Italy

What’s next? Co-organised by Institut Català de Les Empreses Culturals - Catalan Arts and Institut Ramon Llull, in collaboration with the Temporada Alta Festival and the Girona City Council, IETM’s next Satellite Meeting will be held from 25-27 November 2021 in Girona, and invite a collective reflection on how we can build on what we have learned and think of new ways to reposition the arts as a relevant agent for social change. Travel grants are offered to IETM members.

Endecameron 21 is the fourth edition of the artistic residency started in 2018 at the Rocca Sinibalda Castle in Italy. The 2021 theme is Incubation and the residency will take place 31 July – 8 August 2021.

Earth Water Sky environmental science and arts residency programme are looking for an artist from any discipline who is truly inspired by thinking about time and connecting the geology of our Earth to humankind. The artist must also enjoy the research process as well as public engagement and be able to create imaginative, extraordinary new work which captures the public’s attention, senses, minds and hearts. The selected artist will undertake a two-month residency, after which they can bid for a production fund to realise a full artwork.

The Caravan Residency Programme is a year-long multi-city residency that invites artists, cultural practitioners, and activists to articulate and configure new modes of relating to and understanding urban, infrastructural, and social processes and formations. Residency activities take place from October 2021 – July 2022. Applications are open to emerging to mid-career artists in any discipline who reside in EU and a number of neighbouring countries.

Organised by Kyber Theatre, the 8th Edition of the International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival ‘The Wonders of Possible’ will take place in Cagliari, Italy between November and December 2021. The current open call, addressed to Italian and international artists, is for projects on the topic of ‘Interaction between arts and technology’. Two winners will be selected, with one place open to artists and companies of any nationality or age, and a second place open to emerging companies/groups (maximum of 3 people) and individual artists under 35.

The project JaWo Music Residencies will invite 20 emerging musicians/authors connected to the European jazz / world music scene to take part in a programme of online training and exchange, as well as a physical residency in Benevento, Italy, from April 2021 - March 2022. Applicants must be residing in Europe and must belong to a disadvantaged group – as a migrant, having economic or social disadvantage, etc.

The Summer Sessions are short-term international art and technology residencies for emerging artists and designers. Artists and designers working with art and technology are eligible to apply if they are under the age of 35 and/or have graduated within the past five years, and live in a country where there is a Summer Sessions sponsoring partner (Netherlands, Taiwan, Spain, Austria, Russia, China, South Korea, Croatia and Belgium). Each Summer Sessions residency lasts approximately eight weeks and takes place between July and September.

The Room to Bloom platform will collectively select a group of 100 emerging feminist artists to participate in a mix of trainings, workshops and talks throughout the year. Programme activities run mostly online June - November 2021. Selected participants will also be offered the possibility to propose works for production (15 works selected) later this year, to be presented during international events and exhibitions (Palermo, Kyiv Biennale, Warszawa Biennale, AthenSyn Festival).

Created in 2013 by Centrale Fies, in collaboration with Viafarini, LIVE WORKS - Free School of Performance is a platform dedicated to live contemporary practices that contribute to deepening and broadening the idea of performance, following the current evolution of performance and its styles. In times of continuous change Centrale Fies and the curatorial team of LIVE WORKS add two important news to the Call of this edition including fellowship and travel grants' support.

Citofonare PimOff is a residency programme in support of national and international choreographic and performative research. It supports dance and performance projects which are in their creation phase and have never been publicly presented in their final form. PimOff will provide selected artists a residency, lasting a maximum of two weeks, from February to June 2022 at PimOff Theatre in Milan.

As a member of the international collaboration A-Place, LOOP (a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image) will commission a video production to investigate the process of creating a sense of place in one of the six cities participating in the project (Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Nicosia). Multidisciplinary artists who are legal residents in the European Union can apply.