PLACE PRESENTATION :
PAF is based in St Erme, 150km north-east of Paris, France, between Reims and Laon.
PAF (=PerformingArtsForum) is a place for the professional and not-yet professional practitioners and activists in the field of performing arts, visual art, literature, music, new media and internet, theory and cultural production, and scientists who seek to research and determine their own conditions of work. PAF is for people who can motorize their own artistic production and knowledge production not only responding to the opportunities given by the institutional market.
Initiated and run by artists, theoreticians and practitioners themselves, PAF is a user-created, user-innovative informal institution. Neither a production-house and venue, nor a research-center, it is a platform for everyone who wants to expand possibilities and interests in his/her own working practice.
PAF is
- a forum for producing knowledge in critical exchange and ongoing discursive practice
- a place for temporary autonomy and full concentration on work
- a tool-machine where one can work on developing methods, tools and procedures, not necessarily driven toward a product
- a place for experimenting with other than known modes of production and organization of work, e.g. open source production
Most importantly, PAF offers all these possibilities without imposing them. In other words, PAF depends on how you affect and are affected by taking an active part in shaping your own activity in your workplace.
PAF is a open and relatively free site (and)
PAF is a nomadic space
PAF tries to stay cheap
PAF has almost no staff
Prices in 2019 are 18 euro per night when your stay is longer than 5 nights and 20 euro when under 5 nights. 475 euro for one month. Plus for everybody a membership fee of 12 euro, valuable for 12 months.

PLACE RESOURCES :
-many work spaces
-50 rooms to stay, 125 total beds
-some skills during renovation
-encounters/networking population
-mailing list

PLACE NEEDS :
-money to cover expenses
-people to stay
-daily domestic care
-some renovation (repair weeks)

CONTACT : contactpaf@gmail.com

PLACE PRESENTATION :
Les Semelles is based in Charleville-Mézières, in the Ardennes, at the border with Belgium, between Paris (233km) and Bruxelles (190km). It is an open collective place dedicated to arts, philosophy and politics, it addresses itself both toward the people of the town, through weekly or monthly activities, and toward people from everywhere, who comes for residencies.

There is no selection for residencies : everybody, whatsoever they are doing, can come to work, for the period of time they need. The only restriction depends on the place we have to welcome people. There are two rooms : one with a double-bed, for one or two persons, and one dormitory, for 5-6 persons. It is possible, if you feel so, to present your work at any moment of your residency, either as a performance or as an exhibition or…
We will ask 8€ / day / person to cover the fees (if you can't afford this price, we accept a free price which will be determined by yourself), and an annual membership to the association Les Semelles (2€).

Important : Les Semelles is an open space, but is not public. It is a private place, which doesn't fit to the norms in order to publicly welcome audiences. Every performance which takes place in Les Semelles has the form of a private party on invitation.

There is no staff nor subventions for Les Semelles : the place is self-reliant and self-sustaining. If you come, please keep in mind there is no workers to clean, wash, cook, repair, maintain, etc.

PLACE RESOURCES :
The Semelles' ressources are as following :
- a collective kitchen
- a little town's garden
- a DIY workshop
- a painting workshop
- a rehearsal room (ca. 90M2), which can also be used as a music room with instruments an empty wild room which is still in process to be used
- the Nef (ca. 90M2), which is a multiple usable space : a library,a video-projector with a sound-system if needed, the Nef can be transformed into a performance space

Regularly activities implies :
- every thursday, a movie is presented and screened
- music workshop (every week?)
- reading groups
- every month, « Tête de Pieuvre », an open cabaret.

PLACE NEEDS :
- a dance floor for the rehearsal room
- tools for bricolage
- good video-projector
- painting material
- money
- PEOPLE !

FOR CONTACT GO HERE :CONTACT

PLACE PRESENTATION :
The Manor is a hold house of lords from the 15th and 18th centuries turned to a farm house in the XX. From 2020, it is an artistic residency linked to the landscape thanks to workshops places for sound and electonic art, dance / performace / somatic practices, wood workshop, etc, through workshop times or personnal projects. The Manor is surrounded by 2 fields becoming a vegetable farm where the artists are invited to contribute. The Manoir is 8 km far from La Baie d'Audierne, the Atlantic Ocean with the surf spot La Torche, and lots of hiking trails.
The manor develops vehicles (velomobiles, sailboats,etc) to be connected with its close context and the network path.

PLACE RESOURCES :
- Place to stay (30 bedrooms, communal kitchen)
- Place to work (Ecosoma space for dance & body practices, Intermedia & self suficiant lab/wood/electronic/digital workshop & tools/lands for permaculture/gardening)
- Skills sharing (agriculture & gardening/intermedia/sound-art/electronic/mecanic/architecture & design/cooking/hacking & repairing)
- Surf & landcape practices resources (bicycle,vélomobile, canoe…)

PLACE NEEDS :
- all kinds of contributions in relation to the landscapes, the inhabitants and the history of the territory
- volunteers to animate OPEN : the users' organization (non profit)
- volunteers to take care of the place (technical skills to animate the building renovation and farming/permaculture, volonteers for “repair weeks” and maintenance
- second hand furnitures
- food and products from other places
- money to pay the building charges & facilities (taxes, insurance, heating, water, electricity, furnitures …)

PLACE ANNOUNCEMENT : No annoucement now

CONTACT : contact@n-A.life

PLACE PRESENTATION :
KRA – Kravín Rural Arts is situated in the Vysočina region of the Czech Republic – a hilly area of Železné hory (Iron mountains) – in a small village Hranice u Malče. KRA is establishing longer term programs with artists and other organizations in the countryside, interested in an ecological reconversion of the (media) arts. Apart from its own thematic lines, KRA is welcoming individual and group initiatives that are conform with its mission, and are interested in artistic-ecological research and development with a strong multidisciplinary nature.

PLACE RESOURCES :
- Place to stay (1 dormitory, communal kitchen)
- Place to work (Intermedia, electronic/digital, music and sound workshop)
- Skills sharing (intermedia/sound-art/electronic/theory…)

PLACE NEEDS :
- contributors to the place (technical skills for renovation, conceptual projects…) - artistic projects
-…

PLACE ANNOUNCEMENT : No annoucement now

CONTACT : e-mail: hinterland@kra.land

PLACE PRESENTATION :
Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre is a not-for-profit study site that focuses on providing individual users and groups with a low cost, temporary place to dictate their own methods of work. The centre allows practitioners to come and stay together, to develop projects that require time and space in a flexible, non-pressured environment.

This is a site for research and experimentation, primarily directed towards cultural production and supporting the development of communities. The Observatory does not look to lay claim to work produced here, and the space is not for public presentation per se. Work here is mainly co-initiated rather than steered by traditional modes of curation.

The Observatory also hosts seminars, events and workshops and is open to a range of academic and non-academic discourses; from politics and social sciences to philosophy, bodywork, collective choreography or chat; where discussion can flow from kitchen to sound recording studio, and ideas can bounce between the domes and basements. The Observatory welcomes a diversity of fields and is a forum where different types of knowledge can be tested, shared and extended. The resource is kept running (we hope!) by a nightly fee of £15 per person. The fee solely goes towards sustaining this project.

PLACE RESOURCES :
- Place to stay (beds for 22 people, communal kitchen)
- Place to work (sound and wood workspaces,etc)
- annual general events

PLACE NEEDS :
- contributors to the collective place
- artistic projects
- active memberships

PLACE ANNOUNCEMENT : No annoucement now

CONTACT : enquiries@bidstonobservatory.org

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PLACE RESOURCES :
- Place to stay
- Place to work

PLACE NEEDS :
- contributors to the collective place
- artistic projects
- active memberships

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PLACE RESOURCES :
- Place to stay
- Place to work

PLACE NEEDS :
- contributors to the collective place
- artistic projects
- active memberships

PLACE ANNOUNCEMENT : No annoucement now

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PLACE RESOURCES :
- Place to stay
- Place to work

PLACE NEEDS :
- contributors to the collective place
- artistic projects
- active memberships

PLACE ANNOUNCEMENT : No annoucement now

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