Armunia was founded in June 1996 as an association between the municipalities of the Lower Cecina Valley to promote, organize and manage theater, dance and cultural activities in the area, later becoming the exclusive entity of the municipality of Rosignano Marittimo (LI). Over the years it has established a network of interconnected artistic and cultural activities that, while respecting a cultured and at the same time popular tradition, have been able to open up to the new and contemporary.

The "Artistic Residencies" are a free space where poetics become confrontation and time is no longer in the tyrannical condition that binds it to production. Artistic geographies alternate in a landscape where the gaze opens to dialogue and encounter with the citizens of this part of Tuscany, leaving traces in the memory of its inhabitants. Crossings, migrations and landings at Armunia in different forms, these are the artistic residencies in our conception, agile tools for research.

Each artist is given a space in which he or she has time to stay, study, meet and generate other value. During research, rehearsal rooms can open up, sometimes turning into laboratories where processes come through meeting people, or they remain in suspension between dancers, playwrights, actors and directors.
New beginnings are almost always wonderfully fruitful, and the results of recent UBU awards, so many of which have found budding right in Armunia, prove it. Art residencies are a "Free Zone" district, where a living system composed of people generates a temporary microclimate of ideas in constant transformation.

At Südpol, the present, the past and the future are artistically interrogated throughout the year. In the form of residencies, Südpol offers groups and artists the opportunity to conduct artistic research-whether it is an emerging work or a general artistic question that does not necessarily result in a concrete production.
Residencies are organized as part of co-productions with Südpol, but also independent stays. It connects with local and national cultural operators to promote and revive dialogue between Switzerland's language regions.
Residencies last from three days to two weeks. Artists from outside Lucerne are hosted on Südpol's premises and can work on their ideas and projects in one of the pavilions.

Often as part of the residencies, "sharing" events are organized. These are public rehearsals during which the artists:inside give an idea of the state of work and dialogue with the public.

The artists inside have the opportunity to share with an interested audience the material created during the residencies and receive feedback.

New synergies can arise both in dialogue with local cultural workers and with an interested public.

L’Abri is now spread over two locations, L’Abri – Madeleine and L’Abri -Carouge. L’Abri accompanies emerging artists from all horizons in their projects by providing rehearsal spaces, a recording studio, by organising meetings with professionals from different fields, by setting up exchanges with regional and international structures and artists. The challenges are multiple: to create contexts conducive to production and co-production, to make the artistic projects of the Associate Artists visible and to help them to disseminate their creations. Each year, a dozen artists join the growing community of L’Abri. During the season, the space becomes a place of life, creation and common reflection in which each artist has time to research and work on his or her future projects without any obligation to produce. From year to year, L’Abri is transformed by the new sensibilities that inhabit it.

Souvenir Souvenir is a residency program dedicated to artists, researchers and curators. The 2022 program runs between April and September 2022 and is designed to be an extended invitation to all participants and exhibitors of the Swiss Art Awards 2022. The participating artists, for a maximum period of 5 consecutive days, will have the opportunity to settle temporarily in the Italian part of Switzerland, putting them in direct contact with the social fabric and the art scene in Ticino and promoting the construction of networks of cultural exchange. This program of micro-residencies aims to explore the potential of our region as well as its criticalities with the idea of laying the groundwork for the construction of a permanent residence in the south of Switzerland.
In addition to an accommodation in the historical center of Lugano, Souvenir Souvenir offers the exhibition space Sonnenstube for the organization of activities, exhibitions, meetings performaances and, if necessary, ateliers, as well as a close curatorial support and networking with professionals of the sector, spaces and associations in Ticino.
The program Souvenir Souvenir, is curated by the collective Sonnenstube, formed by Giacomo Galletti, Giada Olivotto, Gabriel Stöckli, Sandro Pianetti and Gianmaria Zanda.
Souvenir Souvenir will be hosted within Lago Mio, a residence in Lugano directed and curated by Carlotta Zarattini and Benedikt Wyss.

Cima Città is an interdisciplinary residence in a disused chocolate factory in the Ticino Alps. Cima Città stands for retreat, inspiration, concentration and exchange. Curious and committed voices from art, science and society come together here. Cima Città sees itself as a nucleus for the development and exchange of collective answers to pressing questions of our time. The residence, in its unique surroundings, inspires and connects and asks for bold ideas for futures worth living.

The Istituto Svizzero issues a new call each year for several ten-month residencies running from September to July.
The Roma Calling residencies are for artists (visual arts, design, architecture, literature, dance, theatre and music) who have proven experience in the arts or who have completed an education (Bachelor, Master or other) and for researchers doctoral/post-doctoral students (social, human, natural and other sciences).
Starting from the academic year 2021/2022, Istituto Svizzero introduced a new five month Roma Calling residency programme, for two researchers who present a project with strong links to the city of Rome and whose research may take place over a shorter period.

Network that brings together theatrical and multidisciplinary residencies based in Lombardy. Aim to support network activities, the exchange of best practices and the emergence of common projects among its residencies.

LO STUDIO is a space that promote art and culture, performing arts, contemporary dance and research, proposing workshop, residencies and a programmation.

LO STUDIO is a performing arts centre for the development of dance, theatre, live arts, performance art, sound performance and mouvement research. It want to give the possibility to groups or artists to work, rehearse and develop their own creations, offering working spaces and residencies.

As a performic art centre, it want to establish mouvement research with institutions, on an academical level, as well than proposing projects on an educational level on different level: for schools, for elderly, for children.

Lo studio has been founded from the cultural manager / choreographer Filippo Armati (from Gorduno, Bellinzona) together with the Russian coreographer Maria Vlasova (Crimea).

Sonnenstube, founded in 2013, is a traveling offspace in Lugano dedicated to contemporary art and sometimes music. Sonnenstube, which literally means "sunny room," is a term used in the German-speaking area of Switzerland to describe the canton of Ticino. The term represents a relaxing, peaceful and idyllic place. Sonnenstube is in fact the viewpoint of the passing tourist, the "balabiott" of the first half of the 20th century, or the various Nordic intellectuals, hippies and artists who sought their "elsewhere" here. Occasionally we present in our bookshop some fanzines, limited editions, art magazines and our own publications.

Residenzzentrum tanz+ offers ideal conditions for continuous and productive artistic creation and is unique in Switzerland as a means of residency and production of this size and orientation. It is suitable for interdisciplinary projects, for the elaboration of large productions, and as a platform it is open to both established groups and newcomers. As a place for artistic exchange, tanz+ offers dance ideal space and working conditions in all its diversity. In addition, workshops for young people and local dance professionals can be organized in the evenings or on weekends.
Residencies are open to professionals from Switzerland and abroad working in the fields of dance, choreography and performing arts. Residencies are discussed individually and include free use of the dance studios and lodging in the large guesthouse, as well as a financial contribution toward travel and maintenance expenses.