Culture
“Culture should uphold intellectual freedom. It should establish and facilitate communication and forms of aesthetic experience, that is to say the gaining of knowledge and the finding of identity through questions and debates.”
“Kultur im Alltag” (“Everyday culture”, Swissfutur, 03/14)
What do we support?
The Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation supports professionals in the fields of theatre, dance, music and visual arts and also across these disciplines. We promote outstanding projects that are of relevance to society and unusual in terms of aesthetics or form, make an impact beyond their own region and have an educational effect. Cultural participation matters to us.
Whom do we support?
We make grants to Swiss or British artists in both Switzerland and the UK: Cultural institutions, associations and sponsors working together with artists or professional groups of artists, orchestras and companies. Applications may be submitted only by legal entities.
What we don’t fund?
- Exclusively commercial projects
- Applications for contributions to work by individual artists
- Very small projects or single stages of projects
- Infrastructure and operating costs
- Film productions or film festivals
- The production of CDs
- Exhibition catalogues and literary projects
- Musicals
- Comedy
- Seasonal programmes
- Repeats
Our cultural support sectors
