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Te Intermix Residency Programme in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia welcomes applications by Saudi and international emerging and mid-career visual artists, fashion designers, and curators aged 21 or above who are willing to develop a production or research-based project related to the topics of innovation, transformation, and sustainability. Residencies will take place from 22 October 2023 – 4 January 2024.

Artists are invited to send their proposals for the 5th edition of Tuwaiq Sculpture, an annual sculpture symposium that brings artists together to create public sculptures that later become an integral part of Riyadh’s urban fabric. The Symposium will run 14 January - 10 February 2024, with 30 participants.

Art Jameel launches a curatorial open call for exhibition proposals, to be developed for Hayy Arts’ first floor gallery at Hayy Jameel in Jeddah for May 2024. The call is open to curators and collectives (with a focus on early-career curators) working anywhere whose research and exhibition making engages with the following topics: Jeddah/ Hejaz histories; Red Sea ecologies; Red Sea histories of migration – the movement of people and ideas; connected geographies across the Red Sea (e.g. Egypt, Saudi, Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Palestine, Jordan).

Orbitals is a recurrent programme which takes four curators and researchers from or living in the Arab world to an international location to learn about a different artistic context. This year’s edition will take place between 4-14 December 4 2023 and will be an introduction to the art scene in Dakar, Senegal.

Mophradat is collaborating with MaerzMusik in Berlin on a special residency programme open to musicians, composers, producers, sound, and interdisciplinary artists to work collaboratively with the Berlin-based Ensemble Adapter on new work to be presented at MaerzMusik festival in 2024. There will be two working sessions with the ensemble from 15 November – 15 December 2023 and 1 February – 25 March 2024. Applicants must be composers from or living in the Arab world.

The seventh edition of Contemporary Dance Night will take place in the last quarter of 2023, in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt between late November and early December 2023. Choreographers from Egypt and partnered countries can apply with new creations for a two-month residency where they will work with Egyptian dancers/artists. The call is open to young and mid-career contemporary dancers and choreographers who are a citizen or resident in Egypt, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Germany, America, and the Arabic region.

IN EX(ILE) LAB are looking for artists in exile who want to develop a performance. If you are an artist in exile, currently based in Cyprus, France, Italy or Portugal and you have (or would like to develop) an artistic practice that relates to performance then IN EX(ILE) LAB wants to hear from you. Activities take place over the period from May 2023 to July 2024.

Casa Árabe and PHotoEspaña jointly present the third edition of NUR, an open call for applications for a photography exhibition on contemporary Arab culture that will be displayed at Casa Árabe’s premises as part of the 26th PHotoESPAÑA International Photography Festival, within its official programme, to be held in 2023.

In a post-Covid-19 recovery context the Anna Lindh Foundation is ensuring thriving Civil Society National Networks through ALFinMOTION, its interdisciplinary cross-sectoral mobility programme across the region. Each mobility submission must be presented by a host organisation (applicant) and can involve, depending on the mobility modality, up to two hosted organisations from the complementary shore of the Mediterranean. Priority will be given to submissions where all the involved organisations are members of the Anna Lindh Foundation from the 41 National Networks and to submissions led by ALF members.