Applications are now open for the co-creation residency Accra / Berlin. The residency will take place in summer 2025. To enable applicants to plan ahead more easily, this round’s application deadline is 12 December 2024 instead of the usual spring deadline.
The Accra / Berlin co-creation residency enables artistic partnerships and transcultural exchange across almost 8,000 km and two continents. In cooperation with Black Girls Glow and ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics, Musicboard Berlin is granting an international, two-part co-creation residency to solo musicians who identify as women, intersex or non-binary. Berlin musicians can apply via Musicboard for a stay of six weeks in Accra. Through Black Girls Glow, a musician from Accra is selected for a stay of up to two months in Berlin.
The aim of the co-creation residency is to foster exceptional collaborations and long-term artistic and cultural exchange between musicians living in Accra and those living in Berlin. In addition to the intended artistic collaboration, the residencies serve as a point of reference and contact for their partners, connecting them with the respective local creative scenes and artistic networks.
The Call for concepts is aimed at artists from all genres of pop music, meaning all music genres and styles that cannot be clearly designated as classical, new music or jazz. This includes all forms of cross-genre and experimental pop music. Eligible to apply are solo musicians who live and work in Berlin and who identify as women, intersex, or non-binary. For the stay in Accra, we particularly welcome applications by Black people and/or by people of African descent.
The application deadline for the co-creation residency Accra / Berlin in 2025 is on 12 December 2024 at 6 p.m. The allocation of funding is subject to the availability of funds. Further Musicboard residencies are expected to be called for at the beginning of 2025.
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