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Artists in Exile – Residency opportunities in UK, Turkey & Jordan

June 21, 2022NewsMiddle East, UKACAR

Artists connecting in Transition (ACT) is a new international programme hosted by Culture in Transit (UK), Arthereistanbul (Turkey), MedeArts (Jordan) and the Fanak Fund. ACT is currently looking to select and host artists with lived experience of forced migration, exile or displacement to these countries, who are interested in applying for a residency. The three host organisations are looking to select and host two artists in each residence, open to artists in exile currently based in the partners’ respective countries: UK, Turkey and Jordan.

For eligibility and selection criteria, and to apply, please visit the relevant website of the partners: Culture in Transit, Artheristanbul, MedeArts, Fanak Fund
Deadline: Friday 8 July 2022
Residency timeline: 5 September 2022 until 27 January 2023 (part-time)
Digital launch of art works and local exhibition: February until March 2023 (dates tbc).

Sasha Skochilenko jailed for protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine

June 14, 2022News, Personal CaseEastern and Western European States, personal case, RussiaACAR

Алексей Белозёров, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Alexandra (Shasha) Skochilenko, is a russian artist and musician.
She replaced price tags at supermarkets in St Petersburg with news reports about bombings in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. On April 11 she had been detained and accused of carrying out serious actions against public safety and spreading fake news about the Russian military. Her case had been reclassified from a criminal case to a more severe one of the same article, entailing from 5 to 10 years in prison. The investigation has extended Sasha’s pre-trial detention several times, now until July 1st.

The telegram group for support is: https://t.me/skochilenko_sud.

Sources: severreal.org, telegra.ph, Human Rights online , The Art Newspaper

Ukrainian Emergency Performing Arts Fund

June 12, 2022NewsEastern and Western European States, UkraineACAR

The platform, initiated and organised by the Kiev based dancer, choreographer and producer Victor Ruban, matches donations and requests for on site support for independent performing artists in Ukraine. Donations will provide emergency microgrants of 8000 UAH (aproximately 250€) to each Ukrainian artist (dance and theater) from independent scene staying in Ukraine. The site provides also useful links to other solidarity platforms inside and outside Ukraine.
The initiative was presented by Victor Ruban at an ITI online meeting from ACAR and Theatre in Conflict Zones Network on June 11, 2022.

www.uepaf.org.ua

Ukraine War: Support for Researchers at Risk

April 28, 2022NewsEastern and Western European States, UkraineACAR

Individuals and research institutions from Germany offer researchers threatened by the war in Ukraine to work at their institute. The Alexander von Humboldt foundation in cooperation with the Philip Schwartz Initiative, a part of the Scholars at Risk Network has launched a list with contacts and offer information which are frequently updated.

Humboldt Foundation/Ukraine War

StayOnStage – Platform for Work or Performance Opportunities in Exile

April 27, 2022NewsEastern and Western European States, Russia, UkraineACAR

ITI Germany and the German Theatre and Orchestra Association have launched an online platform with pop up offers of support for refugees from the war in Ukraine. City and state theatres from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are offering theatre jobs, rehearsal rooms, residencies and guest performance opportunities. The offer details are in English, the site is in Englisch, Ukrainian and Russian. The offers are searchable and sortable by category and can be shared directly via social media channels and eMail.

stayonstage.iti-germany.de

Russian Magazine TEATR. Suspended

March 30, 2022NewsEastern and Western European States, RussiaACAR

The Russian Association of Theater Critics (ATK) addressed the Union of Theater Workers of Russia and personally Alexander Kalyagin with a letter in support of the TEATR. magazine, whose activities were suspended for an indefinit period. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, TEATR. had kept (up to and including March 3, 2022) an online chronicle listing effects and reactions to the war in culture. Editor in Chief Marina Davydova already left Russia almost five weeks ago after publishing via Facebook an TEATR. online a statement against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine: “We consider Ukraine an independent and autonomous country, …We do not want Russia to become a rogue state. We want the bloodshed to stop immediately.”
ATK reminds that “Magazine TEATR. is one of the very few specialized journals left in the country where there is still room for professional criticism and academic theater studies…The journal invites, in addition to theater critics, prominent scientists, thinkers and publicists to cooperate, and thus enters the theater into a wider circle of humanitarian thought, and articles not only about Russian, but also about foreign events and personalities create an important field of international context.”

Sources: TEATR online, March 29; nachtkritik.de March 30