Artist Opportunity: Open Call for Mother Tongues Festival 2025

Mother Tongues Festival 2025 – Open Call for Artists
Closing Date: Sunday, 27 October 2024

The Mother Tongues Festival, Ireland’s largest celebration of linguistic diversity through the arts, is calling upon artists like you to be a part of an unforgettable event in 2025. Get ready to make a difference, connect with diverse communities, and showcase your artistic practice like never before.

The Mother Tongues Festival is an inclusive platform that invites artists from all backgrounds to participate in workshops, performances and exhibitions that embrace the power of multilingualism.

The festival encourage everyone, regardless of their linguistic background, to explore new horizons, learn something new and most importantly, have a blast doing it. The festival is all about celebrating your mother tongue and the multitude of languages spoken in Ireland.

Your Chance to Shine
For the 2025 edition of the Mother Tongues Festival, they are searching for passionate artists to lead workshops that captivate, educate, and entertain. Whether your field is music, visual arts, dance, storytelling, traditional arts and crafts, or any form of performance, they want to hear from you.

The workshops must be designed for families (parents/carers will attend with children) catering for children in the following age groups: 2 to 3 years, 3 to 6 years and 6 to 8 years.

While all proposals are welcome, they are particularly interested in those which encourage active participation and link clearly to one of the following themes:

• Creativity and multilingualism
  an activity that promotes creativity and language, that fosters an understanding of linguistic diversity or an appreciation of all languages
• Languages from shared heritage
  an activity that promotes a single language by showing the relevance of the links between language and heritage

Each selected artist will receive a budget of €250 per workshop.

The festival is particularly interested in proposals that celebrate languages beyond English, with a special emphasis on those from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Your unique perspective can enrich the festival and create a vibrant cultural exchange.

For more information about this open call and details on how to submit your proposal click here: mothertonguesfestival.com

The deadline is Sunday, October 27th 2024. The workshop will be held on February 22nd 2025 in Tallaght.