Portugal

Celebrating its 10th edition 12-15 April 2023, Westway Lab is Portugal’s showcase festival, international music conference, and artist residency annual event. 4 working groups of 3 artists (with at least 1 person in each group being Portuguese) will be selected to work together the week before the festival to create new side-projects together.

Nu’vem is an international residency programme, organised by the production company FREESAM, that offers an opportunity for artistic work in a unique environment. Its main goal is to draw attention to the unique, dramatic, and well-preserved nature of the Azores and make it possible for artists across genres to draw inspiration for their work from the specific atmosphere of Pico Island.

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 residencies available with eleven hosting institutions in various European countries. The programme runs February 2023 - spring 2024. Applicants should be mid-career 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.

AiR 351 invites applications for the DGARTES / AiR 351 residency cycle. Residencies are over four months and target artists and curators who, regardless of where they are currently based, derive from the PALOP countries, Portuguese-speaking African countries. Dates flexible within 2022 and first semester of 2023.

‘MANIFEST: New artistic perspectives on memories of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people’ aims to contribute to and enhance the re-imagination of Europe’s collective memory of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people. Artists from Creative Europe countries are sought for a support programme of residencies and workshops leading to final artworks produced in digital formats.

Emerging artists and companies working in theatre, dance, music, circus, performance, intervention, installation, new media, graffiti, magic and multidisciplinary forms from around the world are invited to present their work at Imaginarius Mais from 25-28 May 2023. One project will be selected for an award and commission for a new piece to be presented at the festival in 2024.

European artists, or collectives can apply to the EMAP residency programme with a project proposal for a residency of two months within June 2022 to January 2023. The artists will be collaborating with an artist of their choice or an artist local to the platform’s host institutions.

SEWEM – Sino-European Women Entrepreneurs in Music is a networking and mentoring programme to promote the skills of European and Chinese women in the music and export sector, and to support equality.The mentoring programme begins with a kick-off event on 18-19 October 2022 in Lisbon and provides long-term support for personal and career development of young professionals who identify themselves as women, trans or non-binary.

The Côa - Corridor of Arts land art festival celebrates the cultural heritage of the Greater Côa Valley in northern Portugal. Artists are invited to take up a residency of between four and six weeks (during the period January - May 2023) to co-create artworks with local communities that celebrate the link between nature and art.

NEMO is looking for five professionals from across Europe to take part in its conference (‘Innovation begins within - Resilient museums in times of disruption’) in Loulé, Portugal from 9-11 October 2022, and in an associated meeting as part of the ‘MOI! Museum of Impact’ project. 

Lugar Futuro – First Works is a showcase of choreographic works by young choreographers, framed within the youth dance festival Lugar Futuro. The next edition runs from 18-20 November 2022, in the city of Viseu, Portugal. Presented works must be 10-25 minutes in length and must be one of the first choreographic pieces of the participating authors, who should be aged between 18 and 30 years old.