Bangawazî / Ανοικτή Πρόσκληση / ناوخارف / Avoin Haku / Convocatoria Abierta / Appel à Candidature / Otvoreni Poziv / Wicitaan Furan / Fungua Simu / ةحوتفم ةوعد / Açık Çağrı / Открыт приём заявок / Otwarty Nabór
Open Call
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals.
We are here to support you in producing your work, and you own the copyright to the works that you create with the full support of HOW. We provide you with rent-free sound equipment and the HOW’s studio facilities located at Kulttuurikeskus CAISA.
You can read below what HOW provides.
Helsinki Open Waves (HOW) provides:
- Rent-free sound studio at Culture Center CAISA
- Technical assistance and creative tools
- Broadcasting and streaming opportunities
- Support for artistic and translingual audio projects
- A diverse and independent platform for all voices and languages
Before you send your proposal(s), please think carefully. When you select a month in the application form, your proposal will be scheduled according to the selected month in the form.
To schedule the HOW studio located at Kulttuurikeskus CAISA for you, and for the other participants in a better way, you must submit your application(s) one month in advance.
For example, if you want to produce your work in April, you can send your proposals by the last day of February. In March you won’t be able to send the proposals for April.
Helsinki Open Waves accepts applications on an on-going basis.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us via helsinkiopenwaves@gmail.com
There are several themes introduced each month regarding different topics. You can choose your preferred theme and send your proposal(s) to Helsinki Open Waves (HOW), via the Open Call form below.
Helsinki Open Waves (HOW) is a translingual non-profit, community strength art platform that provides rent-free space and tools for all languages where people can create for themselves, and represent themselves with their languages and cultures to contribute to a more diverse society without borders. Within this platform, we explore, rethink, and reimagine new ways for a translingual society to challenge the hegemony of monolingualism.
“Humanity today is facing a massive extinction: languages are disappearing at an unprecedented pace. And when that happens, a unique vision of the world is lost. With every language that dies we lose an enormous cultural heritage; the understanding of how humans relate to the world around us; scientific, medical, and botanical knowledge; and most importantly, we lose the expression of communities’ humor, love, and life. In short, we lose the testimony of centuries of life.” Endangered Languages Project
The loss of languages, which is one of the cornerstones of culture and identity, comes to mean the loss of many memories and human experiences. Helsinki Open Waves (HOW) supports and acknowledges language revitalization in the first place and works actively against the devitalization of the languages.
Helsinki Open Waves (HOW) does not broadcast any content that is sexist, xenophobic, homophobic or contains any other form of othering towards historically oppressed communities. We do not support any content that uses propaganda tools to promote a religion or political party.