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Science Awareness is a programme of MM Gerdau – Museum of Mines and Metal. It is calling for artists to take part in an artistic residency to access and learn about the collection of the museum, participate in (online) creative meetings and ultimately create an artwork for virtual or in-person exhibition. Applicants must be fluent in Portuguese, as this will be the working language.

The Brazilian organisation Silo - Arte e Latitude Rural is inviting artists, curators and scientists willing to work in Art and Science to apply for the programme ‘Resilience: artist in residence’, which will take place between between 22 August – 12 September 2021 in the Environmental Protection Area of Serrinha do Alambari and on the Itatiaia National Park’s plateau.

JAT – Janela Aberta Teatro invites companies and artists working in physical theatre to apply to present their work at MOMI – International Physical Theatre Festival – Algarve, held from 25-28 November 2021 in the city of Faro, Portugal.

Lugar Futuro Festival aims to promote young dance creators and performers and to be a platform for the premiere of ‘new works’, as well as for the presentation of ‘first works’ by dance students or young choreographers. Performances will be held between 12 and 14 November 2021 in Viseu, Portugal. 

To contribute to the ongoing prominence of Amazonian female art in the international context, CULTURESCAPES in partnership with Festival LABVERDE is offering a three-month residency in Basel, Switzerland, between August and October 2021. Female and LGBTQIA+ artists from different fields and cultural backgrounds who are from the Amazonian Region (Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guianas) and have a solid level of English are welcome to apply.

Museums Without Walls is seeking proposals for its virtual reality residency programme. Residencies will take place through April and May in different versions of the Espírito Santo Art Museum – MAES hosted in the Mozilla Hubs platform. Four participants will be selected to occupy and recreate this environment based on their artistic and/or curatorial visions. The residency outcomes will be presented in the Museum Without Walls programme in late May 2021.

Circolando is a transdisciplinary artistic company based in the former powerplant of Freixo, Porto. Applications are now open for the performing arts residency programme ‘Circolando / Power Station 2021 – PHASE 1’. Two projects will be selected to be developed at the Power Station, from 8 to 26 February 2021 and from 15 to 31 March 2021.

Based in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Imaginarius is an annual festival of outdoor arts. For the 2021 edition, the festival is adapting to a new model and embracing digital work alongside other forms of programming. They have several calls open for artists from around the world, covering livestreamed performances, natively digital work, and a special mural commission in Santa Maria da Feira.

The next edition of MEXE will take place in Porto from 17-26 September 2021 with the theme ‘The Risk’. The festival seeks proposals for shows, installations, performances, workshops and documentaries which engage with community artistic practices. Given the unpredictable context of the pandemic, the next edition of MEXE may consider a mixed presentation model: on-site and virtual.