Albania

The project #synergy: Sharpening the capacities of the classical music industry in the Western Balkans is calling for emerging music performers to work closely with twelve composers on newly commissioned works. These will be performed on a festival tour, organised by the project partners during the summer of 2023.

‘ECHO III: for memory’s sake’ is an arts and heritage project that aims to bring together artists working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature in order to explore tradition and culture through the themes of marriage, arranged marriages and nuclear families in the Balkan context. ECHO III is looking for 24 artists, 6 Greek, 6 Romanian, 6 Bulgarian, 6 Albanian, working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature to participate in the project with creation residencies and a short tour.

For the second half of 2022, TRADUKI is offering residencies in 10 cities in Southeast Europe - Belgrade, Bucharest, Cetinje, Novo Mesto, Prishtina, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Split and Tirana - for the duration of 2-6 weeks. Eligible applicants are writers, translators, and book professionals from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.

For a second year the Translation in Motion consortium of translation residencies invites applications by literary translators working from or into the languages of the countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia). Residency stays will take place between April 2022 and April 2023.

The Translations Collider Project Academy will span two five-day sessions – one between 13-18 May 2022 in Struga (North Macedonia) and the second in May 2023 in Albania – with short online meetings in-between. It invites literary management professionals from the Balkans and other parts of Europe to explore ways to overcome the imbalances in literary translation activity in Europe.

The Cultural Cooperation project Some Call Us Balkans (SCUB) is a transdisciplinary, art-based inquiry and community that explores and mobilises moments of collective production of knowledge, imagination, research, and multivocal representations that challenge myths and misconceptions regarding the Balkans as the ‘European Other’. Based on the artistic research built throughout the project, SCUBcommunity is looking for 8 emerging artist-travelers.

READ - Regional Network for Cultural Diversity’s residency programme is aimed at writers, translators, playwrights, poets, illustrators, graphic novel artists and comic book writers. Eligible applicants will have published at least two books/works of their own or at least two translations, and must be residents of one of the following countries: North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Albania or Kosovo. Young and emerging authors are welcomed as well as established and experienced ones. Residencies last up to a month and will take place from May – December 2021.

The Translation in Motion consortium of translation residencies invites applications by literary translators working from or into the languages of the countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia). Translation in Motion is a programme that aims to enrich and intensify the flow of translated literature in contemporary Europe, and specifically between the Western Balkans countries and the EU member states. Applications till 30 April 2021 (check carefully the calls related to each organisation as some deadlines may be before like for Bulgaria).

Tallinn Art Hall, Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art, and the ZKM I Centre for Art and Media are jointly calling for European art practitioners / theoreticians to apply for one of the three production residencies taking place in Karlsruhe, Tallinn, and Tirana from 1 September – 31 October 2021 and from 1 May – 30 June 2022. The organisers invite applications not only from those working in the field of virtual media but also artists and theoreticians with various artistic and theoretical practices and outcomes.

Part of the EU cooperation project Reading Balkans, the ‘Reading Balkans 2021’ literary residency programme is inviting applications from fiction writers, poets, essayists, playwrights, screenplay writers and comic book writers from Southeast Europe (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia).

The CEI Award for Writers in Residence is an award aimed at encouraging cross-border cooperation and promotion in the field of literature for young writers from the CEI Member States (Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine). The award supports the winner to make a one-month stay in a CEI Member State of their choosing, anytime in 2021. Writers from all genres under the age of 35 from the CEI Member States are eligible. Deadline: 15 June 2020.