Guidelines for applicants

Here you can apply for funding for performing arts productions for children and young people. The application must be artistically justified and should reflect on children and young people as recipients of performing arts. It is a prerequisite that the production can be sent out on tour.

You can apply for funding for:

1. 1. New productions

1. 1. Facilitation/revival of existing productions for touring
      Facilitation means that specific measures must be taken to make the production tour-friendly.
      Revival means that productions that haven't been performed for a while need to be freshened up for touring, or that specific work needs to be done on the performance.
      NB. There must be a letter of intent with one or more counties/organizers in order to apply for funding for adaptation/revival.
      The tour/screening venues must primarily take place in Norway, but can be combined with screenings abroad. A YouTube/Vimeo link of the performance must also be attached.

Application deadlines 2023:

• • March 31 at 13.00:
    Facilitation/resumption.

• • September 1 at 13:00:
    new productions and projects
    adaptation/resumption

Before starting the application process, applicants are obliged to familiarize themselves with our guidelines for applying for and receiving funding. We only accept applications via the online application form.

Please note that it is important that the application deadline is met, as the electronic reception closes automatically when the deadline expires.

Who can apply:

Professional performers, artists, production environments and producers in the performing arts. The projects must have professional performers.

The application must contain:

• • information about the applicant

• • organization number (Brønnøysundregistered). This cannot be changed afterwards.

• • genre, target group

• • Summary of the project max 500 characters (this can be published)

• • Project description max 5000 characters incl. spaces (this cannot be uploaded as an attachment, or sent by email)

• • CVs for all participants (uploaded as PDF/word, cannot be sent by email). If amateurs are to be used in the production, this must be justified.

• • application sum

• • budget (this cannot be uploaded as an attachment).

• • Expenses

• • revenue/ other financing

• • remember to enter the application amount!

• • miscellaneous/ partners and similar/ letters of intent if required (for applications for facilitation/ resumption)

• • new productions cannot have a premiere date before the application deadline expires

• • All information must accompany the online application. It is not possible to change applications or forward information by email.

• • NB! In the case of applications for adaptation/recording, the application must include a link to the entire performance, either on Vimeo or YouTube.
    The application must also have an attached letter of intent with one or more clients.

Main guidelines:

• • Only applications submitted electronically on portal.spenn.no will be accepted.

• • The application deadline is absolute. The reception closes automatically at 13.00 on the expiration date.

• • Applications not submitted by the deadline are automatically deleted in the system.

• • It is the applicant's responsibility to allow sufficient time to complete and submit the application.

• • Failure of your own computer equipment, problems with accessibility (network) and the like do not entitle you to resubmit.

• • Only applications with a correctly completed application form and correct attachments (if required) will be considered.

• • No changes can be made to the application after the application deadline has expired.

• • It is not possible to send attachments (other information).

• • The applicant will automatically receive a receipt by e-mail when the application is submitted. NB! For some people, this may end up in the spam/junk box.

• • Funding is not available for amateur theater, pre-projects or pure workshops.

• • Funds allocated to a project cannot be reallocated to other projects,

• • When it comes to awarded funding for new production, you will not be able to reapply with the same project in this category.

Please note that application data may be made available to researchers/used for research purposes.
Data published will be in anonymized form and cannot be traced back to the applicant.

Case management:

Processing of the application must take place within 2 months of the current application deadline.
If the application is incomplete or lacks required attachments, the administration has the option of rejecting the application.
If you have previously received funding and the project has been completed, a report must be submitted. The submitted report is a prerequisite for the assessment of future applications.
Applications for production funding are processed by a specially appointed specialist committee.
Applications for adaptation/revival are processed by the artistic council in consultation with Norsk scenekunstbruk.
More information about the committee and artistic council in the menu.

Awards and rejections will be sent by e-mail.
The award list will be published on the website.

Opportunity to appeal
Applicants may appeal against the case processing, but not against the professional artistic assessment that forms the basis for the decisions of the specialist committee and artistic council.

Allocation:

Important deadlines when receiving funding:

2 years after the application has been approved: The applicant is obliged to request the funds within 2 years of the approved application.
When submitting a request for payment, the applicant confirms that the amount will be used for the requested funds, and 80% of the application amount will be paid.
If more than two years elapse between the applicant being granted funding and the applicant requesting the first payment, the funding will lapse.

1 year after the first payment: The premium must take place within 1 year after the first payment of 80%.

3 months after the premiere: At the end of the project/premiere of the performance, the applicant must submit a report and accounts. The remaining 20% will be paid when the report is approved by Scenekunstbruket. The report must be submitted electronically via Spenn.no within 3 months after the premiere/end of the project. We only accept reports delivered via Spenn.
The applicant is obliged to report and to inform Scenekunstbruket as soon as possible if the performance/project is not carried out in accordance with the application. The submitted report is a prerequisite for the assessment of future applications.

The funds can be withdrawn, as well as claims for repayment of funds already disbursed, if the applicant does not comply with its obligations.

Please note that amounts from NOK. 200,000-, must be audited (this responsibility lies with the applicant). The applicant must make it known on all production material that the project is supported with funds from Scenekunstbruket.
Logo can be downloaded here

Report

The final report should not be a long dissertation, here are some tips along the way:

• • Was the artistic idea/vision you described in the application fulfilled? If there were major changes, why? How was the process from idea to performance? Any artistic choices that were made and why.

• • Briefly about scenography/lighting/sound: how did you think and work?

• • Finances: did you stay within budget, and if not, what did this mean for the performance?

• • Tour: what's the plan, and do you have any specific plans?