbean country or territory and this partner or partners must be meaningfully included in the design and implementation of the project. The project must be multi-country or multi-territory in scope and execution; for example: bringing the work of creatives from many different countries to one or more countries. Projects that reflect connections to the larger African Diaspora and the legacy of African and Indigenous culture in the Caribbean will also be considered.

Application Requirements

Disciplines: Applications are welcome in all art genres, including

• Libraries and archives: museums, galleries, and heritage

• Multimedia

• Performing arts: theater, dance, festivals

• Music and sound recording

• Visual arts: painting and visual effects

• Literature and Publishing: poetry, prose, comics; traditional and digital publishing

• Photography

• Architecture

• Design: applied design, fashion design, and interior design

• Pottery, ceramics and sculpture

• Radio

• Television

• Any other genre or mixed genre

To apply, applicants must:

• Be a Caribbean-based artist, cultural practitioner, collective, organization, institution, or creative enterprise.

• Projects must be rooted in Caribbean arts, heritage, or cultural expressions – all artistic disciplines are welcome.

• Demonstrate cultural relevance, potential impact, and capacity to deliver.

• Uphold CCF values: social commitment, inclusion, sustainability, and cultural transmission or preservation.

• Provide required documentation (ID, registration if applicable, budget, timeline; exceptions for stateless people and their collectives).

• Be able to sign a grant agreement and receive funds in a bank account in your name.

Which countries have already been eligible for grants?

Barbados, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Curacao, Cayman Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, Suriname.