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Calls with submission deadline in June
Dystopie Sound Art Festival
DEADLINE: July 1st
- Description:
Dystopie Festival brings diverse sound art viewpoints together in an exhibition that deals with current dystopian moments, as well as those of an imagined future. Following on from the premiere of the double edition Dystopie Berlin-Istanbul (2018/2019), the guest country for this year’s festival will be Brazil. In addition to artists from Brazil, the festival invite sound artists from Europe to submit new or existing works that deal with the topic of ‘dystopia’ in the broadest sense.
- Who can apply: The open call is for sound artists living in the European region.
● Financial Envelope:
Artist fee for existing works: 500€.
Artist fee for new works produced for the festival: 1500€ .
Production budget: 1500€ on average per project, including costs for materials and special equipment (also rented equipment). If your project will be selected a precise cost calculation will be needed.
Transportation, travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the festival.
● Important links:
Guidelines: https://www.dystopie-festival.net/wp3/
Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKsbqT-FhD9IeXev19KitM3kTpU5kgM7EiDV9_MolRLfEWOw/viewform
XXIV Graphic Humor Contest «Curuxa do Humor» 2020
Fene Town Hall, A Coruña, Spain.
DEADLINE: 10 july
Description:
Free themed drawing contest.
Who can apply:
Residents in Spain. CURUXA category: for people over 25. Category: CURUXA-NOVA: for people from 16 to 25 years old.
Financial Envelope:
1st Prize (over 25 years) 2,000 euros
2nd Prize (over 25 years) 1,500 euros
1st Prize (from 16 to 25 years old) 1,000 euros
2nd Prize (from 16 to 25 years old) 500 euros
Important Links:
Guidelines:
https://static.arteinformado.com/resources/app/docs/evento/84/189484/2._bases_curuxas_castellano_2020.pdf
Apply:
People interested in participating may submit or send their drawings to / from the General Registry of the Fene City Council (Praza do mayor Ramón José Souto González, s / n, Fene)
Comments:
Participants may submit a single free-themed drawing, in format: bullet, strip or comic (maximum 1 page).
FESTIVAL MONAR’T
DEADLINE: July 26th
● Description: annual murals and urban art festival in the neighborhoods of Santa Eugenia de Ter and Can Gibert del Pla with a 100% social and multicultural thematic.
● Who can apply: artists, graffiti artists, muralists, illustrators and painters. Individually or collectively.
● Economical Envelope: €250 fee + up to € 400 travel + material / production / accommodation... (see the guidelines in the link)
● Important links:
Guidelines: https://festivalmonart.cat/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Bases-2a-Edició-2020-del-Festival-monarT.pdf
Apply: https://festivalmonart.cat/bases-obertes-2a-edicio-2020-del-festival-monart/
● Comments: please, check the Catalan or Spanish page for more information or contact hola@festivalmonart.cat
GRANTS ART AND NATURE
Centre d’Art la Panera
DEADLINE: July 31st at 2pm
● Description: Center d'Art la Panera annually call the Beques Art i Natura a la Creació, in collaboration with the Centre Artinatura CDAN / Centro de Arte y Naturaleza Museu de la Vida Rural and Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, in order to promote research and creation in the field of visual arts. Two-month stay at the Center for Art and Nature.
● Who can apply: visual artists
● Economical envelope: two grants of 4.000 €, taxes included, for the two selected projects.
● Important links:
Apply: Registre de la Oficina Municipal d’Atenció Ciutadana (Lleida City Council), rambla Ferran, 32, 25007 Lleida, during business hours (Check: omac.paeria.cat).
● Comments: stay in 2020 except July and August. Please, check the Catalan or Spanish page for more information or contact us at g1@laescocesa.org
EXCHANGE GRANTS BETWEEN HANGAR AND CASA DE VELAZQUEZ.
In collaboration with the IFB (Institut Français Barcelona)
DEADLINE: 30th JUNE at 1 p.m. (GMT +1).
- Description:
Two artists residing in Spain will stay at Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, in the form of a research residency, and a French artist will carry out a production residency at Hangar (Barcelona). This exchange program is supported by the Institut Français Barcelona. Research residence in the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) for 2 artists with residence in Spain. Free access to the shared studios of Casa de Velázquez: engraving, sound and photo studio. Access to the library. Each artist will have free accommodation during the 2 months in the Casa de Velázquez. Period of residency *: September and October 2020.
Production residence in Hangar (Barcelona) for a French artist. Period of residence *: from September to December 2020. Free accommodation in Hangar. Hangar workspace. Access to technical support. Inclusion in various networks and platforms or the detection of the possibilities of their anchorage in the artistic sector. Access to all Hangar labs. Equipment and spaces for experimental purposes. Technical assistance in the production of punctual works. * subject to change due to the health crisis. See details in the guidelines.
- Who can apply:
Artists whose practice is within the fields of contemporary art, performance, sound art, visual and audiovisual arts, new media, etc.
- Amount of benefit:
For research grants at the Casa de Velázquez: each artist will receive from Hangar € 750 taxes included for maintenance each month (€ 1,500 gross total). Hangar will provide each artist with a fee of € 500 and a 500€ cash bag supporting research for each artist. The Institut Français Barcelona will cover the artist’s travel expenses with a maximum of €150 (one way).
For the production grant in Hangar: Each artist will receive from Casa Velázquez an allowance for living expenses of €750 gross each month (for a total of 1500 € gross The Institut Français Barcelona covers the travel expenses from the place of origin to Barcelona and back for a maximum amount of €400.
- Important links:
Guidelines
- Apply:
Fill in the form with: personal data, CV, description of the project to be carried out, work plan, examples of previous work, registration certificate in Spain (for research grant).
Research: https://hangar.casadevelazquez.org/es/
Production: https://casadevelazquez-a-hangar.casadevelazquez.org/fr/
Artist Residencies at Carpintarias de São Lázaro
São Lázaro Cultural Centre (Portugal)
DEADLINE: 30 jun
- Description:
A 3 months residency in a studio space inside the cultural centre CSL, beginning in the month of September, 2020.
- Who can apply:
Non-portuguese artists with residency out of Portugal.
- Financial Envelope:
The selected applicant and artist in residence receives 1000 EUR per month for accomodation (as the centre provides just the space for a working residency), alimentation, and artistic production, including production costs of the final presentation.
- Important Links:
Guidelines
More
- Comments :
The artists should propose dialogues between the centre CSL and its neighbors through workshops, photography sessions, vídeo tapes, meetings, exchange of ideas and others. Residency applications can be submitted in English and Portuguese. The candidats, who applied, have to be available for an online interview. Candidats will be informed via email of the online interview, to be combined previously. They accept applications of artistic duos, but the amount of money available through the Grant for AiR will remain the same amount as for a single artist. But there will be an additional health insurance in case of a double of artists.
QUEREMOS MAS ARTE
DKV Salud award and ARTEINFORMADO
DEADLINE: 20 jun 2020
- Description:
Prize for a proposal for a virtual exhibition project around the theme: Women's health.
- Who can apply:
Spanish curators
- Financial Envelope:
The curator will receive 500 euros, including taxes and premium access to the ARTINFORMED platform for one year.
The artists will receive 300 euros including taxes and premium access to the ARTEINFORMADO platform and can also exhibit for a year 50 works in “GALERÍA DE OBRA”, also from ARTEINFORMADO
- Important Links:
Guidelines
- Apply:
Application: to participate you have to make contact to ARTEINFORMADO through the email arteinformado@arteinformado.com indicating the subject "Participación en Convocatoria “QUEREMOS MAS ARTE"
- Comments:
To participate in the award it will be necessary to have a file as a curator in ARTEINFORMADO. An expert jury will select two finalist proposals that will then be submitted to a popular jury to choose the winner.
ART FOR CHANGE “LA CAIXA” -2020
Organized by Obra Social “La Caixa”
Deadline: 8 JUN
- Who can apply :
Institutions, cultural entities and artists. Be domiciled in Spanish territory.
- Financial envelope:
25,000 euros, must be less than 75% of the total cost of the project.
- Important links:
Guideline
Apply
- Comments :
Projects for the regeneration and improvement of coexistence in neighborhoods and communities, which demonstrate the value of culture as a driver of change and improvement in our society, involving the participation of groups in situations of vulnerability or people from the same environment or neighborhood. Most of the project must take place in 2021, it must be carried out in the Spanish territory and the activities must be free of charge for the recipients.
ARTISTIC COMPETITIONS TO THE BARCELONA SCIENTIFIC PARK
University of Barcelona.
DEADLINE: 4 JUN 12h.
- Description:
Design of the exterior spaces of the Barcelona Science Park.
- Who can apply:
Any person or group of people with the only requirement of being of legal age.
- Financial envelope:
5.000 euros.
- Important Links:
Guidelines
- Comments :
Present the proposal personally or by courier.
UNZIP VISUAL ARTS
El Prat de Llobregat
Deadline: 1 JUN
- Description:
Unzip is the program to support the creation and mediation of visual art by the City Council of El Prat de Llobregat. Fine art, image, audiovisual, design, illustration, architecture, performance, sound art, hybrid and multidisciplinary proposals can be presented as long as the projects establish relationships between the various contexts of El Prat.
- Who can apply:
Residents in Catalonia. Mode seven only for residents of El Prat or groups with half of the residents. No comment on requirement of self-employed regime. For production and financing of unfinished projects (modality 7). There are seven different modalities of participation of disciplines.
- Financial envelope: :
8 scholarships of 2000 euros, with 1500 euros apart for production (except modality seven).
- Important links:
Guidelines
Apply
- Differentiation by modalities:
Mode 1, photography and society, about the Prat de Llobregat neighborhood.
More information and clarification of the selection criteria
Modality 2, action project in the Sant Jordi - Ribera Baja neighborhood,
More information and selection criteria
Modality 3, exhibition. Individual or group proposals for the Sala d'Art Josep Bages.
More information and details of the classification criteria
Modality 4, art and education. Proposals that link art and education.
Criteria to be followed in the evaluation
Modality 5, community audiovisual. Projects that work with concepts of the neighborhood, identity and community.
More information and criteria to be followed in evaluating the proposals
Mode 6, music and territory.
More information and criteria to be followed in evaluating the proposals
Modality 7, audiovisual processes in the production phase, for artists and agents from El Prat.
More information and criteria to be followed in evaluating the proposals.
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