Immersion au bord du lac Nokoué, les artistes chez vous
The Place O Sceno Association, specialised in the performing arts, offers a framework for training in the theatre professions in Benin. It brings together about fifteen Beninese artists with diverse skills: stage designers, actors, puppeteers, designers, costume designers, sound and light directors, administrators, etc.
This project to create a theatre and puppet show on the themes of education for all and the involvement of the population in the rational management of the resources of Lake Nokoué will be broadcast in 30 lakeside locations and on the web. It will help to bring cultural activities to the most remote localities. In order to carry out this initiative and to compensate for the lack of infrastructure, a travelling floating stage will be created.
Kriol Jazz Festival
Founded by José Da Silva, producer and manager of Cesaria Evora, Harmonia LDA carries out cultural development projects through both music and audiovisual production, as well as organising events such as the famous Kriol Jazz Festival and the Atlantic Music Expo trade show.
A victim of the pandemic, the Cape Verdean cultural sector is struggling to recover. In an attempt to revitalise this still very fragile economic sector, the project aims to relaunch the "Kriol Jazz Festival". After 10 years, it has become a key event in jazz and world music. Reviving it will allow the local population to live off this economy (revival of tourism and events created around the festival), and will also allow African and/or Caribbean artists who have not been able to perform for two years to return to the stage.
Les Rencontres Musicales Africaines (REMA)
Identity, creativity and commitment are the values of La Cour de Naaba. Founded in 2007 to promote music in Burkina Faso, this association wishes to "make music a true vector for sustainable and visible social development on a daily basis. "
The Rencontres Musicales Africaines project is defined by its collaborative values and is based on a genuine sharing of "best practices". It advocates the promotion of gender equality and equal opportunities and also wishes to act in favour of the employability of young people. These annual business-oriented meetings are organised around a topical and strategic theme for the sector, as illustrated by the REMA 2022 topic "African music, a new ecosystem: players, professions, tools. "
Mon panégyrique, mon identité culturelle
The mission of the Humanist Writers Association of Benin is to make writing, books and reading tools and channels for socio-cultural development in Benin and Africa. It aims to become the leading book organisation in Benin, impacting at least 50,000 people by 2025 through various actions.
The "Akô" is an African custom from oral literature, a series of words of a laudatory nature that recounts the origins and achievements of a person, family, ethnic group or clan. In the face of modernity and industrialisation, this Beninese tradition is under threat. To safeguard it, the project intends to identify, collect and publish (books and CDs) clan panegyrics and train 30 young storytellers and slammers (15 women and 15 men) in composition and declamation.
Valorisation des contenus numériques du Mali à travers la création et la production de jeu vidéo
BAMABIZ production is a communication, audiovisual and event production organisation. Its vocation is to be a laboratory for incubation and innovation in the creation and distribution of digital content and educational video games inspired by African culture.
This training and creative residency project is a logical follow-up to the 3rd edition of the Malian Video Game and Digital Festival, for the professionalisation of young people in the video game sector. Its objective: to train 12 girls and boys in the techniques of this industry and to distribute the content resulting from the creative residency at the next "Bamako Games Play".
Cinexale
The Yennenga Centre is the first cultural centre dedicated to cinema in Senegal. A true incubator, it offers training, support for the creation and distribution of films and audiovisual material. It aims to promote local cinema, accessible to all, and to introduce the younger generation to the impact of the image on society.
In 2019, the Yennenga centre launched "Cinexale" to develop a culture of cinema and the image among a young audience. During the first year, 25 children were able to participate in a creative programme, at the end of which 3 short films were made. The Yennenga Centre has been awarded a development fund in order to continue this initiative, to enable more children to benefit from it and to launch a film club specifically for 6-12 year olds.
Festival International de Théâtre de l'Afrique de l'Ouest - FITAO Casamance en Scène
Through its animation and awareness-raising activities in Africa, the association participates in citizen development. Since 2007, it has organised the annual international West African theatre festival "Casamance en scène", which has become a platform for training and artistic and cultural promotion.
The cancellation of the 2020 edition due to Coronavirus, followed by the introduction of a curfew, turned the organisation and running of the festival upside down. Instead of being held over a week, in 2021, the highlights were spread over several months, and the performances went beyond the walls of the Alliance Française to take over the courtyards of the houses in the Yamatogne neighbourhood. Today, the project intends to perpetuate this new formula, which has proved to be more effective in terms of promotion and distribution among the population.
Of Being and Becoming: exploring language and identity in the African cultural space using VR
Open Arts is a collective committed to promoting arts and creative activities. As the organiser of the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival (HIBAF), the foundation prioritises the artworks and stories of people whose voices have been excluded from the global conversation.
The project aims to digitise the meetings, exhibitions, performances and other activities of the 2nd edition of the HIBAF festival in order to archive them and, above all, to recreate them in virtual reality. If the objective of this event is to open discussions on the Hausa language through history, music and arts of the past and present, its VR version will give it more resonance and will allow it to seduce a new public which, thanks to this technology, will be able to immerse itself and wander through the festival in Northern Nigeria, from anywhere in the world.
The Art: A tool for sustainable job creation and promotion of tradition, culture and the SDGs
Act For Change is an NGO that uses interactive theatre, creative arts and other participatory methods to advocate for social issues affecting young people, women and children. Its mission is to bring about behavioural change and improve the quality of life of young people by empowering them through training and self-esteem building programmes.
The project aims to address the problem of unemployment and advocate for the creation of a sustainable city in Accra. In addition to launching the James Town Arts Festival platform (a contemporary art event) to promote art and cultural works to a wider population, the project plans to involve students in an art exhibition on the theme of "Sustainable Cities: Through my Eyes". Students from the selected schools will participate in creative art workshops led by professional artists.
Art Education for Change
Specialising in training in the travel and tourism sector, ITTOG has been involved in numerous artistic and cultural projects since its creation in 2008, with a view to raising awareness of sustainable development and responsible tourism among its students.
Due to the absence of an art school in the Gambia, the development of the sector is limited. The ITTOG project therefore proposes to improve the training, employability and entrepreneurship of young performing artists. Through this project, ITTOG is committed to training young talent (with the support of the Senegalese National School of Arts), creating an art café and a resource centre for discussions, research and sale of works. It will support the creation of new cultural dances, produce videos of performances and help distribute them for wider recognition.