Outdoor Arts

L’UNIMA internationale, ses commissions Afrique et Formation professionnelle, en collaboration avec des Centres Nationaux de l’UNIMA, lancent ensemble un appel pour une formation francophone qui se tiendra du 10 au 16 mai 2023 à Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, et à distance. Le but de cette formation est de consolider le travail de marionnettistes œuvrant déjà depuis de nombreuses années dans l’espace public en leur apportant un soutien théorique et pratique.

For 2022, the first collaborative project between Notgalerie, Pragovka Gallery, and DÍNAMO is announcing a short term residence for international artists in the cities of Vienna, Prague and Porto. The residences will last 10 to 21 days in the time period from May to November 2022. The aim of the stay is to realise a project in public space and to be part of the creation of an autonomous artist-network between cities across Europe.

PASSAGES INSOLITES is a public arts festival featuring a circuit of temporary artworks as well as artistic happenings in public space. Presented by EXMURO arts publics and the City of Quebec, this accessible event has been taking place every summer since 2014, for several months, in the historical and central neighbourhoods of Quebec City.

Ephemera Phestival will take place 17-26 September 2021 with different ephemeral artistic interventions appearing in the public space of Valladolid. Projects can be presented individually or collectively. Applications are open to artists from Valladolid or cities of the CreArt network: Genoa and Lecce – IT; Liverpool – UK; Clermont - Ferrand and Rouen – FR; Member of HDLU, Zagreb – HR; Kaunas – LT; Lublin and Katowice – PL; Aveiro – PT; Skopje – MK.

POLDRA – Public Sculpture Project Viseu promotes site-specific contemporary public art / art in public space. This open call (with a focus on sculpture) seeks proposals for works designed specifically for the Mata do Fontelo (Viseu, Portugal) and reflecting on the subject of art in public space. POLDRA’s 2021 edition will be inaugurated in October 2021 and the selected proposals must be installed and on site up to 5 days before the inauguration date (to be determined).

Dance in the City is a contemporary dance festival that takes place in various towns in the border region between Belgium and Germany. The next edition will run 20 August – 19 September 2021. Compagnie Irene K. are looking for productions that have been created specifically for the outdoors / for public space or that can be adapted to these settings. The duration of the productions should be 10-20 minutes.

Based in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Imaginarius is an annual festival of outdoor arts. For the 2021 edition, the festival is adapting to a new model and embracing digital work alongside other forms of programming. They have several calls open for artists from around the world, covering livestreamed performances, natively digital work, and a special mural commission in Santa Maria da Feira.

Lieux publics, National and European Centre for artistic creation in public place (CNAREP & Pôle européen de production), is based at la Cité des arts de la rue in Marseille. Supported by the French Ministry of Culture, City of Marseille, Conseil régional Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône, Lieux publics is managed by the artist Pierre Sauvageot. Lieux publics leads IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space, with over 20 European partners, co-funded by the European Union since 2003.

kulturbüro and the city of Holzminden are organising the 16th edition of the ‘International Street Theatre Festival’ which will take place from 21 to 23 May 2021. Situated in the north of Germany near Hannover, the charming city of Holzminden hosted this festival for the first time in 1991. Since then the festival has taken place every two years. As the founder of the festival, kulturbüro will be in charge of its conception, organisation and realisation in cooperation with the city of Holzminden.

de Genius Loci festival in Weimar are looking for ideas and concepts for the realisation of walk acts, installations or performances during the next edition of the festival from 27-29 November 2020. Genius Loci Weimar provides a platform for projects in the fields of multimedia, performance, light art or similar with the walk acts along the festival route.

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