During the 2011 Artists In Residency Programme, eight residencies were awarded to artists from across the continent: Bundanon Trust, Australia – Yonamine Miguel, Angola; Sacatar, Brazil – Damien Schumann, South Africa; Zoma Contemp. Art Centre, Ethiopia – Maurice Mbikayi, Democratic Rep. of Congo; KulttuuriKauppila, Finland – Olivier Serge Fokou, Cameroon; Thamgidi Foundation, Netherlands – Kiripi […]
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AIR Residency 2012 winner Ngwatilo Mawiyoo (Kenya) has steadily built a name for herself as a poet, performer, actress and musician. A keen observer and devoted student of the written word, Ngwatilo’s book of poems “Blue Mothertongue” (2010), is set in Nairobi and explores notions of the African Diaspora, home and identity. Critics say the
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Sydelle Willow Smith (SA), 2012 AIR residency winner, is a freelance photographer/filmmaker born in Johannesburg and based in Cape Town, South Africa. She has traveled widely through the African continent as a photographer/filmmaker. Sydelle has a background in social Anthropology (focusing on Visual Anthropology) with an undergraduate in Video Production focusing on Cinematography. Her work has
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The artist in residency programme was a collaboration with residencies in Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Finland, Netherlands, South Africa, Turkey and the United States of America in which the Africa Centre conducts an Africa-wide search for 13 (previously 10) artists each year, across disciplines, to participate in one of the collaborating residencies. The programme has been conceived to support artists from Africa
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Kyla Davis was awarded an AIR residency as part of the 2012 programme. In November 2013 she took up residency at Nosadella.Due, nestled in Bologna’s historical centre in Italy. At the end of her residency she created a theatre happening called To walk is easy. Just go. To read more about this work please click
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“Arts Aweh!” is the youth development programme of Infecting the City. The initiative aims to raise the cultural awareness of young people, develop their levels of cultural consumption, and offer exposure to innovative and multi-disciplinary works of art. Over the course of the festival week each year, ITC hosts hundreds of learners and their accompanying
CAPE TOWN – The city’s premier high-energy platform for ideas exchange took place on 12 March 2014 at the charming Gold of Africa Museum. The programme was headlined by Cape Town’s brightest thinkers, influential change makers, doers and leading visionaries. Read More about this prestigious event on the Talking Heads website.
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The Food Security Lab comprised 16 months of research within a community called Kanana, in Gugulethu, Cape Town. Research focused on how residents managed their food requirements in households that earned a monthly income of R4,000 or less. The Food Security Lab examined the following questions: Why did the subjects purchase the food they did?
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Talking Heads is a multi–layered, knowledge-sharing platform that was conceived to identify, showcase and expose Africa’s thought leaders. It profiles the ideas, visions and manifestations of experts, mavericks and extraordinary people living in Africa. The project has multiple dimensions, but the two primary parts are Talking Heads Live and Media. The Live events are designed to
Infecting the City is a public art festival held annually in the central business district of Cape Town. For a week each year, Infecting the City typically hosts three types of artworks: collaborative works, commissioned works, and audience interventions. These works are collectively presented free to the public in the communal spaces City. Since inception in 2008 it has
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