Open Call 2026
We are looking for artistic and activist proposals for our summer festival, August 2026.
Practical
The Festival will take place in August 2026. If you are selected, we will determine the day(s) on which your work will be shown by mutual agreement.
Deadline to apply: February 7, 2026
How to apply? By completing the Google Form
Participation fee, travel and accommodation costs will be covered.
What we are looking for:
We are down with each shape, as long as we like your flavor.
Bring us dance, performance, workshop, lecture, music, film, visual arts...
MAKE IT BOLD, INTIMATE, POLITICAL, PLAYFUL.
YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY.
We welcome proposals that engage with:
Community Building and Solidarity
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Initiatives that strengthen connections across differences (gender, sexual orientation & praxis, age, migration background, ability) and counter gatekeeping.
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Practices of care, mutual aid, and intergenerational exchange that foster resilience and belonging.
Queer Art of Failure
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Artistic or theoretical explorations of failure as critique—celebrating misfits, unfinished works, and nonconformity.
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Contributions that challenge respectability politics and the idea of a “right way” to be queer.
Reclaiming Public Space
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Artistic or activist interventions that transform streets, squares, riverfronts, and port areas into queer commons.
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Projects that question how government policy, design, policing, and zoning shape belonging and exclusion.
Making Heteronormativity Visible and Discussable
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Works that expose the normative scripts embedded in public space, signage, and cultural narratives.
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Dialogical formats that invite debate on how heteronormativity operates in everyday life.
Antwerp as a River City and Port Geography
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Research or creative work on the historical development of queer communities in Antwerp.
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Mapping of lost or transformed queer spaces (bars, cruising sites) and analysis of policy impacts.
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Narratives of queerness and migration linked to port cities and waterfronts.