IDRA Teatro has launched a call for artists: ‘Residences of Change – Harnessing the Transformative Power of the Creative Practice’. This is a 31-day international residency supported by the Culture Moves Europe programme and hosted in Brescia, Northern Italy, across January and February 2027.
IDRA’s residency is open to European artists, collectives, and companies working with or interested in exploring participatory practices and arts’ social impact. It is designed with a working group of five residents in mind.
The theme the residency aims at exploring is that of gender-based violence and violence against women, in particular. Through the creation of a participatory artistic programme, residents will be asked to elaborate on the topic and to reflect on the role that the performing arts can play in addressing what is in effect a social emergency.
During their stay, residents will be able to draw on field-research trips, asked to produce a shared artistic strategy, encouraged to co-create with fellow residents, and supported throughout the creation of a new framework designed with participatory performances in mind, where artists and their audiences interact in new and unexplored ways.
IDRA Teatro welcomes submissions from artists legally residing in any of the 40 Creative Europe countries (except Italy).
IDRA Teatro will provide artists with accommodation, workspaces, technical support, mentoring, and access to local networks, in addition to the following from the Culture Moves Europe programme support:
- Daily allowance (30 EUR/day)
- Travel allowance (400 EUR – 800 EUR)
- Green mobility top-up (400 EUR)
- Visa top-up (120 EUR/resident)
- Outermost regions, overseas countries and territories top-up (175 EUR/resident)
- Family top-up (200 EUR per child/resident)
- Accessibility support (375 EUR, 675 EUR or 1,200 EUR, depending on needs/residency lengths)
