The new amazing editions of Criatório and Shuttle for 2021

The new editions of the cultural municipal programmes Criatório and Shuttle, for the coming year of 2021, have been approved by the Executive Meeting, earlier this week.

The Criatório opens applications this 16th December to award 25 grants, worth 15 thousand euros; fifteen of those grants will be awarded to artistic creation projects and ten grants for programming spaces. The purpose is to promote the solidification of artists, cultural agents and spaces’ activities in Porto.

This will be Criatório’s fifth edition and, like in previous years, support will encompass projects that are included in the fields of visual arts and curatorship, performing arts, composition, programming and musical performing, literature and critical thinking.

This new edition features the following members of the jury: Luís Fernandes (musician, sound artists and cultural programmer), Marta Mestre (curator and researcher) and Raquel André (performer and stage director), as regards the modality to support artistic creation.

In turn, the programming spaces modality features the following members of the jury: Inês Grosso (curator), Pedro Quintela (sociologist, researcher and consultant) and Pedro Rocha (programmer and music curator, sound art and performance).

As regards Shuttle, there will be a new tender for 2021; and following an increase in the available budget, there is another budget strengthening, in a total of 75 thousand euros to support Porto’s artistic scene at international level.

The programme will accommodate applications till October 2021 and the jury will, then, decide on applications and Grant allocation, in February, June and October. The maximum amount to be allocated is 25 thousand euros per each meeting. If the total budget value is not fully allocated, it will transfer to the following meeting.

Applications for Shuttle projects, in the fields of visual arts and curatorship, performative arts, performance and musical composition, translation and literary creation and essay writing are open as of 1st January. Grant allocation is decided by the following jury: the artist Marta Ângela (Von Calhau!), the architect and curator Luís Albuquerque Pinho and the doctor, performer and choreographer Mara Andrade.

Consult further information on the Criatório and Shuttle programmes and applications at the Pláka Platform.