The European Festivals Fund for emerging artists – EFFEA– has opened its second call for festivals to support emerging artists. Interested festivals can propose artists in order to be able to offer them a residency.
The EFFEA residencies will be co-produced by a leading festival and at least two partner festivals, each from a different eligible country as well as provide emerging artists with time, space and support to work on an original project or to develop an existing one. There are two categories of residencies:
EFFEA “Discovery” Artist in residence: Festivals take an early career artist(s) with exceptional talent and ready to break through internationally under their wings. The residency will include a work in progress presentation at the leading festival as well as a workshop hosted by the leading festival that exposes the artists to a minimum of 1 programmer from each partner festival. Approximately 40 grants of 8.000€ will be attributed to this category.
EFFEA “Springboard” Artist in residence for mid-career artist(s) established in their own country and ready to develop their career internationally under their wings. The residency will include a production result/ presentation at the leading and at the two (or more) partner festival as well as a masterclass by the artists about the creation/production between them and local artists in the leading festival and in each partner festival. Approximately 10 grants of 15.000€ will be attributed to this category.
Both residencies will include professional advice on how artists present their work/dossier to producers; training/ mentoring/ coaching with other professionals (online or live); support to reach out to local communities and / or other features the artists describe in the needs assessment. 50 residencies will be selected involving 50 emerging artists in the seat of 50 leading festivals in collaboration with a minimum of two partner festivals.
The call is open to all festivals and artists that work in one of the following artistic disciplines: Architecture, Ballet Contemporary Dance, Circus, Design/ Applied arts, Digital arts, Film, Folklore and folk arts, Heritage, Interdisciplinary, Literature, Music, Opera, Street Art, Theatre, Photography/ Video, Sculpture, Painting. The Call will be open until 19 June. Find more information here.
