Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network is launching a call for ten journalists, artists, historians and civil society activists from the Balkans for small projects on exploring archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and local courts in ex-Yugoslav countries that dealt with war crimes cases (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia). Research duration is six months, starting from May 2022. All projects must be published before the end of 2022.

For the second half of 2022, TRADUKI is offering residencies in 10 cities in Southeast Europe - Belgrade, Bucharest, Cetinje, Novo Mesto, Prishtina, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Split and Tirana - for the duration of 2-6 weeks. Eligible applicants are writers, translators, and book professionals from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.

The Cultural Cooperation project Some Call Us Balkans (SCUB) is a transdisciplinary, art-based inquiry and community that explores and mobilises moments of collective production of knowledge, imagination, research, and multivocal representations that challenge myths and misconceptions regarding the Balkans as the ‘European Other’.   Based on the artistic research built throughout the project, SCUBcommunity is looking for 8 emerging artist-travelers. 

The cultural platform Kooperativa is organising a Twinning Programme that will focus on bringing together two arts and culture organisations from two different countries. Organisations based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia and North Macedonia can apply. Activities should be implemented between October 2021 and February 2022.

Municipality Centar, Sarajevo invites national and international professional artists, architects, and designers to apply for a permanent outdoor sculpture 2021, celebrating the life and career of the basketball player Mirza Delibašić. Fabrication and installation will begin 18 September 2021, with the sculpture presented to the public on 8 December 2021.

Studio Teatar and LOOP, would like to invite you to take part in an international public space performance workshop – A Beloved Enemy. The participants will explore the use of public space as a habitat of art, and as an environment for artistic articulation of the public discourse through methods that place language of theatre, body movement and artists themselves at the heart of the urban fabric of the city. Topics such as democracy, public life and art will be fundamental in the research of the workshop.

Part of the EU cooperation project Reading Balkans, the ‘Reading Balkans 2021’ literary residency programme is inviting applications from fiction writers, poets, essayists, playwrights, screenplay writers and comic book writers from Southeast Europe (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia).

The CEI Award for Writers in Residence is an award aimed at encouraging cross-border cooperation and promotion in the field of literature for young writers from the CEI Member States (Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine). The award supports the winner to make a one-month stay in a CEI Member State of their choosing, anytime in 2021. Writers from all genres under the age of 35 from the CEI Member States are eligible. Deadline: 15 June 2020.