(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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Lauren Beukes is a South African award-winning, internationally best-selling novelist who also writes screenplays, TV shows, comics and journalism. Her books have been translated into 26 languages and have been optioned for film and TV. Her awards include the Arthur C Clarke Award, the prestigious University of Johannesburg prize, the August Derleth Prize, the Strand Critics
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Fathy Salama is a producer, composer, arranger and pianist. He is the Arab World’s only Grammy Award and BBC Award winner. Cairo-born Fathy’s first introduction to music was through Arab greats like Om Kalthoum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Farid El Atrash and through occidental classical music such as Bartok and Tchaikovsky. He started playing the piano
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After a highly competitive selection process we are delighted to share a little more about the nine artists who will be taking up residencies at various institutions around the world. Introducing the 2015 Africa Centre Artists In Residency Award Laureates: Collin Sekajugo | Visual Artist | Uganda Francois Knoetze | Visual Artist | South Africa Kato Change |
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