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Sound Park Austria 12: Singer-Songwriter

17 May 2012, 7.30pm | The Forge

In this concert SPA presents four versatile singer-songwriters. In order to maximize creative exchange two Austrian performers will be paired with counterparts from the UK. The first musical exchange is between Clara Luzia and Emma McGlynn. Austrian Clara Luzia has ...

Traces

Traces

17 April – 8 June 2012 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Private View Tuesday 17 April, 7-9pm**The exhibition is on view from Tuesday 3 April (closed over Easter holidays). Two small photographs found in a suitcase belonging to her great uncle, Hugo Hecker, formed the ...
Bauhaus: Art as Life

Bauhaus: Art as Life

3 May – 12 August 2012 | Barbican Centre
The biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years presents the modern world’s most famous art school. From expressionist beginnings to a pioneering model uniting art and technology the Bauhaus’ utopian vision ...
European Literature Night 2012

European Literature Night 2012

16 May 2012, 6.30pm | British Library
For one night, capital cities across Europe will present simultaneous celebrations of writing and reading on European Literature Night, and the British Library will once again host an engaging evening of readings from and conversations ...
Parallax Art Fair

Parallax Art Fair

16 – 18 May 2012
Featuring over 2000 works, Parallax Art Fair is the largest “curated” international artist art fair in Europe. The exhibitors are mainly unrepresented artists from all over the world, many of whom have strong following in ...
Apparition – Klaus Obermaier

Apparition – Klaus Obermaier. Brighton Festival

17 – 18 May 2012
What kind of choreography emerges when your dancing partner is digital software? This mind-bending new show from cult Austrian cross-media artist Klaus Obermaier ups the stakes of digital performance and redefines the parameters of dance ...
Formless – All Work No Play

Formless – All Work No Play

18 May 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
An event presented by the Visual Arts Platform at the Austrian Cultural Forum London.NINA HOECHTL, LUKE MCCREADIE & VALENTIN RUHRYThe project “All Work No Play” begins in May with Formless, an evening of events ...
Traces: ‘Out of Austria’- Remembering the Austrian Centre

Traces: ‘Out of Austria’- Remembering the Austrian Centre

22 May 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Marietta Bearman, Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove, Anthony Grenville, Marian Malet and Jennifer Taylor, all members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London ...
“Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper comes a man…”: Kafka, Narrative and the Law

“Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper comes a man…”: Kafka, Narrative and the Law

23 May 2012, 6.30pm
'The complexity of my condition: an Austrian, a Jew'. This diary entry by Arthur Schnitzler in 1913 serves as epigraph of our lecture series Jews, Politics and Austria organised together with the Leo Baeck Institute ...
Joseph Woelfl Symposium & Concerts

Joseph Woelfl Symposium & Concerts

25 – 26 May 2012 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
The two-day symposium celebrates the 200th anniversary of the death of the celebrated Austrian composer and piano virtuoso Joseph Woelfl (1773–1812). Nine Musicologists from Great Britain, Austria, France, Germany, Poland and Thailand will ...
Sound Park Austria Special: Django Bates meets Wolfgang Muthspiel

Sound Park Austria Special: Django Bates meets Wolfgang Muthspiel

2 June 2012, 7.30pm | The Forge
One can expect improvisation on the highest level during this first ever encounter of these two artists. The Italian press dubbed Django Bates 'the Monty Python of jazz', the French press described him as being ...

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INTERFERENCIAS Open Call

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.

impuls - 8th International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music 2013

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.

Research Fellowships for 2013/2014

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: Call for applications

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.

Opening of “Salzburg Literary Archives”

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 Launches Major New fund for Literary Translation

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

Austrian government awards, grants and subsidies for translation

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.

Graz 2012 International Conducting Masterclass

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 at Baltic 39

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.

Open Call: Truth is concrete

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.

summer academy traunkirchen

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 wins Siemens Music Prize

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.

Austrian Database for Scholarships and Research Grants

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.