Romania

The project MODINA (Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience) aims to expand the creative possibilities for contemporary dance performances, and augment the experience for the audience, using digital technology – with an emphasis on exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and audience interaction, on-site and online. The project seeks dance and technology duos for residencies in performance centres in Romania, Slovenia, Estonia, Germany and Hungary. Five 8-week residencies will take place between November 2023 and April 2024.

Basca Theater are looking for theatre, circus, dance or any other kinds of performance, in any language, for ‘in : v z b l festival’ 2023. Selected artistic interventions can take place between 1 September – 15 November 2023.

Basca Theater invite 3 international and/or Romanian artists to spend two weeks in Timisoara, and to create cultural interventions in the city, with Basca Theater’s team facilitating access to various invisible communities. Selected artistic interventions can take place between 1 September – 15 November 2023.

The Eastern European Music Academy is a hybrid capacity building project for independent music professionals from Eastern and Central Europe, as well as the Baltic region. The Academy runs online 20 April - 8 July 2023, with some students selected to attend an in-person conference and showcase in Romania.

The project ETERIA – Enhance Transborder Experiences, Rebuild Interactions of Artists is calling for emerging and professional artists from Europe to participate in three hybrid online and in-person residencies involving masterclasses, activities, and rehearsals towards the realisation of a multilingual site-specific performance. Residencies will be held in 2023 and 2024 online and in Greece, Romania and Italy.

The Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI) announces the launch of the new CANTEMIR Programme, a funding programme for cultural projects abroad. Grants are available in the visual arts and performing arts; projects must be implemented in the interval 1 June 2023 - 15 October 2023.

New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest is launching a new fellowship programme for writers and translators from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine. Applicants from the Baltics or the Western Balkans may be considered under special circumstances. The fellowship includes a residency of 2-5 months; exact dates agreed with NEC.

As a part of Escape Fake 2.0, the organisers invite 4 teams composed of 2 artists to contribute their ideas in the creation of four artworks. The artefacts or installations will be mobile and usable without borders, and will be toured to art and media festivals in the second half of 2023. The organisers are looking for teams of two artists from each partner country – Austria, Hungary, Italy and Romania.

‘ECHO III: for memory’s sake’ is an arts and heritage project that aims to bring together artists working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature in order to explore tradition and culture through the themes of marriage, arranged marriages and nuclear families in the Balkan context. ECHO III is looking for 24 artists, 6 Greek, 6 Romanian, 6 Bulgarian, 6 Albanian, working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature to participate in the project with creation residencies and a short tour.

The open call for the maGma artistic residency programme is international and is aimed at individual artists working in any field. The five programme mentors will each choose two artists who will create together between 10-20 July 2022 and present their creations during a showcase from 22-24 July 2022.

Organised by the Faculty of Arts and Design Timisoara, the conference NATURE – Arts Interconnections will take place 2-4 November 2022 and is open to researchers and visual artists who work on the ways in which nature in its various forms is present in visual arts. Submissions of papers presenting theoretical research results and presentations of artistic research are equally welcome.

In the framework of the project EU4Dialogue, Goethe-Institut is calling for cultural managers and professionals from South Caucasus and the Republic of Moldova for the first Cultural Management Academy. The Academy consists of an intensive five-day seminar in Bucharest, in addition to online preparation days and a cultural exploration day in Bucharest. It runs 22-27 June 2022.