Prior to receiving our residency award to Nafasi Artspace in Dar es Salaam Tanzania, Francois Knoetze amassed a diverse visual arts portfolio, and a refreshing aesthetic perspective on garbage. Finding ways to creatively repurpose and represent garbage through a broader system lens, Knoetze’s artistic expression was born from growing up in Grahamstown, South Africa, where […]
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Thanks to these outstanding news and media platforms who continue to spread the news about our annual call for applications and help us to reach the artists who benefit from our Artists In Residency Program. And a big thanks to all of you who continue to share our news on social media!
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(Updated Aug 2018) Pro tip: Start your application early and always save a version of your application offline! I’m keen to apply for a residency but I am not sure which one suits me best. What’s the difference between the Bellagio Center Residency and the other residencies? The Bellagio Center residencies are suited for artists
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Africa Centre is now accepting applications for its 2017 Artist In Residency (AIR) Programmes. We are offering residencies in Australia, Brazil, Spain, Italy and the United States. We are seeking high calibre African artists, in different stages of their development (from emerging to late career), who are provocative, innovative, and stretching the boundaries of their artistic
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(Click here to download these guidelines. These guidelines are only applicable to our General Call for applications. Click here for a guide to the Bellagio Center applications.) APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 16th, 2017 The Artists In Residency (AIR) Programme accepts submissions from emerging, mid-career and senior level artists across artistic discipline i.e. visual arts, performing arts, curatorial practice, performing arts,
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(Click here to download these instructions.) New Application Deadline: DECEMBER 15th 2017. FOR A RESIDENCY BETWEEN FEBRUARY 1, 2019 AND NOVEMBER 1, 2019 Overview The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Residency Program awards highly accomplished academics, practitioners and artists four weeks of residence at the Bellagio Center on Lake Como, Italy. Residents and their spouses receive free
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Two years ago, Badilisha Poetry X-Change travelled across African cities to meet and record the work of the poets in those cities. The 2015 #BPXRoadTrip visited eight cities in South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania and Ethiopia. During the road trip, Badilisha interacted with over 246 poets and recorded 184 of which 100 are now featured on
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The Africa Centre is pleased to present the seven artists from different corners of the continent who will be taking up residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in 2017/2018. Meet: Doreen Baingana | Literature | Uganda Godfried Donkor | Visual Arts | Ghana/UK Leila Aboulela | Literature | Sudan Mark Gevisser | Literature | South
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Professor Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele, an academic and writer of fiction, is the former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town (UCT). In late 2012 he was inaugurated as the Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg. An established novelist, Ndebele published The Cry of Winnie Mandela in 2004 to critical acclaim. An earlier publication Fools and Other Stories won the Noma Award, Africa’s highest literary
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