
A free two-day forum at La Villette asks what residencies in communities are for, and registration closes 20 October
Round tables on solidarity and social justice, a study of artists placed in non-arts institutions, and an update on the ministry's residency framework.

A third of stage managers report high anxiety, and 85% were lonely in the past year
An Adelaide lecturer makes the case for the job that never takes a bow, with British and American numbers behind it.

Arts Centre Melbourne workers accept 13% over three years, after two strikes against a 3% offer
A one-off $4,350, gender affirmation leave, and backstage crew who had not walked out in decades.

FAI-AR is recruiting fourteen apprentices for 2027 to 2029, and the concours closes on 15 January
Circassien·ne is on the list of profiles it wants. C1 French is a prerequisite, and the university fee is 272 euros a year at the European rate, 3,950 at the other one.

CALQ makes its pandemic research funding permanent on 10 November, and cuts Programmation spécifique to two application dates a year
Arts du cirque is a named discipline in both programmes. Neither is open to an individual artist, and one of them stops being open whenever you are ready.

Latitude 50 is rebuilding a dismantled Mouscron house in Marchin as residency housing for artists with children
Four bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and a living room, behind the big top. It was first announced to open in September 2024.

France cancels 25.3 million euros of 2026 culture credits by decree, and the Création programme loses 5.8 million
Signed on 10 September, published the next day. Not a proposal, not a negotiation, and four programmes carry it.

Katapult closes at the end of December, after ten years of running an artist-led circus space in Berlin
The programme that paid for the room ended, and one-year funding did the rest. The last Katapult Kabaret is 9 and 10 October.

circusnext names its four 2026 laureates, and all four show work in Créteil on 23 and 24 September
Rope and hula hoop, equilibrium, juggling, aerial hoop and contortion. Four maquettes a night, picked from ten finalists, 10 euros in.

France's first report on disabled people's access to cultural jobs puts intermittents at 1 to 1.5 percent
17 recommendations, three sets of numbers that count different groups, and a direct ask for political will.