Toolbox

This space provides artists with practical information needed for upcoming opportunities and/or the production of work. It is divided into four sections;

︎︎︎ A list of artist opportunities.
︎︎︎ Guides and references for artistic and practical documents.
︎︎︎ Downloadable templates for forms of agreements and contracts.
︎︎︎ An index of technicians, craftsmen and artisans.

Open Call: Embodying Resistance

Deadline: 1/4/2024
Type: Call for Contributions
Location: Germany / Netherlands
Amount: €400
Apply: Errant Journal
Details: The seventh issue of Errant Journal aims to interrogate the role of the body in strategies of resistance from below. Taking Palestine as a starting point, the ongoing genocide committed by Israel and other colonial powers and the people’s continued struggle for liberation inform our thinking and praxis. In this issue, we want to explore the ways in which bodies – that are sexualised, criminalised, racialised, crip – have been able to divert and subvert in order to fight back. Proposals should not exceed 300 words, accompanied by one piece of previously published material and a short bio. You may also propose an existing text, artwork or other material, if so please specify. 

March Edition: MyMA Artist Grant

Deadline: 1/4/2024
Type: Grant
Location: USA
Amount: €500
Apply: MyMA
Details: MyMA Artist Grant is a monthly juried grant that provides an unrestricted $500 award to one artist each month. In addition to the winner, our independent jurors recognize 5 artists as honorable mentions for each edition. We publish a written or video profile of the selected artists on MyMA's website and social channels. Submissions for the March edition of the MyMA Artist Grant are open now through April 1st. To ensure accessibility and inclusivity, applications are free.

Makhizn Issue 4: Counterlexicons

Deadline: 1/4/2024
Type: Publishing
Location: —
Amount: —
Apply: MAKHZIN
Details: This call draws on the historical role of artists and intellectuals in developing a visual and poetic language to speak to and resist dispossession—a duty which has been, from the start, intricately enmeshed with leftist anti-racist struggles around the world. In light of such histories, we invite poets, writers, and artists to send us essays, poems, manifestos, statements, declarations, and letters that explore both the perversion and possibilities of language in times of genocide.

Contemporary Biennial TEA 2024

Deadline: 2/4/2024
Type: Biennale
Location: Spain
Amount: €4000
Apply: TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
Details: This call is based on the conviction that artistic processes, as well as aesthetic learning and experience, afford the possibility of opening discussions to think about the accelerated changes we are experiencing on a planetary scale from a situated perspective. The selection criteria of the curatorial committee will be open to interdisciplinarity and individual and collective working methodologies, lending particular value to the experimental quality of projects and processes that can open up to the public through workshops or collaborative actions. EA shall cover expenses incurred in the submission of the projects presented or theirransport, up to a sum corresponding to 50% of total fees, €2000). Should the artist need to avail of funding to cover these costs, they may apply to TEA to receive the funding in advance, explaining in detail the need for advance payment.

AFAC: Visual Arts

Deadline: 4/4/2024
Type: Grant
Location: Lebanon
Amount: Up to $35,000
Apply: AFAC
Details: The Visual Arts grant supports painting, sculpting, photography, installations, audio-video arts, publications (artist book or other publications) and multi-media works of a contemporary and innovative nature. The grant can support exhibitions, visual arts book publications as well as art production. The program provides grants up to a maximum of $20,000 (individuals and teams) and $35,000 (institutions and collectives).

AFAC: Performing Arts

Deadline: 4/4/2024
Type: Grant
Location: Lebanon
Amount: Up to $35,000
Apply: AFAC
Details: The Performing Arts grant is open to classical, folk, and experimental theatre for all age groups including children and youth; dance performances, including but not restricted to contemporary dance; public intervention performances, street art, live art, interactive and site-specific format, documentary theatre, and festivals. It also supports playwriting, acting, directing, dancing, and choreography workshops. The program provides grants up to a maximum of $20,000 (individuals and teams) and $35,000 (institutions and collectives).

AFAC: Creative and Critical Writings

Deadline: 4/4/2024
Type: Grant
Location: Lebanon
Amount: Up to $35,000
Apply: AFAC
Details: The Creative and Critical Writings grant provides support to critical writings on the arts and culture, theatrical writings, children and youth literature (including both the adaptation of classical Arabic and international literature as well as original stories), graphic novel, short story, poetry, in addition to online publishing platform. The final product should be in Arabic language. The program provides grants up to a maximum of $20,000 (individuals and teams) and $35,000 (institutions and collectives).

AFAC: Documentary Program

Deadline: 4/4/2024
Type: Grant
Location: Lebanon
Amount: Up to $50,000
Apply: AFAC
Details: The AFAC Documentary Program supports creative documentary films in the Arab region. The program welcomes submissions of short and medium-length documentary in production and post-production, and feature documentary film projects that are in development, production or post-production phases. The program provides grants up to $10,000 for Development grants, up to $50,000 for Production and $25,000 for Post-production grants.

AIR InSILo Open Call 2024

Deadline: 6/4/2024
Type: Residency
Location: Austria
Duration: 6 weeks
Apply: AIR in Silo
Details: The current and the previous year have forced us to take a fresh look at freedom of artistic expression and recognise that it is threatened not only in countries with authoritarian regimes but also in countries with competitive democratic elections. This open call, which we titled «Non-Utterance», aims to capture this moment, analyse the atmosphere in the artistic environment, and explore censorship and self-censorship in art. An honorarium of 1200 Euros; Production costs up to 600 Euros; A coverage of travel costs up to 500 Euros; A coverage of transport costs up to 175 Euros; Mentoring program with invited Austria-based curators; An opportunity to stay with a partner and/or 1-2 children.

Frontline and Absence Lines

Deadline: 7/4/2024
Type: Call for Contributions
Location: —
Amount: —
Apply: Kohl Journal
Details: Taking this as a point of departure, we devote this special issue to examining an aspect that has long been pushed to the margins of the Arab and international solidarity discourse: the Palestinian presence in Lebanon. We revisit this history from the standpoint of the Palestinian reality – material and imagined – by analyzing its contradictory relationship with the institutional and military structure that shapes the Lebanese state. This issue is therefore an attempt at formulating a collective and structural analysis that would liberate us from individualistic or reductionist readings of this continued history. We accept submissions on a rolling basis. We encourage submissions in Arabic, and can also accept texts in English, French, and Spanish. This dossier prioritizes Palestinian and Arab contributions, and allocates financial compensation for contributions.

BIENALSUR 2025

Deadline: 8/4/2024
Type: Biennale
Location: International
Duration: —
Apply: Bienalsur
Details: The application is free of charge and is open to 4 (four) categories: individual artist, group artist, individual curator and group curator. For each of these categories only one submission is allowed. The General and Artistic Direction of BIENALSUR announces a call for artists, curators and curatorial research projects to be included in the program of its fifth edition to be held in 2025 in museums, cultural centres, universities and non-traditional spaces in large cities and small towns in different countries.

EUNIC: Open Call for Grants 2024

Deadline: 9/4/2024
Type: Grant
Location: Egypt
Amount: 120,000 - 500,000 EGP
Apply: Eunic Egypt
Details: The Open Calls for grants are announced every year for Egyptian artists and creatives looking to implement their artistic project in Egypt, without limitations to age, or theme of project. The main condition is that the applicant has to be Egyptian, their project to fall under arts and culture, and be implemented in Egypt. Types of artistic and cultural projects could be, and not limited to:
Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual arts, Design, Crafts, Cinema, Painting, Photography, Literature. Small Grants:Up to 120,000 EG, eligible for individuals or small institutions. Medium Grants Up to 500,000 EGP, eligible for big institutions.

Reclaiming Our Commons: A Proposal for Cultural Collaboration Across the Arab Region

Deadline: 15/4/2024
Type: Grant
Location: Lebanon
Amount: €8,000 - €30,000
Apply: Culture Resource
Details: The call is to contribute to building a participatory creative process addressed to initiatives, cooperatives, independent cultural and artistic organizations, as well as artists and cultural actors. It seeks to support artistic and cultural projects across diverse artistic and interdisciplinary domains, provided they adopt cooperative, participatory, and/or commons-based approaches, whether at the project development level, project ownership, project interpretations and outputs, or project revenues. Individuals: Artists from diverse artistic disciplines and independent cultural actors, provided they are from the Arab region (regardless of ethnicity and citizenship status), whether they are living inside or outside the Arab region. Groups: Independent non-governmental initiatives, cooperatives, and artistic and cultural organizations in the Arab region or abroad, whose work serves artistic and cultural production in Arabic.

Palestine: The Moment Before Tomorrow

Deadline: 18/4/2024
Type: Lab Program
Location: Jordan
Duration: —
Apply: Darat Al Funun
Details: This call offers an opportunity to reflect on the significance of artistic and cultural practice today within the context of the Palestinian struggle. It calls for a reconsideration of the forms and expressions of artistic resistance, exploring its possibilities and broader implications. The call thus takes “this moment” as a provocation to contemplate the Palestinian context and the cultural, legal, geographical, and historical dimensions associated with it today.
*International proposals are welcome, please be aware that Darat al Funun does not cover travel expenses or insurance, but may provide accommodation in one of its residency flats.

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2024-2025

Deadline: 25/4/2024
Type: Festival
Location: France/ Germany
Duration: —
Apply: Ripbm
Details: the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin will invite an international jury to award a prize with a grant to one of the artists of the programme. This cross-disciplinary grant will distinguish a unique work in the field of moving images.
The second part of the call for entries to the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin to be held in Paris in November 2024 is now open until 25 April 2024.

Deadline: 31/5/2024
Type: Book Fair
Location: Senegal
Duration: 4 days
Apply: La Biennale de Dakar
Details: AABF is focused on publishing. We are looking for exhibitors who have an ongoing publishing practice. Registeration fees: 50 euros including tax for artists; 150 euros including tax for publishing houses based on the African continent; 300 euros including tax for publishing houses based outside the African continent; 450 euros including tax for the Galleries. Registrations are effective upon payment of the corresponding fees.

Anthropology Bel3araby Lab

Deadline: 1/5/2024
Type: Program
Location: Egypt
Duration: 6 months
Apply: anthropology_bel3araby
Details: An anthropological laboratory in Arabic concerned with creating a space between anthropological questions, artistic curation, the practice of artistic production, and participatory knowledge production (Collective Research-based Art). The program offers a diverse and rich group of trainers in the fields of anthropology, curation, writing, publishing, artistic production, and participatory research. In addition to attending the training program, participants receive $1,700 productivity grant (for the project) and logistical and material support in organizing and implementing workshops, coordinating exhibitions or artistic outputs and public programs. The training program will be in Cairo, but participants can apply to attend it from any Arab country, and the project or workshop can be implemented in a different Arab country. The applicant’s travel from another Arab country will be supported by L'Art Rue.