Poland

With this call, the DECONFINING project is looking for artists working in the moving image (e.g. video, animation, film, digital and found footage, etc.) who are willing to develop a new work of art at residencies in Wrocław, Poland and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Applicants must come from or be based in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kenya, Poland, Rwanda, Slovakia, Tanzania, Uganda or Zambia.

With this open call Project Butterfly is looking for music composers to work on a new sustainable opera. Three composers will be selected to write a three-act opera, in Italian, Polish and Finnish, dedicated to the theme of environmental sustainability. After two artistic residencies in Italy and Poland (May and October 2024), the project will culminate in a premiere in May 2025.

Krakow Dance Theatre seeks a choreographer to create a performance within the framework of the international project Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery, in the period October 2023 – February 2024. The call is open to professional choreographers with a proven track record from Hungary, Slovenia, Sweden, Romania and Croatia.

Krakow Dance Theatre invites dance artists from Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and Sweden to the first Krakow edition of the Dance Communication Lab, taking place 31 August – 4 September 2023.

European artists, or collectives can apply to the EMAP residency programme with a project proposal for a residency of two months in 2024. The artists will be collaborating with an artist of their choice or an artist local to the platform’s host institutions.

From 31 July – 13 August 2023 Materia in Łódź, and from 17-30 August 2023, STUDIO2 of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) in Berlin will each be hosting one artistic research residency. The residencies are aimed at individual artists or groups of up to two artists from the field of dance, theatre and performance. Applicants should be based in Germany or Poland.

The project ‘RENMUS - Renewable Music - V4 Composers for Sustainability’ invites composers from the Visegrad Group countries to apply for commissions to create new work that will be performed at four different concerts (in Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest). Selected composers will also join a programme of workshops and masterclasses from June – September 2024.

The International Solo Dance Contest at Gdansk Dance Festival is open to dancers of contemporary dance who have a documented artistic activity and/or are professional dancers with a diploma in dance studies. Participation in the contest is permitted for solos which either premiered between 1 January 2022 and 13 May 2023 or have been prepared especially for the Contest.

Taking place between 1-8 October 2023 in Kraków, Poland, the theme for the next edition of Unsound Festival is DADA. The festival is calling for works for the music and performance programme ‘In(ter)ventions’ as well as for its discourse programme.

Intl Jazz Platform is an artistic and professional platform for improvised music artists. 50 young artists from Europe will be selected for 5 days of workshops in Lodz, Poland from 23-27 July 2023.

The British Council has opened applications for scoping grants in preparation for a proposed UK/Poland season in 2025. In order to start developing potential activity, they are offering grants of £2500 to start conversations and establish partnerships.

The partners of the project Antigone’s Pride - Performing Society are calling for emerging and professional actresses and actors, especially with a migrant background, living in Italy, Poland, Spain and other EU countries, to participate in the co-creation of the performance ‘Antigone’s Cantica’. This will involve three eco arts residences in national parks in Spain (second half of April 2023), Poland (first half of June 2023) and Italy (first half of July 2023).