Portugal

MUSA - European young Musicians soft Skills Alliance is calling for applications for a combined residency and workshop in Lisbon, Portugal, from 24-31 October 2021. The programme is open to string quartets from Creative Europe countries with members between 20 and 35 years old.

JAT – Janela Aberta Teatro invites companies and artists working in physical theatre to apply to present their work at MOMI – International Physical Theatre Festival – Algarve, held from 25-28 November 2021 in the city of Faro, Portugal.

Lugar Futuro Festival aims to promote young dance creators and performers and to be a platform for the premiere of ‘new works’, as well as for the presentation of ‘first works’ by dance students or young choreographers. Performances will be held between 12 and 14 November 2021 in Viseu, Portugal. 

Transcultura, a Programme funded by the European Union, will support three selected music projects (either individuals, duets or bands) to attend the next edition of WOMEX, to be held in the city of Porto, Portugal from 26-31 October 2021. Applicants must be from the 17 Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) and the Organization of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).

POLDRA – Public Sculpture Project Viseu promotes site-specific contemporary public art / art in public space. This open call (with a focus on sculpture) seeks proposals for works designed specifically for the Mata do Fontelo (Viseu, Portugal) and reflecting on the subject of art in public space. POLDRA’s 2021 edition will be inaugurated in October 2021 and the selected proposals must be installed and on site up to 5 days before the inauguration date (to be determined).

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.

Medinea (MEDiterranean INcubator of Emerging Artists) supports the professional integration of young Mediterranean musicians. It is now inviting applications for four training sessions in Lisbon (Portugal), Sidi Bou Said (Tunisia), Aix-en-Provence (France), and Nuoro (Italy) to explore intercultural and improvised music with the help of the jazzman and composer Fabrizio Cassol. Each session has its own dates and deadline.

The Endangered Landscapes Artist Residencies and Arts Prize will select eight artists, or collectives, to be in residence in eight endangered landscapes: Cairngorms Connect (Scotland, UK), Carpathian Mountains (Romania), Danube Delta, Gökova Bay to Cape Gelidonya (Turkey), Greater Côa Valley (Portugal), Iori River Valley (Georgia), Polesia (Belarus & Ukraine), Summit to Sea (Wales, UK). Applicants should have a demonstrable link to one of the countries of their chosen landscape and ideally a link to the landscape itself.

Circolando is a transdisciplinary artistic company based in the former powerplant of Freixo, Porto. Applications are now open for the performing arts residency programme ‘Circolando / Power Station 2021 – PHASE 1’. Two projects will be selected to be developed at the Power Station, from 8 to 26 February 2021 and from 15 to 31 March 2021.

Based in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Imaginarius is an annual festival of outdoor arts. For the 2021 edition, the festival is adapting to a new model and embracing digital work alongside other forms of programming. They have several calls open for artists from around the world, covering livestreamed performances, natively digital work, and a special mural commission in Santa Maria da Feira.

Slash is a European learning programme dedicated to nine emerging professional songwriters-producers from EU countries, who wish to step up their career. Activities run from January to June 2021. The main goals of this programme are to support them in the current context and to provide them with concrete and practical tools to solve issues, detect new opportunities and deal with day-to-day life. The programme includes online coaching and three six-day workshops in Lisbon, Aarhus and Nantes. It runs January to June 2021.

The next edition of MEXE will take place in Porto from 17-26 September 2021 with the theme 'The Risk'. The festival seeks proposals for shows, installations, performances, workshops and documentaries which engage with community artistic practices. Given the unpredictable context of the pandemic, the next edition of MEXE may consider a mixed presentation model: on-site and virtual.

Enoa – the European Network of Opera Academies is organising an immersive residency programme offering support, mentorship and mobility for artists without significant opera experience. There are eight residencies with hosting institutions in six countries. The programme runs February 2021 - May 2022. Applicants should be experienced artists based in Europe who are highly interested in the development of opera creation / interdisciplinary musical and artistic forms but have no significant opera experience.

BETA CIRCUS aims to address new trends in contemporary circus and to offset the lack of opportunities for artists to get training at a high professional level. 12 participants will be selected for an international capacity building programme in new trends for circus arts, with a focus on new magic, to be promoted in between May 2021 and March 2022 with training weeks in Serbia, Italy, Portugal and Latvia.