Mophradat is continuing their partnership with Kunstencentrum BUDA and NEXT Festival in Belgium to offer a three-week residency (October/November 2027) for a performing artist from the Arab world. Using BUDA’s facilities and artistic support, the artist would finalise a new production and premiere their work at NEXT Festival at the conclusion of the residency.
Kunstencentrum BUDA in Kortrijk is a space for performing arts, an art house cinema, and one of the largest workspaces for performing arts in Belgium. NEXT Festival is a yearly, international cross-border dance, theatre, and performance festival founded in 2008 featuring works by renowned and young artists in more than 20 locations in and around Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai-Valenciennes cities. It is co-organised by five French and Belgian artistic houses and 18 associated partners.
In addition to complying with the general eligibility criteria, applicants must note the following:
- Applicants must have developed and presented previous works.
- Applicants must be working on a new and original project.
- Applicants must be working with contemporary forms of performance.
- Unconventional projects dealing with experimental forms and/or concerned with progressive discourses are encouraged to apply.
- Unsuccessful applicants to previous editions are eligible to re-apply.
Applicants must have advanced and be in the final development phase of their projects by September 2027 and have confirmed co-producers and/or a financing plan, as this residency only partially contributes to the production costs.
Proposals for concerts are not eligible for this call.
The partner covers travel and visa costs as well as residency per diems, in addition to coproduction costs, and a presentation fee for the performance at NEXT Festival for an overall amount of 10,000 EUR, all included. The partners will support the selected applicant through the necessary visa applications; and if the artists are unable to travel due to visa refusals, the project will be compensated.
