Alim Kamara, artiste multidisciplinaire et boursier AMA, s’est rendu de Freetown (Sierra Leone) à Nairobi (Kenya) pour participer au festival Re-Imagined Storytelling, qui s’est tenu du 11 au 15 décembre 2018. Reconnu comme un conteur et artiste hors-pair, Alim Kamara est le lauréat de plusieurs prix. Basé à Freetown, il sillonne son pays et le…
Massira Touré, plasticienne et boursière AMA, s’est rendue de Bamako, au Mali, à Lagos, au Nigéria, afin de participer à la résidence « Vernacular Art Lab » organisé dans le cadre du festival Iwaya ! Community Arts (ICAF Lagos) (1-15 décembre). Diplômée d’un master en arts plastiques, Massira travaille depuis trois ans comme peintre professionnelle.…
Le weekend dernier, Achiro Patricia Olwoch, boursière AMA, s’est rendue d’Entebe (Ouganda) au Cap (Afrique du Sud), afin de participer au colloque international des femmes dramaturges (WPI – Women Playwrights International Conference), qui a lieu cette année du 28 juin au 4 juillet. Née en exil à Nairobi, élevée au Royaume-Uni et résidant présentement à…
Kampala-based AMA grantee Nakisanze Segawa is spending 6 weeks (January 9 – February 25) in Iseyi, Nigeria as a participant in the Ebedi International Residency. She will be completing the manuscript of her second novel, The Yellow Ghetto. Nakisanze Segawa is a Kampala-based writer, poet and educator with a background in social work and journalism.…
Today, AMA grantee Rocca Gutteridge is travelling from Kampala, Uganda, to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, to conduct research on the Nafasi Art Space, explore the Tanzanian art scene, and deliver information on the Ugandan scene. Rocca Gutteridge is an artist and art director. Her background and training being in contemporary sculpture, she has exhibited her…
This month, stage director and AMA grantee Yvette Hardie travelled from Cape Town, South Africa to Yaoundé, Cameroon, to participate in this year’s edition of the International Festival of Theatre for Children and Adults (FATEJ), which was hosted by the Théâtre du Chocolat in partnership with ASSITEJ Cameroon. At FATEJ, she presented the play The…
Today, AMA grantees Dounia Benslimane (Morocco) and Gugu Dlamini (Swaziland) are travelling to Dakar to attend the Arterial Network’s conference on Creative Economy, which will take place from 14 to 16 November. Widely recognized as one of the leading actresses in her native Swaziland, Gugu is an accomplished performer and arts administrator who has been…
This week, AMA grantees Yvette Hardie and Constance Didi Nonceba are travelling from Cape Town, South Africa to Yaoundé, Cameroon, to participate in this year’s edition of the International Festival of Theatre for Children and Adults (FATEJ), which is hosted by the Théâtre du Chocolat in partnership with ASSITEJ Cameroon. At FATEJ, they will be…
Today, AMA grantee Jelili Olorunfunmi Atiku is traveling from Lagos (Nigeria) to Harare (Zimbabwe) to attend the fourth edition of the Protest Arts International Festival (October 23-28). Following the festival, he will travel to Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) to facilitate a performance workshop titled “Our Bodies Do” (October 29-31). Born in 1968 in Lagos and trained at…
During the session of May 2012, our selection committee evaluated 58 eligible applications. Five travel grants were allocated to the following grantees: Ms KRISTY COCKERILL A Cape Town based curator & writer, who works with VANSA (Visual Arts Network South Africa), to participate in a curatorial research capacity at the 3rd edition of the Lubumbashi…
