Applications open for PASS – Promoting Accessible Shows Project

PASS – Promoting Accessible Shows is an international project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union, addressing the problem of lack of engagement and visibility for artists and audiences with cognitive and sensory disabilities in live performances and performing arts. The project is coordinated by Fondazione Arturo Toscanini (Italy) with ACCAC (Finland), En Dynamei (Greece) and Studio Citadela (Czech Republic).

Objectives

• The main objectives of the call are:
  • Contribute to the development and artistic appreciation of artists with disabilities;
  • Revolutionise the range of performing arts programming through the presentation of world-class works with a disability as their theme;
  • To increase interest in disability issues also in the performing arts sector;
  • To create the best possible conditions for finding, developing, producing and presenting the work of artists with disabilities.
• The call aims to create an opportunity of growth, comparison and professional employment to enhance the artistic talent of emerging composers with disabilities.
• The intention, through this call, is to select an artist or an artistic collective to be entrusted with the commission of one or two original pieces for symphonic orchestra (to be arranged also for chamber ensemble – instrumentation to be defined), which take into account the presence of the Sign Language in choreographic form during the musical performance and, therefore, is able to integrate and harmonise it.
• The pieces – that can be realized or developed also during the artistic residencies envisaged by the project in traditional and/or digital form – must be unpublished.
• The reference theme is the celebration of life and the joy of living.
• The composer or artistic team identified through this call may also be asked to arrange pieces/excerpts from the symphonic or traditional/folk repertoire. An artistic residency in Thessaloniki during August 2024 may also be envisaged for the composer or a part of the artistic team identified by the call.

Funding Information

• The selected composer or composers team will be formally entrusted with the composition of not more than 2 original musical pieces, to be performed during the year 2025, with an expected remuneration of € 1.500,00 (gross and all-inclusive of any fees and expenses).

Eligibility Criteria

• The call is reserved for composers under 35 years old of any gender and nationality, with disabilities of any kind.
• Composers under 35 with disabilities of any kind who are included in artistic groups, also informally formed, may participate in the call.
• The PASS project aims to promote a radical idea of inclusion and intends to take into account the extent to which the condition of disability is closely related to culture and context: this is why composers who define themselves as disabled may also participate in the call.
• Possession of an academic degree in the field of music and professional experience in the music sector is not compulsory but will be a preferential requirement.

For more information, visit Fondazione Arturo Toscanini.