Online Workshop for Young Critics 2023 from SPHERE

SPHERE announces an open call for entries for the second edition of the Young Critics Program, the annual workshop for aspiring critical thinkers around the world that will last 16 weeks with a flexible timeline. This program seeks to find an alternative pathway to encounter the mainstream critique culture and emphasize the importance of diversity in the world of criticism across all media. In addition to this workshop dimension, participants have the opportunity of publishing articles and producing unconventional critiques in an alternative manner about the Festival program in the journal section of “SPHERE”. Thus, you can expand your skills through press coverage of the current edition of the Carnival, and writing reviews of officially selected films or artworks.

If you join this workshop, you will have:

• 15 Masterclass from International Personalities.
• 3 Transdisciplinary Workshops.
• Individual assignments across disciplines and media.
• Collaboration and co-creation in teams guided and supported by the Director of Programming, the mentors, and facilitators.
• Create 3 Manifesto on the world’s most challenging issues and contribute to the exciting manifestoes created by the YCP alumni.
• Press Accreditation of the World Cinema Carnival.
• Certificate of Participation.
• Letter of Recommendation, if required (within one year).
• Produce the works in the most challenging and unconventional way of criticism.

You should follow the following criteria:

• This program is open to applicants between the ages of 18 to 30 years (as of 1st December 2021). Proof of age would be required.
• Open to everyone irrespective of their educational or professional practice stretched in the stream of science and technology, art and design, social activism and politics, economy, and business or everything in between.
• Knowledge and proficiency in the English language in all formats of communication.
•  All links you share in the form, should not have an expiry date and have open access to it.
• The entire program will be conducted in English. 
• Any instance of plagiarism will result in strict action and immediate disqualification from the Program.
• Selected applicants are required to attend each and every session of the lab. Not attending any session will lead to immediate disqualification.
• Attending the introductory sessions of the Young Critics Program is compulsory.
• Each applicant is allowed to submit only one entry. 

About SPHERE:

SPHERE describes itself as “an open space for multidisciplinary practices, for ideas, for everyone in the arts and the sciences and the spectrum in between”. It endeavors to be an interactive platform where artists, curators, collectors, researchers, and enthusiasts of the arts and the sciences can engage in effective dialogue. Its year-round programs, which include the annual World Cinema Carnival by SPHERE, seek to stimulate conversations and initiatives about contemporary issues that cloud the community of artists and innovators. Sphere festival is presently an autonomous initiative of WYND360 Foundation, a not-for-profit international company to enlarge the art and the artistic image worldwide.

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