Two $3,000 grants supporting independent cultural projects across the Arab region and its diaspora
Applications for the second cycle of the Tzkrti Impact Fund open on 1 October 2026, continuing Tzkrti’s commitment to supporting independent artists, organisers, collectives and cultural initiatives across the Arab region and its diaspora.
The Fund will award two grants of $3,000 each to projects creating meaningful cultural work and contributing to the communities and cultural ecosystems around them.
Applications will remain open until 1 November 2026, with the selected recipients announced on 1 December 2026.
Supporting the people building culture
Independent cultural scenes are built long before the doors open.
They grow through artists developing new ideas, organisers creating opportunities, collectives bringing people together and independent initiatives creating spaces where culture can develop.
The Tzkrti Impact Fund was created to support some of that work directly.
Fully funded by Tzkrti, the Fund provides financial support without turning the process into something unnecessarily complicated. Each cycle supports two selected projects with a $3,000 grant.
Recipients also gain visibility across Tzkrti’s website, newsletter and social channels, helping their projects and stories reach wider audiences.
Building on the first cycle
The first cycle introduced us to independent cultural projects working across different communities and disciplines.
The two selected recipients were:
Firas El Hallak — Sound As Shelter
Majd Hajjaj — Palestine Music Space
Their projects demonstrate different ways independent cultural work can create space, connection and community.
DISCOVER THE FIRST CYCLE RECIPIENTS
Who can apply?
The second cycle is open to independent artists, organisers, collectives and cultural initiatives across the Arab region and its diaspora.
The Fund can support work across music and live performance, festivals and cultural events, cultural spaces, interdisciplinary projects and community-based cultural initiatives.
Projects are considered based on their originality, community and cultural impact, and contribution to local cultural ecosystems.
Second Cycle: Key Dates
Applications open: 1 October 2026
Applications close: 1 November 2026
Recipients announced: 1 December 2026
Two projects. Two $3,000 grants.
Why Tzkrti?
Tzkrti has worked alongside artists, organisers and independent cultural communities since 2014.
Ticketing is part of that relationship, but our connection to the cultural scenes we work with goes beyond the transaction. We believe in contributing to the communities that create the experiences audiences eventually come together to discover.
The Tzkrti Impact Fund is one way of putting that belief into practice: investing directly in people with ideas, projects and spaces that can contribute to the cultural ecosystems around them.
Because culture needs more than an audience. It needs space to grow.
