Deadline: 07-Jul-21
The Perform Europe is pleased to announce an open call for Performing Arts Organisations, Companies, Artists, Collectives, Venues and Festivals.
Perform Europe is an EU-funded project which aims to rethink cross-border performing arts presentation in a more inclusive, sustainable and balanced way, in the 40 countries of Creative Europe and the UK. The project is an 18-month journey, which includes a research phase, launching a digital platform, testing a support scheme, and designing policy recommendations.
- By producers, they mean performing arts organisations, companies and collectives, individual artists, or presenters which have produced an artistic work or developed an artistic concept that can be implemented in various contexts.
- By presenters, they mean venues, festivals or other types of organisations offering a presenting context.
- By artistic work, they mean productions and artistic initiatives and concepts that are ready to be applied and practiced in different environments. Perform Europe does not support production costs.
Funding Information
- The total budget available is € 1,5 million; grant amounts will range from €10,000 to €100,000.
Eligible Countries: Countries that are eligible to apply for Perform Europe are the United Kingdom and Creative Europe countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine.
Eligibility Criteria
Perform Europe is longing to hear from organisations and freelance professionals that work in the performing arts:
- theatre, dance, performance (including amateur performance), circus and street arts. Please note that live music performances (including opera or musicals) are not covered by Perform Europe, except for music theatre.
- for producers: have an artistic work or artistic initiatives they would like to bring to other countries – physically, digitally or in a mixed way, between October 2021 and the end of June 2022;
- for presenters: have a festival or a space, or other context which would present an artistic work from another country between October 2021 and the end of June 2022;
- are based in one of the Creative Europe countries or in the United Kingdom;
- have a vision on how to collaborate across borders through sharing resources, practicing fairness and solidarity;
- are already practicing alternative and innovative touring and distribution practices and can demonstrate it, and also those that;
- are eager to innovate their practices and have a vision on how to do it, but might experience too many constraints.
- General information about you and your organisation;
- General information about your artistic work(s) (for producers) or your presenting context(s) – festival, venue, outdoor space – (for presenters), which you’d like to be part of a collaboration proposal;
- Your vision and ideas on sustainable and inclusive ways of bringing artistic work to people and places (max. 400 words);
- How your artistic work(s) / presenting context(s), which is/are part of your application, fit(s) this vision (max. 250 words);
- What you would like to gain from being part of a Perform Europe granted partnership (max. 250 words) and what you would be willing to share (skills, knowledge, money, visibility, infrastructure, experience, etc.) (max. 300 words).
Please note that you will not be able to save a draft of your application once you start filling out the online application form. The questions they ask are in a reference document that you can access here. You can start preparing your application and motivation in advance based on these questions. You’ll be able to copy and paste your answers in the online Perform Europe application form.