North Macedonia

PROSPER is an international project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme exploring the theme of environmentally challenged regions of the Balkans by inviting artists, designers, researchers, cultural workers, and thinkers of all disciplines to participate in a residency from 1-30 April 2024 at Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia.

Tanz.Transformator is a one-year open and inclusive dance project of Beatrix Cultural Center in Skopje. Choreographers can apply to produce a performance with ambitious emerging and established dancers from the country on inspiring productions, which will be staged in Skopje and tour to several other cities in the region. For this second cycle of the project, activities will take place during June and July 2023. Applications are open to emerging or established artists over the age of 25 who are European citizens or who are living/working in Europe.

Tanz.Transformator is a one-year open and inclusive dance project of Beatrix Cultural Center in Skopje. Choreographers can apply to produce a performance with ambitious emerging and established dancers from the country on inspiring productions, which will be staged in Skopje and tour to several other cities in the region. For this first cycle of the project, activities will take place during January and February 2023. Applications are open to emerging or established artists over the age of 25 who are European citizens or who are living/working in Europe.

‘Liquid Frameworks, Solid Institutions — building participation from the bottom up’ Summer School in Ohrid invites participants from Southeast Europe and the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia) to its training programme from 19-23 September 2022.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network is launching a call for ten journalists, artists, historians and civil society activists from the Balkans for small projects on exploring archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and local courts in ex-Yugoslav countries that dealt with war crimes cases (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia). Research duration is six months, starting from May 2022. All projects must be published before the end of 2022.

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.

The cultural platform Kooperativa is organising a Twinning Programme that will focus on bringing together two arts and culture organisations from two different countries. Organisations based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia and North Macedonia can apply. Activities should be implemented between October 2021 and February 2022.

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.