Nordic-Baltic Region

IETM Global Connect 2026 Open Call invites performing arts professionals from around the world to become ‘Global Connectors’, bringing fresh perspectives into IETM’s international network of contemporary performing arts.

The Estonian Literary Society, in cooperation with the Tartu Literature House Foundation and other literary organisations, invites writers and translators to apply for a residency in Tartu, Estonia, November–December 2025.

The Bravo! International Performing Arts Festival for Young Audiences in the Helsinki metropolitan area is now seeking proposals for workshops and art education programmes aimed at both professionals and children, young people, and their families.

The House of Text in Helsinki, Finland is hosting the working residency programme Text Laboratory for writers and other artists working with text. The aim of the project is to test and find new ways to bring text-based works and practices into contact with audiences and develop ways of sharing and inhabiting textual spaces together. The third and last Text Lab takes place between 29 December 2025 and 1 February 2026.

HIAP, Bioart Society, Koynẽ Program and SWAMP: Art Material and Waste Management Point and TUO TUO invite applications for a new pilot residency programme focused on socially engaged, process-orientated and material-driven practices.

Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform takes place in Stockholm, Sweden, 1–4 June 2026. It is an event presenting both emerging and established names of Nordic contemporary dance and choreography to presenters, programmers, and other professionals from all over the world.

To enrich the programme of Liepāja – European Capital of Culture 2027 with innovative, interdisciplinary, contemporary and outstanding cultural events, hence boosting the international cooperation, the Liepāja 2027 Foundation is launching an open international competition for the co-financing of cultural and artistic initiatives.

Nordic Culture Point has an extra round of funding aimed at residency centers located in the Nordic and Baltic countries to allow them to invite Ukrainian artists/other professionals within arts and culture for a residency.

Through the Ambassadors of Good Practice Programme, Creative FLIP is supporting 10 peer-learning exchanges designed to identify and showcase exemplary practices on how local communities in non-urban areas are revitalised through arts and culture.