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Cryptic is looking for creatively ambitious artists with innovative ideas for our 2018/19 Cryptic Nights Programme. Recognising the need for a regular, supportive platform for emerging Scottish based artists with fresh ideas, Cryptic launched Cryptic Nights in 2009 and has presented over 250 artists in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary ...
Cryptic is looking for a creatively ambitious, Scottish-based composer/sound artist to create a bespoke electronic soundscape for the wheelhouse of the iconic Titan Crane For 2017, celebrating 110 years since the Titan Crane was built, Cryptic would like to commission a Scottish-based composer/sound artist to create a bespoke electronic soundscape ...
Our newest publication “Look, I’m priceless! Handbook on how to assess your artistic organisation” aims to guide art professionals through the key steps of evaluating their organisations, whether they have chosen to do it themselves or if a funder or decision-maker asks them to do so and provides them with pre-conceived tools. The first part of the ...
The Festival Academy (an initiative of the European Festivals Association, EFA) invites emerging festival directors to apply still until 30 June for the Atelier for Young Festival Managers, Merano, Italy, taking place from 17 - 23 November 2017, hosted by Meraner Musikwochen / Settimane Musicali Meranesi in collaboration with Italia Festival ...
Who decides on quality in the arts and based on which criteria? This was the central question of IETM Bucharest session “Status of the Arts”. During the panel, the performing arts world was scrutinised through lenses of race, gender, class, and aesthetics. The idea that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder led to vivid conversations about ...
IETM Bucharest session "How to save Europe?" addressed the gloomy reality Europe is living through: democratic deficit, institutional crisis, increasingly predominant populist and nationalist rhetoric, social disintegration. A group of around 50 participants coming from very diverse realities attempted to identify the ways in which culture and the ...
On 23 May the Council adopted conclusionson on an EU strategic approach to international cultural relations. The conclusions follow the joint communication from the High Representative and the European Commission of 8 June 2016 entitled "Towards an EU Strategy for international cultural relations" of 8 June 2016". They provide guidance on the EU's ...
TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA August 2 – 12, 2017 Munich CALL FOR ENTRIES – OPEN STAGE Deadline June 21, 2017 We will show artistic contributions by selected workshop participants for an entire evening at TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA Munich. It’s an opportunity to present new material to the Munich public and to all artists and participants! A prerequisite is your ...
9th INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES COMPETITON DEADLINE > JUNE 30th, 2017 Call for choreographic short films in a 60-second format! For the 9th time, JOINT ADVENTURES is inviting choreographers, dancers, film and multi-media artists from throughout the world to develop new aesthetic approaches and visual languages for choreography and film in ...
The Festival Academy, in partnership with the Market Theatre Foundation and The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, has launched the call for application for the Atelier for Young Festival Managers Johannesburg, South Africa taking place from 23 - 29 March 2018. 45 participants will be selected for the 7-day training programme ...
