FADO Performance Art Centre invites proposals for curatorial projects for our 2026–2027 programming season.
FADO is seeking to support and cultivate curatorial projects created by/in/for the Canadian Performance Art ecology. We want to fund and support the production and presentation of innovative and experimental curatorial projects, to be presented in Toronto during our 2026–2027 season, of varying sizes—from small-scale projects focused on a single artist/theme to larger project concepts/series presenting the work of multiple artists.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Curatorial projects focused on performance art/artists/processes/form including but not limited to:
- Gallery/presentational works
- Projects in site-specific contexts or public space
- Durational works
- multi-disciplinary or performance-adjacent
- research projects with a public-facing or audience engagement element
- performance for podcast, camera or on-line platforms
- Projects that work within specific audience or community
- Series within a series or one-off event
- and anything else you can think of
Projects will be chosen based on their inventiveness and experimental character AND FOR their attention to the practicalities of execution/feasibility within FADO’s presentation capacities and resources.
BUDGET & SCALE
Overall project budgets will be set by FADO, including artist fees and curator honorariums. Budgets can range from $2,500 (small, one artist) to $10,000 (2–3 artists) to $20,000 (multiple artists/projects).
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
THIS IS NOT a call for personal projects. You can be an artist that curates, but you cannot curate your own work. Please do not submit your own work for consideration.
This is a call for Toronto-based and Canadian curators. Projects are to be realized and presented in Toronto. FADO cannot support projects from international curators who wish to present international artists in Toronto. However, a Canadian curator may propose a project that includes an artist/project from outside of Canada. Project proposals that are designed for dissemination online / virtual platforms will be considered from international and Canadian curators.
You can propose an in-progress project that requires more research and development (including finding the artists you want to work with) before being presented at a later time. Alternatively, you can propose a project that is ready to go.
YOUR PROPOSAL INCLUDES:
- Contact information (name, email, links to websites/previous projects etc.)
- Curatorial statement, information on who you are, why you want to curate a project for FADO
- Curatorial project description, statement, vision
- Artist project descriptions, bios, other information (to the extent they are known)
- Project timeline, curatorial/artistic needs, production needs (to the extent they are known)
Please use this GOOGLE SUBMISSION FORM.
Call for proposals open until March 1, 2026.
If you have any questions while preparing your submission or would prefer to submit your proposal a different way, please contact us: info@performanceart.ca