Latvia

To enrich the programme of Liepāja – European Capital of Culture 2027 with innovative, interdisciplinary, contemporary and outstanding cultural events, hence boosting the international cooperation, the Liepāja 2027 Foundation is launching an open international competition for the co-financing of cultural and artistic initiatives.

Through the Ambassadors of Good Practice Programme, Creative FLIP is supporting 10 peer-learning exchanges designed to identify and showcase exemplary practices on how local communities in non-urban areas are revitalised through arts and culture.

Balvi Municipality, cooperating with the Rothko Museum, invites artists to apply to the ‘Valdis Bušs 2025’ International Painting Plein Air – a creative forum organised in the museum’s residency framework – from 21 to 31 July 2025.

Liepāja 2027 is inviting two performance artists from the CreArt Network to participate in the Liepāja AiR residency from 16 June to 17 July 2025.

Moving Identities is calling for applications from performing arts groups (performance dance and theatre) based in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Spain, or Latvia to explore the themes of diversity, inclusion, and belonging in Europe during cross-border residencies, creative exchanges, mentoring, and workshops (from September 2025 to June 2026).

E75 Art Bus is calling for applications from professional artists resident in the regions of the E75 Art Bus route – Finnmark (Norway), Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece – to participate in a residency between April and June 2025 (ranging from 6 weeks to 2 months).

Liepāja invites two new media artists from the CreArt Network to work in Liepāja AiR, between 23 September and 27 October 2024.

NightSchool is a new programme for emerging night culture curators. From 3 to 8 June 2024, 15 selectees will take part in a week-long peer learning session in Silandro (Italy), Riga (Latvia), and Brussels (Belgium). NightSchool also supports the participants in pioneering and implementing their own sustainability focused night culture events in their local scene.

Skaņu Mežs festival for experimental music in Riga, Latvia, is inviting artists to participate in an open call as part of the tekhnē sound art project, co-funded by the European Union.

In this edition of Up Grants, ENCC is seeking to support socio-cultural centres (and other cultural organisations with a strong community focus) that are running or planning to launch impactful projects that promote inclusion. The programme will boost a culture centre’s initiatives by enhancing their impact and increasing their visibility.

European artists, or collectives can apply to the EMAP residency programme with a project proposal for a residency of two months in 2024. The artists will be collaborating with an artist of their choice or an artist local to the platform’s host institutions.

AUGE NEXT Fellowship Programmes are designed to support young European artists working in various fields of digital media art: immersive art (XR/AR/VR), data visualisation and sonification, AI/ML, and others. A fellowship consists of a 6-month Prototyping & Production period (1 September 2023 – 28 February 2024) including an Onsite Residency (up to 2 weeks long) taking place in one of the hosting countries.