Poland

Footprints is addressed to young and motivated music agents willing to develop their experience of touring and European networks. Selected agents will take part in two sessions of training and workshops with professionals in 2022 in France and Poland before organising a tour with Footprints artists. Participants must live in one of these countries: Poland, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, France.

The ULYSSES Network invites young musicians (born after 1 January 1990) living in Europe to apply to join the ULYSSES Percussion Ensemble. The ensemble will tour from June to September 2022, visiting Percussions de Strasbourg and ManiFeste Academy in France, Time of Music Festival in Finland, Gaudeamus Festival in the Netherlands, and Warsaw Autumn Festival in Poland.

The next edition of the Fotofestiwal will be held on 9-26 June 2022 in Łódź (Poland). The organisers are looking for artists to submit artistic and social projects on the theme of community – encompassing also ideas of utopia, local spirit, cooperation and integration.

The Visegrad Literary Residency Programme, established 2012 by the International Visegrad Fund, consists of a series of residency stays and literary events addressed to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists, critics as well as literary translators, publicists and journalists from the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). There is a compact spring edition of the residency running 1 May – 12 June 2022, and a full autumn edition running 1 September – 30 November 2022.

CIMAM’s 2021 conference, ‘Under Pressure. Museums in Times of Xenophobia and Climate Emergency’, will be held in Lodz and Gdansk, Poland from 5-7 November 2021. Grants are available to support in-person or online attendance for individuals residing in the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Northeast Asia region, the African continent, Spain, and the Eurasian Economic Union.

The Agora Cultural Center in Wrocław in cooperation with artistic organisations from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland invites participation in an open call as part of the international Open Air Theater Festival. The call is open to theatre makers, with a special focus on circus performers, acrobats, performers, dancers and musicians under the age of 26 and from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. The residency will run 12-18 September 2021, with participants working together to create (and finally show) a new performance on the theme of climate change.

The ‘Public Transport as Public Space’ (PUTSPACE) project’s Summer Symposium will take place in Görlitz/Zgorzelec, Germany/Poland, on October 27 – 31 2021. Researchers, artists, writers, filmmakers and others are invited to apply with contributions related to the topic ‘Diverse Narrations, Experiences and Contestations of Public transport in European Cities’.

Artists-In-Residence Programme of the Municipal Gallery bwa in Bydgoszcz is international in character and aimed at artists from Poland and abroad who are willing to take on the subject of Bydgoszcz multiculturalism in experimental and innovative ways. They are interested in the city as a text of culture and are curious about relationships between symbolic and aesthetic functions of the city. Since relationships with the audience are important to the gallery, they are looking for projects with educational potential that allow for contact or even direct action with creators.

Katowice, within the European project CreArt, is opening a new call for artistic works interpreting the theme of an exhibition on ‘Weightlessness’, taking place from 23 July to 12 September 2021. Applications are open only to artists born or residing in other cities participating in the CreArt project: Aveiro (PT), Clermont – Ferrand (FR), Genoa (IT) for artists under 35, Kaunas (LT), Liverpool (UK), Lublin (PL), Rouen (FR), Skopje (MK), Valladolid (ES), Zagreb (HR).

The Nature of Us open call is aimed at artists working and living in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland or Slovakia who are working on a movement or body-based performance project in 2021 or 2022 that confronts art practices with concerns about the environment. Among other forms of support, the project offers a two-week artistic research session in Bratislava, Budapest, Gdansk, or Prague in the second half of 2021 or the first half of 2022.

Unsound Festival in Poland has announced its 2021 theme ‘dəəp authentic’ with a call for applications from artists, writers, theorists and activists, with a focus on presentations that blur the line between discourse and performance. Work can be presented in person in Krakow or remotely. The festival will take place between 13-17 October 2021.