Rolex and its Support Program Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative

For the past 10 years, a watchmaker Rolex sponsors the program Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, supporting artists. The purpose of the program is to help talented young artists, actors, writers and other creative types to fulfill their potential. The program presents a unique opportunity for young talented individuals to work with established artists.

Mentors and Proteges

Rolex representatives are invited venerable masters of cinema, literature, theater, and visual arts and dance to work the whole year with a rising star. The company Rolex, in addition to providing organizational and financial support provided to each protégé a grant of $ 25,000, but the instructor fee is $ 50,000.

The presentation of the presented programs in the Public Library of New York

Rolex summed up the previous session on the eve of the anniversary year. The presentation of the presented programs held in the Public Library of New York.

Mentors and Proteges

Thus, a dancer Lee Serle from Australia presented the premiere of a new play P.O.V. under the guidance of a mentor Trisha Brown, an American choreographer and director of the ballet Dance Company.

Mentors and Proteges

The young director from Palestine Annemarie Jeykir worked under the patronage of the Chinese master Zhang Yimou. An Icelandic musician Ben Frost and his mentor, the composer and musician from Britain, Brian Eno created a great audio-video installation Music For Solaris with 29 violinists and two percussionists.

The name of the new seventh subject and the mentor’s name became known at the end of the summer. It was the architect from Japan Kazuyo Sejima.

Official site of Rolex.

Written by Lucy Vuiton

An award-winning choreographer, a pioneer of modern Chinese dance, Lin Hwaimin

Novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic Margaret Atwood from Canada

sound designer and film editor Walter Murch

legendary Brazilian singer and guitarist, songwriter Gilberto Gil

known South African artist, a fighter against apartheid William Kentridge

French director Patrice Chéreau

Kazuyo Sejima, an architect from Japan, has become a new coach, leading the architecture sector