The Arterial network to Facilitate Participation of African Journalists at the Highway Africa Conference
September 2009
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| Table of contents |
| I. What’s new with the ARTerial Network? Second Arterial Network Biannual Conference takes place Arterial Steering Committee elected World Summit on Arts and Culture II. Calls for projects/Invitations Prohelvetia Call for Projects Concerning Exchange with Switzerland III. Conferences UNESCO Symposium on the role of Culture in and for Development 10 October 2009 All Africa Dance Conference and Festival 9th and 13th of December, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya Third World Culturelink Conference Registration Open Reminder: First Conference on Cultural Organisations in Times of Economic Crisis 3 - 4 December 2009 The 2009 Africa Research Conference in Applied Drama and Theatre & World Alliance for Arts Educators Regional Summit 12-15 November 2009 IV. Others Creative Africa Network Mobility Grants V. Contact us |
| I What’s new at the Arterial Network? |
| Second Arterial Network Biannual Conference takes place |
After its launch on Gorée Island in Senegal in March 2007, the Arterial Network hosted its second Biannual Conference at the Goethe Institute in Johannesburg from 19-21 September 2009. 114 delegates from 28 African countries as well as a further 17 participants from mainly European countries attended the two-day event, more than double the number of delegates and countries that attended the founding conference. The Conference achieved its five primary aims: to build support for the Arterial Network (all 28 countries present now have a representative to help build the Arterial Network in their country); to give strategic direction to Arterial Network for the next few years; to adopt a broad constitutional framework to consolidate the Network’s organisational form; to elect a new, more representative Steering Committee and to prepare delegates for participation in the World Summit on Arts and Culture. Korkor Amarteifio, Associate Director of the Institute for Music Development in Ghana set the tone for the conference with her keynote address: The African creative sector: acting locally to be globally assertive. As a model of a continental civil society movement in the creative sector, Ilona Kish outlined the structure and activities of Culture Action Europe. The rest of the time was spent in working groups, discussing and devising concrete recommendations for Arterial Network to take further with regard to building advocacy networks, undertaking campaigns to improve the creative industries and status of the artist on the continent, ensuring greater benefits for Africa (rather than only South Africa) from the 2010 FIFA World Cup and building a festival and touring network. The Conference was made possible through the support of Art Moves Africa, Doen Foundation, Pro Helvetia, Stromme Foundation, Artema Institute for Arts Management and the Goethe Institute, with other major Arterial funding partners – HIVOS and Africalia – also present at the conference. |
| Steering Committee elected |
| The three Task Team members present at the Conference were re-elected to a new 10-person Steering Committee to provide continuity. Each country elected one representative to a “General Council” which then divided into the five African regions, with each region electing two members to the Steering Committee. The final result was a victory for democracy with an equal number of men and women, a balance of youth and experience, and representation from all four major language groups: Portuguese, Arabic, French and English. Members of the Steering Committee are, North Africa: Salma Said (Egypt) and Khadija el Bennaoui (Morocco); East Africa: Joy Mboya (Kenya) and Sarah Nsigaye (Uganda); West Africa: Tade Adekunle (Nigeria) and Michael Soumah (Senegal); Central Africa: Telesphore Mba Bizo (Cameroon) and Patrick Mudekereza (DRC); Southern Africa Mulenga Kapwepwe (Zambia) and Filimone Meigos (Mozambique). |
| Word Summit on Arts and Culture |
| In August 2007, the Arterial Network Task Team planned that the second conference would take place just prior to the World Summit on Arts and Culture in Johannesburg to help to ensure a significant African presence at this tri-annual event hosted by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA). Hosted by the National Arts Council of South Africa – a member of IFACCA – the World Summit was a triumph for Africa with more than half the 450 delegates present coming from 31 African countries and more than 40% of the 57 speakers were Africans. Arterial Network made a significant contribution to the World Summit through the number of African delegates it brought to the event, the preparation of these delegates to participate effectively in the World Summit’s deliberations, by helping to identify speakers and through the head of its secretariat who also served as the programme director for the Summit. One of the legacies that the Summit would like to leave is an IFACCA African chapter i.e. a network of arts public funding agencies on the African continent. The next World Summit on Arts and Culture will be held in early October 2011, in Melbourne, Australia to coincide with the tenth anniversary of IFACCA. Arterial Network will work towards a significant African presence at this event – and other international cultural forums too - to sustain African intervention in global cultural discourse and to ensure that creative practitioners and leaders on the continent are engaged in ongoing dialogue with their international counterparts. |
| II. Calls for Projects/Invitations |
| Prohelvetia Call for Projects Concerning Exchange with Switzerland |
| Pro Helvetia Cape Town, through its Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC) mandate is currently accepting applications for projects concerning exchange with Switzerland, we can accept applications throughout the whole year (no deadline), for Artist in Residency applications the deadline remains 15 January 2010. Please see more detailed info, and download and carefully read our different application forms at www.prohelvetia.org.za For more information: Pro Helvetia Cape Town Swiss Arts Council Level D, 25 Adderley Street PO Box 469 Cape Town 8000, South Africa T/F +27 21 465 90 33 E-Mail: communication@prohelvetia.org.za |
| III Meetings and Conferences |
| UNESCO Symposium on the role of Culture in and for Development 10 October 2009 |
UNESCO Symposium on the role of Culture in and for Development 10 October 2009 The symposium is organised in the framework of the 35th Session of the UNESCO General Conference in cooperation with Sciences Po and with the support of the government of the Kingdom of Spain. It is intended to stimulate reflection on the achievement on the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2000 by demonstrating the pivotal role of culture both in economic and human development terms. The two round tables of the symposium are entitled ‘Development through Culture, it works’ and ‘Culture, a new lever for international Cooperation.’ Contact: hbarre@unesco.org |
| All Africa Dance Conference and Festival 9th and 13th of December, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya |
| The conference will be a great opportunity to learn from various practitioners in the dance and peace building fields while mingling with people from all over the globe for a great cultural connectivity. The culminating carnival/ festival will provide a rich, inclusive and challenging forum for reflective practitioners to celebrate their creative richness; critically and deeply engage; dream and act jointly in producing alternative cultural and dance products and in shaping new narratives of just peace. The best dance troupe coming up with a peace and human understanding message will be awarded and so teams are encouraged to creatively get involved seeing that the messages portrayed could be used as a model for Africa as a whole. Registration fee for this event is $130 for individual delegates and $110 for delegates within a dance group (Registration forms are available for download from www.africadancefestival.com.). The payments will cater for festival registration, meals and materials. Delegates must also meet the costs of their travel and accommodation in Kenya. Please visit www.africadancefestival.com; email us on info@africadancefestival.com or call +254 020 4452674/ 4450937 for more information. |
| Third World Culturelink Conference Registrations Open |
| This conference is envisaged to bring together Culturelink Network's members, researchers, professionals, and many others who perceive networking as one of the most intriguing phenomenon of contemporary culture. The conference programme is available at www.culturelink.org/conf/clinkconf03/clinkconf03prog.html and the online registration form is accessible at www.culturelink.hr/conf/clinkconf03/clinkconf03reg.html. For more information contact: Conference Secretariat, Culturelink/IMO, P.O. Box 303, Vukotinovićeva 2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia; tel.: +385-1-4877490; Fax: +385-1-4828361; E-mail: clinkconf@irmo.hr Link: http://www.culturelink.org/clinkconf.html |
| Reminder: First Conference on Cultural Organisations in Times of Economic Crisis 3 - 4 December 2009 |
| The conference discusses and reflects the relationship of culture, arts and management in times of economic crises. The current global financial meltdown has slashed the myth of unrestricted liberalism and forced governments to actively support their former flagships of endless economic growth. Until now, private businesses engaged strongly in cultural activities but now this support is breaking away. Scholars, artists, and practitioners alike find themselves forced to rethink their current assumptions of the financial support for cultural activities and come up with viable alternatives. In this context the conference addresses the following key questions: •How do museums and other cultural organizations respond to their changing environment and how does the economic downturn change the way they operate? •On the other hand, how can art, culture and museums as their actants contribute to a retelling of the grand narratives supporting the development of identity against the background of the current challenges for capitalism and growth? Can they endorse movements forming a new self-understanding of societies in transition? •What can management practitioners learn from arts organizations? What kind of “aesthetic comments” can enrich organizational decisions and is there a possibility for an aesthetic critique to reflect on bubble-driven or system-bound decisions? Hosting Institution: University of Cape Town, Department of Accounting Admission Fee: Euro 100 / USD 140 / ZAR 1110. Participants from African countries are offered scholarships. Please inquire under Thomas.Gstraunthaler@uct.ac.za |
| The 2009 Africa Research Conference in Applied Drama and Theatre & World Alliance for Arts Educators Regional Summit 12-15 November 2009 |
| This year Drama for Life (DFL) will host its second Africa Research Conference in Applied Drama and Theatre, running from the November 12 – 14 after which the World Alliance for Arts Educators Regional Summit will take place. The venue for the two conferences is the Wits Theatre on the Wits University campus in Braamfontein. Introduced in 2008 to stimulate research in Drama and Theatre in Africa, the Conference will provide opportunities for theatre and health practitioners, academics, trainers and community workers to engage in compelling dialogue regarding their work. It also aims to inspire networking, and debriefing and will showcase new work in this field, within a supportive and focused environment. It will highlight on the role of Drama and Theatre in HIV/Aids education, prevention and intervention, underpinned by the central theme, “Interrogating drama and theatre research and aesthetics within an interdisciplinary context of HIV/Aids”. Dialogues concerning this theme will focus on research paradigms, the aesthetics of the art form, and interfacing with other disciplines. For more information contact: Inge James inge.james@wits.ac.za |
| VI Others |
| Creative Africa Network Mobility Grants |
| An initiative of puma.creative, Creative Africa Network (CAN) is a virtual platform with global reach, connecting the creative world within and outside of Africa, giving visibility to the talents working in contemporary art, film, architecture, design, and the performing arts. CAN social networking website, www.creativeafricanetwork.com, allows individuals and institutions to create their own profiles. CAN also includes a growing cultural directory featuring news of events, biennales, art and book fairs, music and film festivals, awards, reviews, calls for artists, and other opportunities, providing professional information valuable to established and emerging artists and cultural liaisons. The CAN Mobility Grants are designed to allow artists to travel to major international events they are taking part in. For more information kindly contact Christine Eyene: eyonart@googlemail.com |
| V Contact Us |
If you wish to contact the ARTerial Network or if you received this newsletter second hand and would like to be on our database write to: info@arterialnetwork.org and for further information, visit www.arterialnetwork.org and www.artsinafrica.com . Tel: 27 (0) 21 465 9027 The ARTerial Network Union House, Second Floor 25 Commercial Street Cape Town 8001 South Africa |
