Art
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August House: Where art and city-making meet
Writer, artist and research associate at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities (ACC), Kim Gurney pens a new book on the evolving art space, August House in Johannesburg. August House is Dead, Long Live August House! The Story of a Johannesburg […]
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How art can change a city
Beninese artist Romuald Hazoume questions urbanisation, governance, leadership and citizen participation in Cotonou with his exhibition ‘Aré.’
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Bodas are gold in Kampala’s art scene
Many Kampalans might view the city’s ubiquitous motorbike taxis as vehicles manned by thugs who drive recklessly, but artist Kino Musoke thinks they are simply gold. For this month’s Kampala Contemporary Art Festival KLA ART 014, for which 20 Ugandan artists were tasked with transforming bodabodas into works of art, he spray painted a Bajaj […]
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Kigali shines with fashion week
The African fashion industry is growing. While Lagos and Johannesburg are the main fashion capitals in Africa, Kigali is a rising star that launched its second annual fashion week at the weekend. LDJ Productions, the company that organises New York fashion week, gave technical support and training for Kigali fashion week. As reported by The Guardian, […]
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Gulu’s sculpture boys
They only appear in the town centre in the evenings. During the day, they are hard at work moulding all manner of objects using a mixture of clay and cement. In Gulu town, they are simply known as “the boys who sell animals” — teenagers who sell animal sculptures on the streets to make a […]
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Documenting the ‘spaces’ in Addis
Faced with rapid growth and urban development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, Felix Heisel and Bisrat Kifle set out to document old and new ways of living in the city. “Disappearing Spaces” is a cinematic documentary on the use of space in the informal parts of Ethiopia’s capital. Looking at one typical house for the duration […]
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Reflecting on Nairobi’s heritage
Residents of Nairobi appreciate the city for its present-day attributes but not so much for its history. The city, built on a swamp, began in 1899 as a railway depot and camp during the construction of the Mombasa-Kampala railway. By the early 1900s, Nairobi was a bustling town and eventually became the colonial administrative capital […]
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Artists as urban catalysts in downtown Cairo
Last December the Goethe Institute hosted a panel discussion titled “Artists as Urban Catalysts in Downtown Cairo.” The event was organized by Beth Stryker and Omar Nagati (Cluster) and supported by the Ford Foundation. Invited panelists represented two types of stakeholders in downtown: property owners (Karim Shafei, CEO of Al Ismaelia Real Estate Development, and […]
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Gone but not forgotten: Cape Town’s thomassons
An exploration of the useless elements in Cape Town’s built environment and what they can tell us about our relationship with our cities.
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Forms of fine art and football in Lwandle
Painting a soccer mural cements the power of place for young artists from Lwandle township.
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Fast Forward >> Here: Making Public Art Personal
Using theatre games and film, this public arts project will explore what it means to be a young person living in Khayelitsha, the semi-formal township on Cape Town’s periphery.
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How public art is reshaping Tshwane
Tshwane designers, artists and architects are transforming the city with help from Capital Collective, an organisation working to enhance collaboration between the private and public sector.
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A voice from Lagos: artist and fashionista Oyindamola Fakeye
Voices of the City is a weekly feature from Future Lagos that spotlights the everyday lives of citizens, living and working in Lagos. this week we meet Oyindamola Fakeye, curator of art, fashion and music.
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Graphic resistance
Crossroads: I Live Where I Like is a graphic novel history series on women’s organized resistance to slum clearance in Crossroads South Africa, 1975-2014.
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Kampala stakes its place on East African art map
African art lovers are preparing for the Kampala Art Biennale, which will be held throughout August in venues around Kampala. The Biennale is presented as an innovative project with the intention of showing contemporary works from around the continent and creating debate on its current value. According to the organizers, the first edition will give […]
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African Creative Economy Conference coming to Rabat
Rabat, which was recently declared the Moroccan capital of culture, will host the fourth edition of the African Creative Economy Conference, an annual project of the Arterial Network. The network is a Pan-African civil society network of artists, cultural activists, enterprises, NGOs and others active in the creative sector. The conference will run from November […]
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Arts switch on in Harare
Last week Harare was the scene of one of the largest, most prestigious urban festivals in Africa. The city hosted the 15th edition of the Harare International Festival of the Arts, better known by its acronym HIFA, and considered by many as the Glastonbury of southern Africa, under the theme “switch on.” During this six-day multidisciplinary festival, which has […]
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Invisible Borders explores new public spaces
It’s a bright July afternoon in Accra. At Nima roundabout, cars normally pass around the circle and pedestrians walk through, but this afternoon the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Project exhibition draws attention and curiosity. People slow, pause, and stop to see the displays of immensely sized photographs mounted on wooden legs. The photographs, like windows, […]
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Love triangle: Addis Video Art Festival call for entries
Opportunity to submit to and attend a video art festival that aims to create a dialogue between local and international artists in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Call For Applications: 2016 Artist Residency Lagos, Nigeria
A call for local and international visual artists and curators to apply for the Arthouse Foundations artist residency programme in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Call for papers: CONTEMPART ’16 / 5th International Contemporary Arts Conference
An annual multidisciplinary conference dedicated to study new approaches in contemporary arts worldwide.
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Call for Papers: Re-Imagining the African City: The Arts and Urban Politics
The workshop aims at rethinking the place of the arts in African urban politics as a subject of analysis, as a driving force of social and political change, or as an arbiter of culture.
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Call for applications: Art Moves Africa mobility grants
Art Moves Africa is now accepting applications for its mobility grants programme.
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Roberto Cimetta Fund: Open Call for Travel Grants
The Roberto Cimetta Fund is launching the second 2015 open call for travel grants from 1st to 30th April 2015. Artists and cultural operators living and working in the Euro-Arab geographical region can apply in Arabic, English or French. Priority is given to mobility from the South and East of these regions.
The open call concerns two separate mobility funds: the RCF/Valletta 2018 Fund, and the RCF/Conseil Général Bouches-du-Rhône Fund. This call is therefore open for travel related to specific criteria of Valletta 2018 (indicated on RCF’s website), as well as travel from or to the Bouches-du-Rhône and from the cooperation zones of this county (indicated on RCF’s website).
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Call for Proposals: UNESCO International Fund for the Promotion of Culture
Are you an artist or creator? An NGO or a non-profit private or public body, whose activities contribute to the promotion of culture and artistic creation? If your project is compliant with the criteria indicated in the Operational Guidelines of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (IFPC), you can submit your project application and be considered in order to benefit from the financial support of the Fund.
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Prince Claus Fund: 2015 Culture in Defiance Call for Proposals
The Prince Claus Fund welcomes project proposals for its Cultural Defiance Fund from the following countries only: Central African Republic, Eritrea, Libya and Yemen.
Through its Cultural Defiance Fund, the Prince Claus Fund aims to support artists and cultural organisations globally, who through their artistic and cultural initiatives create a space for dialogue, opportunities for freedom of speech, critical thinking and positive impact within their societies. -
Bayimba International Festival of the Arts
Every third week of September, Kampala comes alive as a vibrant and eventful city when an unparalleled feast of music, dance, theatre, film, and visual arts from renowned and upcoming artists is brought to Kampala, when Bayimba Cultural Foundation presents the three-day Bayimba International Festival of the Arts.
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FT/OppenheimerFunds: Emerging voices awards
The inaugural FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards aims to recognise extraordinary artistic talent in three categories – fiction literature, film-making and art across more than 100 emerging market nations.
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Long Street: a map of post-Apartheid Cape Town
No map fully coincides with the territory it represents. If the map and territory do not coincide, what can the map capture of the territory? This paper describes the process that led the researcher to build a map of post-apartheid Cape Town from Long Street.
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The emerging role of fashion tourism and the need for a development strategy in Lagos, Nigeria
The tourism industry is viewed as one of the world’s most important industries that have emerged in global economy including Nigeria. The fashion industry is likewise a multibillion dollar industry globally. In many parts of the world fashion tourists are growing in number. Acclaimed fashion capitals of the world like New York, Paris, and London […]