SLEEPING BEAUTIES is a multi-residency project designed and developed by EUNIC Romania. It involves six cultural institutions operating in Romania – the British Council, the Czech Centre, the Goethe Institute, the Cervantes Institute, the Polish Institute and Fundația9 – each engaged in supporting one residency.
SLEEPING BEAUTIES is a project that works with representative balneary resorts and local communities across Romania, offering a broad view of the diversity, heritage, and renewed potential of these cultural landscapes.
Period of residencies is two weeks (10 to 14 days) across various dates between July and September 2026.
The programme encourages and assists the insertion of the resident into the everyday life of the town. The host organisation will provide mediation and knowledge of the local context, connect the resident with the local community, and share available resources for research. Communal meals will be organised on occasion.
Interdisciplinary and performative artists, architects (including landscape architects and historians), filmmakers, researchers, designers and makers, community organisers, and socially engaged practitioners interested in heritage, wellbeing, ecology, public space, and the regeneration of balneary resorts can apply.
Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents from Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Poland, Spain, and Romania.
The residency covers travel costs from the selected applicant’s country of residence (up to 500 EUR), accommodation within the premises of the host organisation, some meals, a fee of 700 EUR and a 300 EUR production budget.
