Providenza is a multidisciplinary residency located in the heart of the Haute-Corse mountains.
In addition to its main program, Providenza hosts a number of satellite residencies in partnership with various European structures.
[WARP Composers and the Providenza ensemble]
Warp Composers and Providenza joined in 2025 to start a series of workshops bringing together acclaimed electronic music producers and musicians with academically trained conductors and performers. The result is called the Providenza Ensemble and consists in a series of recordings and concerts.
The first edition in September 2025 gathered musicians Lorain James, Puce Mary and Kelman Duran who were able to each compose a piece with the help of British conductor Rakhi Singh from Manchester Collective, soloist Colin Alexander as well as arranger and producer Karl Steven. Their works premiered at Unsound 2025 in Poland before playing at Southbank Center in Spring 2026.
[Institute for Ideas and Imagination of the Columbia University]
The II&I, based in Paris, is a unique program that fosters intellectual and artistic diversity unconstrained by medium and discipline through the interaction of the arts and academia. Each year the Institute brings together a cohort of 14 post-docs, artists and writers from around the world, to spend a year together in work and conversation. As we feel close to this approach, we offered the opportunity to invite one of the fellows to join our 2024 program and give birth to creative exchanges with our other residents from June 3rd to 24th 2024.
We selected Interdisciplinary British writer, poet and artist Jay Bernard, whose work is rooted in social histories.
[La Semaine de la Critique, Next Step Volume II : Filmmaker-Composer Workshop]
Every year, La Semaine de la Critique, one of the main selections of the Cannes Film Festival, supports young filmmakers selected for the festival in the development of their next feature film project through its Next Step programme.
Since September 2023, Providenza and la Semaine de la Critique, in partnership with Sacem, have been organising an on-site workshop, bringing together selected filmmakers with composers and scriptwriters. This ambitious programme supports the development of independent film projects, with a particular focus on sound writing and musical composition upstream of production, still in the writing phase.
[Fidlab - Providenza Prize]
FiDLab is an international film co-production platform that supports ten international film projects each year in their development phase. By accelerating co-productions, partnerships and exhibition opportunities, it is not uncommon for selected independent films, once completed, to go on to be selected at the most prestigious film festivals, such as Locarno or Berlin. In 2022, Fidlab created the Providenza prize, offering a filmmaker the opportunity to work on his or her project during a three-week residency. The winner is chosen by a dedicated jury during the Fidlab edition from all the projects selected by the Fidlab.
Winner 2022: Mira Adoumier - The night came about - more about their residency here Winner 2023: Gregor Božič - Tales of Fruits and Monsters
[Communities Between Islands: Trans-Mediterranean Residencies]
In partnership with Cherimus, a Sardinian art and residency organisation and the Museo Nivola, with Archipelago Network and the Syros International Film Festival on the island of Syros, Greece, Providenza, with FRAC Corsica, is offering a programme of trans-Mediterranean residencies.
Since September 2023, groups of Mediterranean and international artists have been invited to take part in a 5-week residency programme enabling them to travel from one island to another, meeting the communities around Syros and the Cyclades islands, the Nebbiu region in Upper Corsica and the Sulcis Iglesiente region in south-west Sardinia.
The project is co-funded by the EU (Europe Creative and the European Commission).
- Cycle 01, curated by Archipelago: Untraced passages
With Marianne Fahmy, Latent community, Elke Marhofer
- Cycle 02, curated by Providenza : Woven by the currents
With Sarah-Anaîs Desbenoits, Dania, Amalia Vargas
- Cycle 03, curated by Cherimus : And so we'll end up singing
With Lukas de Clerck, Maia Aghnadis aka Flugen, Roberto Casti
A pamphlet on CBI is available here.
Program co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
[Taurus Foundation: Nebbiu, a chosen territory]
Since 2013, the Taurus Foundation has been supporting the arts and sciences in Switzerland and internationally by awarding prizes in both fields. These prizes highlight the work of artists and researchers whose work stands out for its quality and originality. In the visual arts, the prize is awarded to a contemporary photographer or video artist. In the scientific field, the Foundation supports projects and publications by researchers in palaeoanthropology and prehistory.
The Taurus Prize for the Visual Arts is awarded every two years to a contemporary artist by a committee of professionals from a chosen region. In 2023, it was awarded to British filmmaker Ufuoma Essi for the Nebbiu region in Upper Corsica.
More info on her residency and project - Ufuoma Essi, the Choirs of Nebbiu
Past residencies
