Deadline: 13-Jun-25
The Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) is accepting proposals for the KampuSajf ‘Gathering of Possibilities’ Arts Festival to transform its campus into a vibrant space for creativity and cultural exchange.
MCAST invites the wider public to celebrate artistic diversity and experience the campus during the quieter summer months whilst fostering a sense of belonging among students and staff.
This year’s edition of KampuSajf unfolds under the title Gathering of Possibilities.
- Gathering of Possibilities evokes a space in flux: a site where ideas, bodies, practices and urgencies converge. At its core, the phrase suggests a coming together that is open-ended, generative and speculative. It is not only an act of assembly, but also the latent potential that arises from collective presence: a gathering not of fixed intentions but of emerging capacities.
- The term gathering operates on multiple levels: it is both a communal act and a temporal marker – of harvest, of momentum, of shared attention. Gathering is also a living act: a seeding of potential, a condition for activation, a preparation for transformation. It resists the monumental in favour of the relational. Possibilities, meanwhile, foreground what is not yet determined, inviting experimentation. Together, the phrase proposes a framework that privileges activation, process, resonance and the potential of the in-between.
- Gathering of Possibilities becomes a site to rehearse futures, reconfigure relations, transform and momentarily suspend dominant narratives. Artists, thinkers, communities and participants are invited to engage in acts of co-creation, speculation and reimagining – through installations, interventions, performances, dialogues and other situated formats. The festival welcomes practices that are inter-/cross-disciplinary, socially-attuned and if possible, ecologically-sensitive, fostering conditions for encounter.
- This edition unfolds as a terrain – a living ecosystem – shaped by those who enter it. It invites discomfort and joy, interruption and emergence, contingency and care. In times marked by fragmentation and urgency, Gathering of Possibilities becomes an invitation to seed new ways of relating, to activate shared spaces and to imagine otherwise – not by prescribing what is possible, but by opening space to sense what might be.
What they offer?
- KampuSajf is committed to providing artists with meaningful support to realise their projects. Selected participants will be offered:
- A project budget (maximum of EUR 2,000) to support the development and presentation of their work;
- Production assistance and access to a dedicated production team;
- Use of onsite rehearsal spaces throughout the summer period;
- Opportunities to work closely with the festival team to prepare, adapt and refine projects in the lead-up to the event.
Location
- The festival will be hosted on the MCAST Mosta Campus. The venue on campus may change depending on the type of artistic event being hosted.
Eligibility Criteria
- KampuSajf welcomes proposals from individual artists, collectives, creative practitioners and/or organisations working across disciplines including visual arts, performance, music, theatre, movement, literature, film, socially-engaged practices and interdisciplinary formats. They are particularly interested in proposals that:
- Foster moments of exchange, dialogue or collective experience;
- Explore inter-/cross-disciplinarity and collaboration across forms;
- Engage with contemporary realities and urgent cultural, social or ecological questions;
- Propose site-responsive or context-sensitive approaches to the MCAST campus environment;
- Reflect diverse Maltese perspectives or involve the Maltese language;
- Encourage accessibility, inclusivity and community interaction.
- Applications are open to artists based in Malta or connected to the Maltese context. International collaborations are welcomed.
- The Artistic Directors may suggest or propose collaborations between selected proposals where synergies are identified. Artists are encouraged to remain open to possible collaborations and exchanges during the development phase.
For more information, visit MCAST.