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ODYSSEU AEOLIAN SCHOLARSHIP

CREATION SUPPORT PROGRAM: ARTISTIC RESIDENCY AND PRODUCTION PROJECT FOR COMPANIES.
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2026-2027 CALL BASES

The Odysseus Aeolian Scholarship is an initiative promoted by Aeolian Miranda Foundation with the collaboration of the Barcelona City Council, through the Institute of Culture. Its main objective is support to the country's companies for the production i first exhibition of their new shows. It offers a space for rehearsal and experimentation where these companies can test and develop their own theatrical languages.

Bases and application

Deadline for applications: from June 3 to 21, 2026.

With the support of the Institute of Culture – Barcelona City Council

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In this 2026 edition, a project will be selected that will receive:

-A financial aid for production of €6.000 (taxes included)

-Artistic residency at the Eòlia Creation Spaces

-Artistic and coordination support and monitoring

-Technical residency at the Eòlia Theater

-Premiere and exhibition during 2027 at the Eòlia Theater

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Retro photo, taken indoors, of a small boy sitting cross-legged on the floor. The boy, with dark hair and a white t-shirt and blue shorts, looks directly at the camera with a slight smile. He holds in both hands a children's book from the 'Barbapapa and the Labyrinths' collection, where the characters are seen.

Winning work 2025:

"The maze designer, "In Neil Martin, address of Julia Valdivielso, has been the winning project of the Odysseus Aeolian Scholarship 2025.

The project will receive a financial grant for the creation of €5.000 (taxes included), an artistic residency at the Aeolian Creation Spaces, artistic and coordination accompaniment and monitoring, technical residency at Eòlia Theater and premiere and exhibition during theApril 2026 at the Eòlia Theater.

“The Labyrinth Artist” deals with the passage from childhood to adulthood based on the memory of a child obsessed with the world of labyrinths. The labyrinth as a metaphor for human curiosity but also as a loss of direction or meaning in life. Getting lost to find something or getting lost as an end in itself.

Today I have decided to return to the labyrinth of Horta, where I had gone so many times as a child. You will accompany me, and you will travel with me to the depths of my —and your— brain; of my —and your— fears; of my —and also, your— hopes. Along the way we will find mythological beings, childhood dreams and pop legends, such as a labyrinth man, the Greek Minotaur, Ariadne and her thread or, even, Doraemon, the most famous cosmic cat of all time. Let's hope we don't get lost. – Neil Martin