The Adiguru CENDANA Programme is designed to sustain the development and ensure continuity of traditional art forms of Malaysia, heighten awareness, encourage transfer of knowledge and documentation work, as well as create partnerships with the selected masters.
GRANT VALUEThe Programme provides funding up to
RM30,000 per application over the period of up to twelve (12) months to develop programmes or improve necessary infrastructure vital to the practice of the artform.
PROGRAMME CRITERIA
The Adiguru CENDANA Programme is a community arts programme that aims to:
- Honour an individual or group for mastery (of practices and expressions that are transmitted from generation to generation, as well as the knowledge, skills and values associated that the local communities recognise as part of their traditional arts forms) or experienced and committed practitioners that nurtures the artistic excellence, vitality, and development of Malaysian traditional arts in their local community;
- Prioritise to support masters or experienced and committed practitioners of traditional arts to teach their art to youth in their local communities;
- Amplify the efforts of masters or experienced and committed practitioners of traditional arts to sustain the practice of their art in their local communities;
- Increase the public profiles of masters or experienced and committed practitioners of traditional arts through a documentation process carried out by CENDANA in collaboration with programme partner PUSAKA to garner wider appreciation and understanding;
- Enable masters or experienced and committed practitioners of traditional arts to maintain/ improve infrastructure (example: community stage) or improve other material support (example: costumes, instruments) for traditional arts in local communities;
- Facilitate connections and partnerships between masters or experienced and committed practitioners, their local communities, and regional economic corridor development, to promote their art forms to a larger network and audience and contribute to the sustainability and viability of their practice. This may include participation in related outreach programmes such as apprenticeship programme organised by CENDANA in collaboration with programme partner PUSAKA.
TYPES OF TRADITIONAL ARTS