After much deliberation, we are thrilled to share the 2017 Infecting the City artists shortlist! This year we received a total of 220 applications from across the country and have been impressed by the continued quality and diversity of the those received. After a thorough selection process that invited the curatorial team and panel of […]
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Applications for the 2016 Artists In Residency Program are now closed. 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 shortlist will be announced in early December 2016. All applicants will
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Since its inception in 2011, the Africa Centre’s Artist in Residency Programme (AIR) has successfully awarded 39 African artists the chance to take up residencies across the globe. Through continued partnerships with residency programmes in Australia, Brazil, India, Spain, China and the United States, we are proud to offer eight new residency opportunities through the 2016 edition of
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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.) 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,
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(Click here to download these guidelines. These guidelines are only applicable to the Bellagio Center residencies. Click here for a guide to applying to our other residencies) APPLICATION METHODS Applications can be made through the following avenues: 1. Online Applications Portal: Visit the Africa Centre AIR website to apply via our Online Application Portal 2. E-mail Application:
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The Africa Centre is pleased to present the five artists from different corners of the continent who will be taking up residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in 2016/2017. They are: Fathy Salama | Performing Artist | Egypt Lauren Beukes | Author | South Africa Tsitsi Dangarembga | Author & Filmmaker | Zimbabwe Victor Ehikhamenor
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Yared Zeleke is an Ethiopian film director from Addis Ababa. He has an M.F.A. in Writing and Directing from New York University. His first feature film, Lamb, was screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard. It is the first film from Ethiopia to have been officially selected in the festival’s 68-year history. In November 2015, Variety named Zeleke one of its “10
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Victor Ehikhamenor was born in Udomi-Uwessan, Edo State, Nigeria. He is an award winning visual artist, writer and photographer. He lives in Nigeria and the US. He draws influences from traditional African motifs and religious cosmology. He has held numerous solo art exhibitions. His poetry collection, Sordid Rituals was published in 2002. ‘I have always drawn
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Tsitsi Dangarembga is a writer and filmmaker. She lives in Harare, where she directs the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA) Trust, which she founded in 2009, and which is successfully carrying out Breaking The Silence: A Programme for People Power In Zimbabwe, most notably having published the collection of short stories
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