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Trans Oral History Fellowship – Apply by June 15, 2025

Self-Organizations – Mophradat Grant for Artist-Run Initiatives (Apply by June 10, 2025)

No Soft Returns: Performance at the Edge of the Body – Reading the Field – May 2025

Alex Tatarsky – SLC Performance Lab Podcast 06.02

Creative Capacity: What Fills You, What Drains You, and Why Boredom Matters

Inside Holland Festival 2025: Trajal Harrell, Łukasz Twarkowski, and Gisèle Vienne, Lead a Daring Lineup

How to Set Up a Creative Practice Notebook (That You’ll Actually Use)

Opportunities: Becoming a Stone – Summer School for Artists, Curators, Theorists, Cultural Workers (Pragovka Gallery) Deadline – 18th May 2025

Opportunities: Open Call Pragovka Gallery 2026: Mutual Benefits (Pragovka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic) Deadline – 18/05/2025

Opportunities: Open Call! NAIR 2025 – public space installation residency in Narva (Narva, Estonia) Deadline – 15 May 2025 at 23:59 (UTC+3)

Opportunities: Online Course "Acts of Absurdity: Contemporary Performance Art and the Absurd" (online) Deadline – May 8, 2025

Opportunities: Online Course "Strange Strangers: Performing with Non-human Bodies" (online) Deadline – May 28, 2025

Opportunities: Artist in Residence at Wartburg and Sarah Lawrence College (New York) Deadline – April 15, 2025

Opportunities: Guerilla Opera presents: Opera Talks! – Libretto-Writing Workshop (Virtual) Deadline – 3/12/25

Opportunities: Online Course "Reimagining Fluxus: Performance, Interpretation, Embodiment" (online) Deadline – April 30, 2025

Opportunities: Biennale College Teatro | Workshop (Venice, IT) Deadline – 26 March 2025

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Trans Oral History Fellowship – Apply by June 15, 2025

Apply to the Trans Studies at the Commons Fellowship, supporting oral history projects that expand trans archives. $10,000 stipend and retreat.…
Self-Organizations – Mophradat Grant for Artist-Run Initiatives (Apply by June 10, 2025)

Mophradat’s Self-Organizations program offers up to €8,000 in funding for collaborative, self-organized arts initiatives in the Arab world. Deadline: June 10, 2025.…
No Soft Returns: Performance at the Edge of the Body – Reading the Field – May 2025

Five artists reclaim the body as rupture, resistance, and ritual. Explore extreme embodiment in this month’s Reading the Field from Contemporary Performance.…
Alex Tatarsky – SLC Performance Lab Podcast 06.02

Alex Tatarsky makes performances somewhere in between comedy, poetry, dance-theater, and rant—sometimes with songs. Tatarsky’s pieces play with the tension and overlap between written and improvised s…
Creative Capacity: What Fills You, What Drains You, and Why Boredom Matters

Not all time is equal. As artists, we need to recognize what drains us, what restores us, and why boredom might be the missing piece in our creative capacity.…

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