Mophradat is continuing their partnership with Kunstencentrum BUDA and NEXT Festival in Belgium to offer a three-week residency (October/November 2026) for a performing artist from the Arab world. Using BUDA’s facilities and artistic support, the artist would finalise a new production and premiere their work at NEXT Festival at the conclusion of the residency.
Kunstencentrum BUDA in Kortrijk is a space for performing arts, an art house cinema, and one of the largest workspaces for performing arts in Belgium. NEXT Festival is a yearly, international cross-border dance, theatre, and performance festival founded in 2008 featuring works by renowned and young artists in more than 20 locations in and around Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai-Valenciennes cities. It is co-organized by five French and Belgian artistic houses and 18 associated partners.
In addition to complying with the general eligibility criteria, applicants must note the following:
- 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.
- 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 2026 and have confirmed co-producers and/or a financing plan, as this residency only partially contributes to the production costs.
- Proposals for concerts are not eligible for this call.
The partners will provide the selected artist (working with a maximum of three collaborators, i.e. up to four individuals in total) with their travel, visa costs, and per diem, a contribution to their project’s production costs, and the presentation fee for the performance.
