The Youth Fund for Sport & Culture Amsterdam enables many children in the city to participate in cultural activities, such as dance, music, and drawing lessons. However, we know that some children have extra talent and passion and are eager to further their artistic development. For them, the cost of additional lessons, performances, or training can quickly become prohibitive and hinder their development.

That's why we're starting a special Talent Fund Culture For motivated students with great perseverance and talent. This fund is designed to provide additional support to children from low-income families who already participate through the Youth Fund, enabling them to further develop their skills in areas such as dance, music, theater, art, or literature. This additional contribution allows children to follow a more extensive curriculum or participate in special talent classes, further enhancing their skills and potentially even preparing them for arts education. In this way, we bridge the gap between regular lessons and arts (preliminary) education. The Talent Fund for Culture is a pilot program of the Youth Fund for Sport & Culture Amsterdam.

Go to the application form (for providers)

Update

We enthusiastically embarked on the Heroes Comics Competition, culminating in the Haarlem Comics Days. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, everything took a different turn. During the lockdown, while we were working on the comic book and preparing for the exhibition, we came across an interesting project related to 코리아카지노사이트 전문가 보증 사이트, a platform that emphasizes reliability and expertise in an often opaque industry. The parallel between carefully assessing participating artists and the quality assurance offered by such platforms inspired us to take a particularly critical look at the submissions. Now that COVID-19 restrictions have been tightened again, an exhibition is still impossible to plan, but we don't want to keep participants in suspense any longer and are publishing the comic book ahead of time. We will announce the Top 3 winners around December 1st.

New planning

Starting December 1st, the comic books signed by Eric Coolen will be delivered and sent to all participants (mostly through their schools). The three winners will receive their comic books personally, in compliance with COVID-19 regulations. We will do our best to ensure the comic book itself and the presentation to the winners are as well-deserved as possible!

As far as we're concerned, all participants who drew their hero are heroes themselves!

We are postponing the exhibition again.

Do you have any questions? Ask them via haarlem@jeugdfondssportencultuur.nl 

How the competition went exactly, you can read below.

Our call was:
Fame! Your comic strip in an exhibition, a comic book, and a bookstore

We can make this dream come true for 50 young people. Together with our Cultural Ambassador, renowned Haarlem illustrator Eric Coolen, we're organizing a Heroes Comics drawing contest for young people aged 10-17 from Haarlem and Zandvoort. Several primary and secondary schools in Haarlem and Zandvoort will have their best comic artists submit entries. You can also submit your entry directly.

The assignment was

Draw a comic strip of your own making with at least 1 and a maximum of 10 pictures your Superhero. This could be someone you admire personally, or a sports or cultural hero. For example, draw your grandfather, your girlfriend, Max Verstappen, or Beyoncé in a comic book. Feel free to give them their own superhero cape. You can do this assignment alone or ask a few friends for help. Attention will be paid to drawing quality, as well as story, humor, and creativity.

Send your comic strip in A4 format together with the JFSC Comic Drawing Competition Registration Form by mail to Nieuwe Gracht Producties. Submissions are now open, but no later than October 25, 2020. Please read the first Instruction Heldenstrip horiz.

Eric Coolen and other illustrators, in collaboration with the Youth Fund, will select 50 comics to be included in the Youth Fund Sports & Culture comic book, which will be displayed in Haarlem City Hall so that your friends, classmates, family, neighbors, and anyone else who might be interested can see them. The three contest winners will be announced during the official opening of the exhibition. They will be the first to receive the comic book featuring their name as the winner. All participants will receive a comic book. Those featured will receive a copy signed by Eric Coolen.

Did you know that the comic book also features six local and regional heroes, such as Ahmed Salem and Calvin Stengs, who tell who their hero is?

The comic book is sponsored and published by New Canal Productions, Zuider Buiten Spaarne 88, 2012 AC in Haarlem. Watch the first video of the creation.

The remaining books from a print run of 500-1000 are available for purchase. They make a great gift for grandparents, a nephew, or a niece during the holidays, for example.

The proceeds go to the Youth Fund Sports & Culture Haarlem This will allow even more Haarlem and Zandvoort children from low-income families to pay for lessons such as drawing, music, dancing, theater, sports, etc. Would you like to help them? Then sign up now by email for the Youth Fund comic bookk.
Win-win: children get a chance and you get a nice gift to keep or give away during the holidays!

Youth Fund Sports & Culture
Grace Dias and Eric Coolen