Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival) is calling for applications for 15 scholarships for artists and cultural workers from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia and Hungary under the heading In the Field. In the framework of a 10-day programme (30 May to 8 June 2025), In the Field will facilitate transregional networking and transfer of knowledge in the context of an international theatre festival, bringing together participants from a 300-kilometre radius around Vienna.
In 2024 the Vienna Festival declared themselves the Free Republic of Vienna, radically daring to attempt the reinvention of an arts and culture festival. Between 16 May and 22 June 2025, the Free Republic of Vienna will enter its second year under the title Republic of Love.
The programme is aimed at artists and cultural workers at the start of their careers and advanced students of various disciplines (Bachelor students near completion of their studies as well as Masters and PhD students), and in particular at those whose practice is located at the intersection of art and community work/participation.
The group will consist of five scholarship recipients from Vienna and ten from the federal provinces and neighbouring countries whose home or work life centre is located within a radius of 300 km around Vienna.
Participation in In the Field is free of charge for recipients of the scholarship and includes tickets for selected performances as well as – for all scholarship holders from outside of Vienna – travel costs of no more than EUR 200 to cover the journey to and from Vienna by train or coach and accommodation in single rooms (incl. breakfast) for nine nights.
