Deadline: 29-Sep-2025
The El Graner has announced its Creative Grants Program to support residency projects from January to December 2026.
The purpose of these grants is to support different career paths by establishing a direct and close link with resident artists to work strategically on disseminating their projects and build different professionalization models around dance and the performing arts. Strengthen the arts sector, fostering interconnection, a higher profile, professionalization and awareness of different creative projects. Boost the creative processes of emerging artists and diversity in research and methodologies around the body and movement. Enable new forums for practice, debate, contemplation and creating discourse around contemporary creation. Enrich creation and production models for artistic works through sharing, exchanging, experimenting, learning and questioning the current scene, seeking new forms of development and different staging formats. Establish the body as a primordial part of stage-related creation and as a core element of different artistic languages. Create synergies between artists living together around this creative centre and its projects.
El Graner provides selected artists with various resources including workspace, financial aid, technical residency opportunities, shared working facilities, and rest areas. Artists also gain access to mentorship, participation in El Graner’s programmes, dissemination support, project-specific promotional material, and coverage of travel expenses for certain activities such as the APLEC meetings. Additional financial contributions are available, such as the €1,700 support from Mataró City Council’s Can Gassol Centre d’Arts Escèniques for emerging artists.
The 2025 residencies are divided into eight categories: Associated Artist, Creation, BCN CREA Research, BCN CREA Critical Thinking, International, Stage Research, Emerging Artists, and Practical Methodologies. Each type of grant has its own specific eligibility, duration, documentation requirements, and financial endowment ranging from €2,000 to €6,000, except for the international grant which provides €3,000. The Associated Artist residency is unique in offering a two-year association with El Graner, while other categories focus on shorter, project-based residencies.
Beneficiaries of the grants must fulfil obligations such as complying with labour regulations, declaring other subsidies received, including relevant logos in promotional materials, providing information on rehearsals or open studios, and holding regular meetings with El Graner’s team. Failure to comply with these requirements may result in the withdrawal of the grant.
The grants are open to natural persons, legal persons, groupings of natural or legal persons, public or private, communities of goods, or any other kind of economic unit or undertaking with separate assets, even without legal personality, capable of carrying out projects or activities. Applicants must demonstrate compliance with tax and Social Security obligations and, in the case of legal entities, their statutes must align with the programme’s objectives.
Assessment of projects will be conducted by a Preselection Committee and jury composed of professionals from the fields of creation, research, management, production, and training. The evaluation will consider aspects such as rigour and coherence in project development, the degree of research and innovation, the global viability of the project, the extent of experimentation with other disciplines, synergies with communities and creators, and the career trajectory of the applicant.
For more information, visit El Graner.