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Went online: 11.03.2024

Call for applications: CITF Programme EXPLORATION / RECHERCHE

Deadline for submission: 22/04/2024

Since 1987, the Commission internationale du théâtre francophone (CITF) has enabled theatre artists who have already acquired professional experience to compare their artistic practices with those of creators working elsewhere in the French-speaking world.

Through this exploration and/or research programme, the CITF aims to support the emergence of new approaches to theatrical practice, facilitate encounters between artists from different cultures and encourage the emergence and consolidation of international artistic partnerships.

Through this programme, the Commission internationale du théâtre francophone aims to :

  • Facilitate the stages of exploration, research and development before partners commit to a co-production project;
  • Provide financial support for the organisation of active meetings between potential partners to explore their ability to work together, deepen artistic affinities and envisage a co-production.

Application deadline: 22 April 2024

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Call for applications: CITF Programme CRÉATION / CIRCULATION

Deadline for submission: 22/04/2024

Since 1987, the Commission internationale du théâtre francophone has enabled theatre artists who have already acquired professional experience to compare their artistic practices with those of creators working elsewhere in the French-speaking world.

The projects submitted must represent a unique experience in the career of the people behind them, help their practice evolve or have a structuring effect on the partners.

Through this programme, the Commission internationale du théâtre francophone aims to:

  • Encourage collaboration between three international artistic partners
  • Encourage the development of creation and production projects that may include research, writing, rehearsal and presentation to audiences
  • Encourage the revival of existing shows, co-produced by partners in accordance with the rules in force, and take them to other audiences and other territories, in order to increase the circulation of the work of theatre artists and creators from the French-speaking world (increase the circulation of shows produced by member countries, extend the life of works, extend the networks for hosting shows, increase the reputation of artists from the French-speaking world, generate income and jobs for artists and companies).

For circulation reasons, a show that was not supported at the creation stage by the CITF may exceptionally be considered, provided that it can be shown that the eligibility criteria were met at the time of creation.

Application deadline: 22 April 2024

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Went online: 08.03.2024

Call for applications | Kyoto Writers Residency 2024

Deadline for submission: 31/03/2024

Kyoto Writers Residency is now accepting applications for the 2024 October residency (28 Sep ~ 27 Oct, 2024). They offer full fellowship for one author in the Japanese language and a few author(s) in non-Japanese language(s), including one from the EU.

Thr fellowship will include:

  • a round-trip ticket from your airport to Kansai International Airport
  • a fully equipped room in the city of Kyoto
  • Access to a workspace
  • per diem of ¥5000/day

Eligibility

  • Fiction writers and/or poets of any language(s) with at least one single-authored full-length book publication are eligible. (Nonfiction-only writers are NOT eligible.)
  • The applicants must be able to participate in the residency and its official events in full
  • The applicants are encouraged to provide proposals for outreach events other than the two official events

Application and Fee

  • ¥2,000 entry fee paid through Shopify
  • Online entry form with the payment number.
  • BIO (No more than 1 page in A4/Letter size, in English or Japanese)
  • Description of yourself and your current project (No more than 1 page, in English or Japanese)
  • Sample work (No more than 30 pages of fiction in A4/Letter size OR between 5 to 10 pieces of poetry.)
  • An English or Japanese translation of the above sample work, which anyone may translate. This is unnecessary if your writing language is either Japanese or English
  • Please e-mail the above 4 materials (in .pdf, .doc, or .dox format(s)) to kyotowritersresidency@gmail.com. Your e-mail’s subject title has to be “2024 Kyoto Writers Residency Application”

Application deadline: 31 March 2024

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Went online: 07.03.2024

Call for submissions | Submit your latest release

Deadline for submission: 22/03/2024

Are you a musician or band ready to promote your latest single, EP or album release?
Don’t miss the opportunity to be featured in On the Shelves now!, where we showcase the latest releases from Luxembourgish artists spanning all genres from Pop, Rock, Electro, R&B, Hip-Hop to Classical, Contemporary, Jazz & World music.

On the Shelves now! is published three times a year and also featured in the Kultur | lx music newsletters, which hit the inboxes of over 2,000 subscribers every January, April and September.

Want your release to be featured in our newsletter?
Simply fill out the form below and send it our way. Remember, only notified releases will be published!

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Went online: 28.02.2024

Call for applications: JazzUp 2024

Deadline for submission: 31/03/2024

Created in 1981, Jazz à Vienne is now the first jazz festival in France and the first cultural event in the French region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Every year, the festival brings together more than 220 000 festival-goers in the Roman Theatre and around various free stages. It has gained international recognition in the eyes of the audience and the artists.

What Is JAZZUP ?

JazzUp is an exciting and comprehensive summer training program for young musicians from France and abroad. The partners of JazzUp are Big In Jazz Festival (Martinique, France), Echterlive Festival (Luxembourg), Jazz Festival Esslingen (Allemagne), JazzReach (États-Unis), Taller de Musics (Espagne), Togoville Jazz (Togo) and Udin&Jazz (Italie). Over 10 packed days, it offers full immersion in the Jazz à Vienne festival !

Taking part in JazzUp is a great opportunity for young musicians to work with counter parts from all over the world and to connect with renowned professionals. JazzUp is a chance to strengthen your musical abilities thanks to a robust program culminating in an on-stage performance before an informed audience. It is also a perfect way to explore many aspects of the jazz universe.

  • Dates: from July 1st (arrival) to July 11th (departure).
  • Age: from 16 to 25 years old.

Requirements
JazzUp is designed for experienced young musicians who master improvisation and harmonic skills.

3 musical samples are required: online video (no file downloads) of the musician playing a ballad (ex: Body & Soul), a medium to medium-up tempo tune (ex: Have you met Miss Jones, Days Of Wine And Roses or Stella by Starlight), and an up-tempo tune (ex: I’ll Remember April, Nica’s Dream, Airegin or Moment’s Notice).

For more information on the application, please visit the website of JazzUp.

Accreditation
The fee covers accommodation, catering (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and supervision of trainees. Transport costs are not included. Participants will be picked up and met at the airport/railway station by festival staff.

  • Full board: 700€
  • Courses only: 250€

These costs can be covered by the support for prospect, research and career development. Applications are possible for the following submission deadlines:

  • April 25th 2024
  • May 23rd 2024

All the sessions, which will be delivered in English, will take place in the Music Conservatory in Vienne

Application deadline: 31 March 2024. (The answer will be given on 15 April  2024.)

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Went online: 24.01.2024

Call for applications: Luxembourgish delegation at jazzahead!

Deadline for submission: 21/03/2024

From April 11th to 13th, Luxembourg will be present at jazzahead! with a ‘Jazz from Luxembourg’ stand. The stand, set up by Kultur | lx, will enable all Luxembourg jazz professionals and artists to meet the international professionals attending the fair.

In 2023, jazzahead! gathered 3000 participants from 60 different countries. A central platform for the jazz sector, taking place every year in Bremen (Germany), the event gives rise to formal and informal networking, as well as showcases and conferences. In 2023, a delegation of 18 actors from Luxembourg’s jazz scene (artists, bookers and managers, promoters) attended the fair.

Join the Luxembourgish delegation at jazzahead! 2024!

Are you an artist or an independent professional working in the field of jazz and improvised music? We would be delighted to count you in the Luxembourgish delegation! With the aim of supporting your career and network development, Kultur | lx will cover the travel of maximum 10 delegates to jazzahead!, for a maximum of 800€, through the Support for prospecting, research, and career development.

Interested?

You can apply for the Support for prospecting, research, and career development  until Kultur | lx’ next two submission deadlines, on February 15th or March 21st 2024.

Please note: after these deadlines, Kultur | lx will not be able to grant you a career development support for your travel to jazzhead!. The internal and selection committees have a period of three weeks to decide on the application from the deadline for submission (see deadlines above). The submitted project may not start before the end of the deadline for response.

Eligibility

  • Be a jazz artist or an independent professional working in the field of jazz
  • Have Luxembourg citizenship or be based in Luxembourg

Exclusion and restriction

Beneficiaries of Kultur | lx’ ongoing grants (Global Project Grant, Artist Management Programme) are not entitled to this support.

Eligible costs

  • Travel costs to Bremen (we recommend the use of the train, 2nd class fare is mandatory. For travels by car, please count 0,3€/km)
  • Accommodation between April 11th and 14th. Max 140€/night.

We recommend you to stay two days on site to have time for meetings and exchanges with the professionals attending the fair

  • Accreditation as a co-exhibitor (155€+19% VAT)
  • Per-diem: 30€/day, 15€/travel day

Please note that all travel, accommodation bookings and accreditation purchases are to be made by the applicant to the support.

The reimbursement of the support will occur upon the presentation of a report form with the receipts and proofs of payment on our online platform.

How to purchase your accreditation as a co-exhibitor to jazzahead!

1. To register as co-exhibitor, please click here.
2. If you do not have an account with jazzahead! you must register as a new user first. If you already have an account, you can login directly.
3. The stand number of Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg is tbc and the contact person is Clémence Creff.
4. The discount code 24R1GEMT can be entered in the last step just before payment. The price should be reduced to 155 € + 19% VAT. 5) The terms of participation and cancellation for co-exhibitors can be found here. After your registration as a co-exhibitor you can find the participants portal here.

Any questions?
Please contact Clémence Creff, Project Manager Jazz/World : clemence.creff@kulturlx.lu

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Went online: 16.01.2024

Call for applications: Circulation of European literary works (Creative Europe)

Deadline for submission: 16/04/2024

Creative Europe’s 2024 call supports the translation, promotion and circulation of European literary works of fiction (novels, poetry, comics etc.) with a total budget of €5 million. 40 projects will receive funding and the call is open for individual organisations or consortia.

Eligibility
Interested organisations can apply individually or as member of a consortium, with minimum two eligible organisations. Each project must be based on a sound editorial and promotional strategy covering a package of at least five eligible works of fiction translated from and into the languages as detailed on the following page.

Applicants can apply with projects of different sizes, with these different ceilings for the number of books translated and funding received:

  • Small scale: projects proposing translation of up to 10 different books can receive up to €100 000
  • Medium scale: projects proposing translation of up to 20 different books can receive up to €200 000
  • Large scale: projects proposing translation of at least 21 different books can receive up to €300 000

Application deadline: 16 April 2024

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Went online: 15.01.2024

Call for applications: Artists Development Programme 2024

Deadline for submission: 31/03/2024
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Went online: 15.01.2024

Call for applications: Iceland Airwaves 2024

Deadline for submission: 15/05/2024

The call for applications to play at Iceland Airwaves, which will take place in Reykjavík (Iceland) from November 7 to 9, 2024, is now open.

Situated halfway between North America and Europe, Iceland Airwaves is the world’s most northerly music showcase festival that brings together the country’s brightest emerging musical talent and forward-thinking international acts. Each November for three days and nights, downtown Reykjavík comes alive, filled non-stop with music, with performances hosted everywhere from tiny record stores and art museums, to cool bars and stately churches, to nightclubs and large-scale venues. For two decades, Iceland Airwaves has shone a spotlight on new talent, with early appearances from the likes of Mac DeMarco, James Blake, Sufjan Stevens, Young Fathers, Sigrid, Florence and The Machine, and many more.

Application deadline: 15 May 2024 (Please note: Applications may be closed sooner if all showcase slots are filled)

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Went online: 15.01.2024

Call for applications: Waves Vienna 2024

Deadline for submission: 31/05/2024

The call for applications to play at Waves Vienna, which will take place in Vienna (Austria) from September 5 to 7, 2024, is now open.

Launched in 2011, Waves Vienna added a new leitmotif in 2022 besides the conference focus on East meets West: diversity. Since then, each year a new aspect from the large range of topics is worked on as a common thread for the discourse and festival programme. While the live programme features a wide variety of national and international acts, the conference offers a diverse discourse programme with panels, keynotes, workshops, master classes, and many networking opportunities. Every year, Waves Festival welcomes one country as special guest with a focus on acts from this country in the live programme. This year’s guest country has not yet been announced.

Application deadline: 31 May 2024

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Went online: 01.12.2023

Call for applications: Andrea Neumann Art Prize 2024/2025

Deadline for submission: 31/03/2024

The Andrea Neumann Art Prize is a continuation of the art and cultural work of the painter Andrea Neumann (* 1969 † 2020). At home in Lorraine and Saarland, active in Luxembourg’s art scene, she was particularly interested in networking artists in the Greater Region. She is committed to fair working conditions and access to the art market for artists in the region.

The competition is open to artists and collectives from the visual arts who live and work in the Greater Region (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Lorraine, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Wallonia) and is gender-neutral with no age restrictions.

The Andrea Neumann Art Prize is endowed with 5,000 euros. The prizewinner will present his/her artistic work in an exhibition at the Saarländisches Künstlerhaus in 2025. Two thirds of the prize money will be paid out after the announcement of the winner, the remaining third after the opening of the exhibition. A catalog will be published to accompany the exhibition. Material costs as well as travel and transportation costs of up to 1,500 euros can be claimed upon presentation of original receipts or invoices.

For the application, a meaningful portfolio documenting previous work (tabular CV, photo documentation and/or demo recording of previous work) and an exhibition concept (max. 2000 characters) are required. Applicants are free to choose the medium, the working method and the thematic approach.

The application documents must be submitted in German or French electronically by e-mail to: info@kuenstlerhaus-saar.de (max. 10 MB or via link as data transfer).

The 5-member jury is made up of a representative of the Stiftung ME Saar, a member of the board of the Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, two artists from the Greater Region and a young curator. The Stiftung ME Saar is the exclusive sponsor of the Andrea Neumann Art Prize.

Application deadline: 31 March 2024

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Went online: 02.01.2024

Call for applications: Reeperbahn Festival 2024

Deadline for submission: 30/06/2024

The call for applications to play at Reeperbahn Festival, which will take place in Hamburg (Germany) from September 18 to 21, 2024, is now open.

Since its debut in 2006, the Reeperbahn Festival has developed into one of the most important gatherings for the music world. For four days every September, the international music community meets in St. Pauli District along the Reeperbahn strip. With more than 360 different concerts from heavy metal and punk to indie, hip-hop, jazz and soul: spectators, delegates and artists alike will have plenty of opportunities to broaden their musical minds beyond genre boundaries. The conference offers industry representatives a program of sessions, networking events, matchmaking events, showcases, meetings and the ANCHOR award show. For artists, the Reeperbahn Festival is a springboard to Germany and a gateway to the wider world.

Application deadline: No deadline announced yet

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Went online: 18.12.2023

Call for applications: Production grant for artists in the visual arts. Bert-Theis Grant (Focuna)

Deadline for submission: 24/03/2024

The Fond Culturel National, in collaboration with a private sponsor, is offering a production grant to an artist or artists’ collective in the field of visual arts. The main objective is to support the creative process of a work with a collective dimension and oriented towards political and/or social commitment in the field of visual arts.

The name of the grant is a tribute to the Luxembourg activist artist Bert Theis (1952-2016).

Eligibility
The grant is awarded on the basis of a call for projects to all artists or groups of artists of Luxembourg nationality or resident in Luxembourg, regardless of age, who can demonstrate a professional career of at least five years and who have already had a monographic exhibition in an art institution or gallery. The aim of the grant is to support the production of a project or work of a committed and collective nature (multidisciplinary, research, openness to communities, etc.) enabling artists to carry out projects that encourage the development of their artistic approach, preferably in connection with an exhibition planned in an art institution or gallery.

Material and financial conditions

  • Production grant: a grant of EUR 15,000 paid into the personal account of the artist or artists’ collective.
  • The amount of the grant may not exceed 80% of the production costs, excluding transport, distribution, advertising and other costs. It is determined by the jury on the basis of the artistic quality of the project, the realism of its budget, the involvement of any co-producers in the financial production process, and the project’s prospects for national or international exposure.

Application deadline: 24 March 2024

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Went online: 10.11.2023

Call for applications: National Literary Competition 2024

Deadline for submission: 01/07/2024

The subject of the national literary competition for 2024 is a play in Luxembourgish, French, German and/or English. Created in 1978 by the Ministry of Culture, this competition aims to encourage literary creation in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

The competition will consist of two prize categories

  • adult authors aged 20 and over
  • young authors aged 12 to 19.

The first prize in the “adult authors” category is 5,000 euros.
The first prize in the “young authors aged 12-19” category is €2,000.

Practical details

The competition is open to authors/collectives of authors holding Luxembourg nationality, residing in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or, where applicable, having their fixed or predominant place of work or, failing that, various locations within the territory of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Application deadline: 1 July 2024

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Went online: 27.10.2023

Call for applications: Fondation Schleich-Lentz – Production grant for ceramic artists (Focuna)

Deadline for submission: 14/04/2024

On the initiative of the Fondation Schleich-Lentz, a foundation under the patronage of the Fondation de Luxembourg, the Fonds culturel national is launching a call for applications for a production grant for an artist or group of artists in the field of plastic arts. The main objective is to support the creative process of a ceramic project.

The grant is awarded in accordance with the terms and conditions set out below.

Eligibility criteria
The grant is awarded on the basis of a call for projects to all artists or groups of artists of Luxembourg nationality or resident in Luxembourg, regardless of age, who can demonstrate a professional career of at least five years and who have already had a monographic exhibition in an art institution or gallery. The grant is intended to support the completion of a ceramics project.

Application assessment criteria
The grant is awarded by a jury on the basis of the following criteria :

  • the artistic career of the artist or group of artists ;
  • the artistic quality of the project (high standards, innovation, diversity of aesthetics, crossing of genres, etc.);
  • the relevance of the artistic approach
  • the coherence between the project and the resources used to carry it out.

Applications are pre-selected by a jury made up of members from the Luxembourg cultural sector. Its task is to assess each application on the basis of its eligibility and to propose to the Management Committee of the Fondation Schleich-Lentz the applications selected for the award of the grant on the basis of the assessment criteria.

Candidates selected by the jury may be asked to attend an interview with members of the jury. Invitation to such an interview is at the discretion of the jury, but does not automatically lead to the award of the scholarship. If you are invited to attend, you must be present.

The jury’s decision is final. It may decide not to award a grant if it considers that the applications submitted do not satisfactorily meet the eligibility and/or assessment criteria.

Material and financial conditions
The maximum amount available for this grant is EUR 20,000.

Application deadline: 14 April 2024

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