Miguel Angel 1 dupl
Camino Eras del Lugar 23 04638 Mojácar Almería Spain
28010 Madrid
Spain
- Arts
- International/Cultural relations
Our aims, according to the statutes of Fundación Valparaíso, are to promote the creation of artistic works and research in the field of fine arts, literature and music.
These aims are principally carried out by funding artists, writers and researchers, from all over the world, for periods of residence in the Foundation's facilities in Mojácar (Almeria, Andalusia, Spain), providing financial assistance to any cultural activity, or individual, involved in teaching and research in these fields and holding seminars, conferences, exhibitions and prizes across the various artistic disciplines.
Our objective for the near future is, using our resources and strategic geographical location in Almería, to promote cultural interaction between North and South of the Mediterranean, through our residency’s grants, improving multidisciplinary cultural access and knowledge of, and between, both sides of the sea.
Till now, our patronage activities have been:
Grants for board and residency
Since 1990, Valparaiso Foundation has been providing grants to enable artists to live for four weeks at its Residence in Mojacar (Almeria). These artists have all produced professionally recognised works and submitted proposals for projects to be undertaken at the Foundation itself.
Prizes
The annual Paul Beckett Poetry Prize (awarded with 4,000€ and the book is published in the Beatrice collection).
The biennial Beckett Theatre Prize (awarded with 6,000€, the play published in the Beckett collection and presented to the public in a dramatic reading of the work).
Also, the Valparaíso Foundation Prize for Painting; sponsorship of the Spanish Association of Symphonic Orchestras Musical Composition Award; concerts and exhibitions, in our facilities in Mojácar.
Valparaíso Foundation can contribute to the Spanish ALF Network with:
- providing our facilities in Mojácar (Almería), for free, to ALF projects, as we are strategically located less than 400 km from Morocco and Algeria: the residence is situated amongst olive, orange and almond groves two kilometres from the beach at 150 metres above sea level; it has magnificent views to the Mediterranean coast and the Sierra Cabrera, home to the town of Mojacar.
This rural retreat, an old olive mill, has eight private rooms with en suite bathroom, a dining room, a library containing more than 10,000 titles and various other common areas. Each unit consists of a studio, a bedroom and a bathroom. Several of the rooms also have outdoor terraces or access to the courtyard. It also has its own vegetable garden and four individual workshops for painters, sculptors and multi media artists, as well as a study and auditorium for the musicians.
- offering specifically our residency grants to artists and creators of the Mediterranean in order to increase cultural relationships and understandings between North and South: one of the Valparaiso Foundation's main aims is to offer artists from all over the world and from all branches of the arts (writers, composers, painters, sculptors, visual artists, etc.), a quiet and peaceful retreat where they can concentrate on their art, free from distraction and the duties of daily life. Each month eight artists on grants have come together at the Mojacar Residence. Almost twenty years of experience has shown this number to be ideal for facilitating an interchange of ideas in a friendly and enriching atmosphere.
- our international cultural multidisciplinary projects;
- our own financial resources.
We have been working until now, very autonomously. And due to the actual world context it is time, for us:
- to work together with, and join forces to similar and complementary institutions;
- to reach wider and different audiences, public not used to the artistic world, so as they can be beneficiary of our efforts;
- to be part of multidisciplinary projects, out from our usual work but where we can contribute with our international artistic experience of 25 years;
- to help improving the knowledge and understanding of our different cultures in the Mediterranean.