The organisers are open to diverse proposals that may include the following themes and topics, with Łódź as the reference point:
- diversity;
- history- remembrance -present-future;
- prototyping / fantasizing about the future;
- rights of human and non-human beings;
- safe space.
The residency assumes two stages of work:
- research and conceptual stage, during which creative individuals will refine their concepts;
- production stage.
The residents will be supported by the festival team at the curatorial, research, technical, and organisational levels.
You can find detailed information, regulations and forms on the website of the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival.
The Łódź of Many Cultures Festival is a continuation of the Dialogue of Four Cultures Festival which was established in 2002, and then the Łódź 4 Cultures Festival. From the very beginning, the axis of its programme was the multicultural history of the city, especially in terms of ethnicity, national and religious identity of its inhabitants. Twenty-two years after the first edition of the event, the organisers have realised the need to redefine it – during this time the world and the very definition of culture have changed significantly. Despite expanding and opening up to the present and the future, the festival does not cut itself off from its roots, and the unique history of the constantly transforming city is invariably its cornerstone.
Source: Łódź of Many Cultures Festival
Edit: Michał Strzelec, Communications and PR Centre, University of Lodz