Bulgaria

A to JazZ Showcase for international emerging artists in world music is a brand new part of the A to JazZ festival programme, taking place on 6 July 2023. World music projects and bands from all EU countries, as well as Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Albania, Bosna & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Georgia, Tunisia, and Ukraine can apply.

The ContextAiR Plovdiv residency programme aims at creating new works, partnerships, interventions in public space, inspired by the city of Plovdiv and its eclectic mix of ancient history, socialist heritage and modern reality. The programme provides conditions for a 4-6 week stay.

In 2023, the Art Prospect Network Residency programme will support residencies for eighteen artists and curators from USA and the Art Prospect Network countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) focusing on exchange and collaboration in the field of socially engaged art and/or public art.

The high-tech research and innovations project PROGENY is is calling for mural artists and mural collectives worldwide. The topic of the open call is the socioeconomic and environmental impact of current electronic production and waste. 1 artistic idea will be selected for realisation from May - August 2023 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The Horizon 2020 project WaterLANDS has launched six calls for European artists to engage with restoration works through part-time residencies spanning four years. Residencies will take place at sites in Bulgaria, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

‘ECHO III: for memory’s sake’ is an arts and heritage project that aims to bring together artists working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature in order to explore tradition and culture through the themes of marriage, arranged marriages and nuclear families in the Balkan context. ECHO III is looking for 24 artists, 6 Greek, 6 Romanian, 6 Bulgarian, 6 Albanian, working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature to participate in the project with creation residencies and a short tour.

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 ContextAiR Plovdiv residency programme aims at creating new works, partnerships, interventions in public space, inspired by the city of Plovdiv and its eclectic mix of ancient history, socialist heritage and modern reality. The programme provides conditions for a 6 week stay, with residencies taking place 20 May – 30 November 2022.

For a second year the Translation in Motion consortium of translation residencies invites applications by literary translators working from or into the languages of the countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia). Residency stays will take place between April 2022 and April 2023.

Art Related are calling for artists and scientists interested in working with shepherd communities in Antia, Greece and The Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Workshops will be held in Antia in the first week of April 2023 and The Rhodope Mountains in the first week of May. An exhibition in Sofia will happen in October 2023 and in Athens in December 2023.

Radar Sofia is announcing an open call for artists for three fully funded residencies in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2022 under its year-long programme Distance and Resistance. There are slots for one-month residencies starting in May, June and September 2022. The focus is on dramaturgical practices, of all kinds.

National, regional and international journalists are invited to visit GOATMILK International festival of memories and the project Centriphery, implemented in Bulgaria by New Culture Foundation.