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    • Pink, green and purple lines and stamps on a mauve background, like a funky wallpaper.
      News / Prince Claus Fund / Creative Industries Fund-NL: Building Beyond Mentorship (Online / Netherlands)
      Building Beyond is a year-long mentorship programme for individuals from Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Chad, South Africa, and South-Sudan. The programme consists of two Labs (week-long mentoring intensives, one in person and one online), monthly online masterclasses, peer-group sessions and a visitor’s programme in the Netherlands where there will be opportunities for exchange and to build your network with the Dutch field.
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      News / Circolo Scandinavo: Call for Nordic Artists to Explore Unused or Abandoned Urban Sites (Italy)
      Through a collaboration with Stalker, Circolo Scandinavo invites Nordic artists and researchers to join local inhabitants, artists, architects, and experts, for a collective exploration of unused or abandoned urban sites in Rome. The residency will last 6-8 weeks, running 23 October - 18 December 2021.
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    • Lime green exploding stars on a blue-purple background - colourful open call graphic for Fak'ugesi Festival
      News / Fak'ugesi Festival: Digital Superpower Lab for Creatives from London, Bulawayo and Johannesburg (Online)
      Fak’ugesi Festival’s Digital SUPERPOWER! Lab is looking for creatives in London, Bulawayo and Johannesburg to join in a supported laboratory in September 2021. Outcomes will be presented at Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival 2021 #BuildCozYouHaveTo.
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    • Technische Sammlungen Dresden logo - name nestled inside a big, green, C-shaped angle bracket.
      News / Technische Sammlungen Dresden: Dresden Photography Grant and Residency (Germany)
      The Dresden Grant in Photography offers a grant and three-month residency for an artistic and/or documentary projects that focus on photographic images and processes, and places the city of Dresden at its centre. The residency will take place March-May 2022 and is open to professional photographers not resident in Dresden.
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      News / CreaTures / RMIT Europe: ‘Open Urban Forest’ Commission to Imagine Sustainable Futures (Online / Spain)
      RMIT Europe, a member of the CreaTures consortium, invites applications for the awarding of a single subcontract to conceptualise and realise Open Urban Forest, an Experimental Production (ExP) to explore multiple voices, relations, and stories that form and emerge from an urban forest, and can inspire new ways to imagine socio-ecologically sustainable futures. Work is expected to take place in a hybrid online/in-person format, beginning in November 2021 and finishing by the end of June 2022. The final artwork will be presented in Barcelona, September 2022.
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      News / Urban Festival UIT: Open Call for Installations, ‘Parasitic Architecture’ (Estonia)
      Urban Festival UIT in Tartu, Estonia is inviting proposals for installations on the theme of ‘Parasitic Architecture’. Applicants will propose installation ‘urban parasites’ that use already existing structures as their base. The open call is mainly addressed to students of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, installation, and sculpture, but all others interested in public space are more than welcome to participate.
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    • The back of a whale breaches the sea off the coast of Norway.
      News / Vesteraalen Artist Residency Programme (Norway)
      AiR Vesterålen is a comprehensive artist residency programme for five municipalities in the Vesterålen islands, Norway. There are five residencies, in different locations and with different themes, which take place at different periods through the year. The first is in Bø with a theme of ‘Art/Nature/Play’. Applications are welcomed from artists of all disciplines who live and work in Europe (EU, EEA and UK).
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    • News / MAGENTA / Kaunas 2022: Open Call for Festival of Landscape Design and Environmental Art (Lithuania)
      The landscape design festival MAGENTA will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania, 9-25 September 2022. MAGENTA aims at actualising landscape design and environmental art, enhancing the role of green spaces in shaping our urban environment while promoting interdisciplinary public art. Project proposals are sought for the 2022 edition of the festival, which is dedicated to tactical urbanism.
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    • News / New Generations: Open Call for Architectural Publishing Projects for New Urban Challenges (Italy)
      New Generations is a European platform that investigates the changes in the architectural profession ever since the economic crisis of 2008. The 2021 edition of its festival is set to take place on 31 June – 2 July 2021 at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Italy. As part of the event, New Generations are looking for publications (books, magazines, zines, digital projects, papers, critical articles, etc., published since 2016) related to one of two topics: (City and) Technology, and (City and) Image. 8-10 applicants will be invited to the festival as speakers. Deadline: 21 March 2021.
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    • Photograph of a city at night, by a river, shot from overhead as if by a drone.
      News / THE CITY: Virtual residencies for artists residing in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, France, Finland, Italy or in the Russian Federation (online)
      The application is open for artists acquainted with “digital art” from any field of the arts. The project is co-financed by EUNIC, the European Union National Institutes for Culture, and moreover by the Consulate General of the Netherlands, the Danish Cultural Institute, the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Francais, the Finnish Institute and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura (in St. Petersburg).
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      News / Construction Festival: Call for Projects in Digital Creation, Sonic Art and Urban Space (Remote / Ukraine)
      Taking place in Dnipro in Ukraine, Construction is an international festival for contemporary and experimental art and music. Artists from all over the world working on projects exploring new aesthetic approaches in digital creation, sonic art and urban space are invited to submit their projects to take part at the Construction festival 2021 - either remotely or in person if restrictions allow it.
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    • Graphic resembling a lowered theatre curtain with the words 'A Beloved Enemy' written on it.
      News / International public space performance workshop – A Beloved Enemy: Open call (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
      Studio Teatar and LOOP, would like to invite you to take part in an international public space performance workshop – A Beloved Enemy. The participants will explore the use of public space as a habitat of art, and as an environment for artistic articulation of the public discourse through methods that place language of theatre, body movement and artists themselves at the heart of the urban fabric of the city. Topics such as democracy, public life and art will be fundamental in the research of the workshop.
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