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.
3rd space : A Yoruba House Music Project
Founded in 2014 in Lagos, the creative agency Whitespace unearths and supports young visual artists (photographers, filmmakers, illustrators and art directors) by providing them with a working environment conducive to completing their projects, allowing it at the same time to develop a strong network within the West African creative sector.
The main objective of the project is to produce an album of Yoruba house music. The first step is to engage two separate groups, each consisting of 14 dancers and drummers, who will lay down ancient rhythms and songs over electronic music. The recorded performances will then be used to create an album.
Femmes en création
The Kadam-Kadam Association is active in the artistic and cultural, social and educational fields, and at times also in the health sector. Its mission is to contribute to the promotion of culture as a human right and a factor in the socio-economic development of children in Togo and Africa.
Initiated in response to the absence of women in the arts, the "Femmes en création" project is a platform for training, research, creation and promotion in the dramatic arts for 6 female actors, 3 female visual artists/scenographers and 6 female administrators. Following a diagnosis of the local situation, the project will work to overcome obstacles to the continuity of the careers of women artists, and then work towards their professionalisation.
La Fabrique des Femmes du Mandé
Faced with the difficulties and precariousness of African cultural stakeholders, and in particular women artists, as well as women in rural communities, Côté Cour works to promote and put arts and crafts at the service of local development, by increasing women's production capacities and distribution possibilities.
"La Fabrique des Femmes du Mandé" is a vocational training project in rural areas structured around five arts and crafts workshops: Bogolan dyeing, sewing, organic soap making, recycling and digital technology. It aims to provide fifty Malian women with skills in the creation and distribution of their products, with a view to their economic empowerment and the creation of an environment conducive to the education of girls.
Le Bus culturel pour l'accès au musée pour tous!
The Fondation Zinsou is a real springboard for the popular distribution and universal recognition of contemporary African art, and also works to ensure that cultural activities are accessible and free of charge. Active for more than 17 years, it has been able to establish solid partnerships with numerous structures and to rise to the forefront of the Beninese cultural scene.
The project proposes to support contemporary artistic creation by promoting free cultural visits. This accessibility approach is already in place in the city of Ouidah where the museum is located. In this project, the aim is to extend the area covered and to reach out to distant audiences with a means of transport that is also already available: the Bus Culturel. The latter will travel up to 50 km around Ouidah to take children to the museum and allow them to participate in educational workshops designed as part of the cultural mediation.
CLAPE.EBURNIE.21- 24
Jardin d'Afrique Groupe is first and foremost an audiovisual production company specialising in the promotion of local cinema as a vehicle for social peace. Through its productions and caravans, it raises public awareness of national and international themes in the fight against the de-schooling of girls, drugs in schools, inter-community conflicts, etc.
CLAPE.EBURNIE is the abbreviation for "Cinema and Literature in Action for Peace and Development in Eburnia", a mobile socio-educational project that promotes cinema for the development of young pupils and students. Through screenings and debates of the feature film "Kamissa" and the creation of a platform, the aim of the three-year CLAPE.EBURNIE.21-23 touring programme is to engage the whole of Ivorian society in the fight against pregnancy among young pupils and students, which is often the cause of school drop-out.
Digitoonz Afrika
Since 2015, the creative and cultural label Kanarimagik has been producing content to raise awareness, inform and transmit knowledge, using drawings, comics, animated videos and other fun media, in paper or digital format, for young people (boys and girls aged 5 to 18), their families and educational mediators (parents, teachers, etc.).
"Digitoonz Afrika" has the singular ambition of making Senegalese comics known in Africa and in the world via a "Webtoon" platform entirely dedicated to the promotion of these digital works. This project will also enable a hundred or so enthusiasts and professionals from the sector to make themselves known and benefit from comprehensive training on the creation and production of comics (scriptwriting, storyboard development, production of sets and characters, creating vignettes, etc.).
Aw Djigui
Created in 2014, Street Movie encourages access to culture for vulnerable populations, in a commitment to equal opportunities and poverty reduction. Originally created to reduce inequalities through the promotion of street cinema, today the association has developed around the promotion of Malian culture in all its diversity.
"Aw Djigui" is a project to support the development of a local cultural dynamic initiated by the creation of the "Journées Culturelles" of the Street Movie association. Set up in the 1008 Logements district (on the outskirts of Bamako), it aims to support local initiatives, promote traditional crafts, encourage entrepreneurship and vocational training, particularly for young women, in order to make them financially independent.