South-eastern Asia

Co-curated and facilitated by artists Ness Roque (the Philippines) and Ming-Chen Lee (Taiwan), the 2026 ADAM (Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance) Artist Lab will take place in Manila and Taipei.

Mekong Cultural Hub is looking for a Program Director to join their team. This will be a new position in the MCH team structure.

The SMUS RBA commission: ec(h)otoning is a fully funded one-year commission, part of a multi-phase research-based art (RBA) programme run by the Mexican artist platform TRES as part of the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS). The project duration is 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 with two on-site residencies.

Applications are open for the Southeast Asian Arts Residencies at Rimbun Dahan in Malaysia. Residencies will take place for two months between 1 March and 30 November 2026.

As part of their work to promote culture, the OEI and DGARTES have joined forces to launch this new programme of scholarships for artistic exchange and improvement in the geographical areas of Ibero-America and the CPLP, with the aim of promoting and enhancing artistic exchange, without forgetting the importance of supporting internationalisation.

Goethe-Institut invites Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian diaspora artists, curators, and cultural practitioners based in Germany or Southeast Asia to apply with their contribution for the mini festival ‘Dealing in Distance’.

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay invites local and international artists, curators, programmers, writers, researchers and practitioners across all disciplines in the performing arts to apply for the Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency, taking place in Singapore between April and June 2026.

Djakarta International Theatre Platform (DITP) 2025 announced an open call for BELALANG \ CÀO CÀO: Translocal Performance Lab, a fully funded cross-border laboratory programme designed to cultivate experimentation, collaboration, and critical exchange among theatre makers and performing arts practitioners across Southeast Asia.

The British Council are calling for applications from artists or organisations for their Connections Through Culture grants programme, which supports creative collaborations between the UK and select countries in Asia and Europe.

Creative Generation is now inviting performing artists from across the Asia-Pacific region to a one-month residency in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where they will explore process over product, questions over conclusions, and dialogue over isolation.