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
Next Stop: North West Province Read More »
Cape Town’s Infecting the City is shifting from an annual event to a biennale public arts festival. We believe this approach is the only way we can collectively create a socially engaged, high quality and abundant festival that has sustainable relevance. The call for applications will go out in March 2018 for the Festival to be hosted in March 2019. Keep up to date via Facebook as the planning progresses.
Infecting the City 2019 – Biennale Annoucement Read More »
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 »
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
Francois’ Great Circle Read More »
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
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center & Other Residency Applications: NOW OPEN Read More »
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
Our poetic travels continue…. Read More »
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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Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese author and the first winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her latest novel, The Kindness of Enemies, according to the literary blog, Brittlepaper, ‘reprises her acclaimed success at pushing the boundaries of contemporary forms of African storytelling.’ Leila’s work has received critical recognition and a high profile for its distinctive
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The Africa Centre is pleased to announce its Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Artist in Residency award recipients. This residency is focused exclusively on highly accomplished scholars, artists, thought leaders, policymakers, and practitioners who share in the Foundation’s mission to ‘promote the well-being of humanity around the world.’ The Bellagio Center wants to enable individuals that
The Bellagio Center Winners Are….. Read More »
