The project ‘African Feminisms – Rights, Representation Resources’ invites African artists, collectives and creative practitioners to propose creative projects that can be displayed in digital formats on the project’s website and during one of the African Feminisms symposia that will take place in 2025.
The project is an initiative of the Goethe-Institut project ‘House of African Feminisms’ (HoAF), a networking and resource platform for African feminists, and supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.
The project ‘African Feminisms – Rights, Representation, Resources’ aims to explore African feminisms practically and discursively, to promote feminist practice through capacity-building programmes and new perspectives through artistic work. The project sees feminisms not only as a conscious intellectual and activist movement, but as the daily lived experience of women.
The project has at its core the triad of ‘Rights, Representation and Resources’ formulated in the guidelines of feminist foreign policy. This first Call for Proposals focusses on ‘Rights’ and aims to engage with the complexities and possibilities of African feminisms by exploring the many dimensions of women’s rights — legal, social, political, economic, and cultural — through diverse artistic and feminist approaches.
The project is particularly interested in proposals that provide diverse perspectives in artistic and creative forms such as written works, photographic essays, features, short films, video works, digital and new media artworks visual or audio documentaries and podcasts that explore the theme of ‘Rights’ from an African feminist perspective. Submission of final artistic/creative project, including complete narrative and financial reports by 30 May 2025.
Applications are accepted from artists and creatives living on the continent or the African Diaspora.
The projects will be funded with up to 2,000 EUR.
