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Applications are now open to playwrights and theatre makers for next year’s IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowships. In 2021, one of the placements is a full-time 3 month writing fellowship focusing on new work for digital platforms to take place between May – July 2021.

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) is inviting proposals for their 2021 festival, which will be held 16-25 July 2021. LAAF welcome proposals from artists from or based in the MENA region, or artists across the globe with MENA or Arab heritage, that respond directly to, or are influenced by, issues related to climate change. Outputs can include: live performances, events, artworks, exhibitions, workshops, public realm works, talks, panel discussions, young people’s activities, or digital activities.

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.

Liberty UK Leicester is an annual interdisciplinary festival that explores freedom and democracy through a range of artistic projects and public interventions. For 2021, Liberty UK will be exploring the hidden inequalities and injustices within our communities, exploring the freedoms and perceived freedoms that we have, that we don’t have and those that we take for granted. The festival will explore how far we have come, but how far we have left to go in building an equal and fair society. Liberty UK is produced and presented by ArtReach.

The Austrian Cultural Forum London invites emerging photographers based in Austria and the UK to participate in a prize in tribute of the late Austrian émigré photographer Wolf Suschitzky. The theme for the competition is ‘Life in 2020’. One UK based photographer will be selected for a residency in Austria, and one Austria based photographer for a residency in the UK. Both residencies take place in 2021.

Invisible Flock are an award-winning interactive arts studio based at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England and operating at the intersection of art and technology. Applications for their Cost of Innovation residency programme are now live. Originally launched in February 2020, the initiative was paused through lockdown and is now relaunched in a new format including 8 months remote support from December and 1 month studio residency in July 2021.

Grizedale Forest & Signal Film and Media, with support from Art Fund, are seeking a socially engaged digital artist/collaborative to create a new, online participatory artwork responding to Grizedale Forest in Cumbria in the North West of England. During lockdown the forest continued to grow, wildlife became more abundant and changed its behaviour, people formed a new sense of value for access to outdoor space and nature.

In collaboration with the Finnish Institute, the City of Edinburgh and the City of Oulu in Finland have established the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) residency project in order to build greater international collaboration between the two cities and to support creative learning for children and youth in both locations.

Paul Mellon Centre’s ‘London, Asia, Art, Worlds’ conference posits London as a key site in the construction of art historical narratives in Asia, and reflects on the ways in which the growing field of modern and contemporary art history in Asia intersects with and challenges existing histories of British art. By excavating historical entanglements and relational comparisons that link London and Asia, the conference questions the boundaries of national and regional histories, and explores new distributive and decolonial models of writing art histories.

Pembrokeshire County Council, on behalf of the Wexford/Pembrokeshire EU funded arts, heritage and tourism project Ancient Connections, wish to appoint an artist or artists to create two new connected pieces of public art, one in Ferns, Ireland and one in St Davids, Wales.

Based in London, Delfina Foundation is dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming. In partnership with Kunsthalle Praha, Delfina Foundation is offering a three-week residency to a curator from Central and Eastern Europe in winter 2021 (22 February – 12 March 2021). This period coincides with a residency of a selected Czech curator, also supported by Kunsthalle Praha.

Founded by Daniel Hahn in 2010, the Emerging Translator Mentorship programme aims to develop successive new cohorts of literary translators into English, particularly for languages whose literature is currently under-represented in English translation.