Art Time Residencies for Performing Artists

The selected artist (working with a maximum of three collaborators, i.e. up to four individuals in total) will have their travel and visa costs, per diem, and honoraria covered, in addition to receiving a contribution to their project’s production costs, and a presentation fee for the performance at NEXT festival.

Kunstencentrum BUDA in Kortrijk is a platform for contemporary art festivals, an art house cinema, and one of the largest workspaces for performing arts in Belgium. Founded in 2006, BUDA constructs an artistic context in which the artist’s desire to create and learn is central. It offers time and space, customized support (logistic, technical, feedback), a network of artistic and professional contacts, and the possibility of an informal presentation for a test audience. BUDA is part of NEXT Festival.

NEXT is a yearly, international performing arts festival that started in 2008 in four cities in the cross-border Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai and Valenciennes, organized by six French and Belgian co-organizing artistic houses and 10 to 15 associated partners. It evolved into a collaboration platform and a landmark event for cultural and artistic professionals from all over Europe. It brings together disciplines, communities, and cultures, encourages exchange of cultural diversity, and encourages and facilitates intercultural dialogue amongst programmers, artists, festival organizers, cross-border politicians, students, and broad audience.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must have developed and presented previous works.
• Applicants must be working on a new and original project.
• Applicants must be working with contemporary forms of performance (classical theatre, community theatre, and classical western dance such as ballet and so forth are not eligible).
• Unconventional projects dealing with experimental forms and/or concerned with progressive discourses are encouraged to apply.
• Unsuccessful applicants to previous editions are eligible to re-apply.
• Applicants must have advanced and be in the final development phase of their projects by September 2025 and have confirmed co-producers and/or a financing plan, as this residency only partially contributes to the production costs.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Proposals for concerts are not eligible for this call.

Application Requirements 

• When applying to any of their open calls, please note that your application must:
  • Be free of any intention to promote intolerance, violence, patriarchal worldviews, or any form of discrimination based on ability, age, gender, nationality, origin, race, religion, or sexuality;
  • Not contradict Mophradat’s mission and values;
  • Be for a contemporary arts activity (all disciplines are welcome);
  • Be complete (all documents requested are submitted) and meet the specific criteria related to the specific open call to be eligible for consideration by the external advisors, who then determine which applications to support;
  • Involve no commercial activity or organization;
  • Be ambitious.

For more information, visit Mophradat.