Seedpod is Punctum’s funded regional live arts residency program.

Seedpod residencies in 2025 are produced in association with the City of Ballarat – Creative City. They offer an opportunity for live arts and contemporary performance artists to investigate their practice and develop new work.

Punctum’s Seedpod residencies generate arts practice and new work development opportunities for creators of live arts & contemporary performance.

Through Seedpod we offer the right conditions and relationships for artists to grow their practice in a responsive, rigorous setting of enquiry, experimentation, and collaboration.

It provides a safe context of open, considered dialogue with colleagues, technicians, audiences, reviewers, and producers. It opens doors to creators seeking a testing phase to encourage exchange with audiences, creating the stimulus needed for deepening practice, innovation, and understanding ‘next steps’.  In this way we contribute to regional ecologies of practice.

A Seedpod residency funds and supports artists for the equivalent of one week of self-determined research to fully develop their proposition, and one week in-situ development to experiment, create and then test their idea with audiences/participants.

In 2025, two Seedpod residences will receive funding and professional support.

Our 2025 Seedpod residencies offer artists who live, work or study in the city of Ballarat the time, funding, resources, and space to test ideas, push the boundaries of their creative practice, and understand how their work makes meaning with members of the public.

Punctum and the City of Ballarat acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded land on which Punctum’s Seedpod residencies take place, the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung People.