Write & Create
Residency program for writers, artists and researchers
Period: 1-2 months
When: October / November 2022
Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland

Deadline for applications: 6th of July 2022

Read more & apply online: https://www.arteles.org/

Focus on your writing, creative practice and research

Write & Create is an international residency program for writers, artists and researchers who want to focus on their writing, creative practice or research.

At Arteles, residents are given the freedom to create and focus in a stress-free environment. Time and space at the residency can be used for concentrating on ongoing work or research, reading, studying, starting a new project or pausing to contemplate their practice and being. 

There is also possibilities to share ideas, approaches and perspectives with other members of the group without having any pressure of producing a finalized body of work. Participation in program activities is voluntary, allowing residents to withdraw into their "writer's chambers" anytime they want. 

Late autumn, darkness & sauna

Arteles is surrounded by forests, fields and lakes, providing artists a chance to center attention on their work in a peaceful, natural environment. Thanks to Finland's 'everyman's rights', the beautiful woods may also be explored freely. 

In the fall, nature turns from multitone to monotone as it is getting ready for winter. Nature is quiet and snow may come & go as temperatures change unpredictably. Days are short and nights dark – ideal conditions for journeying into the mind and for getting together in our wood-burning sauna. 

All residents are allocated private bedrooms with large working desks near a window. There is shared studio space available for more social or communal ways of working, as well as a hall reserved for scheduled meditation sessions (voluntary), yoga and silent being.