Foto School
Yamarou Photo is an association of photographers that is helping to consolidate Bamako's position as the capital of African photography, through training and the democratisation of this artistic practice among general public. It aims to create a space for dialogue between young people around photography and to build a framework for meetings between national and international photographers.
"Foto School" is an image education project aimed at schoolchildren. In line with the government's policy of promoting art in schools and colleges, the project aims to strengthen the skills of educational stakeholders (teachers, school administrators, educators, etc.) in visual arts teaching techniques, and to develop image culture and citizenship among young people.
Graine d’espoir
CNA Burkina is part of CNA Africa, a network of associations present in 10 countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Mali, Niger, Senegal and France). Its motto is: "Cinema for all, cinema everywhere. "The CNA specialises in communication for behavioural change, focusing on culture as a vehicle for sustainable development.
In addition to training children from underprivileged areas of Ouagadougou in the techniques of shooting animated films, the CNA will create a framework for moving image training and education. Accompanied by Slama Cinéma, a Belgian structure with expertise in training, the "Graine d'espoir" project also plans to train instructors. The short films produced will reflect the children's context and cultural references. They will then be shown during 50 screenings and debates.
Inno – Culture
While TIBI is an NGO is committed to training and artistic creations for the benefit of artists with disabilities, it also participates in international cultural events. Education, performing arts and community development are its main areas of intervention.
"Initiation à l'Innovation Culturelle, Linguistique et d'Ecriture chez la jeune fille dans la région Kara" (Initiation to Cultural, Linguistic and Writing Innovation for Young Girls in the Kara Region) aims to safeguard and enhance the endogenous practices of the peoples of Northern Togo through the promotion of young girls. 100 young women under 25 years of age will thus be able to develop their cultural skills (traditional dances, etc.). They will be interested in their mother tongue (its history and values) and will sharpen their critical thinking skills during an essay competition. The resulting document will be broadcast on YouTube, as will the 50 stories told in their mother tongue and translated into French and English.
L’Afrique en Conte
The Association Des Livres Pour Tous (DLPT), created in 2008 in Paris by Marguerite Abouet, author of the successful comic strip "Aya de Yopougon", has as its main objective to make books more accessible to young people by creating libraries in neighbourhoods and villages in Africa.
"L'Afrique en conte" is an innovative project aimed at collecting, producing and broadcasting radio plays based on heritage tales and contemporary imagination. The aim is to produce a catalogue of programmes, audio books and podcasts for libraries, schools, cultural centres and radio stations in Côte d'Ivoire and elsewhere. The creation of this catalogue is made possible thanks to the "Radiobox", a portable mobile studio set up in libraries in Abidjan, and to the training of librarians in its use.
Plastik Toxik Partout - Pour un monde d’éco-artivistes
Famu DANSE believes in the transformative power of culture and art, both on a societal and economic level. Its flagship project "Parole de Corps" is aimed at the socio-professional inclusion of young people with hearing impairments through the performing arts, and enables them to participate in professional productions, as dancers and actors, in Mali and beyond.
"Plastik Toxik Partout" is a committed project that enables artists to integrate environmental issues into their work. It contributes to strengthening the role of the artist and the place of art in raising awareness. The project brings together eco-artivists who denounce pollution and warn the general public. At the end of the project, 53 dancers (24 girls, 29 boys, 41 of whom are deaf) will have developed their practice to integrate the notion of ecology. The 9 new creations, street performances and installations will reach more than 8,000 people
Africa SIMPLY THE BEST et ANKATA COACHING
Ankata means "forward" in Dioula. Located in Bobo-Dioulasso, this associative space was designed and built as a creative laboratory, a crossroads of social and civic links, a place to work and live, to experiment with all possibilities, an exhortation to move forward and reinvent one's environment.
Africa SIMPLY THE BEST and ANKATA COACHING function as a platform for the promotion of young creators in the performing arts, with an affirmed approach of knowledge sharing. The first stage of this programme consists of identifying contemporary African talent, training them and bringing them together on the same stage, with a view to their promotion and positioning at the forefront of the performing arts.
Cinéma du fleuve
The GSCD's ambition is the operational implementation of development projects through culture in rural Africa. It is committed to the preservation of artistic heritage, the reinterpretation of mythologies, dialogue between cultures and friendship between peoples. Its members are artists and professionals from the world of culture and development.
In order to educate the younger generation about the moving image, to allow local populations to see films in favourable conditions, but also to create social links and spaces for reflection while supporting African cinema, the "Cinéma du Fleuve" project proposes to bring cinema to rural areas. The construction of an open-air cinema and an educational room in Mboumba will allow the screening of African cinematographic works as well as international heritage films.
Naija Tales
Mega Arts Pluz Nigeria is a cultural and creative organisation deeply committed to the discovery of talent and actively involved in performing arts programming, cultural consultancy, audio-visual production and innovative African development projects to promote indigenous African arts and make them globally relevant.
"Naija Tales" enlists Nigerian storytellers, theatre artists, digital content programmers and radio producers to accelerate the distribution of cultural content via physical and digital platforms. The project will culminate in the launch of the International African Performance Storytellers' Day (celebrated every 1 December) and the creation of an African Storytellers' Academy.
LOATAD Writing Residency Programme For West African Writers
LOATAD, located in Accra, hosts a library, archive and museum dedicated to the promotion and preservation of African and diaspora literature from the late 19th century to the present. This extensive collection includes approximately 4000 works by writers from 41 of the 54 African countries and black authors from Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean.
The "LOATAD" residency project will host 18 writers from 16 West African countries (including 6 under 35 years old, 6 Ghanaians, and 9 women), over a period of 12 months, for a one-month residency. The aim of the residency is to give the writers the time, space, resources and inspiration to work on a long-term writing project. Writers will have literary exchanges with each other and present their writing to a local audience.
ARTIRIUM 1.2+
SUDCREA is a socio-educational and cultural association mainly oriented towards young people and supporting their artistic creation for the emancipation of Beninese culture and more broadly for the promotion of creation on the African continent.
Through the ARTIRIUM 1.2+ project, the SUDCREA association is involved in the transmission of artistic practices (particularly in urban dance and humour) to young people from disadvantaged or difficult backgrounds. This action reinforces the structure of the Artirium platform for which 15 training tutorials on the performing arts and cultural management will be produced and distributed. At the same time, the association is committed to organising an online competition based on humour and contemporary dance of African inspiration, for people under 30.