Social Engagement

Associazione Demetra is calling for artists to participate in the Nutrimenti_habitat creativo 2023 residency. A maximum of 3 artists will be selected and will reside in Terni (Italy) from 4-17 December 2023 to work both as a team and independently, with the support of local creatives and Associazione Demetra volunteers.

TORIGOYA Project is an artist-in-residence programme run by the Hirono Town in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Invited artists will stay in Hirono Town for a total of 30 days between 11 December 2023 – 15 January 2024 to research the history, climate, culture or some other factor of Hirono Town and create their own site-specific artworks in collaboration with town residents

This project calls upon young artists and student artists, aged 18-30, to be Changemakers in their communities. In early 2024, selected Changemakers will mobilise citizens, especially underrepresented groups, using art and culture as tools to enhance political participation. 52 Changemakers across 14 EU countries will be selected to participate in the Changemakers’ Playground Camp, a one-week training programme hosted in Belgium from 10-16 February 2024.

Nyskaben is organising a residency from 1-30 June 2024 for 4 artists/cultural practitioners working with participatory art in Lundø, Denmark. Only people legally residing in a Creative Europe country other than Denmark can apply.

AIR on the Edge is a one-month international artist residency exchange that creates opportunities for artists to engage with rural communities on the edges of Europe. Applicants must live or work in County Galway (Ireland), Fryslan (The Netherlands), Novi Sad (Serbia), Pirkanmaa (Finland), or Ringkøbing-Skjern and mid Jutland area (Denmark). Residencies will take place between September 2023 and June 2024.

The fourth edition of Transversal Aesthetics invites working processes to be developed around the concepts of ‘silenced ~ reactivated’. Applicants can apply to work on this theme in one of three possible cities/contexts - Alicante, València and Benicarló - with working taking place late 2023 or early 2024.

Mekong Cultural Hub is calling for applications from community arts practitioners from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, or Vietnam with at least two years of experience to join their learning programme ‘Experiments in Community Collaboration’. A total of 8-10 people (‘Fellows’) will be selected to take part in the programme, which will take place over six months, from June – November 2023.

Basca Theater invite 3 international and/or Romanian artists to spend two weeks in Timisoara, and to create cultural interventions in the city, with Basca Theater’s team facilitating access to various invisible communities. Selected artistic interventions can take place between 1 September – 15 November 2023.

The DIALOG CITY Art for Public Residency Programme invites professional artists to develop ideas for urban interventions dealing with local or global topics that are of great significance for urban society and that are based on a participatory approach. This open call is for a residency in Turin and Mondoví running from 20 June - 24 July 2023. Artists of all disciplines and nationalities can apply, but they must reside in the European Union or in one of the accession countries.

‘BETA CIRCUS Participatory experience’ aims to create a European transnational opportunity to explore participatory circus as a future trend that can engage the public in circus’ creative process. The call is open to circus artists and collectives (max. 4 people) from Creative Europe countries, and participatory art collectives from Italy, Latvia, Portugal and Serbia.

The ContextAiR Plovdiv residency programme aims at creating new works, partnerships, interventions in public space, inspired by the city of Plovdiv and its eclectic mix of ancient history, socialist heritage and modern reality. The programme provides conditions for a 4-6 week stay.

In 2023, the Art Prospect Network Residency programme will support residencies for eighteen artists and curators from USA and the Art Prospect Network countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) focusing on exchange and collaboration in the field of socially engaged art and/or public art.