Africa

Common Stories are looking for 8 theatre directors, playwrights, choreographers and performance makers to take part in Common LAB 2024, an itinerant 8-week laboratory in Portugal, France, Mozambique and Belgium during June and September - November 2023. Applicants should be performing arts artists living and working in Europe, with a good command of English.

In 2020, Don Sen Folo opened an artistic residency, the Don Sen Folo – LAB, on two hectares in the village of Bancoumana, 50 km from Bamako. This space can accommodate artists for their research, experimentation and creative work. GNININI WOMEN is a laboratory for young African choreographers under 35 years of age.

From 13-20 April 2024, the 13th edition of the Market for Abidjan Performing Arts (MASA) will take place in Abidjan. The organisers are calling for companies and artists working in various performing arts categories.

Santuri East Africa and Ajabu Ajabu supported by a grant from Ignite Culture: ACP-EU Culture Programme (Eastern Africa) are excited to announce an opportunity for East African musicians to participate in a unique music residency program called Uvumbuzi, bridging the creative landscapes of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. For an intensive two week period in November, Kenyan artists will be hosted by Ajabu Ajabu in Dar Es Salaam (30t October – 12 November 2023), and Tanzanian artists will be hosted by Santuri in Nairobi (13-27 November 2023).

The University of Johannesburg’s artists in residence programme is now accepting applications for 2024. The UJ Artists in Residence Programme welcomes applications from emerging and established artists, from across the globe, but preferably with a link to Africa. Applications for both physical and remote residencies are possible.

The Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF), in partnership with Scènes Australes, invites female event production managers based in Africa and in the Indian Ocean to apply for an opportunity to participate in the 2023 Gender@Work programme. The course will comprise two modules: a Music Business module (online in October 2023) and an Event Production module (in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 5-11 November 2023).

With this call, the DECONFINING project is looking for artists working in the moving image (e.g. video, animation, film, digital and found footage, etc.) who are willing to develop a new work of art at residencies in Wrocław, Poland and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Applicants must come from or be based in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kenya, Poland, Rwanda, Slovakia, Tanzania, Uganda or Zambia.

Now in its 6th edition, the New Dimensions Lab brings together diverse interdisciplinary African artists to develop stories told through creative technology alongside leading industry mentors. The Lab takes place over the course of a week (22-29 October 2023) in South Africa, where artists engage in discussions and masterclasses, and workshop their creative projects.

The 8th edition of Arab Arts Focus will take place this year as part of D-CAF Festival in Cairo from 2-5 November 2023. This is an open call for Arab artists to submit their latest theatre, dance, or multidisciplinary performing arts work, with a chance to be selected to be part of this year’s showcase.

the African Cultural Fund is launching this call for applications in partnership with the Institut Kôrè des Arts et Métiers (IKAM) and Arterial Network Cameroon, to select 15 young cultural managers from central Africa to participate in the BOOT CAMP #4 of the ACF ACADEMY programme, scheduled to take place from 7-12 August 2023, in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

OneBeat Ghana is now accepting applications for socially engaged artist-entrepreneurs from Ghana, Nigeria and the U.S. (ages 19-35) to participate in an intensive 2-week residency from 6-20 November 2023. The Ghana-based program will convene 11-12 artists from all 3 countries to exchange and build strategies for stronger artist communities and creative economies in the region.

Orbitals is a recurrent programme which takes four curators and researchers from or living in the Arab world to an international location to learn about a different artistic context. This year’s edition will take place between 4-14 December 4 2023 and will be an introduction to the art scene in Dakar, Senegal.