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A Very Long Production about a Lonely Shrimp
Filmmaker Matt Maraynes received a 2024 CAF grant to shoot a documentary short about a shrimp, Vincent. But he found himself in a dilemma . . .
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CAF Announces Its 2025 Grantees
In the year in which CAF celebrates its 40th anniversary, we’re pleased to announce our 2025 grantees. They encompass a range of disciplines and artistic practices from many different countries.
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Marine Lercier and Gal Nissim Join the CAF Board
The Culture & Animals Foundation is delighted to welcome “scienartist” Gal Nissim and legal scholar Marine Lercier to its administrative board.
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News and Announcements from Our Grantees
Our grantees are busy completing their projects and venturing onto new ones. Here’s a digest of some of their more recent achievements.
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Marta Bogdanska: What If the Animals Always Fought Back?
Polish multimedia artist and Marta Bogdanska received a 2023 CAF grant for “Vive La Résistance,” a project of art, films, and audio pieces on animal agency and subversion. This work was featured in a solo exhibition (her first) at the Fort Institute for Photography in Warsaw, Poland, December 5th, 2024—February 16th, 2025.
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Two New Books from CAF Grantees
Congratulations to CAF grantees Isabella La Rocca Gonzalez (2014) and Nadja Lubiw-Hazard (2023) for the publication in December 2024 of their two books!
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CAF Begins Its Oral History Project
CAF is committed to ensuring the knowledge and experience of animal and vegan advocates are not lost. To that end, we’ve begun a year-long oral history project to gather the life stories and recollections of activists from the 1950s to the present.
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Keane Southard on Completing Requiem for Animals
Requiem for Animals, a piece written by composer Keane Southard (2024) for a choir of sopranos, altos, tenors, and bases, and string orchestra, was commissioned by the Brattleboro Music Center (for performance in May 2025 by the Brattleboro Concert Choir, Jonathan Harvey, director) with additional support from the Culture & Animals Foundation and the Eric Stokes Fund, Earth’s Best in Tune. This interview is excerpted from Keane’s prefatory material for the piece’s complete score.
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The People vs. Nature
An Interview with Kevin Augustine
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Martin Rowe, ED of the Culture & Animals Foundation, talked with CAF 2024 grantee Kevin Augustine of Lone Wolf Tribe about his play “The People vs. Nature,” which ran at La MaMa Experimental Theater from November 7–17, as part of the 2024 Puppet Festival. -
J. M. Coetzee’s “The Lives of Animals”: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Its Publication
On the occasion of the awarding of novelist J. M. Coetzee with the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize, CAF convened a webinar with three leading scholars to discuss Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals, which was published 25 years go this year. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the webinar.
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