The Africa Centre was established in 2005 as an international arts and culture centre and social innovator based in Cape Town, South Africa. The vision of the Africa Centre is brought to life with a number of projects that either play out through the calendar year, or online. They are the fruit of our determination to actively participate in altering and enriching Pan-African cultural and social exchange.
Project pages
Africa Centre Gallery
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The Africa Centre presents a fleet of projects that include:
Artist in Residency Programme – in partnership with eight residencies from around the world, this project will award, across artistic disciplines, eight residencies for 2011.
Space for Pan African Research Creation and Knowledge – a Pan-African initiative of experimental multi-disciplinary residencies, workshops, exhibitions, publications and performances centered on innovative approaches to urban space.
Badilisha Poetry X-Change – a weekly online radio station that celebrates the languages, cultures and styles of presenting Pan-African poetry.
Spier Contemporary – the largest visual and performance art biennale in Africa, featuring artwork from over 100 artists at each of its iterations.
Infecting the City– an annual public arts festival that stages and exhibits thought-provoking works in the communal spaces of Cape Town.
Talking Heads - a multi–layered, knowledge-sharing platform conceived to profile the ideas, visions and manifestations of the extraordinary people living on this continent.
Pan-African Space Station - a genre-busting exploration of global African music that turns on sound interventions across Africa via its online radio station.
WikiAfrica - an international collaboration that, through a range of interventions, redresses the critical imbalance of factual information about Africa on Wikipedia.
