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CZECH OPEN CALL – SOUTH SPECIFIC 2028
The South Specific festival is launching an open call for new site-specific and immersive projects in the fields of performing arts and new technologies. South Specific is a unique theater festival dedicated to immersive and site-specific projects, connecting performing arts with unconventional locations across the South Bohemian Region. For its second edition, taking place in 2028, the festival is seeking new immersive and/or site-specific projects by creators and teams from the Czech Republic, or projects developed in co-production with international partners (though this is not a requirement). The festival is part of the České Budějovice – European Capital of Culture 2028 program.
The Nová Residence has opened its doors to artists and the local scene!
The Nová Residence has officially opened in České Budějovice. It is the first residential space with studios dedicated to literary and visual arts, focusing on artistic creation and cultural production across various disciplines. Read more!
The Urban Field symposium opens a debate on the future of cities and landscapes.
We invite you to the Urban Field symposium, taking place on June 20 and 21, 2026. The event will be held both on the land we plan to cultivate collectively and in the auditorium of the Faculty of Science at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. You can look forward to debates, workshops, and lectures on urban agriculture, food self-sufficiency, and the relationship between the city and its surrounding landscape. Together with scientists and local residents, we will explore options for a shared economic model that we plan to implement right in the heart of the city. Come and get involved in shaping the Urban Field!
OPEN CALL: Budweis Gallery Weekend
Budweis Gallery Weekend is the name of a new festival that brings visual art into homes: living rooms, gardens and front yards, or common areas of apartment buildings. Over the first weekend of October, several temporary galleries will appear in the Pražské předměstí (Prague Suburb) neighborhood – places where new neighborhood bonds can be forged, just as a new, close relationship to artworks can be found.
Mowing Below the Dam
On Saturday, June 13, starting early in the morning, a testing scythers' gathering called "Mowing Below the Dam" will take place on Lounkova meadow in Rožnov. Participants can look forward to communal mowing at dawn, working with a scythe, and the atmosphere of a summer morning in the landscape.
Womenpedia: From little, abundance grows.
This year's workshop of the Womenpedia project in Komařice invites women to search for internal sources of strength, to restore their own landscape, to search for boundaries between the inner and outer world, and to explore their own roots. The third edition of the gathering connects art, female experience, and the landscape as a space for renewal, growth, and sharing.
BRIDGES Festival
We invite you to the BRIDGES Festival – a showcase of new circus that will bring the Park at Malý jez and the surrounding public space in České Budějovice to life.
Ars Biologica Independent Studies (ABIS): Experimental AI Module 2026
A Creative R&D Studio with Openclaw Agents, Uncensored LLMs, and their Human Symbionts in Bohemia. As algorithmic mind-like creatures proliferate alongside us, the question of how we deliberately meet this cognitive re-shaping, rather than passively absorb it, is one worth getting our human hands on.
České Budějovice and Lower Austria Join Forces for 2028!
České Budějovice have taken another step towards fulfilling the ambitions of the European Capital of Culture 2028 project. At the end of March, a working meeting took place at the town hall with representatives of Lower Austria, with the aim of connecting the preparations for two significant cultural events — ECoC České Budějovice 2028 and the Lower Austrian State Exhibition 2028.
Project Gym: Support for Cultural Projects for České Budějovice 2028
In the course of spring 2026, as part of the preparations for the European Capital of Culture České Budějovice 2028, an educational programme for project teams took place — the so-called Project Gym. Read more!
Ars Biologica Independent Studies (ABIS) Programme – Multispecies Research Module 2026
Registration is now open for the four-day field workshop “Edge Effects,” which invites participants from both the arts and sciences to jointly explore ecological and disciplinary border zones. In the landscape of the Novohradské Mountains in southern Bohemia, we will focus on the edges of wetlands, ponds, rivers, and forests as places of heightened biodiversity, sensitivity, and tension, and explore how these spaces are shaped by human and non-human activity. Join us!
Ars Biologica Independent Studies (ABIS) Open Calls 2026
Ars Biologica Independent Studies (ABIS) je nezávislý vzdělávací program, který propojuje studující napříč uměleckými a vědeckými obory a nabízí otevřené prostředí pro praktické zkoumání současných společenských, environmentálních i technologických témat. Pro rok 2026 nyní vyhlašuje několik Open Callů, do kterých se mohou zájemci a zájemkyně přihlásit.
