perform europe open call 2024
Reimagine international touring with us!
Perform Europe is a funding scheme for the performing arts sectors across the 40 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe supports innovative partnership projects that rethink the cross-border touring and presentation of performing arts works, to make it greener, more inclusive, and more diverse.
The research of Perform Europe’s pilot project (2020-2022) revealed several disparities within the European performing arts sector in relation to touring. These include: access to knowledge, skills, resources, connections, collaborations, green mobility options, funding opportunities, as well as ability and willingness to practise fairness, equality, and equity.
In recent years, and especially following the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a strong trend in the performing arts sector to rethink touring practices: the Perform Europe research and pilot project revealed strong examples of artistic work being brought to people and places in ways that cherish artistic values, create just relations, empower diversity of voices, care for the environment, and are meaningful and inspiring for everyone involved.
Built on these findings, Perform Europe will now continue to put emphasis on exploring, with the sector, how cross-border touring can be made fairer, greener and more inclusive.
The Perform Europe Open Call 2023-2026 seeks proposals from partnerships which have innovative ideas and courageous visions on how to change the way in which we tour and present performing arts across borders. The call has two priorities:
diversity and inclusion
the fight against climate change
Partnership proposals can focus on one – or both – of these priorities.
Perform Europe operates in a highly diverse and unequal context; 40 countries with various economic resources, cultural policy priorities, and geographic situations. Every performing arts organisation and individual professional has their own challenges and opportunities in terms of access to arts education, professional development, infrastructure, green mobility, financial resources for artistic development, creation and – ultimately – presentation and public visibility.
We strongly encourage applications from partnerships from and with areas and communities that are currently underrepresented within the performing arts landscape. These communities include, but are not limited to: people based in rural areas, those who identify as LGBTQIA+, women, those having disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, underrepresented racial backgrounds, ethnic backgrounds and gender identities, migrants, those with disabilities and any other people that identify as members of an underrepresented group within the performing arts landscape.