The Africa Centre is pleased to announce its 2018 AIR Bellagio Center award recipients. This strand of our continental residency program awards highly accomplished artists across disciplines who share in the Africa Centre and Rockefeller Foundation’s mission to highlight and support the artistic practice of those working to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. […]
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Africa Centre’s Artists In Residency program exists in response to the reality that; compared to their counterparts in other parts of the world, artists on the African continent have limited opportunities to participate in residency programs. Our program matches exceptional, socially engaged African artists with residency opportunities around the world. Our General Call awards residency opportunities
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Happy 2019! The Africa Centre’s Artists In Residency Program (AIR) has for the past seven years worked with residency partners across the world to provide socially engaged, innovative African artists with residency opportunities on three different continents. Our call for applications is divided into two parts: the Bellagio Center Call and the General Call. The
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Applications for Africa Centre’s Artists In Residency Programme (AIR) will close on 15th October 2018, at 23:59 GMT+2:00. African artists from all genres are encouraged to submit applications for potential residencies at any of our five partner residencies globally. Early to mid-career artists are encouraged to explore our general call, which offers residencies at Bundanon Trust in
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Applications for the Africa Centre Artists In Residency Programme (AIR) are now open. For the last seven years, AIR has successfully awarded 69 African artists, among them Mona Eltahawy, Victor Ehikhamenor, Njabulo Ndebele & Aida Muluneh, with residency opportunities around the world. On offer this year are artist residencies at Bundanon Trust in Australia, Instituto
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Badilisha Poetry X-Change is taking time to assess the impact of our offerings to African poets and poetry lovers. To this end, we are conducting a survey to gather insight about this. Your voice is incredibly beneficial to this process. Please take some time to complete our brief questionnaire. We will draw on your responses to
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Three years ago, the Africa Centre and the Rockefeller Foundation developed a collaboration to support mid to late career African artists by offering residency opportunities at the Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy. This residency award is granted to applicants whose work and process aligns with the Africa Centre and Rockefeller Foundation’s shared goal to
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We’re coming home! After several weeks spent on the road interacting with poets from the Free State, Northern Cape, North West, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape, Badilisha Poetry X-Change is happy to be coming home with our hearts and hard drives full of poetry. The focus of the 2017/2018 edition of #BPXRoadTrip was profiling poets who
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The Africa Centre is pleased to announce the winners of our Artists In Residency Programme (General Call). After receiving over 350 applications across artistic disciplines, we shortlisted 28 artists on behalf of our residency partners. Based on each residency’s specific interest, they selected the following artists: Aida Muluneh | Visual Arts | Ethiopia (Instituto Sacatar)
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Mbombela in Mpumalanga and Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape are the next stops on Badilisha Poetry X-Change’s poetic road trips. Following a largely successful tour of Mahikeng, Ganyesa and Taung in January this year, Badilisha will be visiting Mbombela and Port Elizabeth in Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape respectively to meet, record, and share
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