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In a post-Covid-19 recovery context the Anna Lindh Foundation is ensuring thriving Civil Society National Networks through ALFinMOTION, its interdisciplinary cross-sectoral mobility programme across the region. Each mobility submission must be presented by a host organisation (applicant) and can involve, depending on the mobility modality, up to two hosted organisations from the complementary shore of the Mediterranean. Priority will be given to submissions where all the involved organisations are members of the Anna Lindh Foundation from the 41 National Networks and to submissions led by ALF members.

This call for applications for a travel grant is dedicated to women artists and cultural professionals from the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean, who are willing to travel within the southern Mediterranean region for south-south mobility (North Africa and the Middle East). The mobility must be completed before September 2023.

The ‘Intermix Residency | Art & Fashion Reimagined’ programme offers visual artists and fashion designers the opportunity to collaborate in an experimental environment to support creative development and skill set expansion. The second cycle of the residency programme will run virtually from 4-18 December 2022 and on-site from 4 January - 28 February 2023.

Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium (TISS) will consist of 30 sculptors from around the world coming together to produce a series of permanent public sculptures. The Symposium will take place 8 January - 4 February 2023, and is a platform for international and Saudi artists to create public sculptures in a live setting. Applications are open to stone sculptors of all nationalities with at least 5 years of experience exhibiting works permanently or temporarily in outdoor spaces or galleries.

Organised by Culture Funding Watch, the RM Digithon Mena Edition will be a two-day programme of online meetings designed to connect CCI supporters and CCI operators, taking place 22-23 September 2022.  

Artists Connecting in Transition (ACT) is a new international programme for artists in exile, centring on artistic practice and international exchange in the context of significant global challenges and inequalities around forced migration, exile and displacement. Funded by the British Council, ACT sets out to create environments of care, creativity and support for artists whose practice has been disrupted through forced migration.

Ettijahat- Independent Culture announces the launch of the open call for the 2022 edition of MAHARAT: Building Careers in Performing Arts, in partnership with DROSOS FOUNDATION, targeting technicians working within the performing arts sector who are looking to enhance their technical skills in the field of sound, lighting, and stage management techniques. The programme runs over four months from the beginning of August to the end of November.

Orbitals is a recurrent programme which takes four curators and researchers from or living in the Arab world to an international location to learn about a different artistic context. This year’s edition of Orbitals, taking place over ten days in November, is an introduction to some of the art activity in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow (CCA) and QANAT (a collective platform held by LE 18 Marrakech) are pleased to announce a call for expressions of interest for six research residencies as part of Confluence, a 1-year residency and research programme taking place between Marrakech and Glasgow focused on water as a political, historical and economic substance. Residencies take place in September 2022 and January 2023.

The Samira al-Khalil Prize is intended to reward, once a year, a woman whose practice and trajectory are in solidarity with the struggle to put an end to the infringement of fundamental rights and freedoms in the Arab and Mediterranean regions. It will be awarded on International Women’s Rights Day, 8 March, in Paris, France.

As part of All-Around Culture, Thoulathy initiates and supports collaborations of cultural organisations between the following group of countries which we have divided geographically between South and North. South Countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Western Sahara, and Libyan and Syrian diaspora in these countries