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Hidden Door invites visual artists, dance artists, and spoken word artists to submit existing or developing works to be reimagined for their 2027 festival.
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Get matched →Hidden Door is inviting artists, performers, and makers to reimagine existing or developing work for their 2027 festival. Hidden Door specializes in turning overlooked and unusual urban spaces into temporary festivals filled with art, music, movement, and stories. Their 2027 venue remains a secret for now, but they are inviting visual artists, dance artists, and spoken word artists to submit works that could adapt to a range of spaces and that resonate with the idea of Afterlives of Use.
Afterlives of Use explores how places, objects, images, and stories change meaning when they are moved, reinterpreted, reimagined, or put to use again. Bodies carry their own archives of movement and memory, reshaped through experience, repetition, exchange, and play. Hidden Door is interested in work that uncovers or invents histories, transforms everyday materials and actions, or unsettles familiar ways of seeing, moving, and feeling. They welcome work that sparks curiosity, raises questions, or invites unexpected encounters, helping shape how people experience the festival’s spaces.
Hidden Door is interested in how work shapes a place, how people encounter it, and how work retains its own identities while forming connections beyond them. They welcome existing work and work in progress that could be presented or adapted for a festival environment. This call does not fund the production of entirely new work. Artists can also express an interest in expanding their proposed work through collaboration with artists working in other art forms.
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The 2027 venue is still to be announced. Hidden Door works with buildings at different moments in their lives, so they are interested in how your work could adapt to a range of spaces. The venue and exact dates are expected to be confirmed soon.
Over the next few months, Hidden Door will announce further opportunities for filmmakers, theatre practitioners, performers, and musicians to apply to be part of the programme. Subscribe for email updates to hear about future opportunities.