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- News / Westway Lab: Open Call for Music Artists (Portugal)Celebrating its 10th edition 12-15 April 2023, Westway Lab is Portugal’s showcase festival, international music conference, and artist residency annual event. 4 working groups of 3 artists (with at least 1 person in each group being Portuguese) will be selected to work together the week before the festival to create new side-projects together.Closed
- Library / Imagining and Realising Climate Resilient Futures: The Power of Arts, Culture and Heritage to Accelerate Climate ActionImagining and Realising Climate Resilient Futures: The Power of Arts, Culture and Heritage to Accelerate Climate Action is a manifesto that provides key messages on culture and climate change aimed at the 2022 United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) and beyond.
- News / Imaginarius: Open Call for Art in Public Space for Mais Imaginarius (Portugal)Emerging artists and companies working in theatre, dance, music, circus, performance, intervention, installation, new media, graffiti, magic and multidisciplinary forms from around the world are invited to present their work at Imaginarius Mais from 25-28 May 2023. One project will be selected for an award and commission for a new piece to be presented at the festival in 2024.Closed
- News / ACP-EU Culture Programme - Créer en Afrique CentraleThe ACP-EU Culture Programme - Créer en Afrique Centrale has launched its third call for proposals to support cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in Central Africa as economic, social and cultural actors. The call is open to organisations legally registered in one of the following countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and São Tomé and Principe.Closed
- News / Sesc_Videobrasil: Call for Works, ‘Memory is an Editing Station’ (Brazil)Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo invite artists and/or collectives who are from the Global South, from the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), or who have lived in these regions for at least five years, as well as indigenous artists of any nationalities to participate in the open call for the 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil. Presented works will be eligible for a number of awards including residency prizes.Closed
- News / Lugar Futuro: Open Call for New Choreographic Works by Young Artists (Portugal)Lugar Futuro – First Works is a showcase of choreographic works by young choreographers, framed within the youth dance festival Lugar Futuro. The next edition runs from 18-20 November 2022, in the city of Viseu, Portugal. Presented works must be 10-25 minutes in length and must be one of the first choreographic pieces of the participating authors, who should be aged between 18 and 30 years old.Closed
- News / MOVART: NZINGA Residency for Emerging Female Artists in Contemporary African Art (Angola)The NZINGA Residency takes place over one month during October 2022 at the MOVART Gallery in Luanda, Angola. The programme is open to emerging female artists in contemporary African art (visual and plastic arts) who are nationals of one of the Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, and São Tomé e Principe) or Timor Leste.Closed
- News / Edigma Semibreve Award for Art and Technology Installations (Portugal)The Edigma Semibreve Award celebrates and promotes the creation of works that explore interactivity, sound and image supported through the use of digital technologies. The winner will have the work exhibited during the next edition of the Semibreve festival in Portugal from 27-30 October 2022.Closed
- News / The City as Forest Residency Programme (Brazil)The City as Forest Residency Programme offers immersion for research and experimentation, meant for artists and scientists interested in developing their work in the urban environment of Rio de Janeiro. The programme will run 16 May – 4 June 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Applicants from Brazil, Germany and Switzerland are invited to apply.Closed
- News / A Casa Vella: Residencies for Ibero-American Artists (Spain)A Casa Vella is calling for applications for two artistic residencies from companies/ artists who base their artistic work around movement and the body and are based in Portugal or Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. Residencies are for a maximum of 15 days between 1 June – 31 August 2022. Individuals and groups of up to 3 can apply.Closed
- News / Imaginarius: Call for Work in Public Space (Portugal)Emerging artists and companies working in theatre, dance, music, circus, performance, intervention, installation, new media, graffiti, magic and multidisciplinary forms from around the world are invited to present their work at Imaginarius Mais from 26-29 May 2022. One project will be selected for an award and commission for a new piece to be presented at the festival in 2023.Closed
- News / Index - Biennial of Art and Technology: Open Call for Online ArtworksIndex is a Biennial of Art and Technology, part of the programme of the city of Braga as a UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts. The 2022 edition of Index will thematically explore the notion of ‘Surface’. This open call aims to select and support artistic proposals in the intersection between Art and Technology with close affinities with the biennial’s theme, to be exhibited online.Closed