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- News / Mekong Cultural Hub: Experiments in Community Collaboration (Malaysia / Remote)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.Closed
- News / Basca Theater: Call for Cultural Interventions for ‘Invisible’ Communities (Romania)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.Closed
- News / DIALOG CITY: Residency Programme for Urban Participatory Art (Italy)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.Closed
- News / BETA CIRCUS: Open Call for Circus Artists & Participatory Artists (Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Serbia)‘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.Closed
- News / Municipality of Plovdiv: Artists in Residence Programme (Bulgaria)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.Closed
- News / CEC ArtsLink: Art Prospect Network Residencies for Artists and CuratorsIn 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.Closed
- News / Goethe-Institut: Cities Ahead in Logroño (Spain)Cities Ahead is launching an open call for international creatives to propose participatory actions for the transformation of public space in Logroño, integrating aspects of urban innovation and sustainable/ecological development. The selected proposals will be carried out in Logroño during Concéntrico 09 – International Architecture and Design Festival, which will take place from 27 April - 2 May 2023.Closed
- News / Leeds 2023: Call for Artists, ‘For the Public Good’ (Online / Remote)For the Public Good (FTPG) is an online international programme for 5 artists organised by Leeds 2023. It’s aimed at artists who want to work with their local community and an academic researcher from Leeds. The artists will look to create unique artistic propositions on how technology can be used to help communities understand climate change issues that could potentially be implemented globally. Sessions run December 2022 - March 2023. Applicants should be from eligible ODA countries.Closed
- News / Cultural Bridge: Funding for Bilateral Partnerships Between the UK and GermanyApplications are now open for the 2023-2024 Cultural Bridge programme. Cultural Bridge celebrates intercultural artistic exchange through the collaboration of all UK arts councils and leading German cultural institutions. By funding partnerships between Germany and the UK, the programme aims to build new relationships and foster artistic collaboration and cultural democracy.Closed
- News / Open Call for International Design Lab ‘Reimagine Your City’ (Germany, Georgia / Online)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.Closed
- News / The Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute: Open Call for Site-specific Projects in Vadsø (Norway)This open call is looking for site-specific projects to be produced in Vadsø during the Varanger festival 9-12 August 2023. The call is open to professional artists or artist groups from Finland or Finnish Lapland, as well as those who may not originally come from these areas, but who identify as northerners by virtue of either living in or having a connection with the north.Closed
- News / Beam Center: Call for Public Artworks Realised with Local Communities (USA)Each year, Beam Center seeks design proposals for ambitious public artworks that will be brought to life through collaborations between youth and creative big thinkers. Projects are realised by a community of more than 100 young people at three project sites: in New Hampshire (NH), on Governors Island (GI), and in a local NYC community. Individuals and collectives can submit proposals.Closed