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…
Today, 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 presenting…
AMA wishes to congratulate the grantees of Session 23 (September 2012). Of the 36 eligible applicants considered by the AMA Selection Committee, eleven were awarded grants: 1. Constance Nonceba Didi (South Africa) A Cape Town-based actress, to participate in the International Festival of Theatre for Children and Adults (FATEJ) hosted conjointly by Theatre du…
AMA is sad to announce that Lagos-based grantee Jelili Atiku has had to cancel his participation in this month’s Protest Arts Festival in Harare, Zimbabwe and in the “Our Bodies Do” workshop in Bulawayo, due to regrettable and unforeseen circumstances. First refused the right to board a Johannesburg-bound flight on the grounds that he did…
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…
Visa issues are one of the problems artists face when they are mobile across borders, in particular if they are non EU nationals willing to enter the EU. On the Move is exploring how cultural organisations supporting mobility (funders, organisers, venues…) can help non-EU artists overcome the difficulties they encounter when willing to enter the…
Mr Jeffery Hessney, producer and public relations manager of the contemporary dance company Raiz di Polon, traveled from Cape Verde to Kigali (Rwanda) and Nairobi (Kenya) from 29 June to 9 July 2012, to meet respectively Mr Wesley Ruzibiza, Amizero Dance Company’s Artistic Director and main choreographer, and Mutheu Mbondo, coordinator of the United Cultures…
Dakar-based AMA grantee Elise Fitte-Duval is currently in Kisangani (Democratic Republic of Congo). Elise is a visual artist and photographer. In 2011 she was awarded the Casa Africa prize at the Rencontres Photographiques de Bamako. Her interest in dance brought her to follow the creation of several contemporary dance companies. In her words, dance is…
