Unleash Your Talent
MArteLive Europe is an international contest and festival for young actors and theatre companies supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Are you an actor, dramaturg or theatre director looking for a stage for your next performance?
Are you ready to live an unforgettable experience of Art Residency?
Are you a European citizen and/or resident?
Are you between 18 and 35 years old ?
Are you an artist in one of our 16 artistic disciplines ?
Don’t miss this lifetime opportunity
ÆMOTION,
finalist in the Theatre discipline
Discover MArteLive and unleash your talent
Our mission is to generate opportunities for emerging artists in 16 different disciplines: Music, Dj and Producer, Theatre, Dance, Contemporary Circus, Literature, Painting and Drawing, Sculpture, Photography, Digital Illustration, Street-Art, Fashion Design, Handicraft, Short Film, Music Video, Video Art.
- Are you looking for new opportunities for your next theatre project?
- Do you want to collaborate with some of the most important realities of off theatre to enhance your talent by participating in festivals and shows in Europe?
- Be selected for art residencies in Poland, Italy, Lithuania or Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Pack your things and fly to Rome Italy.
Prizes
- Semifinal - Winner
Cash Prize of € 300 - Brought to you by MarteLive Europe - All travel costs to Rome covered to reach the MArteLive Europe Final Show and the MArteLive Biennial, both taking place on October 18-19-20, 2022.
- IMPATTO TEATRO Prize
1-week Art Residency in Cagliari (Italy), with the possibility to create a public show in collaboration with the theatre company Impatto Teatro (ITALY)
- Veronica Rodriguez Prize
Collaboration to create a performance in the next online show of Veronica Rodriguez (PUERTO RICO - USA)
- Caterina Genta Prize
1-hour online coaching with Caterina Genta about the body as a medium in performing arts (ITALY)
- ATCL Lazio Prize
One gig in Italy in the events season 2022/2023 organized by the leading promoter ATCL Lazio (ITALY)
- Atomic Garden Prize
Possibility to participate in a weekend-long creativity training workshop (July 2022)
- Spazju Kreattiv Prize
3 Weeks Stay at Spazju Kreattiv Art Residency in La Valletta - Malta, to work and engage with local communities.
The experience takes place in 2022/2023 and includes a per-diem allowance of € 25.
Challenge the finalists selected in 3 European areas and compete to win the European title!
ÆMOTION,
finalist in the Theatre discipline
- Scuderie MArteLive Prize
Up to 4 gigs in festivals in Italy such as Tolfarte Festival, Arte in strada a Mirabello, Rome Buskers in Town, Carpineto Buskers in Town, for up to 1200 € gross cachet to be agreed with the festival organizations (ITALY)
- MArteLive Art In Progress
1 Week Stay at Art Residencies in Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania and Poland in the Summer of 2022, for artists selected by the Jury.
Brought to you by:
* ProCult in Italy and Poland
* Tuzla Live in Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Kintai Arts in Lithuania
- MArteFunding Prize
Possibility of free access to the crowdfunding platform www.martefunding.org to launch your own campaign, receiving a bonus promotion worth 500 €
I ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE
When?
ÆMOTION,
finalist in the Theatre discipline
- Call for artists! NOW OPEN !
- Online Auditions
- Semifinal Show - Summer 2022 in Krakow, Poland
- Art Residencies - Summer 2022 in Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland
- Final Show - October 2022 in Rome, Italy
European Areas
MArteLive Europe Contest and Festival covers 47 countries:
- 27 EU members
- 20 non-EU partners or neighbouring countries which are partners of the Creative Europe Programme.
Artists enroll in 3 European Areas: Blue, Green, and Yellow, depending on the country selected in the application form .
According to where you are located, you’ll compete with so many diverse talents!
The green Area is a East-West connection
The yellow Area brings you the northern lights
The blue Area is all at sea, from the Mediterranean to the Ocean
If you are preselected to the semi-final shows, you will be traveling to Krakow (Poland), Vilnius (Lithuania), Tuzla (Bosnia & Herzegovina) and if you’re among the best in your discipline, you’ll fly to Rome for the Biennaial MArteLive.
Biennial MArteLive
The MArteLive Biennial is a massive wave of events and culture that hits Italy every two years in December with its epicentre in Rome.
For each edition, about 1,000 Italian and international artists perform for a total of over 300 shows in about 70 locations scattered throughout the Lazio region.
The beating heart of the event is the MArteLive Total Show in its historical format which, since 2011, along with the Biennial, has witnessed an amazing evolution on a regional scale.
How does it works
The MArteLive Contest is open to artists between 18 to 35, European residents or citizens. It follows a 4-step process of selection, running both online and live.
STEP 1 - CALL FOR ARTISTS
Submit your best work or performance.
STEP 2 - ONLINE AND LIVE STREAM AUDITIONS
MArtelive selects the 10 best artists for each Artistic Discipline that will perform online in livestream audition events. Artists are evaluated by both qualified juries and the audience.
STEP 3 - SEMI-FINAL SHOWS
Spectacular live events where the 3 best artists, for each of the 16 Artistic Disciplines, perform all together: a unique experience for both the artists and the audience. Semifinal Shows will be in Vilnius (Lithuania), Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Krakow (Poland). The winners get a cash prize and fly to Rome for the European Final Show.
STEP 4 - EUROPEAN FINAL SHOW (December 2021)
An unforgettable show, where the best of European talents perform together to really wow the audience. The show is held during the prestigious MArteLive Biennial, a high-impact event spread through 60 locations in Rome, with an audience of 50,000 people.
and also...
Art Residencies
MArtelive is much more than a contest. Semifinal winners and other selected artists can take part in 1-week Art Residencies in Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The artists live together and create unique multidisciplinary performances, that will be showcased in special events in the Art Residency location and on the MArteLive Biennial Festival in Rome, Italy.
Best moments of the experience and “making of” will be shared on MArteLive social media and website, giving the artists a platform to directly connect with the audience.
20 years: forever young
This first European edition of the MArtelive contest takes place after 20 years of experience in Italy, where MArtelive has already helped thousands of youngsters express their artistic views and gain international exposure.
Thanks to this background, MArteLive proves that creativity has no limits: the energy of the festival vibrates across styles and ways of expression, creating a unique space for connections.
What's in it for you?
- Win Cash prizes
- Get paid gigs, performances and exhibitions all over Europe
- Perform and exhibit in front of wide audience.
- Get in touch with high profile experts and professionals: your Jurors!
- Gain international exposure on selected media
- Live the unforgettable experience of an Art Residency in Europe
- Network with fellow artists and high profile professionals
MArteLive Europe semifinals in Vilnius
Photo by Martynas Vitėnas
Jurors
You can get in touch and show your work to high profile personalities and expert in your artistic discipline
Selma Alispahic
Ådne Sekkelsten
Michael Margotta
and other jurors such as Gary Brackett, Daniel Azzopardi, Laura De Casas Calvo, Veronica Rodriguez, Karim Galici, Kristina Savickienė, Giedrė Kabašinskienė, Giedrė Putramentaitė, Diogo Bastos Pinho.
Testimonials
What do the artists think?
"It was sensational, I know you always say that but I never expected it.
It was the first time I was putting my own texts into the theatre scene (I usually read them during poetry slams) and the other shows were completely different from mine. Once I got on stage I thought I would empty the room after 30 seconds. I have no idea what will happen, I just hope to be overwhelmed as I have been for the last 3 years.
I thank MArteLive for the great opportunity I was given."
Emanuele IngrossoWinner MArteLive Theatre 2019What do the institutions think?
"MArtelive is an important initiative that MiBACT has rightly decided to promote because it multiplies places of culture and entertainment, mixing centre and periphery, genres and forms of expression that now, thanks to the new law on live entertainment, the Republic is called upon to support".
Dario FranceschiniMinister for Cultural Activities and Heritage in Italy"MArteLive drags, overflows, invades different spaces and places and therefore reaches different audiences, like a cultural fertiliser on Lazio. There is energy, desire, creativity. Their initiatives reduce the gap between Rome and the rest of Lazio, which is exactly one of the main objectives of our policies. It's money well spent, therefore."
Lidia RaveraWriter and ex Assessore alle Politiche Culturali della Regione Lazio - Italy"MArteLive is a shared and participatory process. And it must be seen as a seed that grows, that does not end on 28 September. From the point of view of the development of the suburbs, this is certainly one more weapon to defeat degradation."
Paolo MasiniPaolo Masini, ex Councillor for the Development of the Peripheries of Roma CapitaleWhat does the public think?
Total, involving and exciting performance. A brilliant and unique idea, capable of embracing and enhancing different artistic expressions. Besides, those who know him know that Peppe Casa is a living idea!
Ferdinando MorabitoSpectatorWonderful experience, and fantastic people!!! Girls of the staff available to our every need, and all with a great organization!
SaraSpectatorAmaazing! Amaazing! MARTELIVE competition and festival!!! Wonderful people, fantastic environment!!!! Together with JL Interviews magazine (media partner) I recommend this event!!!!
joanna longawaJournalistThey say about us
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