FADO E-BULLETIN
April 2026

1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/EVENT SCRAPE PERFORMANCE ART RESIDENCY
   DATES APRIL 5, 2026 (ONCE A MONTH UNTIL SEPTEMBER)
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE LO BIL

SCRAPE performance art residency
April 5, May 3, June 7, July 5, August 2, Sept 6

12:00–2:00pm
Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto

This is an event series notice and a call for artist interest. We are a nomadic performance art venue run by a group of Toronto-based visual and sound artists. We have received a monthly space residency from the Tranzac. Each month we will offer a 2-hour public exhibition of performance art actions in this intimate concert setting.

We welcome a wide spectrum of approaches to performance art including artists who prioritize urgency over production value. Because this residency takes place in a music-oriented venue, programming will include a special emphasis on sound and sonic collaborations. What does performance art sound like? We hope to build an audience and a platform for conversation with community members who are interested in developing relations between sound and physicality within visual art performance.

You are welcome to introduce yourself by email (scrapeperformance@gmail.com) if you would like to perform or just join us on the dates above. There is no ticketing or registration link. The events are pay-what-you-can with the funds distributed to the artists who performed that day. We are applying for grants but at this time we have no resources to pay artists beyond what we collect at the door. We generally divide the time by the number of artists who wish to perform, often involving more than 10 performances. But because of the 2-hour constraint with this residency, we will try to limit the number of artists to host each month so that we can respect the space needed for each performance.

History: This nomadic performance event began in April 2024 with a site-specific performance event in an empty lot on Geary Street in Toronto. We have hosted 8 events at venues including Soybomb, Tranzac, OCADU Ignite Gallery, Starving Artist Restaurant, a second event at Geary St in 2025, Devonian Square ice rink, and Field Trip (Intersections) in the Annex area. Scrape members are across ages, races, sexual orientations. We try to be inclusive and aim to offer a space that supports the participation of IBPOC artists.

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2. EVENT I AM THE ART NOBUO KUBOTA
   DATE APRIL 9, 2026
   LOCATION VANCOUVER, CANADA
   SOURCE WESTERN FRONT

Western Front presents
I Am the Art NOBUO KUBOTA
By Annette Mangaard

Screening & Talk
The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St, Vancouver
7:00PM

Western Front and Powell Street Festival Society is pleased to present a screening of Annette Mangaard’s documentary I Am the Art NOBUO KUBOTA (2025) at The Cinematheque.

I Am the Art is a bold, yet intimate portrait of multidisciplinary artist Nobuo Kubota, a Japanese Canadian trailblazer whose creative practice never stopped evolving. From early sculpture and painting to sound poetry, installation, film, avant-garde jazz, and live performance, Kubota spent a lifetime breaking rules and fusing East and West, silence and sound, memory and experiment. But the documentary is also a love story. While Kubota pushes his body and voice into uncharted territory, he is also caring for his 96-year-old wife, Lee, who lives with advanced Alzheimer’s. Rare archival footage of his work with the Canadian Creative Music Collective (CCMC) and the Artists Jazz Band, along with haunting images from WWII internment camps, show how resilience and imagination shaped his life and art.

Kubota passed away on September 30, 2025, after viewing and approving of the film. The screening will conclude with a conversation between filmmaker and former student of Kubota’s, Annette Mangaard, and Vancouver-based artist Cindy Mochizuki.

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3. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS GENERAL IDEA FELLOWSHIP
   DEADLINE DATE APRIL 10, 2026
   LOCATION OTTAWA, CANADA
   SOURCE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA

Call for Applications: 2026–2027 General Idea Fellowship
Deadline: April 10, 2026, 11:59pm EDT

The National Gallery of Canada is now accepting applications for its General Idea Fellowship, which encourages and supports advanced research in contemporary art. Now in its fourth year, the Fellowship offers $15,000 (CAN) in support, covering expenses and allowances, for at least four weeks of fulltime residency to be completed between May 31, 2026, and May 30, 2027. The deadline to apply is Friday April 10, 2026, at 11:59pm EDT.

Research projects must engage with the Gallerys collections—particularly the Art Metropole collection, the General Idea fonds, the AA Bronson collection, and related materials though projects do not need to focus exclusively on General Idea. All research will be conducted on-site at the National Gallery of Canada and may address any area of post war and contemporary art, including drawing, photography, printmaking, artists books, multiples, video, installation, or other media.

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4. EVENT FIERCE JAMS 01
   DATE APRIL 11, 2026
   LOCATION BIRMINGHAM, UK
   SOURCE FIERCE

Fierce Jams 01
April 11, 2026
3:30PM
Stechford Leisure Centre, Birmingham

ARTISTS
Felix King (Birmingham)
Jessie McLaughlin (Birmingham)
Eric Scutaro (Birmingham)
Tammy Woodrow (Birmingham)
Dana Michel (Canada)

Fierce Jams is our new, ongoing, and nomadic performance series, indulging in small-scale experiments in contemporary performance and live art. It is an excuse for Birmingham’s performance community to gather and to develop their practice in conversation with each other. And for Birmingham artists interested in getting involved in future editions of Fierce Jams, our rolling Call for Expressions of Interest remains open!

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5. EVENT PAE PRESENTS PERFORMANCE ART IN WGW #5
   DATE APRIL 12, 2026
   LOCATION ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
   SOURCE PAE

Performance Art in WGW #5
April 12, 2026
Open 13:30 | Start 14:00 | End 16:30

ARTISTS
Philemon Mukarno (NL/ID)
Frans van Lent (FR/NL)
Vanita & Johanna Monk (NL/CA)
Elisabeth Harnik (AT) & Jaap Blonk (NL)

Supported by Cultuur Concreet & WegGeefWinkel

PAE stands for Performance Art Event and is an artist-led initiative for performance art in the Netherlands since 2008. PAE has no fixed structure or pattern, but changes depending on the artistic developments and the work of the artists involved. The organization is currently led by the artists Nina Boas and ieke Trinks and supported by the artists Kirsten Heshusius.

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6. EVENT BUZZCUT
   DATE APRIL 15–18, 2026
   LOCATION GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
   SOURCE BUZZCUT

BUZZCUT: A festival of experimental performance
April 15–18, 2026

ARTISTS
Charneh Watson
Margot Conde Arenas
Shona Macnaughton
Dorine Mugisha
Sean Wai Keung
Collectif Echoes
Neil Joseph Price
Gemma Jones
Sym Stellium
n:u (melissandre varin)
Pablo Pakula
Camila Arévalo
Edward Thomasson
Marios Ento-Engkolo
Graham Bell Tornado
Celia Green
Amber Helene Muller St Thomas

BUZZCUT Festival 2026 is a gathering of Live Art and experimental performance, a place to pull apart what performing can be, look & feel like. We’re excited to present work by artists from Scotland, the UK, and beyond. With a particular focus on those whose lived experience and creative processes speak to alternative, experimental and counter-cultural practices. Expect curated moments of performance that resists and stretches beyond conventional forms of theatre, dance, drag, cabaret, and performance.

Including…
an intimate exploration of rage and joy through an interactive movement and sound score
collective experiences of dancing, singing, and eating together lead by local artists
a dance exploration of polarity, racism, and identity, set to contemporary and Greek folk music
a ritual tribute to Queer and Trans ancestors in a beautiful Glasgow Southside chapel

BUZZCUT aims to make the festival accessible, welcoming, and easy to engage with.
For venue accessibility info go to: Venue Info & Accessibility.
For transport & travel info go to: Transport Links & Food.

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7. EVENT VOIR LE TEMPS PERFORMANCES
   DATE APRIL 24, 25, MAY 9, 2026
   LOCATION BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
   SOURCE ALICE DE VISSCHER

Voir le Temps
Curated by Alice De Visscher

ARTISTS
Hilal Aydogdu (BE)
Béatrice Didier (BE)
Emma Revest (BE)
Sandra Johnston (NI/UK)
Bénédicte Davin (BE)
Emmanuel Kervyn (BE)

VENUE: La Part du Feu, Brussels
24 April, 7:00pm: Hilal Aydogdu (BE), Béatrice Didier (BE)
25 April, 2:00 pm: Emma Revest (BE), Sandra Johnston (NI/UK)
9 May, 7:00pm: Bénédicte Davin (BE) and Emmanuel Kervyn (BE)

I chose to present women visual artists for whom performance and body/voice work are central. I invite the audience to share the here and now with artists creating before their eyes—artists who question the place of women, who explore intimacy, and who offer us a renewed perspective on architectures and bodies. To experience together the passing of time.

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8. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN?
   DEADLINE DATE APRIL 26, 2026
   LOCATION MONTREAL, CANADA
   SOURCE PME-ART

How Does Change Happen?
Deadline to submit: April 26, 2026 at midnight

Workshop-Audition will take place on May 9, 2026 from 1:00–5:00pm.
Tea and snacks will be served!

PME-ART is looking for 4 participants to co-create and perform our next show How Does Change Happen?

These participants can be performers and artists, but they might also be non-performers with experiences and knowledge directly connected to how social change happens. Because the topic of change is lived differently, both historically and today, we want to open our doors to creators from many intersections.

To find our 4 participants, PME-ART will be holding a Workshop-Audition with the help of a 4-person selection committee. Though we know auditions are inherently stressful, we are hoping to create a convivial, supportive atmosphere. PME-ART is not a space for competition, and we encourage working together with everyone in the audition. It is not only an opportunity for everyone to meet PME-ART, but also for everyone to meet each other. We would like to create connections that inform not only our current project but also future projects to come. This is as much about whether you like us! Please send us about one paragraph OR a 2-minute recording (video or audio) about why you would like to be part of the project along with either a short bio or resume. See here for further information and how to submit your application.

What We Are Looking For… PME-ART’s work is most often about: “Being yourself in a performance situation,” so we are looking for people interested in being themselves on stage.

Direct Address: Part of being yourself on stage is talking to the audience the same as you would to anybody in your day-to-day life, so we are looking for people with a desire to speak clearly and concisely to an audience. We look for the courage to say things about the current predicament of the world that are both direct and complex.

Deep research into a theme or topic: We are interested in what makes our desires political, and we delve into the deeper layers of social and political discomfort. We believe acknowledging uncomfortable realities (instead of pretending they are not there) is of fundamental importance to developing generous and unpredictable critical approaches. We are looking for people with a deep interest in diving into the question of how social change happens.

Collaboration: We engage with the ethical and political challenges that arise when working in a highly collaborative way, searching for a delicate balance between each performer’s freedom (to create the thinking, physicality, and substance of the work) and the rigour needed to structure and gradually refine our material over the course of our process. We make decisions together, so we are looking for people who enjoy working closely together.

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9. ARTIST IN RESIDENCE MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY
   DEADLINE DATE APRIL 30, 2026
   LOCATION SACKVILLE, CANADA
   SOURCE MOUNT ALLISON

***Artists who are engaged in performance-based artistic practices are invited to apply.

The Pierre Lassonde School of Fine Arts at Mount Allison University invites applications to its 2027 Artist-in-Residence program. This annual non-recurring residency will support research, development, and creation of a project proposed by a successful professional artist. To increase the degree of diversity within the Mount Allison community, we particularly encourage applications from artists who self-identify as Indigenous to Turtle Island and/or as racialized peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual and gender identities, members of equity deserving communities.

The selected artist will develop a project in the Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts on the Mount Allison University campus over the residency period. Working in the context of an undergraduate Fine Arts program, the Artist-in-Residence will engage with students, faculty, and the greater university community as they develop their project. The Pierre Lassonde Artist-in-Residence will be appointed in the School of Fine Arts for a six-month period, from January to June, and will be supported with suitable office space, access to studio facilities (shared with students), and administrative support. The Artist-in-Residence will coordinate with the Head of the School of Fine Arts to engage students and faculty in their residency project.

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10. WORKSHOP PAS | PERFORMANCE ART STUDIES #99
    DEADLINE DATE APRIL 28, 2026
    LOCATION PLZEN, CZECH
    SOURCE BBB JOHANNES DEIMLING

PAS | Performance Art Studies #99
KNOCK, KNOCK! – Urban Interventions
Led by BBB Johannes Deimling

May 18–24, 2026
Plzeň, Czechia

If we are lost in a city, we reach for maps and follow the fastest route. The destination becomes more important than the path. But a city holds many other ways of moving – familiar shortcuts, invisible traces, or the quiet, instinctive routes of animals that ignore our logic. This course proposes a shift: to experience the city not as a map, but as a field of encounters. Site-specific performance is not simply about being somewhere. It is a way of working – a method of attention. Every performance exists in relation to its surroundings, but here the site becomes an active partner. It carries histories, social tensions, rhythms of life, human and non-human presences. It asks questions.

Our research will unfold in the neighbourhood southwest of Moving Station in Plzeň. Old villas, apartment blocks, student dormitories, temporary housing and pockets of urban wilderness meet here. Homeless communities and street cats share this terrain. Different realities overlap, often without touching. Through walking, observing and performing, we will enter into dialogue with this environment. We will test how a place shapes action—and how action, in turn, can reveal a place. Instead of following a predefined route, we will let the site guide us.

Workshop structure:
A 7-day learning programme offering a practical, in-depth dialogue with performance art practice in relation to space, site and intervention. Through a series of artistic and experimental exercises, participants will engage with the neighbourhood surrounding a former train station in Plzeň and develop site-specific works to be presented during NASTEVŘENO, an international festival of contemporary theatre and performance.

Application deadline: 28 April / 8 May 2026
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and spots are limited.
Price: €150* / €200 (early bird) / €280 (regular fee)
*Reduced price for max. 4 students from Czechia
Teaching language: English
Participant age: 17-150 years old 🙂
Experience level: Tailored for beginners and professionals.

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11. EVENT/RESIDENCY LIVING IN THE PLAY
    DATE AUGUST 9–23, 2026
    LOCATION UMBRIA, ITALY
    SOURCE MARK JEFFERY

nido v : LIVING IN THE PLAY Artist Residency in collaboration with Poor Farm Experiment, Wisconsin and International Centre for the Arts, IT.

August 9–23, 2026
Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
Residency Co-Directors: Mark Jeffery and Kelly Kaczynski

Living Within the Play: nido celebrates its fifth annual artist residency bringing together an international consortium of artists to Monte Castello di Vibio, a 15th century hilltown in the rural region of Umbria, Italy. This two-week residency culminates in an exhibition of artworks and performances. During the residency, we individually and collectively explore the relationships between the social historical landscape, use of land resources, and the narratives of Monte Castello di Vibio and the surrounding region.

QUESTIONS: please write to Mark and Kelly at poorfarmliving@gmail.com

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