Georgia

CAFx’s Film Mosaic x 2024 Leave No One Behind Fellowship Programme is an opportunity to produce your own film on bio-inclusive design solutions in the built, grown, and planned environment. The fellowship programme is open to anyone with a passion for social and environmental justice and experience in relevant fields such as filmmaking, architecture, and planning.

Based in Georgia from 10-31 July 2023, the Sound Bridge project will bring together 12 musicians (ages 20-40 years) from Armenia, Georgia, and Türkiye to co-create original music and develop creative approaches to dialogue. The programme will begin with a residency in Svaneti, Georgia, where selected Fellows will create new musical works, producing an album of recorded material and several short videos, and conclude with performances and workshops in Tbilisi.

The young, daring and driven are invited to apply to Trans Europe Halles’ free 9 month mentoring programme ‘Duct tape and Dreams’ (running February - October 2023). Duct Tape and Dreams is a hands-on mentoring and capacity building programme for emerging artistic collectives that provides young and committed creatives with the necessary tools and expertise to build a sustainable future in the independent cultural sector.

In 2023, the Art Prospect Network Residency programme will support residencies for eighteen artists and curators from USA and the Art Prospect Network countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) focusing on exchange and collaboration in the field of socially engaged art and/or public art.

Poland’s National Institute of Music and Dance has announced the first call for applications for the ‘Dancing Together, Again!’ creative residency project implemented under the Creative Europe programme. The first of the residencies will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, between 29 May – 17 June 2023. Applications are open to artists, curators and researchers in the dance field.

The international design lab ‘reimagine your city’ is a two-year (2022-2023) educational programme for 100 multidisciplinary professionals residing in Georgia, Poland, Ukraine and Germany. It aims at youth empowerment and participation in the socio-cultural transformation of neighbourhoods via interactive digital and creative practices. The hybrid programme begins on 2 November 2022 with a 5-week research module, design masterclasses, an offline winter school in Berlin, extensive group work, and grants for the implementation of small-scale projects, ending with a summer school in Georgia in the summer of 2023.

NDF residency programme offers placements to Belarusian art and cultural professionals (artists, musicians, writers, curators, managers etc.) regardless of their age or place of current residence (though due to financial constraints, the organisers will be able to cover travel costs only between countries situated in Europe). The residency offers a total of 11 placements in 5 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.

In the framework of the EU-funded project EU4Dialogue, Goethe-Institut Georgia invites photographers working on social issues to take part in a one-week residency in Tbilisi, Georgia.

The Endangered Landscapes Artist Residencies and Arts Prize will select eight artists, or collectives, to be in residence in eight endangered landscapes: Cairngorms Connect (Scotland, UK), Carpathian Mountains (Romania), Danube Delta, Gökova Bay to Cape Gelidonya (Turkey), Greater Côa Valley (Portugal), Iori River Valley (Georgia), Polesia (Belarus & Ukraine), Summit to Sea (Wales, UK). Applicants should have a demonstrable link to one of the countries of their chosen landscape and ideally a link to the landscape itself.