This program applies to:

• major events
• major contemporary art venues
• major performing arts and music venues

Aimed at events that offer the highest of profiles to the artistic teams invited, and attract a large number of international professionals and programmers to the event and to associated activities.

Priority will be given to:

• initiatives that result in a shared project, a tour, or event series with other partners from a country or a continent;
• initiatives that associate a production to another type of program: discussions, conference, professional seminar, interventions in schools or universities.
• for the current music and jazz fields, projects must be developed with the field in the countries concerned.
• for the visual arts / photography fields, payment to the artist (fees / royalties) is an obligatory prerequisite. It must be justified otherwise the Institut français’ financial support will be cancelled.

Eligible projects must meet at least one of the following criteria:

• present an artist or company in a country for the first time;
• bring together a significant number of French artists or living in France or French companies at a key moment;
• develop a strand of professional meetings, workshops, master classes, conferences with French artists present at the event.

This program is open to the following project leads:

• the French international cultural network (Embassies, Instituts français, Alliances françaises, specialist representatives);
• international institutions or cultural organizations;
• French institutions or cultural organizations with a specific French program devised with an international partner;
• an artist or company based in France, with a project devised with an international cultural organization;
• a French curator or art critic with a project devised with an international cultural organization.

This program applies to the following disciplines:

• Architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture; Performing arts, theatre, street theatre and puppetry, circus arts, dance, music and jazz, classical and contemporary music; Visual arts, digital arts, photography, design, artistic crafts, fashion; Cross-disciplinary projects.