OPEN CALL : Feminist & Queer Performance Night × Red Jasper Cabaret Theatre

OPEN CALL : Feminist & Queer Performance Night by TRANSEUROPA Festival × Red Jasper Cabaret Theatre

TRANSEUROPA festival is looking for 4 performance artists to join the program on Friday the 9th of October in Athens. 

TRANSEUROPA is a transnational cultural-artistic-political festival by European Alternatives running since 2007. The 2026 edition, Reclaiming the Cloud(s), invites us to rethink air, digital space, and the commons as shared territories beyond borders.

Air carries voices across borders. It carries breath, memory, resistance, and contagion. It reminds us that nothing exists in isolation – that our bodies, technologies, ecologies, and futures are radically interconnected.

In a time marked by ecological crisis, misinformation, and increasingly securitised physical and digital frontiers, the festival explores how collective action, artistic practice, and transnational solidarity can reclaim these spaces and foster new forms of care, resistance, and collective imagination. 

For one evening, TRANSEUROPA and Red Jasper Cabaret Theatre invite feminist queer performance art to take over the festival programmation.

We are looking for four performances of 20–30 minutes that resonate with the themes of this year’s festival and engage with feminist and queer imaginaries. We welcome works that explore, among others:

• Cyberfeminism, post-humanism and becoming-cyborg; feminist encounters with technology, AI, networks, digital commons, surveillance, and resistance.
• Feminist ghosts; the night will take place following a workshop exploring feminist archival ghosts, we encourage pieces which would intend to carry on this theme.
• Queer ecologies; more-than-human kinships, interdependence, environmental justice, and trans-species solidarities.
• Migration & transnational solidarities; artistic responses to the politics of migration, citizenship, and the right to move and breathe across borders.

We also encourage proposals that respond more broadly to the festival’s themes of commons, migration, democracy, anti-fascism, collective care, transnational organising, ecological futures, and the politics of air, land, water, and digital space.

TRANSEUROPA has always been a space where artistic practice meets political imagination. We are interested in performances that challenge dominant narratives, create spaces of encounter, and imagine feminist, anti-racist, queer, ecological, and democratic futures together.

How to apply

To apply, please complete this application form, including:

• a short proposal describing your performance (max 1 page or 5min video)
• links to previous work or portfolio
• Why you would like your performance to be part of the transeuropa festival

Application deadline: 6 September 2026

Results announced: 18 September 2026

We welcome applications from artists or collectives working across live art, theatre, performance, cabaret, drag, dance, spoken word, interdisciplinary and experimental practices. We particularly encourage applications from artists whose work emerges from historically marginalised perspectives.

Each performance will be renumerated 200 euros total, priority will be given to artists residing in Athens & its surroundings.

For any questions please contact:
a.temi@euroalter.com & b.dibb@euroalter.com