Applications for the 2018 Artists In Residency Program are now closed. Our 2018 application season ran from August 1st – October 15th. Thank you for taking the time to send us your submissions. We received a great selection of applications from African artists this year, and are looking forward to reviewing each of them. The […]
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Applications for Africa Centre’s Artists In Residency Programme (AIR) will close on 15th October 2018, at 23:59 GMT+2:00. African artists from all genres are encouraged to submit applications for potential residencies at any of our five partner residencies globally. Early to mid-career artists are encouraged to explore our general call, which offers residencies at Bundanon Trust in
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APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 15th 2018 FOR A RESIDENCY BETWEEN FEBRUARY 1, 2019 AND NOVEMBER 1, 2019 (Click here to download these instructions.) (These instructions are only valid for Bellagio Center applications. View the guide to our General call here.) Overview The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Residency Program awards highly accomplished academics, practitioners and artists four weeks of residence at
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Applications for the Africa Centre Artists In Residency Programme (AIR) are now open. For the last seven years, AIR has successfully awarded 69 African artists, among them Mona Eltahawy, Victor Ehikhamenor, Njabulo Ndebele & Aida Muluneh, with residency opportunities around the world. On offer this year are artist residencies at Bundanon Trust in Australia, Instituto
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APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 15th, 2018 (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.) 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, music, creative
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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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