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The open call for the 2025 edition has ended.

Residency at BUDA with premiere at NEXT festival: Three weeks in October/November 2025

Mophradat has partnered once more with Kunstencentrum BUDA and NEXT festival in Belgium to offer a three-week residency for a performing artist to finalize a new performance using BUDA’s facilities and artistic support, and premiere their work at NEXT festival at the conclusion of the residency. 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.

SPECIFIC ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

In addition to complying with the general eligibility criteria that you can read here, please 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 (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.
  • Proposals for concerts are not eligible for this call.

PROCESS

  • The applications will be assessed by Mophradat and the final selection will be made in collaboration with BUDA and NEXT.
  • All applicants, whether selected or not, receive a response to their applications by March 1, 2025.
  • Preselected applicants will be contacted for a conversation.
  • Only one application can be selected.
  • Due to a high volume of applications and the confidentiality of the selection process, Mophradat cannot provide individual feedback explaining the reason an application was not selected.
  • Upon selection, the resident will sign separate agreements with Mophradat, BUDA, and NEXT.
  • The partners will support the selected applicant through the necessary visa applications; and if the artists are unable to travel due to visa refusals, the project will be compensated.
  • A short-written report of the resident’s experience must be submitted to Mophradat within two weeks of the residency’s end.