Points of Departure (PoD) aims to encourage creative exchange between Palestine and the UK and to provide an opportunity for research, public engagement, and the production of new artworks to be showcased in London and Palestine in 2013.  Six artists will be selected to take part in this project, three from Palestine and three based in the UK.  Additionally, one curator from Palestine and one curator from the UK will be selected to support the production and curation of the resultant exhibition.

CONDITIONS FOR APPLICANTS: 

• Currently living and working in either Palestine and the UK;

• Seeking a career defining opportunity to research and produce a bold, seminal project;

• Able to demonstrate achievement or great potential in visually articulating ground-breaking and critically engaged ideas and concepts in an innovative and collaborative way;

• Able to work in an engaged fashion involving the general public;

• Resourceful and accomplished at working in a cost-effective way;

• Open to collaborations and producing ideas in partnership with others; 

• Can demonstrate how the experience of an international residency may benefit his/her practice and career development; 

• Proficient in English.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

There are two separate application forms and processes for curators and artists.  

To download the specific application form and for more information visit the Delfina Foundation website.

Deadline: 10 March for curators, 16 March for artists

An exciting transdisciplinary art festival with performances, exhibitions, concerts, combinations of all and more....

FAR invites all interested artists, researchers, artistic researchers, and whoever else is interested, to get together and discover the phenomenon of TRANSLATION in its wide range of manifestations:

How do we translate from the inside to the outside and the other way round?
What gets lost on the way of translation and what emerges?
How can we impart artistic knowledge?

These questions and many more are waiting for your inspiring contribution.

If you are interested in participating, please send us your application until the 15th of April 2012.

For further information about the festival and application details, check out the festival's homepage www.art-as-research.org

The present document, entitled information standards for the mobility of artists and cultural professionals, is the result of this expert group’s work and was conducted from May 2011 to December 2011.

Download the final text of the information standards for the mobility of artists and cultural professionals

The main target group of these information standards are policy makers in the EU Member States. The standards provide them with practical guidance for setting up information services by identifying mobility related issues for which the availability of information at national level would benefit outgoing artists and cultural professionals, as well as those coming from abroad (from EU and non-EU countries). Ultimately the information provided as a result of applying these standards will benefit cultural organisations, individual artists, cultural professionals, and small-scale cultural enterprises which are mobile or wish to be mobile across borders.

The information standards include two parts:

- Part 1 includes a prioritised list of information topics which are relevant to the mobility across borders of artists and cultural professionals and for which information needs to be made available at national level. The annex 1 provides further insight into how detailed information would ideally be made available.

- Part 2 includes content guidelines on customised information for cultural mobility, including a set of recommendations on how to make quality information available at national level and for other EU countries, as well as an open list of best practice on how to overcome difficulties in information provision.

Any support to the dissemination of this important policy document is warmly welcomed.

This workshop is realised with the support of Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and will be open to graphic designers, craftsmen and artists, designers and communicators with an expertise in computer tools based in Western Africa.

Deadline to apply for participation: 2 March.

Complete information (in French) on Ker Thiossane's website.

The Performance Centre ETK is an umbrella organisation for performance companies and artists in Helsinki. In May 2012 ETK organises its first international symposium with the aim of providing training opportunities for artists, stimulating artistic exchange and opening debates about current issues related to the creation of art. The symposium is curated by the performance group Oblivia.

The four-day event includes two artistic workshops run by international artists from the performance and circus field, a roundtable discussion with keynote speakers about issues of artist nomadism, an expert roundtable about residences for performance artists, artistic discussions about why artists do what they do as well as a site-specific performance.

Program updates are published on www.esitystaide.fi. Seminar participation is free, the workshops last 3 days and the participation fee is 150 euros.

Registration deadline 16th of April 2012, workshop places are limited.

For more information and registration:
Tuulia Nieminen, tuulia.nieminen@esitystaide.fi
Martina Marti, martina.marti@esitystaide.fi 

A coproduction of the Performance Centre ETK, Circus Information Centre, TINFO and Kiasma Theatre, curated by Oblivia. 

Program 

Wednesday, 23 May 2012 

Workshop with Bojan Jablanovec from Via Negativa (Slovenia) and Kallo Collective (Finland), artist discussion with Oblivia (Finland) and a site-specific performance by Finnish performance group Toisissa tiloissa. The day ends with a meet and greet event.

Thursday, 24 May 2012 

Workshop with Bojan Jablanovec from Via Negativa and Kallo Collective, an expert seminar about residencies for the performing arts and artist discussion with the Kallo Collective. 

Friday, 25 May 2012 

Workshop with Bojan Jablanovec from Via Negativa and Kallo Collective, artist discussion with Bojan Jablanovec.

Saturday, 26 May 2012 

Day-long seminar with keynote speakers Annika Tudeer (Oblivia), Veit Sprenger (Showcase Beat Le Mot) and Bojana Cvejic (Utrecht University) amongst others. The day ends with a big closing party.

Via Negativa

Via Negativa is an international performing arts project founded by Bojan  Joblanovic in 2002. Their work is focused on the relationship between the performer and the audience in real space and time. They work as a collective where each individual fights with his reasons, courage and body. 

Kallo Collective

Kallo Collective is an up-and-coming physical theatre and contemporary circus company. It is an international collective based in Helsinki with strong connections in France and New Zealand. Key members include Jenni Kallo (FIN), Thom Monckton (NZ), Sampo Kurppa (FIN), and Jen McArthur (NZ). The Collective aims to augment and evolve the disciplines of physical theatre, circus, and in particular, clowning.

Age limit: up to 35 years old ( born after 1st of May 1978 )

Prizes: 7.000 Euro

Deadline for application: February 10th, 2013 

For further details please visit JmEvents' website.

The project follows three steps:

1. You have an issue or problem that you share with your colleagues, neighbours or association members, and you believe an art project is the right way to make this public. You then contact your regional mediator, a renowned art curator. In conversations, she or he helps to formulate the content of the project. She or he arranges a meeting with an artist – from the discipline (fine art, architecture, design, music) which you will have chosen together – who is able to give form to your project.

2. The artist develops a clear proposal in reference to the exchanges that have taken place with the mediator and the patrons.

3. With guidance from the mediator, you seek financial,governmental and political support for the project. The patrons, the artist and the mediator all remain involved until the completion of the project. You play an essential role in how the society receives it.

Find out how this unique programme works online.

The Prince Claus Fund firmly believes that culture is a basic need and actively seeks innovative, quality cultural projects in spaces where resources and opportunities for cultural expression, creative production and research are limited and/or threatened.

In addition to being a financial partner, the Prince Claus Fund contributes its expertise and its extensive network to its collaborations and grants recipients.

As of 2012, the Prince Claus Fund will issue two targeted calls to support cultural initiatives in all artistic disciplines. One annual call will target a specific region or number of countries. The second call will be thematic.

The current call welcomes project proposals for cultural initiatives from organizations and individuals from the following countries: Cambodia, East Timor, Nepal, Laos, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, The Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan.

The deadline for the submission of projects is 15 March 2012. Only applications received before the deadline will be considered.

For examples of projects funded by the Prince Claus Fund, please check our annual reports.

The development, scripting, production and post-production of short and full-length documentary, animation, experimental and feature films, as well as research and writing of literary works, novels, short stories, poetry and biographies is not included in this grant. 

Find all the details on Prince Claus Fund website

In its seventh edition, IFA proposes a period of creative residency from April the 2nd to June the 23rd, with three guest artists - Geraldine Pilgrim, Gustavo Frigerio, Claudia Dias - who will join the program as mentors, to help the participants in developing their own projects. 

A selection of these projects will be presented at the showcase IFA Festival (Polverigi, June 21st  > 23rd), to which will be invited professionals, critics, festival directors, to provide participants with maximum exposure and opportunities for future work.

Moreover, among the proposals submitted, three can be inserted in the festival Danza al Museo (October > December 2012, in the museums of Marche region).

RECIPIENTS > The program has 15 vacancies for young artists/performers aged between 18 and 35 years who want to gain experience in research and training for the development of their practice.

The selection is primarily addressed to dancers, choreographers, performers with experience in dance / physical theatre / circus.

SELECTION RULES >  The applicants will be selected on the basis of the proposed project. 

Application can be submitted in Italian, English or French. It is possible to add video materials, texts, and photos of previous works that may be useful in understanding the candidate’s training and creative experience. It is recommended to attach videos and photos of previous work, useful in understanding the candidate’s training and creative experience. You should also attach technical specifications and feasibility studies.

The proposed project must have a minimum duration of 20 minutes and must be original: projects that have been presented to other contests will not be taken into consideration.

PARTICIPATION TERMS > The IFA program provides lodging, workspace, technical assistance and support. In the guest house of Villa Nappi there is kitchen facilities, common space and free wifi area.

To participate in the program we require a fee to cover the costs of the attendance, lodging, work and study spaces. Participants are responsible for their travel, living costs and personal insurance.

TERMS OF SUBMISSION > Applications must be arrived to Inteatro by March 19th 2012 (ifa@inteatro.it, Inteatro, Villa Nappi - Via Marconi 77, 60020 Polverigi (An) - Italy) 

Find all the details online.

400 professionals from the performing arts domain are invited to discuss about the consolidation of the sector. In order to prepare the meetings, Circostrada Network has launched a Europe-wide online consultation, which will collect observations and propositions.

The programme of the two days seminar is now available online and registrations are open.

On the Move will attend the seminar: find us on the programme!

April 2012 will be a telling time for contemporary circus creation in Paris - the partners of Circostrada Network are organising a series of events for professionnals from performing arts.