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

Opportunity: Open Call Pragovka Gallery 2026: Mutual Benefits
Where: Pragovka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
When: 2026
Deadline: 18/05/2025
Online Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftuZ7UBkbXmAZnC1hayy5hTKSslA0C37e_YOw5CiPFc1ofDg/viewform?fbclid=IwY2xjawJwSD1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHhMsWDsdlqp6gHPMW3UKJTkjWQqxMFX4tgFFnfgAeBjdOTvKKnJlp6oIXTKn_aem_EhNcWM30S26wN7O-aqCwqw&pli=1
Fee to Participate or Apply: Free

Description Of Opportunity:

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A je to opět tady. Vyhlašujeme otevřenou výzvu na výstavní a autorské projekty do výstavního programu Pragovka Gallery 2026. Jejím tématem jsou tentokrát Mutual Benefits (Vzájemné výhody) a přihlášku můžete podat do 18. května do 23:59.
Všechny důležité informace najdete přímo ve formuláři open callu.
Téma Mutual Benefits (Vzájemné výhody) pro mezinárodní výstavní program Pragovka Gallery v roce 2026 chápeme jako příležitost k reflexi toho, jaké podoby může mít spolupráce, sdílení a vzájemnost v současném světě – v umění, společnosti, přírodě i technologiích.
Zajímají nás projekty, které zkoumají vzájemnost v přírodních systémech, například symbiózu, mutualismus nebo jiné modely koexistence a spolupráce v ekosystémech, a hledají způsoby, jak tyto principy reflektovat v čase klimatické krize a ekologického vyčerpání. Uvítáme projekty, které se zabývají mezilidskými vztahy, kolektivními procesy, sdílením autorství, odpovědnosti, péče a solidarity, stejně jako otázkami participace a kolektivní tvorby. Otevření jsme také projektům věnujícím se alternativním ekonomikám – barteru, daru, komunitním a cirkulárním modelům sdílení hodnot a zdrojů. Téma Mutual Benefits vnímáme i v širším ekosystému spolupráce mezi druhy a technologiemi, včetně otázek etiky, agency a vztahů s jinými než lidskými aktéry. Zajímají nás rovněž způsoby spolupráce mezi umělci, kurátory, institucemi a publikem, a přístupy, které přehodnocují kulturní infrastruktury jako sítě vzájemné podpory. Kriticky se ptáme, jaká jsou rizika a limity vzájemnosti, kde končí spolupráce a začíná vykořisťování, co znamenají kompromisy a jak vyvažovat rozdílné zájmy v kolektivních projektech.
Téma Mutual Benefits zkoumá vzájemnou provázanost a spolupráci napříč lidskými i více-než-lidskými systémy. Zaměřuje se na procesy péče, sdílené odpovědnosti a udržitelnosti, které utvářejí dynamiku ekologických i sociálních a politických společenství. Skrze analýzu interních struktur a neviditelných procesů zdůrazňuje, jak mohou vzájemné vztahy přinášet užitek všem zúčastněným stranám – od lidských aktérů po přírodní ekosystémy. Projekty se mohou věnovat nejen vnějším formám spolupráce, ale i vnitřním procesům péče, regenerace a transformace, které jsou klíčové pro dlouhodobou udržitelnost.
Tento přístup vyzdvihuje nutnost překračování hierarchických vztahů směrem k modelům vzájemné podpory a reciprocity, kde jsou blaho jednotlivce a celku propojeny. Zkoumá, jak mohou sdílené formy péče a ekologie fungovat jako nástroje posilování komunit a zároveň chránit křehké ekosystémy, ve kterých žijeme.
Výzva je otevřená širokému spektru přístupů.
Těšíme se na Vaše projekty a budoucí spolupráci!
~~ English ~~
Here we go again. We are announcing an open call for exhibition and authorial projects for the Pragovka Gallery 2026 exhibition programme. The theme this time is Mutual Benefits and you can submit your application until 18 May at 23:59.
All important information can be found directly in the open call form.
The theme Mutual Benefits for Pragovka Gallery’s international exhibition program in 2026 offers an opportunity to reflect on the various forms collaboration, sharing, and reciprocity can take in today’s world — across art, society, nature, and technology.
We are interested in projects that explore reciprocity in natural systems — such as symbiosis, mutualism, and other models of coexistence and cooperation within ecosystems — and examine how these principles can be reflected in the context of climate crisis and ecological depletion. We welcome projects that deal with human relationships, collective processes, shared authorship, responsibility, care, and solidarity, as well as issues of participation and collective creation. We are also open to projects focusing on alternative economies — barter, gifting, community-based and circular models of value and resource sharing. The theme Mutual Benefits also includes broader ecosystems of cooperation across species and technologies, including questions of ethics, agency, and relationships with more-than-human actors. We are equally interested in the dynamics of collaboration between artists, curators, institutions, and audiences, and in approaches that reconsider cultural infrastructures as networks of mutual support.
We ask critical questions: what are the risks and limits of reciprocity? Where does collaboration end and exploitation begin? What do compromises mean, and how can different interests be balanced in collective projects?
The topic Mutual Benefits explores interdependence and collaboration across human and more-than-human systems. It focuses on care processes, shared responsibility, and sustainability that shape the dynamics of ecological, social, and political communities. By analyzing internal structures and invisible processes, it emphasizes how mutual relationships can bring benefit to all involved — from human actors to natural ecosystems. Projects may address not only external forms of collaboration but also internal processes of care, regeneration, and transformation, which are crucial to long-term sustainability.
This approach highlights the importance of moving beyond hierarchical relationships toward models of mutual support and reciprocity, where the well-being of the individual and the whole are interconnected. It explores how shared practices of care and ecology can serve as tools to strengthen communities while protecting the fragile ecosystems in which we live.
The call is open to a wide range of approaches.
We look forward to receiving your projects and to future collaboration!

How To Apply:

Google form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftuZ7UBkbXmAZnC1hayy5hTKSslA0C37e_YOw5CiPFc1ofDg/viewform?fbclid=IwY2xjawJwSD1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHhMsWDsdlqp6gHPMW3UKJTkjWQqxMFX4tgFFnfgAeBjdOTvKKnJlp6oIXTKn_aem_EhNcWM30S26wN7O-aqCwqw&pli=1

Contact Email:info@pragovkagallery.cz
Website: https://x.pragovka.com/en/pragovka-gallery-2


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

Opportunity: Open Call! NAIR 2025 – public space installation residency in Narva
Where: Narva, Estonia
When: 15 August to 14 September 2025
Deadline: 15 May 2025 at 23:59 (UTC+3)
Online Application: https://forms.gle/oHvar85khDv8HGgu9
Fee to Participate or Apply: – 0

Description Of Opportunity:

The Narva Art Residency (NART), in collaboration with the Narva municipality’s department of architecture and urban planning (ALPA), is launching its second open call for a large-scale public art installation or sculpture. This year it will be placed near the Narva Town Hall building, adjacent to Stockholm square. The installation will also serve as a platform for outdoor exhibitions, offering opportunities to engage and highlight various communities in Narva.

NART will host the selected artist in Narva for a one-month residency from 15 August to 14 September 2025. The artist will be able to be present during the production process of the installation and engage in meaningful exchanges with local people. The selected artist will receive a creative grant of 2,000 euros, and the production of the installation will be supported with a minimum of 8,000 euros. The application deadline is 15 May.

The installation is not intended as a temporary artwork, but it will become part of the urban space long-term, shaping the city environment and daily experience of its people. It will be in a public location and accessible to everyone.

We welcome proposals for installations that can also accommodate outdoor exhibitions. In addition to their visual and sculptural qualities, the installations should be able to support exhibitions consisting of posters or similar formats. This opens the door to highlighting Narva’s communities and development projects, turning the installation into a dynamic, evolving site of dialogue in public space. The idea could be inspired by the open frames in Tammsaare Park in Tallinn or the Kultuurilaev sculpture on Küüni Street in Tartu.


Who are we looking for?

This open call is for artists, architects, and creatives from Estonia and abroad. We are looking for applicants who are ready to lead the process hands-on, from sketch to final installation. The grant is awarded to one individual, and the residency is open to one or two participants, though the broader team of authors may be larger.

How To Apply:

The application requires a concept for a spatial installation or sculpture. The proposal should include visualisations and sketches that help convey the idea, along with a description of the materials and techniques envisioned. A draft production timeline and a preliminary budget calculation should be included.

Deadline: 15 May 2025 at 23:59 (UTC+3)
Submit your application via this link: https://forms.gle/oHvar85khDv8HGgu9

The application must include:

  • Applicant’s name, country, age, and contact information
  • CV and a short bio
  • A concise portfolio (up to five relevant creative projects)
  • Concept and description of the installation (max 800 words)
  • Visualisations of the proposed work, including at least three views and a site plan for the location
  • A production budget (the initial budget limit is 8,000 euros, though this may increase with additional sponsors or partners)
  • A timeline for production
  • A proposal for a participatory workshop the artist is willing to lead

Applications must be submitted as a single PDF (max 10 MB). Applications may be in Estonian or English.

Conditions

  • The installation must be made of durable materials, with a lifespan of at least five years.
  • Light and other technical elements may be included, subject to feasibility and further discussion with ALPA and the artists.
  • The work must function as an independent sculpture, but also serve as an exhibition platform capable of supporting at least ten posters or similar formats.
  • The jury reserves the right to propose changes to the location, concept, or technical aspects.
  • The project must align with the principles of high quality public space and/or inclusive design. These include purposefulness, aesthetic appeal, sensitivity to local context, diversity, social connection, environmental sustainability, economic value, a sense of place, and being the result of a consciously led design process. These principles are also known as the Davos Quality Criteria. Inclusive design values include respect, safety, health, functionality, clarity, and beauty.
  • The artist is asked to lead a couple of workshops during their residency. This gives local youth and others in the community a chance to take part in the creation of the installation and to contribute personally. Through this, participants will not only witness the process but also feel their own involvement in shaping the city.

Where?

The 2025 installation will be located in Stockholm Square, a historically and symbolically important area in Narva’s Old Town. Once surrounded by buildings that were destroyed during World War II, the square today is a wide, underutilised space. The goal of the project is to help revitalise the square by introducing new functions and cultural meaning. The installation is not only an artwork but also an architectural intervention aimed at making the space more inviting and usable for locals.

The place also carries a strong historical layer. The site of the future installation was once home to old Narva’s street grid and architecture. One of the aims of the installation is to bring this historical layout back into public awareness, offering a contemporary interpretation of Narva’s layered past. In this way, the project builds a bridge between past and present, contributing to the city’s cultural continuity.

The location is also linked to Narva’s Jewish history. One of the significant buildings lost during the war was the Narva Synagogue, once a central site for the local Jewish community. In 2023, a memorial plaque was installed in the square to commemorate the synagogue and its role in Narva’s history. Today, the only surviving historical building in the area is the Town Hall, which was restored in 2023.In recent years, the area has seen important developments, including the construction of the University of Tartu Narva College and the renovation of Stockholm Square.

Contact Email:anneli.virts@artun.ee
Website: https://www.nart.ee/en/open-call-nair-2025-public-space-installation-residency-in-narva/

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

Opportunity: Online Course “Acts of Absurdity: Contemporary Performance Art and the Absurd”
Where: online
When: May 13-June 7, Tuesdays 6-8PM CET
Deadline: May 8, 2025
Online Application: https://ecc-performanceart.eu/absurdity
Fee to Participate or Apply: EUR 175

Description Of Opportunity:

For decades have (performance) artists) drawn from absurdist strategies such as cycles and repetition, nonsensical language or imagery, humor and slapstick, or unconventional combinations of bodies and objects to comment on their socio-political context, unhinge conventions and rules, and disrupt the viewers’ sense of order and rationality. The focus of this course is a critical exploration of absurdity as a methodology and inspiration for performance making. We will cover the parents of absurdism including Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, the Dadaists and Fluxus but the main focus will be on contemporary artists using their own bodies in performances, films and photographs. For example: Francis Alys, Pilvi Takala and Mika Rottenberg. We will think about why artists use absurdity in their work and to what aim, with the intention to clarify the conceptual framework for our own work. Weekly themes will inform a mixture of reading/art viewing and guide you through a number of practical exercises to develop your own work in response.
Contrary to Martin Esslin’s observation that “absurd is that which is devoid of purpose” this course invites its participants to discover what absurdism means to them in the context of their practice and how they can employ it for their own purpose

How To Apply:

enroll online at https://ecc-performanceart.eu/absurdity

Contact Email:info@ecc-performanceart.eu
Website: https://ecc-performanceart.eu/absurdity

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

Opportunity: Online Course “Strange Strangers: Performing with Non-human Bodies”
Where: online
When: June 2-23, Mondays 6-8PM CET
Deadline: May 28, 2025
Online Application: https://ecc-performanceart.eu/strangestrangers
Fee to Participate or Apply: EUR 175

Description Of Opportunity:

In recent years, artists and scholars have deepened their inquiry into what it means to decenter humans and collaborate with other-than-human entities in the face of increasing acknowledgement of our ecological entanglements. As a meditation on the tangible and the intangible, this course crosses theories from the environmental humanities, philosophy and posthumanism with performance and writing practice to explore possibilities of engaging with nonhumans as active co-creators of a performance.
How do we create meaningful artistic interspecies and intramaterial collaborations with elements, materials, species, technologies, immaterial or other forces? As we approach matter and species as artistic partners who can relieve our estrangement from the animate world within and around us, we draw on feminist and Indigenous approaches. We venture to open different understandings of the material world and explore deep forms of beyond-human embeddedness and worlding.
Navigating practical exercises and critical reflections, we will:
• Investigate how to choose and make kin with nonhuman performance partners.
• Examine these artistic collaborations’ ethical, creative, and practical dimensions and their speculative or empirical potentials.
• Reflect on how (anthropocentric) power dynamics, domination and reciprocality shape our relationship with the nonhuman.
• Discover how these partnerships can transcend the illustrative and become co-creations driven by reciprocal impact and agency.
• Prepare mentally, spiritually and physically for the complexities of these co-existences and co-creations.Course Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will have experimented with theoretical and practical tools to reimagine performance as a space of care and collaboration with the nonhuman. You will explore key concepts from philosophy and the humanities, creating performance actions where nonhuman partners guide the creative process.

How To Apply:

enroll online at https://ecc-performanceart.eu/strangestrangers

Contact Email:info@ecc-performanceart.eu
Website: https://ecc-performanceart.eu/strangestrangers

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

Opportunity: Artist in Residence at Wartburg and Sarah Lawrence College
Where: New York
When: Fall 2025-end of Spring 2027 (2 years)
Deadline: April 15, 2025
Online Application: https://slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2345

Description Of Opportunity:

Job Title: Artist in Residence at Wartburg and Sarah Lawrence
Tenure Information: Non-Tenure Track Job
Annual Salary: $65,000

Description: Sarah Lawrence College in partnership with the Wartburg Adult Care Community invites applications for an artist-in-residence fellowship. While the area of specialty is open, we are looking for a Fellow with a community-engaged artistic practice and a commitment to working with senior adult learners of all abilities. This two-year fellowship begins August 2025 and is funded by the Endeavor Foundation.

The successful candidate will understand the benefits of the creative arts and lifelong learning for an aging population and the role of an adult care community, like Wartburg, in helping seniors cultivate new skills and passions. An ability to communicate with residents, their families, and staff, as well as good interpersonal skills, patience, and imagination are essential to this work.

At Wartburg, the Endeavor Fellow, working collaboratively with staff and residents, will develop arts programming designed to cultivate interest and engagement with the arts amongst a diverse senior population. This programming will attend to the challenges that individuals face as they age (including memory loss, physical and sensory disabilities, loneliness, and grief) as well as augmenting Wartburg’s commitment to wellness-based care, personal enrichment, arts therapy (especially its internationally-recognized Institute for Music and Neurologic Function), and memory care.

The Endeavor Fellow will also teach courses at the College that will engage our students and the college community in Wartburg’s mission. Past collaborations with Wartburg have included undergraduate classes focused on improv, storytelling, and puppetry, and we can also imagine classes focusing on film-making and/or photography; we are especially interested in classes that we could cross-list under both Theatre and Visual Arts.

How To Apply:

Apply Online at https://slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2345

We invite interested candidates to submit a statement of interest and possible directions that they might take the Fellowship along with a CV, three letters of recommendation, relevant evidence of teaching (such as syllabi or a statement of teaching philosophy), and a sample of their work either in print or in a multi-media format.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Required Qualifications The successful candidate will combine a Ph.D. and/or MFA and/or equivalent professional accomplishment in a relevant field with experience in community engagement. Preferred Qualifications

Website: https://slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2345

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

Opportunity: Guerilla Opera presents: Opera Talks! – Libretto-Writing Workshop
Where: Virtual
When: 3/12/25
Deadline: 3/12/25
Online Application:
Fee to Participate or Apply: $0

Description Of Opportunity:

Guerilla Opera’s ongoing virtual series Opera Talks! Offers a meeting space for opera makers and audiences to discuss all things opera!

Join librettist Kendra Preston Leonard for a 90-minute workshop in libretto-writing and get a taste of how our Libretto Labs programs work. You’ll create a mini-scene featuring two characters and learn how to depict and develop their personalities and goals through their language and using stage directions. We’ll start with a prompt and then workshop our mini-scenes using Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process, a supportive and author-centered method of critique we use in all Libretto Labs programs. No prior dramatic writing experience is necessary, although familiarity with opera, musical theater, or plays will be helpful.

How To Apply:

Registration Link

Contact Email:sbeebe@guerillaopera.org
Website: https://guerillaopera.org/eventcal/2025/3/12/opera-talks

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

Opportunity: Online Course “Reimagining Fluxus: Performance, Interpretation, Embodiment”
Where: online
When: May 5-26, Mondays 6-8PM CET
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Online Application: https://ecc-performanceart.eu/fluxus
Fee to Participate or Apply: EUR 175

Description Of Opportunity:

This course explores the Fluxus movement’s practice of creating and performing “scores” as a means of experimentation, reinterpretation, and artistic embodiment. Fluxus, an international art movement emerging in the 1960s and continuing today, embraces experimentation, community, and the dissolution of boundaries between art and everyday life. A core tenet of Fluxus is the creation of “scores”—text-based instructions for performances or artistic actions.

This course introduces participants to the historical and contemporary relevance of Fluxus and its use of scores through the works of pioneering artists such as Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, and Yoko Ono, as well as contemporary practitioners like Erwin Wurm. Using seminal texts such as The Fluxus Performance Workbook (edited by Ken Friedman, Owen Smith, and Lauren Sawchyn) and Hans Ulrich Obrist’s do it, participants will engage in adapting and performing scores while critically reflecting on the process of re-performance, reinterpretation, and embodiment. Each week, participants will share creative exercises for group feedback and discussion. We will also explore how to adapt a score into a project proposal suitable for exhibitions, grants, or residencies.

The course culminates in participants developing and performing their own original scores.
The Fluxus approach serves as a dynamic strategy for generating creativity and fresh ideas by shifting perspectives, rethinking processes, and engaging the body in space.

for more information see https://ecc-performanceart.eu/fluxus

May 5-26, Mondays 6-8PM CET

How To Apply:

enroll online at https://ecc-performanceart.eu/fluxus

Contact Email: info@ecc-performanceart.eu
Website: https://ecc-performanceart.eu/fluxus

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

Opportunity: Biennale College Teatro | Workshop
Where: Venice, IT
When: 31 May – 15 June 2025
Deadline: 26 March 2025
Online Application: https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/biennale-college-teatro-new-call-applications-2
Fee to Participate or Apply: Free

Description Of Opportunity:

As part of the 53rd International Theatre Festival, directed by Willem Dafoe, the Biennale College Teatro will offer a series of workshops focused on languages, codes, techniques, technologies, and sciences of the scene.
The Biennale College Teatro aims to become a place of hypothesis and debate, constantly open to encounter and experimentation, in a process that can involve scholars, spectators and enthusiasts: a real factory of ideas on the possibilities of theatre.
The workshops will be held from 31 May to 15 June 2025.

Biennale Teatro 2025 | Biennale College Teatro 2025 – Workshops

How To Apply:

The call for applications is open to candidates aged between 18 and 30 years (on the closing date of the call).
Only one workshop may be applied for.
The deadline for submitting applications is 26 March 2025.
The outcome of the selections will be communicated to all candidates by the end of April 2025.
All candidates are asked to fill in the online application form in its entirety and to attach the required digital documentation preferably in Italian (for Italian Masters) or English (for international Masters), unless otherwise specified in the Master’s form. Participation in the workshop entails compulsory attendance for the entire duration of the course.

Contact Email : promotion@labiennale.org
Website: https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/biennale-college-teatro-new-call-applications-2

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Opportunity: OPEN CALL For NYC Area – Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden Pass Residency (Staten Island, NY) Deadline – April 10, 2025

Opportunity: OPEN CALL For NYC Area – Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden Pass Residency
Where: Staten Island, NY
When: Fiscal Year 2026 (Between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026)
Deadline: Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 11:59PM EST
Online Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZjuUsXoFAf72V-MCsoOj9Ih5VzaTChFpxbqUdAOnTLcpa9g/viewform
Fee to Participate or Apply: 0

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden (Snug Harbor) is excited to announce its annual open call for the Performing Arts Salon Saturdays (PASS) artist residency and performance program. Snug Harbor is soliciting applications to select four (4) residencies* that will support the creation and development of new works in dance, music, theater, and multi-disciplinary performance.

Selected artists have access to live and work in one of our historic cottages, with studio space available in our Dance Center. At the end of each residency, artists share their work with the community in a culminating work-in-progress performance. Performances have taken place across our 83-acre campus: in the Dance Center, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, and in various gardens and meadows. The primary goals of PASS are to provide time, space, and support to artists in the development of their work. 

PASS is a unique, sought-after opportunity offering space for living, creating, and presenting new performance work in New York City. Snug Harbor is proud of its role as an arts incubator for artists to explore new dimensions in their practice.

*Note: one additional PASS artist is selected annually in partnership with the CUNY Dance Initiative, with a separate application process that is currently closed.

APPLY HEREDeadline April 10, 2025

LOCATION

PASS residencies take place at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, located on Staten Island’s North Shore. Easily reachable via public transportation, Snug Harbor is a 10-minute bus ride from the free Staten Island Ferry which runs 24/7. For more information, please visit: https://snug-harbor.org/visit/directions/

ABOUT THE NEWHOUSE CENTER AT SNUG HARBOR

As Staten Island’s leading incubator for bold and innovative art since 1977, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor provides space, resources, and support for artists across the visual and performing arts to develop new work. Through residencies, exhibitions, performances, and public art, we invite artists and communities to reimagine the historic spaces of Snug Harbor through site-based programming.

PASS PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

  • Provide space and support for performing artists at different stages in their careers to develop and deepen their craft
  • Incubate discourse and community engagement around new ideas and artistic expression
  • Cultivate a supportive environment for artists to take creative risks in their process, practice, and vision

AWARD

  • Selected artists receive $2000.00 residency and performance honorarium
  • Selected artists receive up to 100 hours of rehearsal time in the Dance Center (scheduling contingent upon availability) or select gallery space upon request. Learn more about our dance studios: https://snug-harbor.org/dancecenter/
  • Selected artists receive 1-month access to private residence in one historic cottage located on Snug Harbor’s campus, preceding their culminating work-in-progress showing

ELIGIBILITY

  • This call is free and open to artists living and consistently sharing work in the NYC metropolitan area with a demonstrated history of creating original works in live performance: dance, music/sound composition, theater, and multi-disciplinary
  • Artists must be 18 or over to apply
  • Artists who are or will be enrolled in a college or university degree-granting program between August 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026 are not eligible to apply
  • Previous PASS artists are not eligible to apply

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

  • Selected artists are required to develop their proposed project at Snug Harbor during the agreed upon residency timeframe
  • Selected artists are required to meet with curatorial staff a minimum of 3 times: 1x prior to residency, at least 2x during residency
  • Selected artists are required to present their work during a culminating, work-in-progress public performance. Artists should commit to presenting between 30-45 minutes of material
  • Selected artists are required to participate in an informal curtain chat discussion (a “Q & A”) with the audience, moderated by the Director & Senior Curator, Newhouse Center, following the performance
  • Selected artists are asked to participate in a blog post and/or social media engagement (ex. blog post interview or other writing/media, IG live, IG reel, etc.) during their residency
  • Selected artists are required to complete an exit survey at the end of their residency

CRITERIA

  • Artistic Merit – Work Sample (40%)
  • Work sample reflects originality in aesthetic voice
  • Work sample demonstrates artist’s rigor and commitment to craft as evidenced by elements such as structure, technical components, and/or creative approach
  • Work sample communicates the artist’s ability to successfully translate their written ideas and concepts into their performance work
  • Application Narrative (40%)
  • Project proposal is aesthetically compelling and clearly articulates themes and ideas motivating the applicant’s work
  • Applicant demonstrates a history of committing to, producing and completing quality performance work that is bold, socially relevant, and pushes forward new ideas and artistic expression
  • Applicant communicates goals that are feasible within the residency timeframe and appropriate to program objectives and the organization’s mission
  • Site Responsiveness and Feasibility (20%)
  • Project proposal considers and/or is in conversation with the historical, cultural, and environmental aspects of the setting of Snug Harbor in Staten Island, NY. This does not have to be overt in the project’s intended outcome but should contribute to and be factored into the creative process and method
  • The project’s size, scale, and technical needs are appropriate to the spaces and resources available at Snug Harbor. Please note that this is a low-tech format in a non-traditional space. Basic light and sound equipment are available,

SELECTION PROCESS

A juried panel comprised of Snug Harbor staff and arts professionals will select the awarded projects.

TIMELINE

Applications are due by Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 11:59PM EST. All applicants will be notified by June 25, 2025. Residencies will take place in Fiscal Year 2026 (Between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026). 

APPLICATION INFO SESSION

Snug Harbor staff will host a PASS application information session: Thursday, March 13 at 3:00 PM ET on Zoom. We will share the recorded info session via our YouTube page as a resource for prospective applicants. We encourage all applicants to familiarize themselves with Snug Harbor’s campus before applying to this opportunity.

REGISTER FOR INFO SESSION

APPLICATION CHECK-LIST

The following application materials should be submitted via Google Form (link below) by Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 11:59PM EST

  • Completed application form. The application form on Google has three sections:
  • Eligibility: Basic eligibility questionnaire.
  • Applicant Information: Short and long form responses.
  • Work sample: one video or sound link of the applicant’s existing original work (video preferred; no more than 5-minutes in length). Please include hyperlink via Vimeo, YouTube, Dropbox, Soundcloud, etc. If password protected, please include password. If the video is longer than five minutes, please indicate viewing cue.

Demographics Survey: We invite all applicants to fill out a brief demographics survey. This information is used for internal assessment and evaluation as we work toward facilitating processes that are more equitable. Your responses in this section will be kept confidential and will not be shared with the selection panel (except for an anonymous, aggregate snapshot of applicant demographics). All questions in this section are optional.

For questions regarding your application, please email info@snug-harbor.org  

PASS: Performing Arts Salon Saturdays is made possible through generous lead support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, with additional support from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Snug Harbor is a proud partner with the CUNY Dance Initiative.

How to apply

APPLICATION CHECK-LIST

The following application materials should be submitted via Google Form (link below) by Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 11:59PM EST

  • Completed application form. The application form on Google has three sections:
  • Eligibility: Basic eligibility questionnaire.
  • Applicant Information: Short and long form responses.
  • Work sample: one video or sound link of the applicant’s existing original work (video preferred; no more than 5-minutes in length). Please include hyperlink via Vimeo, YouTube, Dropbox, Soundcloud, etc. If password protected, please include password. If the video is longer than five minutes, please indicate viewing cue.

Demographics Survey: We invite all applicants to fill out a brief demographics survey. This information is used for internal assessment and evaluation as we work toward facilitating processes that are more equitable. Your responses in this section will be kept confidential and will not be shared with the selection panel (except for an anonymous, aggregate snapshot of applicant demographics). All questions in this section are optional.

For questions regarding your application, please email info@snug-harbor.org  

PASS: Performing Arts Salon Saturdays is made possible through generous lead support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, with additional support from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Snug Harbor is a proud partner with the CUNY Dance Initiative.

Opportunity – Performance Art Guest Faculty (Sarah Lawrence College)

Type: Adjunct/Part-Time
Salary: $21,000 – 28,000
Deadline: March 12, 2025
Online Application: https://slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2312

Visual and Studio Arts – Performance Art Guest Faculty

Rank: Guest Faculty
Tenure Information: Non-Tenure Track

Job Description

The Visual and Studio Arts program at Sarah Lawrence College invites applications for a one-year, half-time guest appointment in Performance Art, beginning Spring 2026, with the possibility of renewal for up to two additional years. We seek candidates who are passionate about teaching performance art within a liberal arts framework to a diverse group of students with varying levels of experience. Applicants should have a practice and teaching approach that engages with contemporary performance ideas, methods, and materials. Ideal candidates will be inventive, rigorous, and experimental, deeply committed to their own art-making, and have at least one year of undergraduate teaching experience.

The successful candidate will teach one 5-credit Performance Art studio course each semester, capped at 15 students, and meeting on Tuesdays and Fridays from 3:05 to 5:30. They will also teach a 2-credit “concept class” during one semester, that explores a historical and transdisciplinary aspect of performance art (meeting times are TBD). In addition to regular coursework, students in the 5-credit course will complete a significant independent project, a hallmark of Sarah Lawrences Conference Project model. Candidates should demonstrate an ability to foster interdisciplinary exploration and engage students at all skill levels.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Compensation listed for this position is for a half-time guest faculty position and will be contingent on teaching experience.

Your application should include:

  • Cover letter – In your cover letter, please provide descriptions of three ideas for a performance art class. In addition, address ways in which you encourage students to critically engage with issues of socially constructed identities, marginalization, privilege, power, and inclusion.
  • CV
  • Teaching Philosophy
  • Portfolio PDF or online link containing ten examples of your recent work and ten examples of student work.
  • References – Include the names and contact information for three references.

Opportunities: GUTS EYES BONES BOUNDARIES | ONE YEAR MOVEMENT & DANCE COURSE (COCHLEA studia, Athens, Greece) Deadline – Sliding scale dead-lines 15 March, 15 April, 15 May

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Description Of Opportunity:

GEBB | nine month dance & movement course in Athens/Greece,
EARLY-BIRD SLIDING SCALE second applications period NOW OPEN for cohort 2025-26. Next application dead-lines 15 March | 15 April | 15 May.
-for special discounts -20% continue reading below-
PICTURE a dance-program where technique is an investigation in anatomy, proprioception, imagination, motivation, availability, and efficiency; a palimpsest of internationally acclaimed methods that are continually updated and refined by their teachers’ associations. Picture a dance-program that embraces agency, supporting mid-career & less experienced dance-artists to bloom in their own pace along each-other. Imagine a year in central Athens, five minutes from the Lycabettus forest hill, on our lovely solid, unfinished, oak-wood floor.
Picture GUTS | EYES | BONES | BOUNDARIES, a nine-month international in-studio course, offered for the sixth year by COCHLEA res in central Athens/Greece, organised in five accumulative modules where somatic and hands-on practices, contemporary theory and contemporary choreography intersect.
Program includes certified-technique morning-classes, followed by making & researching strategies workshops, taught in english, by renown members of the greek & international dance-artists community, including certified teachers of the Alexander Tech., Body-Mind Centering (SME), Contact Improvisation, Contemplative Dance Practice, Cranial-Sacral Therapy, SPP Fascia, Feldenkrais Meth., Franklin Method, Klein Tech., Rolfing Structural Integration, Skinner Releasing Tech., ViewPoints, Body-Weather, as well as theorists & practitioners of dramaturgy, improvisation, relational choreography, and more (calendar cochleares.com/oneyearcourse).
GEBB is structured into 5 modules, leading to a two-week residential horizontal laboratory by the sea. Modules typically consist of (1) a week of experimental anatomy classes, (2) a week of post-MeToo post-COVID hands-on practices, (3) a week of contemporary theory on body, gender, movement & space, (4) a week of dynamic improvisation technique, and (5) a week of witnessing, performing & creative practice, leading to (6) a week of studio practice gently held by a guest mentor, including private sessions & self-directed time working alone-together in the studio, to rest, digest, reflect and transition towards a decompressing break (continue reading cochleares.com/oneyearcourse).
** Contemporary Performance readers receive a -20% discount voucher towards their GEBB tuition. Just include in your application that you found out about GEBB on Contemporary Performance. **

How To Apply:

Online form only www.cochleares.com

Contact Email:info@cochleares.com
Website: www.cochleares.com

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Opportunities: OPEN CALL 2025 | Annual Grant Residency Program ZARATAN AIR (Lisbon) Deadline – MARCH 20TH 2025

Opportunity: OPEN CALL 2025 | Annual Grant Residency Program ZARATAN AIR
Where: Lisbon
When: Between May 2025 and April 2026
Deadline: MARCH 20TH 2025
Online Application: https://zaratan.pt//en/event/710
Fee to Participate or Apply: 0

Description Of Opportunity:

OPEN CALL 2025 | Annual Grant
Residency Program ZARATAN AIR

DEADLINE | until the 20th of March, 2025 (24h00)

ELIGIBILITY | Emerging and professional artists, performers, musicians, curators, writers and other cultural agents are eligible to apply. The residency program is designed for international artists – or national artists residing abroad – for the development of artistic projects, individual or collective. Zaratan defends a multidisciplinary and experimental attitude, where all the areas and the languages of the artistic expression are considered.

DURATION | 4 weeks

RESIDENCY PERIOD | Between May 2025 and April 2026

GRANT | Once a year Zaratan offers a 4 weeks residency grant, which covers the studio and accommodation fees for one artist selected through the application process. THE OPEN CALL IS OPEN FROM JANUARY 28TH TO MARCH 20TH 2025.

ABOUT ZARATAN AIR | Driven by the desire to intensify and exchange knowledge with artists through creative and productive practices, in 2015 Zaratan announced the promotion of an international art residency. Our goal is to mix experienced with emerging artists and give them the possibility to bring their work in an experimental context through exchange and collaboration within the local network. The artists-in-residence at Zaratan are given the opportunity to develop a project over a fixed period of time, and to reflect and consolidate their artistic practice in the specific context of Lisbon.

We provide private accommodation, 24/7 private working studio, technical assistance, promotion and communication support, open public presentation of the residency process. Although labs and technique-specific facilities are not available, we will do our best to fulfill your needs, providing logistical support for producing work and events within our network of partners and collaborators. All artists are encouraged and welcome to share the outcome of their residency through talks, performance, open studios or other formats of public presentations.

APPLICATION PROCESS | If you wish to apply to our annual grant please email us at production@zaratan.pt with the following information (1 PDF file not exceeding 24mb):
– Bio/CV;
– Portfolio or website;
– Description of the work/project you intend to carry on during the residency;
– Period you intend to stay at Zaratan.

APPLICATION EVALUATION | Applications are evaluated by a selection committee composed of artists, curators, community members and spaces board members. Applicants will be notified via email as soon as possible after selections have been made.
Beside being submitted for our annual grant, the applications will be evaluated for our regular program of residencies in 2025, which requires the payment of a residency fee.
If accepted, we are available to assist residents with funding applications.

MORE INFORMATION | production@zaratan.pt | [+351] 967 580 235 | www.zaratan.pt

How To Apply:

OPEN CALL 2025 | Annual Grant
Residency Program ZARATAN AIR

DEADLINE | until the 20th of March, 2025 (24h00)

ELIGIBILITY | Emerging and professional artists, performers, musicians, curators, writers and other cultural agents are eligible to apply. The residency program is designed for international artists – or national artists residing abroad – for the development of artistic projects, individual or collective. Zaratan defends a multidisciplinary and experimental attitude, where all the areas and the languages of the artistic expression are considered.

DURATION | 4 weeks

RESIDENCY PERIOD | Between May 2025 and April 2026

GRANT | Once a year Zaratan offers a 4 weeks residency grant, which covers the studio and accommodation fees for one artist selected through the application process. THE OPEN CALL IS OPEN FROM JANUARY 28TH TO MARCH 20TH 2025.

ABOUT ZARATAN AIR | Driven by the desire to intensify and exchange knowledge with artists through creative and productive practices, in 2015 Zaratan announced the promotion of an international art residency. Our goal is to mix experienced with emerging artists and give them the possibility to bring their work in an experimental context through exchange and collaboration within the local network. The artists-in-residence at Zaratan are given the opportunity to develop a project over a fixed period of time, and to reflect and consolidate their artistic practice in the specific context of Lisbon.

We provide private accommodation, 24/7 private working studio, technical assistance, promotion and communication support, open public presentation of the residency process. Although labs and technique-specific facilities are not available, we will do our best to fulfill your needs, providing logistical support for producing work and events within our network of partners and collaborators. All artists are encouraged and welcome to share the outcome of their residency through talks, performance, open studios or other formats of public presentations.

APPLICATION PROCESS | If you wish to apply to our annual grant please email us at production@zaratan.pt with the following information (1 PDF file not exceeding 24mb):
– Bio/CV;
– Portfolio or website;
– Description of the work/project you intend to carry on during the residency;
– Period you intend to stay at Zaratan.

APPLICATION EVALUATION | Applications are evaluated by a selection committee composed of artists, curators, community members and spaces board members. Applicants will be notified via email as soon as possible after selections have been made.
Beside being submitted for our annual grant, the applications will be evaluated for our regular program of residencies in 2025, which requires the payment of a residency fee.
If accepted, we are available to assist residents with funding applications.

MORE INFORMATION | production@zaratan.pt | [+351] 967 580 235 | www.zaratan.pt

Contact Email:info@zaratan.pt
Website: zaratan.pt

These posts are not affiliated with Contemporary Performance Network, but are of interest to our community. We post these with the caveat to check the sources and research the opportunities or views expressed in the posts.