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News / 7th Extinction: Mentoring and Artistic Residency (Italy, Portugal, Germany)7th Extinction is an international artistic residency project focused on the most pressing issues of evolution, extinction and environmental crisis. This open call is for musicians, music producers, and visual artists (VJs, video producers, visual creatives) between 18-35 years old who are resident or domiciled in Portugal or Germany. Selected applicants will join an educational programme (in Italy, Portugal and Germany) September - December 2023, and an artistic residency spread over a 2-week period at 3 different points in 2024.
News / Mophradat / MaerzMusik: Collaborative Music Residency with Ensemble Adapter (Germany)Mophradat is collaborating with MaerzMusik in Berlin on a special residency programme open to musicians, composers, producers, sound, and interdisciplinary artists to work collaboratively with the Berlin-based Ensemble Adapter on new work to be presented at MaerzMusik festival in 2024. There will be two working sessions with the ensemble from 15 November – 15 December 2023 and 1 February – 25 March 2024. Applicants must be composers from or living in the Arab world.
News / Tabačka Kulturfabrik: TBCK Forward Residency Programme for Women Artists and Cultural Professionals from Central and Eastern Europe (Slovakia)The TBCK Forward residency programme focuses on women artists and cultural professionals from Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia). This call is for residencies in two programmes:
News / RENMUS: Call for Visegrad Group Composers for ‘Renewable Music – V4 Composers for Sustainability’The project ‘RENMUS - Renewable Music - V4 Composers for Sustainability’ invites composers from the Visegrad Group countries to apply for commissions to create new work that will be performed at four different concerts (in Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest). Selected composers will also join a programme of workshops and masterclasses from June – September 2024.
News / BriDJing Career Take-Off Programme for Emerging Womxn Artists in Electronic Music (Tunisia / Online)The Bridging Career Take-Off Programme BCTO is designed for DJs-producers, sound artists, sound producers and electronic musicians, musicians with digital music practices, and has both an offline and an online component. Applicants should be resident and/or a citizen of one of the partner countries of the project - Tunisia, France, and Albania.Closed
News / Les Lundis d’Hortense: Open Call for Jazz Concerts in Brussels and Wallonia (Belgium)Les Lundis d’Hortense organises a whole range of activities, including more than 100 concerts per season. They currently have several calls for concert series and touring activities in Brussels and Wallonia during 2024.
News / Nordic Music Days: Open Call for Works and Proposals, ‘Word of Mouth’ (Scotland)Nordic Music Days is a festival presenting Nordic contemporary music and sound. The next edition of Nordic Music Days takes place in Glasgow from 30 October – 3 November 2024. Composers and artists associated with Scotland and the Nordic countries are invited to submit one work or proposal on the theme of ‘Word of Mouth’.
News / MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN: Residency for Music Theatre Collectives and Artists (Austria)MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN is an international festival that creates, curates and co-produces contemporary music theatre, always looking for new connections between music, text, space, technology and artists.Closed
Funding Guides / Music Mobility Funding Guide - Focus on EuropeThis Music Mobility Funding Guide - with a focus on Europe - provides an overview of the funding bodies and programmes that support the international mobility of music artists (authors, composers, musicians, bands, orchestras) and other music professionals travelling from and/or to European countries (see the list below)
Library / The Ultimate Cookbook for Cultural Managers - The EU Green Deal and Live Performance OrganisationsNavigate the jungle of EU law and get a better understanding of the many initiatives related to the EU Green Deal.
News / Faroe Islands Songwriting CampFaroe Islands Songwriting Camp (FISC) is a professional Nordic songwriting camp in the Faroe Islands. The camp will take place mostly in the surroundings of Sandoy and the capital Torshavn and will last for a full week from 2-8 August 2023. The songwriting camp is mainly for young and professional talents from The Nordic countries, but the application is open for anyone.Closed
News / European Emerging Bands Contest (France)Thousands of young people from all over Europe will gather in Strasbourg (France) between 9-10 June 2023 for the 5th edition of the #EYE2023 (European Youth Event). Solo artists and bands from EU member states, EFTA countries, candidate countries and former EU members are invited to perform for them by entering the 2023 edition of the European Emerging Bands Contest.Closed
