South Africa

The LAPA residency space in Brixton, Johannesburg is inviting duo artists and collectives to undertake one of three residencies in 2023 and 2024. LAPA is open to artists across all disciplines based in Africa who have been professionally active for at least 6 years.

Oscillations: Sonic Inquiries and Practices is a two-year project founded on the premise that sound is knowledge. The current open call covers residencies in Berlin and Cape Town and is aimed at sound artists, scholars and cultural practitioners based in Southern Africa. 

The Music Imbizo is an international music business conference, exhibition and film festival. The conference collects various music industry stakeholders under one roof to map the way forward for the music industry in Africa. Several calls are open to participate in the next edition, running from 29 August - 2 September 2023 in Durban, South Africa, with the calls for curators/promoters and for showcasing artists providing some support for travel.

Creative technologists based in Southern or Eastern Africa can apply to participate in this lab using extended reality (XR) technology like virtual reality or augmented reality to develop new narratives on World Heritage sites in Southern and Eastern Africa. The 3-day ideas development lab will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 6-8 December 2022.

The first Climate Story Lab ZA is an incubator aimed at shifting the narrative and amplifying communication around climate change in order to make positive impacts against the global crisis. Up to eight projects will be selected for CSL ZA, and up to two team members per project will be invited to a four-day lab near Cape Town from 22-26 January 2023.

The Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF), a non-profit organisation operating in the field of African music, has partnered with Goethe-Institut to implement the Music In Africa Sound Connects Fund. The MIAF seeks to appoint a Regional Coordinator for the fund. The successful candidate will coordinate all the aspects of the fund, and oversee its daily management, working from head office in Johannesburg (Rosebank), South Africa. 

The LAPA residency space in Brixton, Johannesburg is inviting two artists to undertake a residency as an artistic duo or pair. LAPA is open to artists across all disciplines based in Africa who have been professionally active for at least 6 years.

The Music Imbizo - an international music business conference, exhibition and film festival - in South Africa is now calling on curators and promoters to apply for this year’s event in Durban from 23-28 August 2022.

The Wits Innovation Centre invites applications for a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship which will advance interdisciplinary research innovation at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, one of the leading research universities in Africa. The fellowship will initially be for one year, renewable on an annual basis for up to three years.

TheMuseumsLab is a platform for joint learning, exchange and continuing education on the future of museums in both Africa and Europe. The programme consists of three one-week seminar modules (online and onsite in Berlin and Cape Town) lead by prominent African and European experts, a two-week residency at a renowned European partner institution, and a co-working phase.

Now in its fifth edition, the New Dimensions Lab brings together diverse African artists to develop stories told through creative technology alongside leading industry mentors. This year the Lab will take on a hybrid format with 12 physical and 6 virtual applicants, running 26 February – 6 March 2022. Applicants should be citizens or permanent residents of an African country and currently living on the African continent.

The Visionary Award is calling for submissions from practitioners who are currently conceptualising new bodies of work across the extended field of lens-based mediums. The winning applicant will receive a cash award to support a residency at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria. Entrants need to be 40 years or younger during the year of their submission, and should live and work on the African continent at the time of entry.