Netherlands

Destination Unknown is a nomadic non-profit organisation that offers a working period for young artists in locations which are temporarily vacant. Artists are invited to react on the environment of the location with creative site-specific ideas and interventions. DU2023 will take place in the former Philips factory in Roermond, with the working period starting 1 July 2023 and an exhibition scheduled for 29 September - 1 October 2023.

The Summer Sessions are short-term international art and technology residencies for emerging artists and designers. Each Summer Sessions residency lasts approximately eight weeks and takes place between July and September. This year the programme is open to artists under the age of 35 and/or graduated within the past five years living in Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Norway, Spain or Egypt.

Promus, the Music Community of Aarhus (DK) and the Music Cities Network invite 12 European music business professionals to embark on a transnational European expedition from April 2023 until May 2024. On this journey, they will search for answers to the question: How can we boost the European music market?

In June 2023 international dance talent from all over the world will travel to Rotterdam for the fifth edition of the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (RIDCC). The RIDCC competition accepts duets (2 persons on stage) of 7-12 minutes length. Pieces must not have been performed on stage for the first time before March 2019. Selected artists should be available for performance and lighting rehearsals on 21 June 2023 and on the three festival days from 22-24 June 2023.

Within the framework of the SPECTRAL project, Filmwerkplaats in Rotterdam is offering a 4-6 weeks long residency during August-September 2023 for the creation of a performative analogue motion picture piece. Individuals and collectives can apply.

This year, CROWD network will select ten dance artists to exchange and collaborate with the support of network partner organisations. Working in pairs, selected dance makers will come together twice, each time for a two-week, focused residency in a new context. Alongside the residencies, between June and October 2023, the entire network will engage in digital, discursive sessions exploring community engagement in dance. The programme is open to artists based in Denmark, England, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (DE), or Scotland.

Dutch festival Dancing on the Edge are calling a new generation of contemporary dancers from West Asia (a.k.a. Middle East) and North Africa (WANA) for the Dancing on the Edge Scholarship Program 2020. Dancing on the Edge (DOTE) offers scholarships to young talent (no older than 27 years) from the MENA region to attend a three-week summer dance workshop program in Amsterdam, taking place from 10-28 July 2023.

In the spring of 2023, Leeuwarden UNESCO City of Literature is offering a writer-in-residence programme. Writers and storytellers can spend a month (from 20 March - 15 April 2023) researching or working on a literary project, and getting introduced to their Dutch and Frisian colleagues. Poets, writers, biographers and literary translators living and working in one of the UNESCO Cities of Literature may apply.

The Digital Flying Carpet is calling for artists’ proposals. The Digital Flying Carpet is a project by Women Connected (WOCO) in collaboration with V2_Lab for the unstable media, Rotterdam. If your project is selected, you will work in collaboration with WOCO and V2_ on a digital dimension to WOCO’s acclaimed project The Flying Carpet, during the spring and summer of 2023.

For CODE 2023, creative professional and non-professional artists from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany are invited to take part in a five-month journey of dialogue, critical discussion and co-creation about digital rights. Between February and June 2023 you will work with other participants on group artworks to be presented at international festivals and events.

In 2021, the Prince Claus Fund implemented a new strategy to take it into the future including a fundraising strategy to meet immediate and long-term fundraising goals. It is now looking for a Head of Fundraising to deliver this.