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The International Solo Dance Contest at Gdansk Dance Festival is open to dancers of contemporary dance who have a documented artistic activity and/or are professional dancers with a diploma in dance studies. Participation in the contest is permitted for solos which either premiered between 1 January 2022 and 13 May 2023 or have been prepared especially for the Contest.

Taking place between 1-8 October 2023 in Kraków, Poland, the theme for the next edition of Unsound Festival is DADA. The festival is calling for works for the music and performance programme ‘In(ter)ventions’ as well as for its discourse programme.

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 City Culture Institute is seeking translators from Poland, authors from Belarus and Ukraine, and cultural researchers (working on a project related to Maria Janion) for a literary residency programme based in Gdańsk. The residency will support four persons with a four-week stay in the city during September - December 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy will be devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. The Academy will take place in Berlin in October 2022, during which participants will encourage a broader reflection on these issues through lectures, seminars and workshops. A maximum of 18 people will be selected from Germany, Israel, and Poland.

NYX Hotel Warsaw is inviting artists to participate in the NYX Hotel – Art Lives Here competition with the prize consisting of a three-week artistic residency at their hotel located in the heart of Warsaw. The competition is open to artists from Poland and its neighbouring countries or the Baltic region, whose practice employs media such as painting, drawing, sculpture or photography.

The theme for the 2022 edition of the festival Unsound Kraków is ‘Bubbles’ - evoking both images of celebration and all the ways different communities are contained and isolated from one another. Proposals are sought on this theme for the festival’s discourse programme, running 9-16 October 2022.

The next edition of the Fotofestiwal will be held on 9-26 June 2022 in Łódź (Poland). The organisers are looking for artists to submit artistic and social projects on the theme of community – encompassing also ideas of utopia, local spirit, cooperation and integration.

The Visegrad Literary Residency Programme, established 2012 by the International Visegrad Fund, consists of a series of residency stays and literary events addressed to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists, critics as well as literary translators, publicists and journalists from the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). There is a compact spring edition of the residency running 1 May – 12 June 2022, and a full autumn edition running 1 September – 30 November 2022.

The Agora Cultural Center in Wrocław in cooperation with artistic organisations from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland invites participation in an open call as part of the international Open Air Theater Festival. The call is open to theatre makers, with a special focus on circus performers, acrobats, performers, dancers and musicians under the age of 26 and from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. The residency will run 12-18 September 2021, with participants working together to create (and finally show) a new performance on the theme of climate change.