Since 1999, Centre Soleil d'Afrique has sought to champion culture as a meeting place and approach cultural diversity as a source of tolerance and a way to bring populations together.
The project aims to make the digital arts an effective vector of cohesion, development and greater community spirit. It trains around ten young artists in the different digital art techniques in order to increase their competitiveness and support them throughout the value chain (creation, production and screening). The project is built over three stages: Training, Creation + Production and screening activities in public squares and at festivals.
The Cinéma Numérique Ambulant (CNA) is a non-profit cultural association that has been screening African films for disadvantaged populations in Burkina Faso since 2007. The screenings take place in villages without any electricity or cultural infrastructure, as well as in schools and orphanages. The aims of the CNA are to promote culture as a vector of sustainable development and to help construct a strong identity through cinema.
The project works to give children and teenagers an introduction to image education by teaching them stop-motion and video animation filming techniques.
The Association AFRICA UNITE is a Burkinabe organisation that works in the fields of academic guidance, professional and cultural training for young people and the organisation of cultural and early learning activities for children.
The project of the Association Africa Unite aims to boost the circus arts sector in the Hauts-Bassins region. It includes four steps: a training session for 10 teachers, art-based action across 3 isolated sites, the production of educational documents and the presentation of group performances at the International Festival of Circus Arts.
The Association Sèna Street Art, also known as ASSART, aims to make art accessible to all by promoting street culture. The association brings together young, committed artists in various artistic fields such as graffiti, visual arts, music, dance, photography, video and digital arts.
The Ecolo Street Art Bénin project is part of the EFFET GRAFF international street art festival and aims to raise awareness and educate children about the Sustainable Development Goals through street art.
Taster and teaching workshops will be organised for children from isolated areas in order to raise their awareness of the key themes of sustainable development and climate change.
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.