
" Moving Classics Sonic Bridges | Residency in Ireland 2025 "
Moving Classics Sonic Bridges | Residency in Ireland 2025
A paid residency for writers and songwriters in Ireland, explores language as identity
Image: Soundtrap on Unsplash
This is a paid opportunity for EU or Balkan based researchers, writers, poets, songwriters, playwrights or librettists to join a creative team exploring language as identity in Ireland.
What does the project look for?
At the edges of Europe languages meet, morph and both make & break communities. The first Sonic Bridges film will explore how languages mingling at the edges of Europe are used to both include and exclude.
This is an opportunity for an EU or Balkan based writer to create a spoken word or sung piece for the 10-13 minute film being created as the output for the first Moving Classics Sonic Bridges commission in collaboration with a film maker and composer in Ireland. the use of personal, official and unofficial archives is encouraged rooting the storytelling in lived experience of the changing power of language in relation to changing location
About MCSB
Building on the 2014-2016 Creative Europe project ‘Moving Classics’ & the 2018-2022 “Sonic Flux” our new project Moving Classics: Sonic Bridges (MCSB) is a project that will be creatively inspired by the Skopje 2028 theme ‘Culture over Diversity”. Working with personal testimony, original music and AV/Film installations It will connect Writers, musicians and AV/Film artists with our production teams to explore modern European identity at the edges.
The Project will create 10 hybrid sonic & visual experiences (art films, projections) enabling musicians and artists from all corners of Europe to work with diverse ethnographers, visual storytellers and communities along with the Project Partners and their creative teams. The films will be published by creative placemakers and presented at project partner events and our festival networks.
INFO
AMOUNT
€3,000 + Travel & Accommodation
APPLICATION DEADLINE
July 27, 2025
ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
ELIGIBILITY
- This call is for researchers, writers, poets, songwriters, playwrights or librettists
- The project focuses particularly on narratives of minority or immigrating languages, so applications from artists with lived experience are encouraged.
- Eligible artists must reside in and have permission to work in Creative Europe participating countries
APPLICATION DETAILS
For the application process, please visit Moving Classics Sonic Bridges' official website.
NOTE
*The calls that are listed on our website are shared for informational purposes and are sometimes subject to change. Please visit the organization's official open call website for up-to-date information
DEADLINE
2025-07-27
TYPE OF SUPPORT
Public funding
FUNDING COUNTRIES
All EU Countries