International Opportunities Fund

The Fund supports Wales Arts International’s main priority to ‘nurture Wales’ international artistic, creative and cultural potential in a way that is fair to people and to the planet’.

Through in-person activity taking place outside of Wales and the UK, the International Opportunities Fund aims to sustain and enrich artistic practice in Wales to:

• enable the sustainable development of relationships, collaborations and networks between Wales’ artists and arts organisations and their international partners
• support opportunities to share experiences and skills through the arts within an international context and in a fair and sustainable way
• nurture meaningful and mutually beneficial international collaboration that explores new ways of working together, in particular responding to issues of inclusivity, fair collaboration and climate justice.

The International Opportunities Fund will help us meet the wellbeing objectives and outcomes that are identified in Arts Council of Wales’ International Strategy and are aligned to the seven goals of the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act (Wales) 2015. In addition, international is a cross cutting strategic area of work and contributes towards each of the six corporate principles of the Arts Council as set out in the Corporate Plan.