Para Site

Open Call: Workshops for Emerging Arts Professionals 2024—Scholarships Offered

Applications Due: 19 August, 2024, 10 am HKT
Workshop Dates: 23–30 September, 2024
Workshops Location: Hong Kong

 

Para Site is pleased to announce the 2024 Workshops for Emerging Arts Professionals, alongside a one-day Public Sharing event which will take place in late September 2024. In its seventh edition, we will work with a group of emerging curators, writers, critics, researchers, and other arts professionals from Hong Kong and beyond, through a series of closed-door workshops, roundtable discussions, and field trips. 

The 8-day intensive programme provides participants with a forum for problem-solving, collective learning, and to reflect on the evolving challenges of practices dedicated to positive structural change in the field of contemporary art. Participants will engage in a reflective process that challenges them to reconsider their daily practice through intersectional perspectives, developing new commitments that promote meaningful, sustainable change within the environments they inhabit. By connecting practices and perspectives from various localities, the program aims to serve as a catalyst for change, offering new paths for exploration and engagement that can help navigate the intricacies and challenges of cultural work.

This program signals Para Site’s commitment to creating a more inclusive, diverse, and equitable art ecosystem. With generous support from S. H. Ho Foundation, Para Site will offer a limited number of scholarships to support the participation of emerging arts professionals with long-term vision from local art ecologies across the Asia-Pacific region.

Application Requirements

  • A written response (max. 400 words EACH) to two prompts: 
    • ‘How do small acts contribute to progressive structural changes in the art world?’
    • ‘Tell us a transformative institutional practice in the arts and culture space that inspires new modes of learning and collaboration?’
  • A description (max. 300 words) alongside relevant documentation of a project or work initiated by the applicant.
  • A full Curriculum Vitae (not exceeding three pages), including a description of relevant working experience.

Application Process

  • Application materials should be submitted in one PDF document, including a table of contents with corresponding pages on the cover page
  • PDFs should be saved as [Last Name]_[First Name].pdf 
  • Please send completed applications in English to application@para-site.art by 19 August, 2024, 10 am HKT and put ‘2024 Workshops for Emerging Arts Professionals’ in the subject line
  • Applicants will be notified of the results in late August 2024
  • Incomplete applications will not be considered

General Information

  • The workshops will be delivered in English
  • There is no tuition fee for the program. Selected participants will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses 
  • Para Site will cover local transportation for all of the scheduled site visits
  • A number of scholarships for accommodation and travel costs are available and will be awarded based on application. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please also include a reference letter with your application. 

Workshops for Emerging Arts Professionals 2024 is generously supported by S. H. Ho Foundation.