Sweden

Landskrona Foto’s residency programme is an opportunity for a non-Swedish photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens-based media to have time and space away from their usual environment and obligations. The residency takes place over six weeks, from May 2021. Applicants are asked to present a project proposal, and are encouraged to engage in a project related to Landskrona.

The Swedish organisation Art Inside Out is offering a residency with the theme ‘Other choreographies, new spaces’, based on the concept of critical tourism.

In 2020, the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize will be awarded for the best playwriting response to the theme ‘Forgiveness and Retribution’. The Prize is aimed at encouraging theatre writers at the start of their careers to explore and challenge philosophical ideas using the dramatic form. A winner and several runners up will be invited to attend the Fellowship’s annual Symposium in Fjällnäs, Sweden. The Prize is open to theatre writers from around the world above 18 years of age. Deadline (extended): 15 April 2020.

The AIRY programme invites a ceramic artist, a sound artist and an author working in visual narrative (graphic novels, illustrated books, comics, etc.) to stay at one of three inspiring rural locations in Sweden’s Region Västernorrland. Applications are welcomed from both emerging and established artists and authors. Deadline: 22 March 2020.

The Art Inside Out residency ‘Disruptions in utopia, land left behind’ aims at an artistic activation of one of three possible sites in the municipality of Falkenberg, Sweden. It asks the question: How can inclusive, speculative, and/or critical design and landscape architecture help us to re-think and re-shape land left behind? The residency is open to international artists and covers twelve weeks: 8-19 June 2020 (research), 17 August - 11 October 2020 (production), and 12-25 October 2020 (presentation). Deadline: 28 February 2020.

The Female Filmmaker Network aims to bring together female filmmakers – directors, producers, cinematographers, sound recordists, editors and others – from Estonia, Latvia and Sweden. The Network has launched an open call for filmmakers from these three countries to attend three workshops: in Cesis, Latvia, 31 May - 3 June; in Mooste, Estonia, 19-22 July 2020; and in Gotland, Sweden, 27-30 September 2020. Alongside exploring relevant issues, these workshops hope to foster future collaborative projects. Deadline: 14 February 2020.