JIWAR will launch a new open call the 1st of December about our project XABACA. A project who will deal with 4 Arab female artists focused in auto-censorhip and gender issues. The 4 artists will be in residency in Jiwar for one month and all expenses will be covered (travel, per diem, accommodation and materials).

The chief of the project is NovAct and Jiwar, Al Fanar foundation and IEMed are collaborators. 

For more information: www.jiwarbarcelona.com

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With the support of the French Ministry of culture and communication, the ACCR has been coordinating, the Odyssée artist-in-residency program.

The program is aiming at artists, researchers and culture professionals from countries other than France wanting to develop projects within French Cultural Centers – Historic Monuments. More than 500 artists from over 73 different countries have taken part in the program, developing projects in different areas such as music, architecture, arts and crafts, visual arts, dramatic writing, novel writing, scriptwriting, animated film-making, photography and journalism.

It is aiming at artists, researchers and culture professionals coming from countries other than France. Applications from the following countries will be examined in priority:

• Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco ;
• Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Irak, Iran, Lybia ;
• Afghanistan, Burma, China, Korea, India, Japan, Taiwan ;
• Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico;
• Canada ;
• Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa ;
• South Africa ;
• Albania, Armenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Ukraine.

Deadline for submission : 11th December 2016.

The selection will be announced in March 2017.

For further information, please clicke here.

Contact: i.martorell@accr-europe.org

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Films de Force Majeure is glad to announce that RAMALLAH, a documentary by Flavie Pinatel is available upon request  on Vimeo on Demand Films de Force Majeure Page. 

Synopsis: 

After three months of full immersion, Flavie Pinatel offers to restore on screen the city of Ramallah as a physical and sensory experience. Through funny, serious or unusual portraits of Ramallah inhabitants, Flavie Pinatel attempts, with this film, to get this city out of its tragedy and reveal it as a beating heart, a 21st century city.

With the support of Conseil Général des Bouches-du-Rhône, Région PACA, Cultures France - Villa Médicis, Mécènes du Sud, DRAC PACA and Fonds Roberto Cimetta.

Distribution supported by CNC and Conseil Général des Bouches-du Rhône.

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Performance(s) between two shores is a European Commission supported programme to commission and tour three new works created by Arab performance artists who have been based in Europe for no longer than six years.

The programme aims to support the creation of dynamic new works, support the development of the artists in Europe and create new international audiences.

Deadline for applications: midnight, 1st of September 2016.

Who can apply: Arab artists working in the fields of theatre, dance and performative arts who have been living in Europe for a maximum of six years. We are particularly interested in artists who are creating participatory work with an aim of engaging under-represented audiences. We aim at least one commission will be to take place in non-traditional theatre venues.

The application form is available at the following link : www.lesbancspublics.com/cooperation-internationale/projet-europeen

Please check the Guidelines for application available here for additional information.

For enquiries, please contact us at twoshores@lesbancspublics.com

The successful artists and commissions will be announced by end of September 2016.

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Jiwar Barcelona is inviting  1 local artist and 2 international artists to develop a project on the them of neighborhoods.

The project Making neighborhoods was born in 2013 thanks to the collaboration with the South African organization Africa Centre. At the time Jiwar hosted the South-African anthropologist and photographer Sydelle Willow Smith with a project called Making neighborhoods, that turned into the name for Jiwar’s project. With “Making neighborhood” Jiwar suggests a critical and creative reflection on the complex situation of living together in the city.

The residency will take place from the 14th of November till the 22nd of December 2016.

New deadline for submission: 17th of July. Results announced on: 1st of August 2016. 

Application are to be sent to : jiwar@jiwarbarcelona.com

For more information and conditions, please click here. 

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Mophradat is an international nonprofit contemporary arts association that creates opportunities for thinking, producing and sharing among contemporary artists from the Arab World and their peers everywhere. Mophradat sees its activities as tools—artistic, discursive, logistical and financial—for artists and cultural thinkers to use toward inventing new arts practices, arts organizations and art publics. 

Mophradat is hiring a grants and communications coordinator and is looking for an intern.  

If you are interested, please send your CV and cover letter to office@mophradat.org by 28 July 2016.

Details can be found on Mophradat’s website.

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Together with the Global South(s) Chair at the Collège d’Etudes Mondiales, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris (held by Françoise Vergès), Villa Vassilieff is launching a research grant for researchers in human and social sciences who are based out­side of France. This call-out is equally open to artists.

The res­i­dent will have the oppor­tu­nity to con­tribute to our respec­tive activ­i­ties.

Research pro­jects will have to fit with the Collège d’études mon­di­ales policy, and more specif­i­cally with at least one of the fol­lowing topics devel­oped by the Global South(s) Professorship :

-Study the cir­cu­la­tion of ideas and the modal­i­ties of artistic and cul­tural pro­duc­tion between Europe and the world;

- Study dif­ferent modal­i­ties of rep­re­sen­ta­tion of « the other » from a crit­ical per­spec­tive.Disciplines : phi­los­ophy, polit­ical sciences, soci­ology, anthro­pology, global his­tory, art his­tory, visual arts.

Villa Vassilieff will cover travel costs for the researcher and the Collège d’études mon­di­ales will provide a 3 300 euros grant for a 6 weeks research.

Deadline for application: 30th of June 2016. For more information on the conditions and procedeure, please click here.

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Through the Arab Research Support Program, the Arab Research Initiative offers funding for scholars from the Arab region. The program aims to develop the research skills of the new generation of social scientists in Arab countries by funding, monitoring and providing training. It gives priority to innovative, evidence-based research related to the Arab democratic transitions, particularly in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.

Arab Reform Initiative is proudly publishing the rich, diverse research produced on new Arab social movements under the ARSP programme. 

For more information and to read ARSP published articles, please click here.

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The Toolkit on Artistic Freedom of Expression, prepared by Siyah Bant and Istanbul Bilgi University Human Rights Law Research Center, is now available. The Toolkit contains suggestions for artists and art institutions on how to pursue legal remedies when their right to artistic freedom is violated. 

The Toolkit was prepared with the aim to promote the protection and improvement of artists’ rights with regard to freedom of expression in Turkey. Its preparation and publication was made possible with the support of the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul and  EU Program. 

A digital copy of the toolkit in Turkish is available for download here.

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International Call for a Curator or Curatorial Team  

The Valletta 2018 Foundation is launching an international call for the engagement of a curator or a curatorial team for a high-profile multi-site exhibition and cultural project within Valletta and around Malta and Gozo. The working title of this multi-site exhibition and cultural project shall be ‘The Sea – Our Neighbour”.

The project shall be one of the keystones of the Valletta 2018 Cultural Programme and will be the opening exhibition of Valletta’s European Capital of Culture year. It shall be inaugurated in January 2018 and run for a period of three to four months.

The Valletta 2018 Foundation is seeking proposals from curators or curatorial teams with an international track record to curate this project. Expressions of interest can be submitted in the form of a concept proposal.

The call can be downloaded here.

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The second open Nordic gathering of urbanists and city planners, artists, researchers and academics, students, community organizers and activists to look at alternative urban strategies and practice in the Nordic countries where artistic practice and a broad cultural approach is key.
This three day intense Lab will give an overview of both current European and Nordic trends and experience but also focus on a number of key projects in more detail. There will also be the opportunity to share your project or initiative in workshop sessions. For more information, please click here.

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Arts Oasis is the annual program is based at the territory of the 12th century Monastery,the famous place of seclusion of Dante Alighieri.The program is inviting performing arts practitioners from all over the world, passionate and inspired by movement, dance, physical theater, interested in contemporary methods of performance practice and seeking new professional contacts and collaboration. For grant conditions & application guidelines, please, click here.

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The Roberto Cimetta Fund (RCF) is pleased to announce the results of the 2015 call for applications for the Upline.

This funding line aims to promote cultural and artistic initiatives lead by Arab artists and cultural operators developing local projects (venues, networks, platforms).

The call received 350 online requests in two months (15th August – 15th October 2015) and 102 written applications (31 in Arabic, 28 in French, 43 in English). These applications were sent from 14 countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen) which is an increase compared to the first call. 50 applications out of 102 were considered eligible (24 in English, 9 in Arabic, 17 in French). The evaluation of the applications was made by the Expert Committee of RCF and took place from October to November 2015. The final selection was approved by the Steering Committee and the Board of Directors of RCF in December 2015. 

The selected projects are:

1) Chrysalide, an Algerian association, grouping together passionate professionals and artists in theatre, literature and arts. Chrysalide invents the time and place of meetings between creators and the city of Algiers. Their watchwords are simple: to share freedom and fun in cultural discovery, arouse curiosity by the radiation of artistic culture, encourage the intermingling of legacies and modes of expression. The Roberto Cimetta Fund provides support to the renovation of an abandoned cellar in the city centre of Algiers. 

2) Medrar is a Cairo-based organisation that sets the stage for artists seeking to have extensive conversations and collaborations with their peers to embrace their purpose as active contemporary artists thus creating a dynamic and inspired movement. The funds will be used to improve the venue in Cairo to allow for optimal working conditions for artists and a better exhibition space.  

3) Nassim el Raqs, is an on-site choreographic and interdisciplinary art creation festival. It is a laboratory for artistic creation offering on-site art residencies in Alexandria, honouring dance, body expression and movement. The festival is at a turning point in its development. After 5 years of bold initiatives it needs to strengthen and shape its activity in Alexandria in a sustainable way, by providing the appropriate workspace and working tools for the team. 

4) Studio 8, is the only youth-run performing arts studio in Jordan. The Studio 8 artists conduct public workshops, classes, and performances in order to use the arts to bring people from diverse backgrounds together. The support given by the RCF will enable Studio 8 to finalise renovation of a new creative space and return to its creative programming.

5) Danseurs-Citoyens - The Tuniso-African training centre for street arts " Lang'art " is involved in training young Tunisians in alternative music, contemporary dance and street theatre through the notions of citizenship and human rights. RCF funding will contribute to the renovation of a dance space and provide equipment (dance mat, screen, projector) that can also serve outdoors. 

The five projects will run throughout 2016 and 2017. 

The countries where the actions of the 50 eligible projects are taking place are as follows: Algeria (2), Egypt (14), Iraq (2), Jordan (1), Lebanon (6), Morocco (8), Palestine (5), Syria (2), Tunisia (9), Turkey (1). 6 projects are from rural areas only, 27 in urban areas, 7 in suburbs, 3 in refugee camps and 7 in a mix of rural and urbain areas. The average age of project leaders is 31 years old. 20 project leaders are women and 30 are men. The artistic disciplines involved are : architecture (1), dance (7), film (6), multidisciplinary work involving also art in the public space, sociology, ecology (14), music (5), theatre (7), visual/digital arts (5), writing/literature/language/calligraphy (5). 38 of the 50 projects are very good. 

The Roberto Cimetta Fund and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication support in this way the financial autonomy of local independent cultural and arts initiatives.

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 Applications for international collaborations in the performing arts with partners from North Africa and Eastern Europe can be submitted until 15 February 2016!

We are looking for binational partnerships that initiate, develop and implement new artistic projects. In a time frame of up to two years the artists should obtain the opportunity to devote time and energy to meeting and engaging in an intensive exchange of ideas.

This could mean strengthening existing contacts or creating new ones.   The call for proposals is aimed at regional and state theaters as well as independent companies from the German-speaking world (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), who wish to develop an artistic project together with a partner from North Africa or Eastern Europe. Further information and the link to application forms can be found here

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The Agenda 21 of Culture is launching, with the support of United cities and local governments (UCLG) and the City of Mexico, the second edition of the «International Award  UCLG – MEXICO CITY – Culture 21 » on culture and sustainable development. 

This award is unique ; it is the only international prize that explicitly links culture and sustainable development in cities.

To access the rules and application or nomination forms for the prize, click here.

The call will close on 15th March 2016. The award amounts to 50 000 euros for the winning local government which is a generous sum.

The Agenda 21 for culture will promote all the very good projects on their website as examples of good practice for culture in sustainable cities.

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UNESCO is inviting written proposals from academic and research institutions for producing the 2017 report in the series World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development.  

Information on the call for proposals is available online and can be found in the attached documents. 

Offers comprising a technical proposal and financial proposal, submitted in two separate files, should be sent through two separate emails to the following addressno later than 9 a.m. on Monday, 15 February 2016

: CI.Proposals@unesco.org 

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