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Apply for funding to give deaf and hard-of-hearing people the opportunity to experience concerts and performing arts performances,

The pool for performance interpretation of concerts, performing arts performances etc. has just been reopened. Actors who produce and/or organise professional concerts and performing arts performances can now apply for fees for professional sign language interpreters specialising in performance interpretation for one-off performances. This will give deaf and hard-of-hearing people a better opportunity to experience these cultural events.

What can you apply for?

You can apply for funding for fees including preparation, organisation and any travel and accommodation expenses for professional sign language interpreters specialising in performance interpreting for one-off performances.

A professional sign language interpreter is defined as an interpreter who has either graduated from one of the current Danish sign language interpreting programmes or has been certified by the relevant authorities in Denmark.

Who can apply?

You can apply if you are an actor who produces and/or organises professional concerts and performing arts performances, including theatres, venues, groups, ensembles, associations, institutions and more.

Background to the scheme

The scheme aims to give deaf and hard-of-hearing children, young people and adults throughout the country the opportunity to experience concerts and performances on equal terms with everyone else.

A maximum of DKK 100,000 can be applied for per applicant.

It is the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces that processes the applications received and decides. 

Application deadline: Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis and the pool closes when the funds are exhausted.

Are you an artist – or are you part of a company, an independent group, an orchestra, or another producer working at the intersection of music and performing arts?

Then you have the opportunity to use Radar's production facilities for your next project.

Radar has been selected by the Danish Arts Foundation as part of the network for music-dramatic and cross-aesthetic projects for music and performing arts. This means that in 2026, we will make production facilities available for nine weeks, during which artists can immerse themselves in the development of new works, experiments, and collaborations.

IS KULTURVÆRFTET THE PERFECT SETTING FOR YOUR INTERDISCIPLINARY ART PROJECT?

Now you have the opportunity to use our production facilities for your next project.

Kulturværftet has been selected by the Danish Arts Foundation to serve as a networking hub for the development of cross-aesthetic art. Therefore, we are making our concert hall available for up to three weeks at a time in both 2024 and 2025 for projects that take place at the intersection of performance art and experimental music/sound.

Kulturværftet is a cultural center and venue, and for more than a decade, under the CLICK program track, it has provided a framework for festivals, concerts, workshops, and exhibitions at the crossroads of art, science, and technology. We have several different stages at our disposal, each suited to different types and sizes of projects. We can offer facilities ranging from gallery-like spaces to concert stages and black boxes.

Meet war veteran Sara la Cour, composer SØS Gunver Ryberg (behind *Jeanne d’Arc*), and composer Allan Gravgaard Madsen from *Operarejsen*.

A conversation salon in connection with Jeanne d’Arc.

Sara la Cour, founder of the association Female Veterans, visits Sort/Hvid. She will talk about her experience of being called to war as a woman and a soldier, and about how her perspective has shifted from the idea of going to war with her heart to becoming a pacifist.

OPEN CALL
Who can apply?

Nordic Ambitions is targeted at leaders with direct or overall responsibility for artistic programming, currently employed at one of the Nordisk Teaterlederråd (NTLR) network’s member organisations or connected to The National Theatre in Greenland or Faroe Island. You can be either new in your role as leader or more experienced. Most importantly, you have strong motivation to develop your leadership skills, broaden your horizons and expand your Nordic peer network. If you are not certain about your eligibility, please contact your regional contact for consultation.

Moving Identities ends its three-year cycle with a grand symposium – more info T.B.A.

Vil du og dit teater være med til at skabe et fagligt seminar rundt om jeres aktuelle forestilling –
for alle jeres kolleger i efterårssæsonen 2026?

ASSITEJ Danmark har fået midler fra Statens Kunstfund til at afholde 2 faglige seminarer under
titlen: Nye Scener/Nye Samtaler.
Det første seminar blev afholdt som et samarbejde mellem ZeBU, Amager Børnekulturfestival og ASSITEJ Danmark og tog udgangspunkt i forestillingen “VAND-SKABNINGER” af ZEBU, som i samarbejde med Dansk Handicapforbund tog afsæt i et medlemsteaters kunstneriske og tematiske arbejde med klima, kunstnere med handicap og det sanselige menneskes forhold til natur og transformation. Konceptet var her:
– Pre-talk med instruktør og dramatiker
– Visning af forestillingen Vand-skabninger
– Modereret paneldebat med skuespillere og instruktør
– Tværfaglige perspektiver fra lignende arbejde på musikfeltet

CPH STAGE is Denmark's largest theatre festival for professional theatre and takes place every year at the end of May/beginning of June in Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.

Over 10 days, you can experience both the highlights and the breadth of Danish theatre right now, as well as see international touring hits.

CPH STAGE is an opportunity to see both new performances and those you didn't get to see this season. At the festival, you can let yourself be surprised and try new paths in the Danish theatre landscape. In addition to the performances, CPH STAGE offers events, readings, debates, seminars, parties, and much more.

For første gang går Filmværksted København og Folketeatret sammen om et open call, der inviterer unge talenter til at skabe nye fortællinger i krydsfeltet mellem film og scenekunst.

Open call’et hedder Scener fra en Fremtid og henvender sig til unge filmskabere og scenekunstnere, der arbejder kreativt med film, teater eller noget midt imellem. Call’et giver mulighed for at udvikle personlige og fremadskuende projekter med afsæt i egne oplevelser, følelser og liv.

Projekterne kan udkomme som film, som sceniske formater eller som en kombination. Folketeatret og Filmværksted København er nysgerrige på de unges drømme, vilkår og tanker om fremtiden, og call’et giver plads til værker med et tværkunstnerisk og eksperimenterende udtryk.

De færdige projekter kan blive vist på Folketeatret, i biografen eller på andre visuelle platforme.

Open call’et er for unge, der er på vej ind i film- eller scenekunstbranchen.

Smaller theatres, performing arts groups, independent performing artists and actors can apply for grants for performing arts purposes, including international activities.

In addition, applications can be made for individual international activities and festivals in Denmark.

Inclusion of works in the new Touring Network Denmark for adult touring theaters for the 2026/27 and 2027/28 seasons.

Smaller theaters, performing arts groups, and independent performing artists and actors can apply to have new performing arts productions included in KSelekt at Lille Scene in the Royal Danish Theatre's Playhouse during the 2026/2027 season. KSelekt is a collaboration between the Danish Arts Foundation, which selects performances, and the Royal Danish Theatre, which provides stage capacity. The Development Platform for Performing Arts has been selected by the Danish Arts Foundation as coordinator.

Save the date

The Performing Arts Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 4, 2026, at the Royal Danish Theatre.

Program to follow.

Once again this year, we will come together to celebrate Danish performing arts at the 2026 Reumert Awards. The event will take place on June 7, 2026, at the Folketeatret in Copenhagen.

Ticket sales begin on Tuesday, April 28, when we will also reveal who will host this year’s awards ceremony.

This year’s nominees will be announced on May 

2-day workshop for Danish and international guests

In an unstable world, how do we sustain risk and openness in our artistic practice?
This two-day workshop is a hands-on exploration for artists working in performing arts for young audiences. It works through action and interaction rather than language or predefined ideas. Simple objects become tools for generating material, disrupting patterns and moving beyond established ways of making.
At its core is a shared investigation:
What do we avoid, and why? Which themes feel difficult or risky to approach — and what happens when we choose to move towards them?
The workshop brings together participants across cultural and linguistic differences in a shared process that prioritises doing over explaining, and experience over theory.
Open to international guests and Danish professionals who are willing to engage actively in the work.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, company, or producer? Then come by at UP's Open Advisory on the first Wednesday of every month.

yes – dance biennale is a new, large-scale dance festival in Copenhagen, which in late summer 2026 will bring audiences together to experience some of the most powerful and striking contemporary dance in Denmark and the rest of the world.

For a month, dance can be experienced across the city: on stages, in studios, and in public spaces. Large performances and intimate formats. Talks, workshops, and events that welcome everyone.

yes – dance biennale takes place every two years. In 2026, it is created by Dansehallerne, København Danser, Sydhavn Teater, and Dansk Danseteater. From 2028, we invite everyone who works with dance at the highest level to contribute to the program.

The ambition is clear: to make Copenhagen a destination for world-class dance and choreography and to invite audiences up close to an art form that is booming nationally and internationally.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, company, or producer? Then come by at UP's Open Advisory on the first Wednesday of every month.

Network funding is part of the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture, which strengthens artistic and cultural cooperation in the Nordic region and the Baltic countries. The programme focuses on increasing the exchange of knowledge, contacts and interest in Nordic and Baltic art and culture. The Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme comprises three forms of funding: Mobility funding, Network funding and Funding for artist residencies.

What is eligible for funding?

Network funding facilitates meetings, the exchange of ideas and knowledge between professional artists and cultural practitioners in the Nordic and/or Baltic region, that is to say: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Åland. Funding is available both for short-term and long-term networks.

Who is eligible to apply?

Funding is available for professional artists and cultural practitioners (such as curators, producers, literary translators, cultural editors or researchers) in all forms of art and culture. Both individuals and organisations can apply.

Show UP is your regular after-work event at UP – meet fellow performing artists and other interesting people in Baldersgade's cozy courtyard or foyer.

The Culture and Art Programme funds Nordic co-operation in the field of arts and culture. Funding is available for projects with an artistic and/or cultural quality that promotes a diverse and sustainable Nordic Region.

Travel funding for individual professional practitioners of art and culture in the Nordic and Baltic region.

Once again this year, we’ll be gathering for the association’s biggest event of the year—the Danish Performing Arts Association’s annual meeting and general assembly.

This year, we’ll once again be meeting in the lovely setting of Nyborg Strand.

For now, mark your calendars and save the date

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, company, or producer? Then come by at UP's Open Advisory on the first Wednesday of every month.

Grants for projects, touring activities, and project development at the intersection of music and performing arts.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, company, or producer? Then come by at UP's Open Advisory on the first Wednesday of every month.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, company, or producer? Then come by at UP's Open Advisory on the first Wednesday of every month.