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Grants for Artists (INDIVIDUALS, COLLABORATIONS, OR COLLECTIVES)

Submission Deadlines: April 1st and October 1st

*** Before applying for a grant, please make sure you have read the grant criteria an application
must meet to be eligible. Grants are assessed based on the quality of the proposed activity or
project, so please ensure you give us as much detail as possible about what you aspire for and
how you would like to do it.

Name (or names of applicants, if applicable)

omar el ouaer

E-mail Skype Contact

ommajidhager@gmail.com +21624101472

Address
06,rue abderrahmen ghafiki gammarth la marsa 1057

Telephone Number Website

+21624101472 www.omarelouaer.com

What is the (working) title of your activity or project?

professional musician / Producer

Who will sign the agreement, if a grant is awarded?

omar el ouaer

When would you like to start your activity or project, and how much time do you
need to complete it?
February 2021 / Tunisia / France

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What amount are you requesting (in dollars)? Keep in mind that if you are
awarded a grant, you will be asked to provide a breakdown of your budget and
other sources of funding.
5000$

Please list any other financial support that your project has received or applied for.
AFAC

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Describe what you would like to do with the grant. Feel free to be as speculative
or as concrete as is appropriate for you. What we need is an idea of what you are
planning and why, what you need to make it possible, and details of any relevant
people, places, or contexts that you will involve (maximum 500 words).
the idea of this project and to bring together musicians from two different environments but which this
reuinisse on a single idea and a same style of music. it will be a meeting between Tunisian musicians and
musicians of the Parisian jazz scene including the trumpet player Hermon Meheri, the saxophonist
Franscesco geminiani the drummer Guillem Flouzat and the bass player Fabricio nicolas garcia,
the project will take place over two stages the first is an artistic residency in Tunisia for a week at the Dar
sebastien cultural center in Hammamet made of work and repetitions of the musical repertoire which is in
the form of compositions and standard arrangement of Tunisian traditional music rearranger in jazz.
the second stage and the recording of a disc of the project in quintet in Paris or other (I have not yet locate
the studio)

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Explain how the activity or project for which you are applying relates to your practice.
Please provide us with as much information as possible to understand how your
proposal fits within the context of your ideas and recent work (maximum 500 words).
This project, which is represented in the implementation of a high quality musical performance and
performance, includes a group of projects and musical performances which started production a year ago,
namely 5 projects
Another Perspective 2014
Amber Sextet 2017
Amber Quartet 2018
Oya Trio project 2019
All these projects are part of a perspee, or rather a professional biography that represents the creation and
development of the Tunisian jazz scene.

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In practical terms, how do you plan to realize your proposal? Your explanation can
be as simple as a schedule, a step-by-step list, or a narrative describing how you
intend to proceed. If relevant, please upload material in the submissions page
(e.g., plans, mock-up, visual outlines, texts sound or clips) that can help us better
understand your proposal (maximum 500 words).

JANVIER 2020
5 au 12
15 au 22
RESIDENCE ARTISTIQUE
QUNINTET HAMMAMET Dar sebastien CD RECORDING QUINTET

Fevrier 2020
05 au 10
15 au 21
STUDIO PARIS CD RELESE CONCERT

AVRIL 2020
CD DISTRIBUTION

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Please provide us with information detailing your recent experience. Either provide
a CV (maximum two pages), and additional CVs for the individual members if a
collaboration (maximum two pages each) in the submissions page, or include a
narrative in the space below (maximum 500 words for all collaborators).
July 15, 2019: Amber Festivale internationale de Hammamet
17-20 April 2019: JAZZINTUN 4 Estelle Perrault Quintet Tunisia Tour
06 April 2019: JAZZINTUN 3 Amber Omar el Ouaer Quintet Habibi Club
05 April 2019: Amber CD Release Concert Festival Jazz A Carthage Acropolium de Carthage
22/23 March 2019: JAZZINTUN 2 Hamza Zeramidini Trio Gest Yacine Boulares Tunis TOUR
March 20, 2019: Oraganic Trio Gest Pierre Vaiana Festival Concert
Sicca Jazz Kef Tunis
18 Feb 2019: Concert Oya Trio Festival Medina JAZZ 2nd Edition
22-25 Jan 2019: JAZZINTUN # 1 Organic Trio gest Pierre Vianna Tunisia
Tower
19 Jan 2019: Yasmine Azaiez African Jasmine Project Theater Municipale
04-07 0ct 2018: Registration Amber Project Aeronef Studio Paris France
August 25, 2018: Yasmine Azaiez Trio International Festival of Tabarka
July / August 2018: Artistic Director Jazz Summer Concert Hôtel la cigale Tabarka
June 12, 2018: Solo concert at the Carthage Acropolium For the MARAM association
June 02, 2018: Olfa Rembourg Foundation Prize for Culture
MAY 22/24, 2018: Artistic Residence & Concert "Amber Project" "Cooperative American school of
Tunisia"
APR 15, 2018: Concert "CONVERSATION" "INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL AT CARTHAGE
2018"
APR 13, 2018: Concert "CONVERSATION" "Maison de tunisie" Paris
30 MAR 2018: MALEK LAKHWA TRIO Concerto the Agora
09 MAR 2018: Concert "YASMINE AZAIEZ Group" "Municipal theater of SFAX"
FEB 15, 2018: Concert "MALEK LAKHWA TRIO" "Medina jazz Festival"
19 otobre 2017: Concert "THE EXIT by Marouene ALLAM Quintet" L’Agora
JULY 28, 2017: Mehdi Azazi Quartet "YADIS SUMMER FEST"
July 22, 2017: After Concert Series “THE SHAREEF CLAYTON QUINTET” “International Festival
of TABARKA”
June 17, 2017: Amber Quintet concert "LA KASBA kef Theater antique"
May 01, 2017: Another Perspective Project Concert “Maghreb JAZZ DAY # 3” Paris / France
APRIL 09, 2017: YASMINE AZAIEZ GROUP Concert "Municipal theater of Sousse"
APRIL 06, 2017: Another Perspective Project “JMC 2017” Concert
16/19 MARCH 2017: After Concerts "Festival SICCA JAZZ 2017"
MARCH 01, 2017: Concert "Conversation Project" The Agora Theater
08 OCTOBER 2016: Concert Viktorija Pilatovic Quartet "THE RESIDENCE JAZZ CLUB"
APRIL 14, 2016: Concert of the OMAR EL OUAER QUARTET Project "Another Pespective" at the Jazz
Festival in Carthage 11 Edition
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MARCH 21, 2016: Independence Day concert with the participation of the Tunisian Embassy in Berlin
with Yasmine Azaiz Project
DEC 3 2015: concert and recording with Yasmine
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Please provide six examples of your recent work. This can include images,
moving-image work, sound work, writing, performance documentation, artist
publications, etc. This material can be submitted in any format or combination
of formats (digital images, PDFs, URLs), but please organize and mark the
material clearly, and upload the files in the submissions page. If your material is
combined together, then uploading one file is sufficient.

THANK YOU!

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