Congratulations to the 2015 Artists In Residency (AIR) finalists! Since 2011, our AIR programme has provided artists across discipline (visual arts; literary arts; performing arts; music & film) with the opportunity to participate in residency programmes throughout the world. This is a direct response to the challenges many African artists confront related to both getting […]
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This December, Badilisha Poetry X-Change will be hosting a poetry event to celebrate the end of the Badilisha Road Trip. The Badilisha Poetry Pan-African event will take place on December 4th 2015 at The Beautiful Life, located at 70 – 72 Bree Street in Cape Town. It will feature a host of award winning internationally
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We received an extraordinary number of high quality applications for Infecting The City 2016. From these applications, we have shortlisted the following artists for the Festival. Someone from the curatorial team will be contacting you over the next few weeks to discuss your application in more detail. A. Mmaka, Valentina Acting for Camera Department, CityVarsity
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To date, The Food Security Lab has comprised 16 months of research within a community called Kanana in Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa. The research focused on how people living within households that generally earn a monthly income of R4,000 or less manage their food requirements. It examined: why they purchase the food they do;
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Applications for the 2015 Artists In Residency Program are now closed. Thank you for taking the time to send us your submissions. We received a record number of applications from African artists this year, and are looking forward to reviewing each of them. We will announce the shortlisted artists in the first week of December 2015.
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The 2015 Artists In Residency (AIR) Programme is delighted to partner with the following media platforms to distribute our call for applications:
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Badilisha Poetry X-Change (www.badilishapoetry.com) is a significant platform for African poets – bearers of culture, knowledge and critical, reflective voices. Badilisha houses the world’s largest online collection of African poetry and has, since its inception in 2010, showcased and archived over 350 Pan-African poets from 22 countries. With the support of the International Fund for
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Badilisha Poetry X-Change, the home of African poetry, is currently embarking on a six-month road trip where its team will be traveling to various African countries in a bid to record and profile both emerging and master poets. This project will produce podcasts of African poetry from Botswana, Ethiopia, Tanzania and South Africa for online
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As a creative intellectual, Khanyisile Mbongwa practices the performative installation. She is an artist and curator that lives and works in Cape Town. Here is a preview of her activities while in residency at Jiwar earlier this year. Events in Barcelona: Thursday the 12th of February 2015 19h. Biblioteca Vila de Gràcia. Torrent de
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The following individuals have been shortlisted to participate in the 2016 Infecting The City curatorial team: Leila Anderson Sarah Dawson Valeri Kabov Khanyisile Mbongwa Mandla Mbothwe Elvis Sibeko The artists shortlist will be available by the 30th September 2015.
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