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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.

MYKA is currently undergoing major organisational changes, and with a three-year operating grant from the Danish Arts Foundation's Project Support Committee for Performing Arts, we now have the opportunity to engage in long-term planning.

We have therefore decided to advertise a position as coordinating producer with a focus on knowledge of the Danish performing arts landscape, production and touring, children and young people, as well as general administration. We would like to fill the position as soon as possible.

Music Theatre Now connects creators, curators, and producers internationally. Among its members is the Copenhagen Opera Festival.

Every two years, the network holds an awards ceremony for the best brand-new musical theatre works. 

The winners receive a great opportunity for international exposure and a performance at the O Festival in Rotterdam.

Apply before September 9 for a place in the competition

Think your work is redefining opera or music theatre? Prove it. The Music Theatre NOW Awards 2025 — the world’s leading platform for new and groundbreaking music theatre — are now open for submissions.

We’re searching for productions that premiered between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2025. Whether you’re an independent artist, a collective, a festival, or a production house — if you're challenging the limits of sound and stage, we want to see it.

Submissions will be evaluated by an international jury of five leading voices in the field.

Winners will be invited to take part in the O. Festival Professionals Programme in Rotterdam, May 2026, connecting with top international curators, programmers, and producers.

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.

What is eligible for funding?

The programme grants support to projects within all areas of art and culture, in all project phases: preliminary work, production, presentation and dissemination. However, you cannot apply for funding for activities which have already been conducted.

You can apply for support for projects that invest in cultural and artistic productions and creative work as well as to organise and implement projects that develop skills within the field of art and culture. Support can be granted for all types of costs that are directly associated with the project.

Application deadlines:

03.02.2025 – 03.03.2025 15:59 (UTC +2)

11.08.2025 – 11.09.2025 15:59 (UTC +2)

Travel grants for individual arts and culture workers in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Application deadlines

02.01.2025 - 31.01.2025 15:59 (UTC +2)

03.03.2025 - 31.03.2025 15:59 (UTC +2)1

8 AUGUST 2025 - 19 SEPTEMBER 2025 15:59 (UTC +2)

Explore new solutions and create networks for co-operation between artists and cultural practitioners in the Nordic and Baltic region.

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.

Application deadlines:

10.01.2025 – 10.02.2025 15:59 (UTC +2)

25.08.2025 – 25.09.2025 15:59 (UTC +2)

This study was initiated by Sanna Blennow, who, together with lighting designer Ulrich Ruchlinski and dancers Alice Martucci and Karin Bergman, will transform the black box into a laboratory for light and explore how light can bear loss, contain the unspoken, and allow memories to live on, not through stories, but through atmosphere, colours, shadows, and presence.

They will explore how light can be used not only to illuminate dance, but to become dance. Light as an emotional and spatial dramaturg—capable of expressing grief, transformation, and absence.

In their work, they approach light as a co-performer; one that breathes, fades, reveals, dominates, and shatters. How can shifting tones, intensities, and placements evoke an emotional architecture—from loneliness to the softness of community?

When?

September 14, 2:00–4:00 p.m.

Where?

Black Box, Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen NV

Northern European Mobility Opportunity Grant for Artists in the Nordic countries, the UK and Ireland

NEMO (Northern European Mobility Opportunity) is a pilot programme for mobility and artistic exchange, supported by the Nordic Culture Fund and the arts funding agencies of Ireland, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The programme aims to foster international collaboration, strengthen artistic networks across the region and support more artists and arts professionals in engaging with international partners.

The call focuses on individual artists and arts practitioners in the early stages of their careers, reflecting a shared recognition among the partners that this group has a particular need for additional support and opportunities in the current climate.

The call’s total budget would make possible up to 30 grants of up to 75,000 DKK. As this is a limited sum, the organisers expect applications to have a focus on the early stages of partnership and collaboration. For example:

- Travel for partnership development and/or research and development rather than co-production costs.

- Exchange of knowledge, know-how and experience.

- Mentorships e.g. exchange of working methods, traditions, processes.

- Capacity building e.g. strengthening of skills, resources, structures (in order to work internationally)

- Creation of / Design of a small-scale pilot for a future collaboration.

Connect and Create is calling for applications from performing arts and music organisations in sub-Saharan Africa and the European Union for the ‘Creative Tandems’ grant, for activities between March 2026 and March 2028.

Connect and Create is the Sub-Saharan Africa component of the European Union-funded Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture programme. This project, led by the Goethe-Institut and Expertise France, in partnership with the Institut français, aims to renew and strengthen cultural ties between sub-Saharan Africa and the European Union in a spirit of equity, inclusion and sustainability.

Connect and Create Creative Tandems aims to support cooperation and co-production projects in the field of performing arts conceived and implemented by tandems made up of partners based in one of the 48 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and one of the 27 countries of the European Union. This is for all relevant performing arts, including theatre, dance, performance art, music, puppetry, circus arts, or street arts

How can artistic leaders in the independent field move away from survival mode and into a more conscious, sustainable, and personally grounded leadership style?

Performing Arts Platform, in collaboration with process designer and facilitator Priscilla S. Lind Rasmussen, invites you to a theme day focusing on leadership in the independent performing arts field. The theme day is for anyone who wants to develop their own approach to leadership, whether you are new to the role or have many years of experience.

From a regenerative leadership perspective, we will explore the following through reflection, joint dialogue, and concrete tools:

What does it look like when you no longer “just survive” but actually lead?

What does it mean for leadership to be grounded in values, mission, and practice?

How can leadership and artistic vision work together and be elevated through a new understanding of leadership?

The event is an invitation to focus on your own role, find inspiration, and share experiences with colleagues who face similar challenges and questions.

The theme day is the first in a series on sustainable working life in the independent performing arts field, which Performing Arts Platform is planning for 2025–26.

1:00–4:30 p.m.

STUB2 and Performing Arts Platform, Valdemarsgade 1G, 8000 Aarhus C

For this AN HOUR WITH, dancer, choreographer, and Feldenkrais practitioner Antoinette Helbing invites you into her artistic practice and current interest in RESIDUAL MATERIALS.

With RESIDUAL MATERIALS, Helbing explores choreographic composting as a method for transforming emotional residues of laughter and tears into autonomous movements that uncover new layers of embodied knowledge. What new expressions arise from what was once discarded? What resonates when the residual materials from previous emotion- and expression-driven works are distilled into intimate dance?

With this process, Helbing redirects his artistic practice toward a deeper anchoring of dance as an independent art form. While previous works revolving around laughter and tears allowed emotional expression to dominate movement, RESIDUAL MATERIALS aims to renegotiate this relationship. Helbing breathes new life into movement material that was previously discarded as too much dance, exploring surplus material as meaningful and generative elements in a new performative form.

‍When?

September 18, 10-11 a.m.

Where?

Black Box, Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen NV

The study is based on the 13 fundamental principles of the Wudang sword. In their work, the artists focus particularly on how the introverted practice of martial arts techniques can contribute bodily knowledge to the current necessity of becoming a warrior.

It is a practice that cultivates the union of mind, body, and blade, and the sword as an extension of the practitioner's consciousness—a channel for Qi.

How can the body and attention take the form of the blade in a time marked by fragmentation and confusion? And what spaces exist between the fragmented, blurred, and sharp states—how does this translate into form, movement, sound, light, and words? Which warrior figures can be visited and inhabited in this territory?

When?

September 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Where?

Black Box, Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen NV

On October 23, Dansk Scenekunst will share insights into the process of reforming the performing arts and answer your questions in a webinar together with UP.

The proposed budget, which includes DKK 60 million annually in permanent funds to reform the performing arts, has generated great enthusiasm in the industry. According to the government, the funds will ensure that performing arts reach a wider audience while also clearing up outdated legislation and bureaucracy.

Over the past two years, Dansk Scenekunst has driven the reform work through open dialogue meetings and has presented the Minister of Culture with the industry's most important priorities:

Sustainable production and working conditions
Development of regional theatres and small metropolitan theatres
More children and young people should be exposed to the performing arts
More opportunities for independent groups and companies
Strengthened management and board of directors
Quality improvement in the touring sector

Read more about the focus areas here: https://danskscenekunst.dk/vid...

The reform could have a major impact on independent groups and companies, and expectations are high – but there are also many questions. How will the funds be distributed? Which structures will be changed, and when will we see the effects?

You can hear much more about this at the webinar, where UP and Dansk Scenekunst will share insights into the process, set out the most important benchmarks, and answer your questions.

When?
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 1:00-1:45 p.m.

Registration?
Register here no later than Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.:
https://forms.gle/R7eJiJRXN2bU...

You will receive a link to the webinar after registering. If you have any specific questions you would like answered during the webinar, please submit them with your registration.

In this conversation, Andreas Haglund explores the interests, texts, and contexts that inform their current work. Theoretical texts, somatic references, aesthetic examples, poetry, and choreographic methods will be discussed to give a sense of how Haglund uses dance and choreography to study the metabolic divide and its sociocultural consequences.

Eco-sexuality, self-realisation/performativity in late capitalism, sound as staged material, somatic magic, songwriting and queer kinships, space and anxiety are all topics that currently occupy Andreas.

When?

September 14, 10-11 a.m.

Where

Black Box, Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen NV

The residencies offered through this call are thematic and open to circus artists and companies who work cross-aesthetically with music composition and contemporary circus.

We are excited to discover new work that is being created with circus and music dramaturgy at its core, ranging from research and experimental to productions close to premiering. The projects can be within any circus discipline and any musical genre.

Professional contemporary circus artists and companies are welcome to apply; please see individual geographic terms for the different residencies below.

Through its residency programme, DYNAMO aims to support the circus environment to its fullest extent by also providing artists with the opportunity to do unrestricted creative work and contribute to the development of contemporary circus in the Nordic region and Europe.

The Danish Arts Foundation's support for international activities

Organisations working with performing arts activities can apply for grants of up to DKK 75,000 for individual international activities. There are two application deadlines per year, in April and October.

The Danish Arts Foundation's Promotion Scheme

Approval of a theatre performance as a professional performing arts with a view to applying for a promotion grant from the Promotion Scheme. Applications received on April 1 or October 10 will be processed within one month

The Danish Arts Foundation's Promotion Scheme

Approval of a theater performance as professional performing arts with a view to applying for a promotion grant from the Promotion Scheme. Applications received on April 1 or October 10 will be processed within one month.

Sort/Hvid tilbyder to betalte residencies på Thoravej 29 for ordløse, musikdramatiske undersøgelser i black box med teknisk udstyr. Afholdes i uge 9 eller uge 10, 2026.

Hvad træder frem, når ordene, som vi plejer at beskrive, forstå og udforske verden med, tages væk? Dette open call henvender sig til kunstnerne, der arbejder i krydsfeltet mellem kropslige, rumlige og musiske udtryk hinsides sprog og ord. Vi er nysgerrige på, hvordan det ordløse formsprog kan flytte grænserne for musikdramatikken og rokke ved vores verdensforståelse.

For four weeks, artists Antoinette Helbing, Alica Minar, and Kirstine Lindemann will be working SIDE BY SIDE in the same studio. While FOCUSING on their individual research projects, they will also allow their work to cross-pollinate and be INSPIRED by their colleagues.

For this WORKSHARING, we invite you to gain insight into Alica's artistic research Point of touch: Practices of Empathy and Kirstine's research ‘In discrepancy and consonance’.

Point of touch: Practices of Empathy. In this work, Minar explores empathy as a bodily and relational practice rather than an innate quality. Through somatic inquiry, authentic movement, and choreographic experiments, she explores empathy as a cultivated redirection of attention. The skin is treated as a porous threshold—a tactile and perceptual boundary where the self meets the other. Drawing on phenomenology, affect theory, and ethics of care, she explores the contradictions of empathy, including empathic bias and compassion fatigue, while proposing presence and witnessing as political gestures.
Practices such as touch-based improvisation and guided encounters are used as tools to fine-tune sensing and navigate shared vulnerability. Not solutions, but conditions that create opportunities for being-with – for remaining open, impressionable and attentive.

‍‘In discrepancy and consonance’ is a study based on the voice and movements of a solo performer. In this work, Lindemann explores the self versus the other, connection versus separation, while also exploring the potential for discrepancy and harmony between gesture, sound, audience, and space. Inspired by Simone de Beauvoir and her book The Second Sex, questions of otherness and identity form the core, starting from the very beginning: the voice and the body in space.
How can voice and gesture relate to each other, to the space, and to an audience? Can this relationship dissolve? What possibilities do we find in the spaces between the discrepancies?

This artistic investigation is based on workshops conducted in collaboration with classical singer and performer Hanne Marie le Fevre.

When?
October 2, 3-5 p.m.

Where
Studio 0.1, Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen NV

Pandora talks: PERFORMING ARTS AT HEART

Performing arts have the power to move, enrich, and bring us together! Many people have realized this in relation to well-being, self-expression through art, and education. We invite you to talks focusing on the qualities of performing arts in the lives of children and adults. In a series of five talks, dedicated theater and culture professionals will share their experiences and explain why they are passionate about performing arts today. We will ask questions such as: How can art move us today? What does it mean to be artistically active? And what can the performing arts give us for a good and meaningful life as an audience or participant? Pandora talks is a dialogical format that encourages informal conversation among all visitors.

The event takes place in a relaxed atmosphere and is free and open to anyone interested – seat reservations via the billetto link. We offer a glass of wine or juice.

Time and place: 5 Fridays at 7-9 p.m. at Kulturstationen Vanløse (near Vanløse Station).

The presentation lasts approx. 1 hour, followed by a conversation. Pandora

Talks is supported by Vanløse Lokaludvalg.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, performer or producer? Then come to Drop-in-Advice at UP on the first Wednesday of every month.

Drop-in-Advice is inspired by the successful Morning Producers format in London, where it was developed by ArtsAdmin – an institution with many similarities to UP. Now we're bringing the concept to Denmark.

For Drop-In-Advice, UP's team or other experts sit in the Green Room from 10-12 in the morning, ready for professional sparring and dialogue. We make sure there is coffee on tap - and you are welcome to stay for lunch at 12 noon with everyone in the building.

You can bring your specific challenges or questions and be matched with the right advisor. From time to time we might choose a focus area, such as co-productions, internationalisation or fundraising. The format is open and we plan the duration of the advisory sessions according to attendance on the day.

Location: UP - The Development Platform for Performing Arts, Baldersgade 6, 2200 København N

Or on Zoom if you are not able to come by: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8547...

Time: 10am-12am

Price: free of charge

Registration: not required

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, performer or producer? Then come to Drop-in-Advice at UP on the first Wednesday of every month.

Drop-in-Advice is inspired by the successful Morning Producers format in London, where it was developed by ArtsAdmin – an institution with many similarities to UP. Now we're bringing the concept to Denmark.

For Drop-In-Advice, UP's team or other experts sit in the Green Room from 10-12 in the morning, ready for professional sparring and dialogue. We make sure there is coffee on tap - and you are welcome to stay for lunch at 12 noon with everyone in the building.

You can bring your specific challenges or questions and be matched with the right advisor. From time to time we might choose a focus area, such as co-productions, internationalisation or fundraising. The format is open and we plan the duration of the advisory sessions according to attendance on the day.

Location: UP - The Development Platform for Performing Arts, Baldersgade 6, 2200 København N

Or on Zoom if you are not able to come by: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8547...

Time: 10am-12am

Price: free of charge

Registration: not required

Pandora talks: PERFORMING ARTS AT HEART

Performing arts have the power to move, enrich, and bring us together! Many people have realized this in relation to well-being, self-expression through art, and education. We invite you to talks focusing on the qualities of performing arts in the lives of children and adults. In a series of five talks, dedicated theater and culture professionals will share their experiences and explain why they are passionate about performing arts today. We will ask questions such as: How can art move us today? What does it mean to be artistically active? And what can the performing arts give us for a good and meaningful life as an audience or participant? Pandora talks is a dialogical format that encourages informal conversation among all visitors.

The event takes place in a relaxed atmosphere and is free and open to anyone interested – seat reservations via the billetto link. We offer a glass of wine or juice.

Time and place: 5 Fridays at 7-9 p.m. at Kulturstationen Vanløse (near Vanløse Station).

The presentation lasts approx. 1 hour, followed by a conversation.

Pandora Talks is supported by Vanløse Lokaludvalg.

Are you a professional self-producing performing artist in Region Midt? Then mark your calendar for an inspiring networking meeting on November 19, 2025. At the meeting, we will dive into the results of the mapping of the project “Performing Artists in the Middle,” exchange experiences, and create new connections between artists across our region.

Time: Wednesday, November 19, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location: Teater Fluks (alternatively at Performing Arts Platform, depending on the number of registrations)

Organised by: Teater Fluks and Performing Arts Platform with support from Region Midt.

Registration

Participation, including lunch, is free of charge.

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

There are always drinks, snacks, and entertainment when UP opens its doors in Baldersgade for the Thursday bar ShowUP.

Meet colleagues and acquaintances from near and far, strengthen your network in a relaxed setting, and bring anyone you like. Everyone is welcome.

There will always be entertainment – usually from another corner of the contemporary art scene. Sit back and be inspired.

Pandora talks: PERFORMING ARTS AT HEART

Performing arts have the power to move, enrich, and bring us together! Many people have realized this in relation to well-being, self-expression through art, and education. We invite you to talks focusing on the qualities of performing arts in the lives of children and adults. In a series of five talks, dedicated theater and culture professionals will share their experiences and explain why they are passionate about performing arts today. We will ask questions such as: How can art move us today? What does it mean to be artistically active? And what can the performing arts give us for a good and meaningful life as an audience or participant? Pandora talks is a dialogical format that encourages informal conversation among all visitors.

The event takes place in a relaxed atmosphere and is free and open to anyone interested – seat reservations via the billetto link. We offer a glass of wine or juice.

Time and place: 5 Fridays at 7-9 p.m. at Kulturstationen Vanløse (near Vanløse Station).

The presentation lasts approx. 1 hour, followed by a conversation. Pandora

Talks is supported by Vanløse Lokaludvalg.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, performer or producer? Then come to Drop-in-Advice at UP on the first Wednesday of every month.

Drop-in-Advice is inspired by the successful Morning Producers format in London, where it was developed by ArtsAdmin – an institution with many similarities to UP. Now we're bringing the concept to Denmark.

For Drop-In-Advice, UP's team or other experts sit in the Green Room from 10-12 in the morning, ready for professional sparring and dialogue. We make sure there is coffee on tap - and you are welcome to stay for lunch at 12 noon with everyone in the building.

You can bring your specific challenges or questions and be matched with the right advisor. From time to time we might choose a focus area, such as co-productions, internationalisation or fundraising. The format is open and we plan the duration of the advisory sessions according to attendance on the day.

Location: UP - The Development Platform for Performing Arts, Baldersgade 6, 2200 København N

Or on Zoom if you are not able to come by: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8547...

Time: 10am-12am

Price: free of charge 

Registration: not required

Pandora talks: PERFORMING ARTS AT HEART

Performing arts have the power to move, enrich, and bring us together! Many people have realized this in relation to well-being, self-expression through art, and education. We invite you to talks focusing on the qualities of performing arts in the lives of children and adults. In a series of five talks, dedicated theater and culture professionals will share their experiences and explain why they are passionate about performing arts today. We will ask questions such as: How can art move us today? What does it mean to be artistically active? And what can the performing arts give us for a good and meaningful life as an audience or participant? Pandora talks is a dialogical format that encourages informal conversation among all visitors.

The event takes place in a relaxed atmosphere and is free and open to anyone interested – seat reservations via the billetto link. We offer a glass of wine or juice.

Time and place: 5 Fridays at 7-9 p.m. at Kulturstationen Vanløse (near Vanløse Station).

The presentation lasts approx. 1 hour, followed by a conversation.

Pandora Talks is supported by Vanløse Lokaludvalg.