Portugal

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 26-29 May 2022. One project will be selected for an award and commission for a new piece to be presented at the festival in 2023.

As part of the France-Portugal Season 2022, A4 is an artistic residency project that will bring together 2 artists and 2 curators (2 Portuguese, 2 French). The call for applications is open to emerging and established artists working with photography and/or video aiming to develop new work in an artistic residency in S. Miguel, Azores from 18 April - 9 May 2022.

Open Call, Wide Space is an artist-in-residence programme for performing artists from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (dance, theatre, performance, clown and others) to join MALACATE, a new-born festival at Mina de S. Domingos, Mértola, Portugal that aims to bring a new meaning to this abandoned mining site. Groups of up to 4 people can apply. Residencies can take place 2-29 May 2022 or 3-30 January 2023.

FLAD/AiR 351 grants are targeted at US-based / American artists and curators and will cover a 4 month residency during 2022 (exact dates to be settled between AiR 351 and applicant) in Cascais, Lisbon region, Portugal. United States based visual artists and curators at any stage of practice are invited to apply. 

Under its residency programme, Binaural Nodar will host artistic projects that can reflect and express subjects related to migratory processes from rural villages of the Viseu Dão Lafões region. The artist residencies will take place in two alternative periods, in the spring and autumn of 2022, and each one will last for three weeks.

The Portuguese city of Aveiro invites applications from ceramic artists from the CreArt Network to work for one month in the Aveiro AiR programme, 30 October – 30 November 2021. Applicants must be born or resident in one of the following: Aveiro (Portugal), Valladolid (Spain), Clermont-Ferrand and Rouen (France), Genoa (artists should be under 35) and Lecce (Italy), Liverpool (UK), Lublin and Katowice (Poland), Kaunas (Lithuania), Skopje (Macedonia), or Zagreb (Croatia).

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).