Sudan Artist Fund
The Sudan Artist Fund established by Khalid Albaih seeks to provide Sudanese artist with microfunds to rally a new generation of artist and creatives following the Sudanese revolution in 2019.
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Sudan, Sudan
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Khalid Albaih’s Sudan Artists Fund distributes $500–1500 microgrants to Sudanese artists for community health messaging, dialogue, and rebuilding projects in the ongoing peaceful fight for democracy after the Sudanese revolution of 2019. The fund aims to rally a new generation of artists to direct their imagination at self-care and the healing of society from emotional traumas, and open new conversations about the re-imagining of Sudanese society in a post-COVID-19 world. Lab founding partner Culturunners donated $7000 to kickstart the grants.
Most Recent Winners
The 10 most recent SAF Grant Winners
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Project Founders
Khalid Elbaih
Khalid Albaih is a creative cultural producer who plans, designs, organises and manages artistic projects that have a cultural impact on the public that will interact with them. He has also been a political cartoonist since 2011and was named one of the top 5 cartoonists in the world in 2018 by The Independent. He publishes his cartoons on social media under “Khartoon!,” a wordplay on cartoon and Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. In addition of two published books khartoon by Khalid Albaih 2018 and Sudan Retold 2019, Khalid has published widely in international publications including The New York Time, The Atlantic, PRI, and NPR, BBC, in addition, Albaih has published his written social and political commentary in publications such as The Guardian, CNN and Al Jazeera. Khalid has been hosted in various TV shows and news programs around the world as a trusted commentator on political events around the world.
Omnia Shawkat
Omnia Abbas Shawkat graduated with a BSc in biology with a focus on environmental studies from the American University in Cairo in 2008. She has a Master’s in Environment and Resource Management with a focus on water and climate policy from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She also completed a Higher Certificate in Business Management from Regent Business School in South Africa. After 6 years in development and environmental management, Omnia rerouted her career to become a digital storytelling curator and cultural manager. Omnia is one of two founders of Andariya, a bilingual digital multimedia cultural platform and cross-cultural enterprise. Andariya was launched in 2015 in Sudan and South Sudan, expanded into Uganda in 2018 and into the East and Horn of Africa regions in 2021. Navigating the tech-culture-media axis got Omnia nominations as one of the top 10 women leading in Tech in the Middle East and North Africa and among the top 9 women tech innovators in Africa. Omnia has experience in strategic social enterprise development, non-profit development, environmental sustainability, media entrepreneurship, cross-cultural curation & digital storytelling.