REAL creative opportunities, events, tips, and updates.
CounterCult is your business to creatives development newsletter featuring REAL opportunities, events, tips, and updates. ONLY funded/free opportunities. ONLY real underground creative events.
Dear CounterCulters,
Sho here! Here’s your next curated BUSINESS X CREATIVE Newsletter from CounterCult. As we challenge the status quo of the creative industry, we're thrilled to share some exciting updates and opportunities with you. If you’re in a rush, feel free to just scroll to the OPPORTUNITIES and EVENTS section for the juicy bits.
(And this issue, we’ve got a LOT of great opportunities for you! Hyped to be sharing them with the CounterCult Community)
Updates
🎨 Local Creative Database Updates: We’ve put a pause on updating our database prototype because….drum roll please…. We are developing a new website so you all can create your own profiles and change and add all the information you want. However, this will take time because we need funding to do this. We’re working on it but the best way to stay in touch is with this newsletter and our instagram in the meantime HERE
🗽CounterCult x NYC (and more) We’re bringing CounterCult to NYC. We are mostly based in Berlin, but it’s been my goal from the start to make a bridge between creative cities. I’m from New York, so it’s the obvious first city we’re expanding to. We also have our sights set on London, Ireland, and Barcelona next. Let us know if you want to see a specific area too!
📰 Free Newsletter: We hope you like our newsletter, it’s new and growing! If there is something specific you’d like to see, let us know with the form at the bottom. We would also love if you shared it with your friends! 🔗💻📲
OPPORTUNITIES
Stay up to date with opportunities, including job openings and grants, by checking our instagram HERE 🔗💻📲
🎶👩👧👦MUSICIAN RESIDENCY: FUNDED (Open Internationally). IN SPAIN. “Sound Artists Experiencing Motherhood” You can also bring kids! See more HERE
✍️WRITER RESIDENCY: FUNDED (Open Internationally): DUE MAY 13 English-language practitioners in poetry, prose or other genres of writing are invited to apply for the fourth edition of the Paris Writer’s Residency. Housing and a stipend of 1500 are funded. See more HERE
🎶🪩MUSICIANS AND SOUND ARTISTS RESIDENCY: FUNDED (Open to Creative Europe Countries) more in link. The Artist in Residence Programme Zvjezdane Staze, together with VaClaF: Vareš Classic Festival, invites artists working in the areas of contemporary music composition, electroacoustic/experimental music, sound art, music performance, as well as other artistic disciplines which address sonic aspects in one way or another, to apply for their 2024 residency. See more HERE
📚CREATIVE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP: FUNDED (Open Internationally with restrictions): Undergraduate students from marginalized or under-recognized groups entering the final year of studies in September 2024 and looking to develop practices towards arts for social change, with a bank account in the Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, or Italy—please read guide for full eligibility criteria. See more HERE
🎨 ARTISTS OPEN CALL: FUNDED (BERLIN) “The Artists Inside Fellowship is a multidisciplinary fellowship programme with a focus on further education and network. Artists Inside supports up-and-coming artists under the age of 35 who are based in Berlin.” See more HERE
🌳ARTISTS OPEN CALL: FUNDED (Open to multiple EU countries). SOIL is an environmental grant/residency for environmental artists. This open call encourages artists to reimagine and reshape the relationship between soil, humans and the rapidly changing balances on this earth. See more HERE
🛹🏢OPEN JOBS at Graffiti Spot: (BERLIN) Our friends down at Teufelsberg are hiring if you want to work in an old Spy Station turned Graffiti Haven. See more HERE
EVENTS
🗽🌃 NYC CounterCult POP UP Creative Networking. Free. SECRET LOCATION. We are curating a secret creative networking in Manhattan, May 16th, 6:30pm. Contact us on our instagram for an invite. We are very excited for this one! It’s getting real bringing our connections together. Get an invite HERE
🧠🎨 BERLIN WISE Festival: Not as underground, but definitely a good opportunity to network. WISE - The Future Festival & Think Tank is a global summit at the intersection of Music, Art & Technology connecting thought leaders of the creative industries, science and the tech community and engaging them in an intersectional, societal dialogue. WISE 2024 │ May 14-15 │ Berlin. Tickets from 22 euro. See more HERE
😈🎆BERLIN Alternative Events Feature: LOOPHOLE. Loophole is a Berlin establishment that focuses on alternative music, films, and events in general. It’s definitely you would have to know from the underground scene. Find out more about their upcoming events HERE
🏢🌆NYC STREET ART MAGAZINE PARTY. One of my friends in the street art scene has been running a magazine, and they are having an anniversary party on May 20th! Stay up to date on the details by following them on instagram HERE
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Best,
Sho
great newsletter Sho! Keep it up