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Cultural Garage
 Announcement 2025

Founded by Goethe-Institut Alexandria in 2019, the Cultural Garage offers space for artistic expression, training, and collaboration. Since its 2024 relaunch, it serves as a short-term workspace for local cultural actors and organizations, fostering creativity and resilience in Alexandria’s cultural scene.

6 Bab Sharq © Goethe-Institut Alexandria/ Butheina Shalan

SPACE USAGE

The Cultural Garage will be offered as short-term space to practitioners in the culture and art fields.  

  • 3-8 weeks stay (free use of space including technical availabilities)  
  • 1 training/workshop as per identified need  

  
The Cultural Garage intends to address the decline of physical spaces that are available and affordable to independent cultural practitioners. The project primarily offers the space of the Cultural Garage to the granted practitioners. Selected cultural practitioners will not receive financial support.
 
The artist(s) will be granted permanent and independent access to the premises. The offer is accompanied by a detailed contract and handover protocol, that includes house rules and duties regarding the use of the space.  
 

Kulturgarage © Goethe-Institut Alexandria/ Butheina Shalan

Kulturgarage 3 © Goethe-Institut Alexandria/ Butheina Shalan

6 -bab-sharq-floor Goethe-Institut Alexandria

TRAINING/WORKSHOP  

Every applicant is asked to express a lack of knowledge or skills. Overcoming this lack would bring a big advantage to making the work more sustainable.  
Thus, each stay is accompanied by at least one training/workshop. Within 2-6 hours, this training provides concrete tools and methodologies to tackle the identified challenge. Topics could be for example: grant proposal writing, social media marketing, cultural management etc.  
The insights gained are also shared to further cultural practitioners in Alexandria.  

PROCEDURE  

  • 3 Deadlines in 2026     
  1. 13.12.25 for the timeframe 01.02.-24.05.26
  2. 12.04.26 for the timeframe 25.05.- 14.09.26 
  3. 04.08.26 for the timeframe 15.09.26 - 05.01.27
  • A jury will review all applications submitted. Selection criteria, amongst others, are: 
  1. Completeness of submitted information 
  2. Relevance of proposal following call for application 
  3. Artistic quality 

REQUIREMENTS  

Those seeking to be granted an opportunity to use the space should meet the following criteria  

  • Cultural actor or organization (any genre: including but not limited to performing arts, music, film, visual arts, literature, etc.)  
  • Proven (semi-)professional level and working standards  

GOALS  

  • Provide a space and public platform without financial constraints, also for younger cultural actors, including underrepresented groups of society  
  • Strengthen networks in the cultural scene, particularly for making greater use of synergies and fostering resilience  
  • Further development of the Cultural Garage as a space for art, discourse, exchange, education/ information  

LINK: 

Application form(DOC, 159 KB)

Kontakt

Isabel Peglau
Programmkoordinatorin Goethe-Institut Alexandria
Isabel.Peglau@goethe.de