MAI (Montreal, arts interculturels) invites emerging and established artists, collectives, and artistic companies based in Canada, to submit their performing arts proposals for the 2026-2027 MAI season which will take place from September 2025 to June 2026. We encourage projects that explore pluridisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, thus reflecting diversity and interculturality, fundamental values of our mission. We favour projects from artists, collectives, and companies who are systematically excluded/invisibilized from the pluridisciplinary Canadian art milieu: Indigenous and Black artists, artists from different diasporas, as well as artists who are part of the disabled community (Deaf and hard of hearing artists, visually impaired and semi-vision-impaired artists, artists with reduced mobility, neurodiverse, etc.).
For more information about our artistic vision, please consult our 2025-2026 program.
Deadline to send your application: October 10th, 2025 at 11:59pm EST
→ Procedure to submit your application
Your application needs to be included in only one document (maximum 20 MB) by WeTransfer, Transfer Now, or any equivalent to this email address: [email protected]. Applications will not be accepted after the deadline – October 10, 2025, at 11h59pm EST.
* Only successful applicants will be contacted and we don’t offer retroaction to the unsuccessful applicants.
Visual arts
Artists and curators can submit exhibition proposals in the medium(s) of their choice: video art, sound art, installations, sculptures, textiles, paintings, etc. that can be presented in the MAI’s gallery. Projects can be presented in the language(s) of your choice, and/or in ASL/LSQ.
consult the call for projects for visual arts
Performing arts
Artists, collectives, and companies can submit dance, theatre, music, performance, and/or pluridisciplinary projects that can be presented in the MAI’s theatre or gallery, or in the two spaces at the same time. Projects can be presented in the language(s) of your choice, and/or in ASL/LSQ.