Grant Writing 101: The Realities of Grant Writing
Now that you know the steps to writing a grant, what is it like in practice? What are The Realities of Grant Writing?
This online panel session led by Denise Dolendo, Fajrina Razak and Mohamad Shaifulbahri, and moderated by Jeffrey Tan, will focus on the panelists’ personal experiences in applying for grants both locally and internationally. The panel will dive into the opportunities and challenges encountered during the grant application process.
This panel follows a series of step-by-step videos on writing a successful grant application that you can catch here.
As spaces for the live panel session are limited, early registration is encouraged.
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About The Panellists
Mohamad Shaifulbahri
Mohamad Shaifulbahri is the Joint Artistic Director of Bhumi Collective and an Organising Member of Producers SG. He is currently an ISPA Singapore Fellow from 2021-2023. He has produced work in Singapore, Malaysia, and the UK and enjoys working with artists who make art collaboratively across mediums, with a view towards transnational collaborations that break borders and barriers in art-making.
He has had experience applying for capability development, organisational and project funding, for local and international ones, from different Singapore grant-giving bodies.
Fajrina Razak
Fajrina Razak is a visual artist and art educator based in Singapore whose practice concerns the notion of individuality and cultural identities, while being driven by the aspects of emotions and spirituality - as methods of excavating personal histories through questioning and investigating own conservative background. Her practice layers through findings of traditional and contemporary motifs when working primarily with batik medium. Her works are also translated across mediums such as photography and text-based art. Recent projects include exhibitions An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season at the National Gallery Singapore and Between the Living and the Archive at Gillman Barracks.
Denise Dolendo
Denise Dolendo is an independent arts manager and producer. She is a co-founder and producer of The Second Breakfast Company and currently manages Marcomms, Ad Sales and Projects at ArtsEquator Ltd. Denise graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2016 with a First Class Honours in BA Arts Management. Since then, she has worked with several arts groups & projects under different capacities – marketing/PR, project management and administration. Some of the organisations she has worked with include Dream Academy Productions, NUS Centre for the Arts, Dance Nucleus, OperaViva Ltd, Urban Redevelopment Authority and LASALLE College of the Arts. Since 2020, Denise also serves as a grant curator for National Youth Council's Young ChangeMakers grant.
Jeffrey Tan
Over the years, Jeffrey has received numerous grant rejections and also grant support with the National Arts Council’s Travel Grants, CD; Capability Development grant, MAD; Market Audience Development grant, P & P; Presentation and Participation grant, Production Grant, DPG; Digital Presentation Grant, Open Call or Residencies grants, Overseas Bursaries for his BA (Drama) in Queensland University of Technology, Australia and the NAC Scholarship for his MA (Drama and Theatre Education) at the University of Warwick. Jeffrey was also one of the two producers at the inaugural NAC and Performing Lines Australia one year fellowship.
Outside of the National Arts Council, Jeffrey has also been successful with the Melbourne Australia’s Next Wave Festival’s two weeks Creative Development Residency at Brunswick Mechanics Institute in 2019. Jeffrey was a Singapore International Foundation’ Arts for Good Fellow in 2018/2019, SIF’s Arts for Good grant 2020, Mekong Cultural Hub’s six months Curated Conversation 2020 and the International Teaching Artist Collaborative project grant to map Teaching Artists in Asia working with disability communities.
Jeffrey has been invited to be on several National Arts Council’s grant panels for Arts Education, Theatre grant panels and Major companies panels. Currently Jeffrey is Artist in the National Arts Council’s Community Arts Residency at Lion Befrienders (Ang Mo Kio) as part of Silver Arts festival 2021.