Badilisha Poetry X-Change is taking time to assess the impact of our offerings to African poets and poetry lovers. To this end, we are conducting a survey to gather insight about this. Your voice is incredibly beneficial to this process. Please take some time to complete our brief questionnaire. We will draw on your responses to […]
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Three years ago, the Africa Centre and the Rockefeller Foundation developed a collaboration to support mid to late career African artists by offering residency opportunities at the Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy. This residency award is granted to applicants whose work and process aligns with the Africa Centre and Rockefeller Foundation’s shared goal to
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We’re coming home! After several weeks spent on the road interacting with poets from the Free State, Northern Cape, North West, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape, Badilisha Poetry X-Change is happy to be coming home with our hearts and hard drives full of poetry. The focus of the 2017/2018 edition of #BPXRoadTrip was profiling poets who
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The Africa Centre is pleased to announce the winners of our Artists In Residency Programme (General Call). After receiving over 350 applications across artistic disciplines, we shortlisted 28 artists on behalf of our residency partners. Based on each residency’s specific interest, they selected the following artists: Aida Muluneh | Visual Arts | Ethiopia (Instituto Sacatar)
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Mbombela in Mpumalanga and Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape are the next stops on Badilisha Poetry X-Change’s poetic road trips. Following a largely successful tour of Mahikeng, Ganyesa and Taung in January this year, Badilisha will be visiting Mbombela and Port Elizabeth in Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape respectively to meet, record, and share
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Last year, we received a total of 351 applications for residencies with our partners in Australia, Brazil, Spain, Italy and USA. The Africa Centre uses an external selection panel to shortlist its applicants. These artists are then submitted to our partners for final selection. The Africa Centre team is proud to present its shortlist of 28
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Badilisha Poetry X-Change will be visiting towns of Mafikeng, Ganyesa and Taung on to meet and record poets who write and recite in indigenous South African Languages. Poets living in these towns who wish to record their poetry for inclusion in Badilisha are encouraged to email wanjiruk@africacentre.net or call/WhatsApp +27 63 716 4434 to book
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Born in Zambia, Gladys Kalichini became an artist because she wanted to understand and experience the world around her; to look at the world and express her perspective of it in a personalized manner. Although Kalichini grew up believing that artists were born and not made, she understood the decision to be a practising artist
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With a wealth of knowledge, and breadth of experience, Liza Grobler’s visual art installations create dialogues with the spaces in which they are displayed. She blurs the traditions of craft and fine art, breathing new life into discarded, mass-produced materials through traditional craft techniques like crochet, beading and weaving. Living in Cape Town, South Africa,
Liza: Maybe Time Can Fold Read More »
After an intense succession of successful exhibitions across the globe, South African based James Webb applied for a residency with Africa Centre in 2016, and received the award to The Fountainhead residency in Miami, USA. “Getting lost and finding ways of access are pivotal elements in my creativity.” His interdisciplinary work, which combines art, music,
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