Concordia in Prague
Students are invited to participate on a journey that will view and analyze the work of designers for live performance from around the world. It is also a unique opportunity to meet other students in the field and professional scenographers to engage in conversations about their work while visiting the exhibitions, participating to workshops and attending lectures.
About the program
The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, established in 1967, brings the best of design for performance, scenography, and theatre architecture to the front line of cultural activities to be experienced by professional and emerging artists as well as the general public.
Students involved in the class will have the opportunity to exhibit their own work and will engage in several research topics as well as being surrounded with a big array of activities offered during the 11 days festival.
The artistic concept for the upcoming edition is RARE and is described as followed: «For PQ 2023, we would like to invite you to share the RARE: art springing out of ideas, materials, artistic approaches, and design practices that connect to the human level from within your environment, with its genius loci and unique situation. In the current state of precarity, uncertainty, and epochal change, we call on performance designers, scenographers, and performance practitioners to use their RARE imagination and creativity to help us envision what the world and theatre could look like in the post-pandemic future.»
Responding to this team, the curating team of the Canada + Quebec Students and Emerging Artists Exhibit 2023 invites participants to be active around the theme of Troubled Water / Eaux Troubles (https://pqemerging.wixsite.com/pqemerging2023), where the following question is explored: What does water represent to you?
Dates & course
Dates: June 5, 2023 - June 19, 2023
Undergraduate courses: Design Field School SCEN 448/1
Estimated cost & bursary
Program fee: Concordia will charge program participants 3 credits of Concordia tuition and a program fee $1050 to cover accommodations and breakfast in Prague.
Students are responsible for selecting and paying their transportation to/from Prague; mandatory health and travel insurance; meals; spending money; any required travel documents and other miscellaneous expenses associated with travel. Students also pay for and supply their own materials.
Peter N. Thomson Family Field School Award: The Faculty of Fine Arts invites applications for the Peter N. Thomson Family Field School Awards. The Award offers an amount of $1,300 for thirty (30) eligible Fine Arts undergraduate or graduate students accepted to a Field School hosted by the Faculty of Fine Arts. Please consult the Peter N. Thomson Field School Award webpage for application instructions.
Quebec Mobility Bursary: Quebec Mobility Bursary: Concordia International offers a $1050 CDN bursary to students who qualify.
- Field school applicants do not need to submit a bursary application as it is part of the on-line field school application, and you will automatically be considered for the Quebec Mobility bursary.
- The bursary will be applied to student accounts. Details on the payment of the bursary will be sent to successful applicants.
- Eligibility requirements:You are a Concordia student enrolled in a Concordia Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctoral degree program while participating in the program.
- Undergraduate students must have completed a minimum of 24 credits toward their degree. Graduate students must have completed at least 9 credits towards their degree; these must be credits earned from the current program. Transfer credits, whether internal or external, do not count.
Host institution
The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (https://pq.cz/) was established in 1967 to bring the best of design for performance, scenography, and theatre architecture to the front line of cultural activities to be experienced by professional and emerging artists as well as the general public.
Application process
To be eligible to participate in the field school, you must meet one of the following criteria.
- Be enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree program, with a minimum 2.7 cumulative culmative GPA (CGPA) and have completed at least 24 credits toward your current degree program by the time you leave for the program.
- Be enrolled in a Master’s degree program, with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA (CGPA) and have completed at least 9 credits toward your current degree program by the departure date.
- Be enrolled in PhD degree program, have a 3.7 cumulative GPA (CGPA) and have completed at least 9 credits toward your current degree program by the departure date.
All students interested in applying to this program must attend an information session given by Concordia International prior to submitting an application.
Date: Monday February 6, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Concordia Students
- Submit the Concordia Field School Abroad Application through the Concordia International Outgoing Mobility portal by the application deadline of February 13, 2023. The application can be accessed through the Concordia International CSEP Mobility Portal.
- Your application must also include:
- A copy of your most recent transcript (whether from Concordia or another institution). An unofficial Concordia transcript.
- A letter of intent of 500-750 words describing why you wish to participate in the Prague Field School and the kind of work you hope to accomplish while there. You should also make mention of what strengths or contributions you think you will bring to the group.
Final admissions decisions will be made by the program monitor, Mr. Raymond Marius Boucher.
By April 7, 2023, admitted students must make a $500 deposit on their Concordia student account towards costs to hold their position in the program, the $500 deposit will be credited to their student account and applied against their future tuition.
Students admitted to the program will have to attend a mandatory pre-departure meeting held by Concordia International through the following Zoom link: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/3654810697 on April 28th, 2023 at 2 pm.
Academic Inquiries
Professor, Department of Theatre