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The International Storytelling Center is a nonprofit organization and the premiere educational, arts and cultural institution dedicated to building better lives through the art of storytelling.

It is our organization’s goal to inspire and empower people everywhere to capture and tell their stories, listen to the stories of others, and use storytelling to produce positive change.

Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center (MAR+RC) is a vibrant arts center in Jefferson, NY, focused on creating interesting and accessible arts programming.

Offered programs include a robust artist-in-residence program, ongoing performance programming steered by resident artists, an annual performance series by BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, dance classes for adult and youth students, and health/wellness retreats. We invite creators through various mediums within the performing, literary, and visual arts to participate in our programs. Housing for visiting artists includes private and shared sleeping spaces, a lounge area, restroom(s), and a laundry facility. Residents have access to all of the Center’s amenities, including a stocked and accessible kitchen, dance studio space, office space with desks and library, an artists’ studio, and an indoor theatre (under renovation) that will serve as a performance venue, gallery, and event platform. This multifaceted space serves as a community event rental site, limiting the rentals to wedding receptions, networking events, and community and corporate events.

Daro's Enclave is a private family home on 60 perches of ancestral land in Kamburugamuwa, southern Sri Lanka, offered as a self-directed residency for researchers, writers, artists, and independent professionals who need a real base in the south
 for one to six months.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                           
 The land has been in the family for three generations. The garden has mature trees, shaded seating, and 1,500 square metres of space that has been growing and settling long before the idea of a residency existed. The wood-fire kitchen still uses 
 clay pots that belonged to the family decades ago. The beach is a 600-metre walk from the front gate. Mirissa and Weligama are ten minutes away by road.                                                                                              
 
 The entire villa is exclusively yours during your stay. No shared rooms, no other guests, no communal spaces to negotiate. Two air-conditioned bedrooms with king-size beds. A fully equipped modern kitchen. The traditional Sri Lankan kitchen with 
 the wood-fire hearth, for those who want to cook the way the south has always cooked. High-speed fiber internet. A washing machine, iron, and secure parking. The house is clean, functional, and designed to be lived in rather than merely stayed
 in.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                           
 The residency is self-directed. There is no programme, no orientation schedule, no requirement to attend anything or produce anything for the house. Residents arrive, settle in, and work. Thilanka Kaushalya, the owner, lives locally and is       
 available for anything the resident needs, from practical questions about the house to guidance on the surrounding area. Beyond that, the day is yours.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 We host four to six groups per year. That number is deliberate. It means each resident has the house to themselves without the sense that someone else will arrive next week. It means Thilanka has time to be genuinely present for each stay rather 
 than managing a constant turnover. It means the garden stays quiet.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 The programme is well-suited to researchers conducting fieldwork in the south of Sri Lanka, writers finishing a manuscript or beginning a new one, professionals on extended postings who want somewhere that feels like a home rather than a serviced
  apartment, and anyone who has found that the environment of their work matters as much as the work itself. The University of Ruhuna is fifteen minutes from the property. The south coast, with its accessible field research zones and coastal
 ecology, is on the doorstep.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           
 Daro's Enclave is not for everyone. It is not the right choice for those who need hotel-style service, daily housekeeping, or a structured daily programme. It is exactly right for those who are self-sufficient, drawn to nature over noise, and    
 ready to use the time and the place well.
 

MASS MoCA is a vibrant non-collecting art museum with approximately 300,000 square feet of exhibition space dedicated to visual art and projects by contemporary artists. Formerly a 19th century factory, these exhibition spaces are unconventional, vast, soaring galleries spanning multiple buildings. Half of that space is dedicated to rotating 10–16 month exhibitions of which we present 4 to 6 large-scale exhibitions per year, along with smaller projects and commissions. The additional space is dedicated to long-term exhibitions in conjunction with artists, estates, and collections that run from 10 months to 25 years. MASS MoCA frequently works directly with artists on the fabrication of new commissions and large-scale site-specific installations. 

MASS MoCA was founded in 1999, not only as a contemporary art museum and performing arts venue, but also as a creative campus with a regional, national and global impact. MASS MoCA is one of the world's liveliest centers for making and enjoying today's most evocative art. With vast galleries and a stunning collection of indoor and outdoor performing arts venues, MASS MoCA is able to embrace all forms of art: music, sculpture, dance, film, painting, photography, theater, and new, boundary-crossing works of art that defy easy classification. From its beginnings as the major textile mill Arnold Print Works in the mid-19th century, to its days as the Sprague Electric Company in the mid-20th century, to its current iteration as a globally renowned contemporary art museum and fabrication center, the 24-acre MASS MoCA campus has a rich history of serving as the economic engine of the city of North Adams and the surrounding region.

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Event Horizon is an Artist Residency based in Crete. A rural setting for production and experimentation offering private creative space for people working in the visual arts, music, literature and ecology. The 145sq m. studio building is created from used shipping containers that have been insulated and set in 30,000 sq m. (3 hectares/8 acres) of stunningly beautiful olive grove meadows close to the sea.
 

Event Horizon is a private retreat. Residents do not usually overlap for significant amounts of time, if indeed at all, in which case residents usually work alone or with their partner/assistants. Residencies have a recommended minimum of 2 weeks up until a maximum of 3 months.

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 The 130sqm container studio building is insulated with Polystyrene foamboard, Marine Ply cladding and PolTherma DS sandwich panels.

Studio space is available following an application evaluated by a selection panel. Artists are assessed through reference to six criteria.

Rented Accommodation The Architect´s House and a Windmill in Neapolis Town (10km from studio) and Tiny Home-Gypsy Caravan in Fourni Village (2.5km from studio). 

Price range: €35 - €55 per day