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INTERFERENCIAS is an international encounter/research collective in the field of choreography, dance and performance. As part of their stay in Vienna (3-13.08.2012) INTERFERENCIAS invites 26 contemporary artists of contemporary dance, performance, fine arts, music and theory field to collaborate. Please apply by 26 June 2012 to interferencias.austria@gmail.com, find out more here.

Registration for impuls 2013 in Graz, Austria has begun!  The festival runs from 9-20 February 2013 and offers the opportunity to work with some of the leading figures in contemporary music in Austria.  Register and find out more here.

The IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) are accepting applications for Senior and Research Fellowships for the academic year 2013/2014.  Download details here.

Critical Endeavour 2012 is a workshop/training program for emerging dance and performance, writers/journalists/critics from the 26th July until 12 August 2012 in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival and led by Critical Endeavour mentor Franz Anton Cramer (DE). Email office@danceweb.eu for details. Application deadline is 1 June 2012.

The “Salzburg Literary Archives” – a literary-historical research centre of the University, the City and the Land of Salzburg – were formally opened on 19 April 2012. They collect and investigate living and posthumous estates of authors, such as Barbara Frischmuth, Peter Handke, Gert Jonke and Stefan Zweig, with ties to Salzburg and make them available for academic research.

English PEN, the charity promoting the freedom to write, is launching a major new fund for literary translation. Click here to find out more!

With a view to promoting (Austrian or foreign) translators or the translation of Austrian contemporary literature, subsidies, grants and awards are available from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.  Click here for more information.

Achim Holub’s annual summer conducting masterclass will take place in collaboration with Kammerphilharmonie, one of the leading chamber orchestra’s in Graz, 18 August - 1 September. Participants will conduct at a public final concert and take part in a conducting competition. The winner will conduct a performance of Haydn’s Symphony No. 88 and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 with Kammerphilharmonie Graz at a concert on Saturday 1 September. You can download a brochure here and an application form here.

Austrian architects Jabornegg & Palffy are responsible for the conversion of the six-storey Newcastle arts centre. It is their first British project, though they previously collaborated with Rachel Whiteread on Vienna's Judenplatz Holocaust memorial. Read a full article in the guardian here.

A full grant programme invites 100 students, artists, activists and theorists from all over the world to attend the “Truth is concrete” marathon camp in Graz. Application deadline is 15/05/2012. Click here for more information.

The Summer Academy in Traunkirchen is back for another creative session!  This year's course instructors include artists Eva Schlegel, Xenia Hausner, Tone Fink, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Konrad Winter and the Zhou Brothers.  To find out more and to register click here.

Friedrich Cerha has been awarded the international Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2012. The Austrian composer, born in 1926, will be awarded the prize, valued at €200,000, for his life's work.  In addition Soundings composer Luke Bedford was awarded the Composers' Prize.

www.grants.at, Austria's most comprehensive database for scholarships and research grants in German and English language now features grants and scholarships for the academic year 2012/2013 as well as summer 2012.