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Culture Resource is launching the open call ‘Reclaiming Our Commons: A Proposal for Cultural Collaboration Across the Arab Region’, to contribute to building a participatory creative process addressed to initiatives, cooperatives, independent cultural and artistic organisations, as well as artists and cultural actors.

Initiated by the Visual Arts Commission in collaboration with the Fashion Commission of the Ministry of Culture, the Intermix Residency Programme is a fully funded multi-cycle artist residency programme located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The North Africa Cultural Programme (NACP) | Cycle II is a four-year programme (2024–2027) dedicated to five countries in North Africa – Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia – and comprises two support schemes: a National Cultural Opportunities Fund and a Regional Competitive Creativity Fund.

The ALFinMotion programme financially supports representatives from across the Mediterranean, promoting face-to-face collaboration and interdisciplinary solutions. ALFinMotion unites intercultural dialogue leaders and empowers civil society entities to tackle pressing challenges.

Anhar: Culture and Climate Platform is a new programme from Art Jameel and the British Council that supports ambitious arts projects that engage with the climate emergency. Applicants must be based in one or more of the following countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya , Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

Te Intermix Residency Programme in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia welcomes applications by Saudi and international emerging and mid-career visual artists, fashion designers, and curators aged 21 or above who are willing to develop a production or research-based project related to the topics of innovation, transformation, and sustainability. Residencies will take place from 22 October 2023 – 4 January 2024.

Artists are invited to send their proposals for the 5th edition of Tuwaiq Sculpture, an annual sculpture symposium that brings artists together to create public sculptures that later become an integral part of Riyadh’s urban fabric. The Symposium will run 14 January - 10 February 2024, with 30 participants.

Art Jameel launches a curatorial open call for exhibition proposals, to be developed for Hayy Arts’ first floor gallery at Hayy Jameel in Jeddah for May 2024. The call is open to curators and collectives (with a focus on early-career curators) working anywhere whose research and exhibition making engages with the following topics: Jeddah/ Hejaz histories; Red Sea ecologies; Red Sea histories of migration – the movement of people and ideas; connected geographies across the Red Sea (e.g. Egypt, Saudi, Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Palestine, Jordan).

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 will take place between 4-14 December 4 2023 and will be an introduction to the art scene in Dakar, Senegal.

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.