Services
SUBUD-SICA.ORG
Our website — this website — is the international portal for our work. Let us share here what we do, what inspires us, and what we are working on. Send us your stories, discoveries, projects, music, videos, ideas. All such contributions are most welcome. If you have a national SICA organization in your country, or a national SICA coordinator, tell us what you are doing in the name of SICA in your country — and tell us about the people doing the SICA work.If you are a professional colleague working in the field, and our work interests you, regardless of whether or not you are a Subud member, please know we’d love to hear from you. All are welcome here. Culture belongs to all of us. Contact us.
SICA ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP
Associate Members of SICA are individuals, organizations, or projects whose activities align with SICA’s mission, vision, and values, and contribute to enriching the human spirit and broadening our understanding of others. Associate Members use the badge, right on their websites.
Creativity and innovation — awakened by our own inner selfhood — are at the core of SICA’s work. By partnering with our Associates whose work exemplifies these attributes, we can together begin to build a more truly human society.
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
Fiscal Sponsorship is a financial and legal system by which a legally recognized public charity (such as SICA) provides limited financial and legal oversight for a project initiated independently by an individual. That “project” might be a one-time project or an independent artist or even a cultural organization that does not have its own charitable, non-profit status. Once sponsored in this way, the project is eligible to solicit and receive grants and tax-deductible contributions that are normally available only to legally registered charities.
In the USA, legally recognized public charities have what is called a 501(c)(3) designation from the Internal Revenue Service that permits donations to SICA to be tax deductible. And, as SICA is incorporated in the USA and has a 501(c)(3) status, it can provide fiscal sponsorship services to qualified individuals and groups in the USA. It cannot do this for groups outside the USA.
However, the fiscal sponsorship model can be replicated in other countries which have organized and registered their own national SICA organizations as charitable associations or trusts. We encourage those countries that have their own charitable SICA organizations to create similar programs to help the people doing cultural work in their countries.
Download our Sponsored Project Questionnaire to apply to become a sponsored project of Subud International Cultural Association. You may also download the form to use as a template to create something similar in your country.
SICA SEED GRANTS
A PROGRAM TO CREATE PUBLIC VALUE THROUGH ART, CULTURE, AND CREATIVITY
This program is designed to promote a framework for thinking about the public benefit of art, culture, and creativity — and for recognizing the value of developing individual talent. SICA’s Creating Public Value program will provide seed funding — when funding allows us to do so — up to a maximum amount of US$500.00 for fresh and original cultural endeavors that spring from an individual’s talent, reflect an inner content, and serve the public benefit.
FREE FRACTURED ATLAS MEMBERSHIP
AN OPEN ARTS NETWORK!
Fractured Atlas is an excellent national arts/cultural service organization in the USA that provides many services for its members online. Their services are very valuable to artists and cultural workers throughout the world.
Ordinarily a single FA membership costs US$95.00 per year, but SICA has a partner arrangement with Fractured Atlas, so all our members can have this online membership FREE.
While some Fractured Atlas services will appeal primarily to people in the USA, there are online professional development courses in arts management and arts marketing that can be useful to anyone, anywhere.
Fractured Atlas also has ways to help non-US artists to obtain artist visas to enter for the US for short tours.
You will need to have the SICA login to activate your free Fractured Atlas membership. If you are already a member of SICA or Subud, contact us to get the login information you will need to set up your own free online membership with Fractured Atlas now.
PRACTICAL ONLINE RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS AND CREATORS
Compiled by Maria Ismanah Schulze-Vorberg of Germany, the pdf document you can download below includes invaluable online resources in the following areas:- Online galleries to present and sell art, design, and photography
- Online stores for handcrafted art and design
- Sites to print your art/design on custom-made products
- Create and publish your own book
- Publish and sell your music
- Social networking sites for artists and photographers
- Create blog / website / Portfolio gallery
- Websites
- Portfolio Galleries
- Stock Marketplaces
- Custom Marketplaces
- General information sites / newsletters
- Crowdfunding
- Sites