Albania

Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) is seeking creative artists and cultural groups or entities capable of designing and implementing one of two types of interactive/cultural activities that will take place during the Forum: Networking Activities or Cultural Activities. The Forum will be held from 18 to 20 June 2025 in Tirana, Albania.

Teatroskop invites cultural and artistic organisations to apply for its 2025 Call for Projects, which supports the development of contemporary performing arts collaborations between France and South-East Europe. This call encompasses cooperation, distribution, capacity building, and networking. The project must be completed before 31 December 2025.

Tirana Art Residency – Vila 31 x Art Explora is a new artistic residency programme founded by Art Explora in the Albanian capital, to be held in 2025.

UNESCO, the British Council and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) are jointly managing Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans (CC4WBs), a project funded by the European Union to foster dialogue in the Western Balkans by enhancing the cultural and creative sectors for increased socio-economic impact.

The project #synergy: Sharpening the capacities of the classical music industry in the Western Balkans is calling for emerging music performers to work closely with twelve composers on newly commissioned works. These will be performed on a festival tour, organised by the project partners during the summer of 2023.

‘ECHO III: for memory’s sake’ is an arts and heritage project that aims to bring together artists working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature in order to explore tradition and culture through the themes of marriage, arranged marriages and nuclear families in the Balkan context. ECHO III is looking for 24 artists, 6 Greek, 6 Romanian, 6 Bulgarian, 6 Albanian, working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature to participate in the project with creation residencies and a short tour.

For the second half of 2022, TRADUKI is offering residencies in 10 cities in Southeast Europe - Belgrade, Bucharest, Cetinje, Novo Mesto, Prishtina, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Split and Tirana - for the duration of 2-6 weeks. Eligible applicants are writers, translators, and book professionals from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.

For a second year the Translation in Motion consortium of translation residencies invites applications by literary translators working from or into the languages of the countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia). Residency stays will take place between April 2022 and April 2023.

The Translations Collider Project Academy will span two five-day sessions – one between 13-18 May 2022 in Struga (North Macedonia) and the second in May 2023 in Albania – with short online meetings in-between. It invites literary management professionals from the Balkans and other parts of Europe to explore ways to overcome the imbalances in literary translation activity in Europe.

The Cultural Cooperation project Some Call Us Balkans (SCUB) is a transdisciplinary, art-based inquiry and community that explores and mobilises moments of collective production of knowledge, imagination, research, and multivocal representations that challenge myths and misconceptions regarding the Balkans as the ‘European Other’. Based on the artistic research built throughout the project, SCUBcommunity is looking for 8 emerging artist-travelers.

READ - Regional Network for Cultural Diversity’s residency programme is aimed at writers, translators, playwrights, poets, illustrators, graphic novel artists and comic book writers. Eligible applicants will have published at least two books/works of their own or at least two translations, and must be residents of one of the following countries: North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Albania or Kosovo. Young and emerging authors are welcomed as well as established and experienced ones. Residencies last up to a month and will take place from May – December 2021.