Current Grant

Open Door Grant Program 2023

1. Applicant: Vertigo (Ani Lukhava)

Project Title: Immortal Phoenix

Region: Tbilisi

Project duration: 2 months

Requested amount: 1950 USD

The goal of the project is to create an advertisement in the form of video art, which will provide women with information about safe entertainment, violence prevention and legal procedures after violence in the space of clubs, concert halls or other entertainment institutions.

 

2. Applicant: Art studio "Fantasmagoria" (Elene Tavadze)

Project Title: Elene Dariani

Region: Tbilisi

Project duration: 5 months

Requested amount: 5000 USD

The goal of the project is to shoot a 9-minute puppet animation based on the script "Elene Dariani".

 

3. Applicant: Tamar Chaduneli

Project Title: Shushaniki - Artistic Work about Workers of the Rustavi Factories and on Women's Diseases

Region: Kakheti, Lagodekhi

Project duration: 3 months

Requested amount: 5000 USD

The project involves the creation of an artistic work in cooperation with the Rustavi Metallurgical Plant. The artwork aims to explore and creatively comment on the harm caused to women by the factory.

 

4. Applicant: Institute for the Study of Democracy (Tamar Khidasheli)

Project Title: The Anti-Feminist Focus of Far-Right Groups

Region: Tbilisi

Project duration: 5 months

Requested amount: 5000 USD

The goal of the project is to analyze the anti-feminist discourse of the far-right groups in Georgia and to raise public awareness of the dangers arising from them.

 

5. Applicant: Initiative Group to Support Women Living in Highland Villages (Teona Kakatsidze)

Project Title: Mock Trials for Women's Property Equality

Region: Khulo, Vashlovani

Project duration: 8 months

Requested amount: 5000 USD

The project is about raising awareness among young people living in mountainous villages regarding women's property and inheritance rights.

6. Applicant: Initiative Group of Women from Racha (Lika Simsive)

Project Title: Women's voice from Racha

Region: Racha, Ambrolauri, Tbeti

Project duration: 5 months

Requested amount: 4870 USD

The purpose of the project is to show, by collecting and sharing women's stories, how the appearance of Racha's environment was changing, how the population protested against the government policy aimed at exploitation of resources, how women appropriated and used local resources in their daily life for various purposes (cooking, healing, auxiliary household, etc.) and, Most importantly, what was the history of their activism in this direction.

 

7. Applicant: Women in Football for Social Change (Miranda Gordeziani)

Project Title: Connecting Female Soccer Players for Professional and Feminist Mobilization

Region: Imereti, Kutaisi

Project duration: 5 months

Requested amount: 5000 USD

The goal of the project is to actualize the issues and problems of women's football in the public space through artistic mediums.

 

8. Applicant: Initiative group "Women for Tianeti"

Project Title: If You Were Me

Region: Tianeti

Project duration: 5 months

Requested amount: 5000 USD

The goal of the project is to create a women's club in the village of Zhebota, Tianeti municipality, by women members of the initiative group, where young girls, their parents and teachers can talk about important topics for them.