Boot Camp #1 of the ACF ACADEMY – special “Cultural Managers | West Africa” Portraits of our beneficiaries
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This is an incubation and support program for young visual artists and cultural managers set up by the African Culture Fund, which aims to stimulate and strengthen the competitiveness African arts professionals through the organization of artistic training camps (arts trainings), residencies for artistic creations and capacity building in cultural management around five (05) artistic and cultural centers of excellence in all regions of Africa:
North Africa (Tunisia); Central Africa (Kinshasa); West Africa (Mali); Southern Africa (Johannesburg); East Africa (Seychelles and Kenya)
The first cohort of the program concerns artistic and cultural centers in West Africa (Mali) and North Africa (Tunisia).
The call for applications for Boot camp #1 dedicated to young cultural managers from West Africa was launched in August 2021.
At its closing in September 2021, 20 candidates from 8 West African countries (10 women and 10 men) were selected to take part in Boot camp #1 which took place in Ségou in November 2021 and whose support and monitoring will continue until May 2023.
Find out the identity and the creative projects of this Boot camp’ beneficiaries.
Garage Dance Ensemble
Its project named "Fundamentals, A guide to teaching dance in High Schools" is a multidisciplinary digital work: audiovisual, pedagogical, academic, cultural, and contemporary dance.
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Its project named "Kartoon Afrika" is a project that introduces children to the creation of educational and cultural cartoons intended for the transmission of knowledge on various subjects.
Read MoreCinéma Pour Tous
Its project named "festival de cinéma de jeunes africains en ligne" aims to helping young directors to broadcast their films on a digital platform in the concept of a film festival.
Read MoreKealeboga Mosekiemang
Her short documentary "Parked", summarizes the daily struggles of the creative industry in times of Covid-19.
Read MoreElizabeth Omolara Adenugba
Her project named "Art in time of crisis" is an art journal that depicts the reflections and expressions of people's experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreNassim Azarzar
His project named "Bonne route" experiments with the social meanings of popular aesthetics by collaborating with painters and craftsmen at the origin of the rich ornamentation of Moroccan transport trucks.
Read MoreMaimouna Jallow
Her project named "Tales of the Accidental City" is a humorous and biting film, in which an eclectic group of people living in Nairobi gathers over Zoom for a court-ordered anger management class.
Read MoreAssociation DON SEN FOLO
Its project named “MUSO KAN”, the word of women in Bambara (dialect of Mali) was born from the observation that women, who have a strong presence in our daily lives, are very often absent from artistic life.
Read MoreOdile Gakire
Her project named "The Book Of Life" is about the commemoration of the 1994 genocide. Spanning the fields of publishing, video, radio and theater, the project is essentially based on a collection of letters written to the dead.
Read MoreRodrigue Gotovi
His AGEND'ART project aims to offer a stage opportunity to young women artists or groups of women artists from Benin in the fields of live music, visual art, humor, slam, and fashion, to revive their activities affected by Covid-19.
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