POINTS OF DEPARTURE (PoD) RESIDENCY20.02.2012 OPEN CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FROM ARTISTS & CURATORS British Council in partnership with ArtSchool Palestine and Delfina Foundation are pleased to invite curators and artists from the UK and Palestine to apply for two-month residencies in Palestine with ArtSchool Palestine and in London with Delfina Foundation. Points of Departure (PoD) aims to encourage creative exchange between Palestine and the UK and to provide an opportunity for research, public engagement, and the production of new artworks to be showcased in London and Palestine in 2013. Six artists will be selected to take part in this project, three from Palestine and three based in the UK. Additionally, one curator from Palestine and one curator from the UK will be selected to support the production and curation of the resultant exhibition. CONDITIONS FOR APPLICANTS:
APPLICATION PROCESS: There are two separate application forms and processes for curators and artists. Please download the specific application form for more information. Please click here for the application for CURATORS (Closing date for curatorial applications: 10 March 2012)
Please click here for the application for ARTISTS (Closing date for artist applications: 16 March 2012)
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Call for papers15.12.2011 Call for Proposals - International Conference in Austria Theatre Between Tradition & Contemporaneity "Theatre Between Tradition and Contemporaneity" is the professional conference researching the Bridge between Tradition and Contemporaneity in performing arts. The conference is open to different art genres, techniques and forms - theatre, dance, music, circus, visual and multimedia art. The conference is inviting performers, performing arts educators, teachers, artists, playwrights, theatre critics, journalists, theatre researchers and arts managers from all over the world interested in the research of traditional methods as applied to contemporary performing arts work. This meeting is an opportunity to meet potential collaborators from different countries! The conference working language is English. You are welcome to take part in the conference as a Speaker, Presenter, Participant, Observer! At the moment the Conference is accepting presentation proposals. Photo gallery of the past events: http://www.iugte.com/photo
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Guide to Funding Opportunities for the International Mobility of Artists and Culture Professionals in Europe28.09.2011 This guide is launched by On the Move (OTM) and PRACTICS and covers existing public and private funding sources for the mobility of artists and culture professionals in 35 European countries, as well as at EU level. The Guide aims to improve the availability and transparency of information to facilitate the international mobility of artists and culture professionals in the EU. Art forms and cultural sectors covered by the document include the performing arts, visual arts, audiovisual and media, music, literature, heritage, cross-disciplinary arts, research and cultural management. The information contained in this document has been collected and analysed by Interarts, a partner of the European project PRACTICS, and by On the Move (OTM) in early 2011. It has been supported by the European Commission, as well as by France’s Ministry of Culture and Communication and Spain’s Ministry of Culture. The Guide is available for free download at www.on-the-move.org. It is available in English. A French version will be published in late 2011.
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Symposium - Amman - 1st & 2nd June27.05.2011 Istikshaf platform - updateAmman hosted on 1st and 2nd June 2011 the first symposium “Exploring mobility around the Mediterranean“, organized by the Arab Education Forum – Safar Fund in coooperation with the Roberto Cimetta Fund. This Symposium, which is a cornerstone in the Istikshaf project, aims to expand on and develop a renewed understanding of contemporary mobility by bringing together people able to think mobility in its widest sense. With a special focus on artistic mobility, this Symposium is an attempt to respond to the evident shortage in literature on mobility as a tool for learning, dialogue, and artistic exchange and as a new-old paradigm around the Mediterranean basin. Over the period of two days, more than 20 speakers, 35 academics, specialists and practitioners from 18 Arab and European countries: Jordan, Syria, Tunisia, Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, France, Turkey, Denmark, Austria, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, The Netherlands, and Great Britain, shed light on issues ranging from current research on mobility, challenges to artistic mobility, travel literature, artists’ experiences, policies on mobility, and the role of cities in promoting artistic mobility. Key mobility operators from the Mediterranean region were also present at the Symposium to share their perspectives and learn from other experiences.
This Symposium is supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation, in addition to private donations.
You can download the publication of this Symposium in English here. 
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RCF Selection committees19.01.2012 The Fund will launch calls and organise selection committees in 2012 following the calendar here-below for three mobility funds : the RCF general fund, the RCF/Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhône fund, and the RCF/Marseille-Provence 2013 fund.
As from March, the following dates have been fixed: First call for applications: from 1st to 31st March 2012 Processing the applications, evaluating and selecting : April/May Response to candidates: 1st June 2012
Second call for applications: from 1st to 30th June 2012 Processing the applications, evaluating and selecting : July/August Response to candidates: 1st September 2012
Third call for applications: from 1st to 30th September 2012 Processing the applications, evaluating and selecting : October/November Response to candidates : 1st December 2012
This system allows all travel after 1st March to end of the year to be eligible.
To apply for one of these calls, click on "apply for a travel grant" and fill in the short questionnaire. If the information you provide corresponds to the eligibility criteria of one of the funds, then the appropriate application form will be sent to you. We no longer publish application forms online.
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We are more - Act for culture in Europe04.01.2012
Act for culture in Europe: Help collect 100.000 signatures!
2012 is a key decision-making year during which the EU budget 2014-2020 will be voted upon by Members of the European Parliament and Ministers from the Member States. EU support to culture over the next seven years is at stake and the negotiations over the first four months of the year will be crucial. The campaign 'we are more - act for culture in Europe' calls for vital support for culture in the next EU budget and wants to collect 100.000 signatures and present them to the Culture Ministers of all EU Member States when they gather in Brussels for the EU Council of Culture Ministers in May 2012. To make this task more achievable, the campaign has set national targets for signatures per country, based on the size of each country. To read more about the national targets and to sign the manifesto, please go to www.wearemore.eu/manifesto.
The Roberto Cimetta Fund supports the Europe-wide campaign "We are more - Act for culture in Europe" www.wearemore.eu. 
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Cultural Season France-South Africa29.12.2011 Projects France – South Africa (French Institute)
South Africa and France have decided together to reinforce links between citizens from the two countries by organising a series called « Saisons croisées » or « crossover of seasons » in 2012 and 2013. South Africa will host France for the second semester 2012, and France will welcome South Africa during the second semester 2013. These « seasons » will take place in different regions in each country and will cover a wide range of sectors, particularly the artistic sector and culture, but also commerce and investment, science and techonology, tourism, sport and education.
A call for projects is open for public or private organisations, French or South African, that wish to take part in these seasons.
For more information click here http://www.institutfrancais.com/evenement/SAISONS-CROIS-ES-AFRIQUE-DU-SUD-FRANCE-2012-2013-APPEL-PROJETS/evpg1161.html |
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Presentation of the Fund in Portuguese16.09.2011 Resumo do documento sobre o Fundo Roberto Cimetta
O Fundo Roberto Cimetta é uma associação internacional, sem fins lucrativos, criada em 1999 para responder rápida e directamente aos artistas e operadores culturais desejosos de viajar a través da região Euro-Mediterrânica, mais concretamente no mundo árabe, com o objectivo de desenvolverem projectos de intercâmbios artísticos e culturais, individuais ou colectivos, no âmbito das artes dos dias de hoje. As colectividades territoriais, as capitais europeias da cultura, as fundações, e os ministérios que visam favorecer a produção artística e o desenvolvimento ao nível local nos países do mundo árabe e dos Balcãs, recorrem aos Fundos Roberto Cimetta para a sua investigação internacional, no domínio da cooperação cultural, com o objectivo de construírem parcerias duradoiras. A nossa acção é baseada na reciprocidade e na igualdade de intercâmbio, permitindo que os artistas e profissionais da cultura se inscrevam numa linha de diálogo e encontros reais e concretos propícios à vivacidade artística num processo de experimentação. Comprometemo-nos a fornecer acesso igual à mobilidade multidireccional e multidisciplinar em todo o território euro-mediterrânico, e através do mundo árabe, do Magreb até ao Golfo da Arábia. Concebemos a mobilidade como ir/voltar onde o impacto do benefício, directo ou indirecto, tenha lugar no regresso do candidato ao seu país. Apoiar essa mobilidade em todos os territórios, permite contrabalançar a tendência de concentração nas zonas privilegiadas, e de salvaguardar a criatividade e produção aos níveis local, regional e nacional. O nosso papel prende-se também com a identificação das prioridades em termos de políticas e financiamentos, e a acção junto dos decisores políticos e das instituições nacionais e internacionais. O Fundo decidiu criar uma plataforma regional reagrupando todos os beneficiários, parceiros e representantes da sociedade civil activos no plano cultural. Esta plataforma permitirá o intercâmbio tendo em conta as necessidades, e propor processos multilaterais, a longo prazo. Assim, a nossa acção insere-se plenamente nos objectivos da “Agenda Europeia da cultura na era da globalização”, a saber: a promoção da cultura e da mobilidade como elementos indispensáveis nas relações exteriores da União Europeia. De entre os membros do Conselho de Administração encontra-se António Pinto Ribeiro, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal. O Fundo é apoiado pela Guimarães Capital Europeia da Cultura 2012 (entre outros). Parcerias com autoridades locais: Guimarães 2012 (entre outros). O Fundo Roberto Cimetta propõe a realização de encontros entre profissionais que permitam o confronto de experiências e “know how” relativamente a questões artísticas regionais no Mediterrâneo.
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