Western Asia

Poland’s National Institute of Music and Dance has announced the first call for applications for the ‘Dancing Together, Again!’ creative residency project implemented under the Creative Europe programme. The first of the residencies will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, between 29 May – 17 June 2023. Applications are open to artists, curators and researchers in the dance field.

‘Decolonizing Food: Water, Land and Heritage’ is the first edition of Residency On The Road, the unique Allianz Foundation Hubs residency programme. It aims at bringing together artists, writers, curators, thinkers, activists, chefs, farmers, designers and many more to explore non-conventional food practices. Artists, thinkers, researchers, activists, chefs, farmers, anthropologists, writers, curators, architects, food, fashion, graphic and social designers, and other cultural practitioners based in Istanbul, Kosovo or Sicily can apply.

The ‘Intermix Residency | Art & Fashion Reimagined’ programme offers visual artists and fashion designers the opportunity to collaborate in an experimental environment to support creative development and skill set expansion. The second cycle of the residency programme will run virtually from 4-18 December 2022 and on-site from 4 January - 28 February 2023.

SAWA Museum Studies Programme is a diversity-oriented museum educational programme for young professionals in Arabic-speaking countries and Germany. The programme is divided into two stages: an up to ten days visit to Sharjah and a corresponding same length visit to Berlin. 

ETC - European Theatre Convention are looking for emerging theatre artists (particularly stage directors and dramaturgs) to join them in the sixth edition of the ETC Artist Residency Programme, offering placements of 4 to 8 weeks at ETC Member Theatres. Various residencies will take place throughout the first half of 2023.

The international design lab ‘reimagine your city’ is a two-year (2022-2023) educational programme for 100 multidisciplinary professionals residing in Georgia, Poland, Ukraine and Germany. It aims at youth empowerment and participation in the socio-cultural transformation of neighbourhoods via interactive digital and creative practices. The hybrid programme begins on 2 November 2022 with a 5-week research module, design masterclasses, an offline winter school in Berlin, extensive group work, and grants for the implementation of small-scale projects, ending with a summer school in Georgia in the summer of 2023.

Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium (TISS) will consist of 30 sculptors from around the world coming together to produce a series of permanent public sculptures. The Symposium will take place 8 January - 4 February 2023, and is a platform for international and Saudi artists to create public sculptures in a live setting. Applications are open to stone sculptors of all nationalities with at least 5 years of experience exhibiting works permanently or temporarily in outdoor spaces or galleries.

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.

The Soil Futures Residency Exchange is an initiative between Arts Catalyst, RIWAQ, Sakiya and Vessel Art Project, for artists to undertake a six-week residency that will take place within the period from October – December 2022. UK based artists can apply for a residency at Sakiya - Art/Science/Agriculture (Palestine). Palestine based artists can apply for a residency at Vessel Art Project (Italy). Italy based artists can apply for a residency at RIWAQ (Palestine).

Artists Connecting in Transition (ACT) is a new international programme for artists in exile, centring on artistic practice and international exchange in the context of significant global challenges and inequalities around forced migration, exile and displacement. Funded by the British Council, ACT sets out to create environments of care, creativity and support for artists whose practice has been disrupted through forced migration.