France

The Video Mapping Awards open call invites creators of audiovisual video mapping works to submit to a competition taking place as part of the Video Mapping Festival #9. This opportunity culminates in a public presentation and awards ceremony in Lille, France, on 11 April 2026 and is aimed at recognising the best video mapping productions from 2025.

Island Connect, a collaborative programme between seven performing arts organisations working with residencies located on (or associated with) European islands of different countries, has open calls for artists in the performing arts.

The Center for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm) Summer School 2026 will take place in Marseille, France between June 28 – July 6, 2026.

UNESCO has released a call for an external consultant for its Diversity of Cultural Expressions programme, based at its Paris headquarters.

Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is launching the call for applications for its Sound Art Residency programme.

The FRAC Alsace is launching an open call for an artistic and pedagogical residency for visual artists at the Musée de Saverne, Château des Rohan in Alsace, running from 20 February to 30 April 2026.

Les Rencontres d’Arles is calling for applications from exhibition curators for their Curatorial Research Fellowship to be undertaken throughout 2026.

For its ninth edition, the Danse élargie competition continues to welcome every impulse and experiment in movement — including those that seek to unfold beyond conventional performance spaces. In doing so, it extends the vision conceived by choreographer Boris Charmatz with the Musée de la danse, theatre director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota with the Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.

Horizons ‘Arts-Nature’ in Sancy, scheduled from 20 June to 27 September 2026, is calling for works of ephemeral plastic works created specifically for the Massif du Sancy open-air art exhibition.

The Parc naturel régional de l’Aubrac, in partnership with the commune of Montézic, is launching the second edition of ‘Parlons Culture & Création’, a residency designed to foster artistic creation and cultural dialogue in rural settings.