Directory for Arts & Culture (Cameroon) Released
2010 February
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Welcome to the February newsletter from the ARTerial Network, an informal, dynamic network of individuals, organisations, donors, companies and institutions engaged in the African cultural sector. The Network was formed to support the effectiveness and growth of the African arts and culture civil society and to enhance the sustainability of creative industries in Africa. |
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| I.What’s new with the ARTerial Network? Advocacy and Networking Training session Cultural Policy Task Group Membership Cultural Policy Seminars and Reading Groups Discipline-based networks East African regional secretariat Call for project managers for the production of toolkits Publication supported notably by the Arterial Network Bulawayo Arts Forum Cultural Policy Seminar African Cultural Capital Project, 10th – 15th March, 2010, Accra Ghana II. Calls for Projects/Invitations Bamako Symposium on the arts: Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Development in the 21st CENTURY: Call for art professionals The 13th Zanzibar International Film Festival 10th-18th July, 2010 Call for Entries Call for Papers: Advertising, Media, Culture, Economy and Politics in Africa III.Meetings and Conferences 8th Conference of the International Society for the Oral Literature of Africa (ISOLA), Mombasa, Kenya, 15-20 July 2010 Second World Conference on Arts Education, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, South Korea Preserving African Cultural Heritage, Dakar, Senegal, Nov 1-7, 2010 IV.Others How to Evaluate Cultural Projects for Development Art Moves Africa (AMA) Next Applications Deadline 01 May 2010 V. Contact us |
| What’s new at the Arterial Network? |
| Advocacy and Networking Training session |
| The second training session in building national advocacy networks will take place in Cameroon from 10-20 April. The first one (then called a Winter School) was held in Cape Town in June 2009. Funded by the European Union and HIVOS, the primary aim of the programme is to train leadership from at least ten countries in developing sustainable civil society networks in the creative sector in African countries. |
| Cultural Policy Task Group |
| Following Arterial Network’s cultural policy seminar in Nairobi in November 2009, a Cultural Policy Task Group has been established to devise a generic cultural policy for African countries based on numerous existing international and African cultural policy documents that can then be adapted to the conditions within each country. The Task Group will also devise a Cultural Development Index to monitor and evaluate the 53 African countries in terms of their implementation of key cultural plans such as the Nairobi Plan of Action on Cultural Industries adopted by the African Union’s ministers of culture in Algiers in 2008. The members of the Task Team are Paul Nkwi (Cameroon), Ammar Kessab (Algeria), Joy Mboya (Kenya), Michael Soumah (Senegal), Mulenga Kapwepwe (Zambia), Avril Joffe (South Africa), Patrick Mudekereza (DRC), Tade Adekunle (Nigeria), Farai Mpfunya (Zimbabwe), Carole Karemera (Rwanda) and Basma el Husseiny (Egypt). |
| Membership |
| With Arterial Network now becoming a more formal organisation, 2010 is the year in which we translate our growing database into formal members. Please visit our site www.arterialnetwork.org and sign up in the appropriate membership category. |
| Cultural Policy Seminars and Reading Groups |
| The monthly cultural policy seminars and reading groups are slowly getting off the ground. Each seminar is based on an introductory paper and reading groups use the introductory paper on the theme to further research, debate and develop new ideas related to the theme. Initial seminars on culture and development have been held and reading groups on the subject are being established in Uganda, Liberia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The introductory paper for the second monthly seminar on creative industries has been prepared by Avril Joffe and is available on www.arterialnetwork.org (the introductory paper on culture and development is also available for downloading). |
| Discipline-based Networks |
| As per the constitutional framework adopted at its second conference in September 2009, the core of Arterial Network will comprise multidisciplinary national organisations. We are also keen to work with existing, or to help facilitate the emergence of new, Pan-African discipline-based networks in theatre, music, dance, literature, craft, visual arts, film, cultural policy, festivals, arts education, cultural industries, etc to deal with issues and challenges relevant to those disciplines. As a start, we would like to invite individuals who are highly networked within their countries in these disciplines to apply by sending a motivation to Florence@arterialnetwork.org to serve as the country representative in this discipline. |
| East African Regional Secretariat |
| Arterial Network’s Steering Committee has agreed to establish the first of five regional secretariats in Nairobi, Kenya to decentralise the organisation and building of capacity and leadership within the network. The East African secretariat will be based at the Go Down Centre. |
| Call for Project Managers for the Production of Toolkits |
| Following the arts marketing workshop held at the Harare International Festival of the Arts last year, the National Arts Council of South Africa has approved funding for the production of an Arts Marketing Toolkit appropriate to the range of African conditions. A pilot toolkit on advocacy and networking needs to be prepared for the second training session on advocacy and networking to be held in Cameroon in mid-April, and it the toolkit will be further developed after the session. A Directory on African Arts, Culture and Heritage – based largely on www.artsinafrica.com website – will be published later this year. This is to invite project managers to oversee the research, preparation, design, production and marketing of the Arts Marketing toolkit, the Advocacy and Network toolkit and the Directory on African Arts, Culture and Heritage. Please send a letter of application and motivation indicating which publication/s you are applying to project manage, a CV and two contactable referees to Margerie@arterialnetwork.org by 26 March 2010. |
| Publication Supported Notably by the Arterial Network |
| Comprendre et pratiquer la sonorisation de spectacle – Saintrick Mayitoukou Comprendre et pratiquer la sonorisation de spectacle, first title of the new collection Africalia Editions [formation] is an educational, practical and technical work, consisting of 264 pages and amply illustrated, that explains clearly not only to sound technicians and sound engineers, amateurs and students in the sector, but also to musicians all there is to know about microphones, wires, mixing panels, signal processing and loudspeakers, through to the pioneering Line Array technology. Saintrick Mayitoukou, a musician, sound engineer and trainer with 20 years of experience, who worked with many great names in the world of live events, shares his know-how in an educational work. He has followed many training courses, for instance with Marc Berthoumieux, Mark Malherbes and Jean-Marc Pinault. Edited by : Africalia Editions & Zhu Culture Editions – Language : French 264 pp., quadri – format 170 x 240 mm ISBN Africalia 978 2 8052 0018 2 ISBN Zhu Culture 978 2 918521 00 6 Selling price: 30,- €, out postage. Order : www.blacklabel.be; Order: www.ethicstore.be |
| Bulawayo Arts Forum Cultural Policy Seminar |
| The Chairperson of the Arterial network, Mulenga Kapwepwe will take part in a cultural policy seminar for Zimbabwe. Organised by the Bulawayo Arts Forum under the theme: CULTURAL POLICY & ARTS COUNCIL ACT: - Reflections & Way Forward for Zimbabwe the seminar will take place on 15 and 16 March 2010. Mulenga will present on the Arterial Network as a key driver and catalyst in the attainment of the creative civil society advocacy agenda for Zimbabwe. |
| African Cultural Capital Project, 10th – 15th March, 2010, Accra Ghana |
| The African Cultural Capital Project came about through a Franco/German workshop titled Accra on the way to becoming a cultural city. Out of this workshop, a movement grew whose objective is to turn Accra into a Cultural Capital and for it to become part of the African and international creative city networks. Accra Culture and Arts Network (ACCRACAN), the registrated company that is leading this venture was created at the Franco/German workshop. In March, the Goethe-Institut in collaboration with ACCRACAN and other partners will organize activities to showcase the various communities in Accra through the creative industries. An important part of these activities is a forum on the African Cultural Capital concept (Accra, 11 – 13 March 2010) with stakeholders and patrons. This will be the follow up of the 2008 Franco-German workshop on Accra on the way to becoming a cultural city. Arterial Network Steering Committee Members Tade Adenkule and Lassana Igo DIARRA as well as Korkor Amarteifio (country rep. for Ghana) were invited to attend this workshop. For the programme and agenda visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/gh/acc/en5567514v.htm Contact: program@accra.goethe.org |
| II. Calls for Projects/Invitations |
| Bamako Symposium on the arts: Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Development in the 21st CENTURY: call for art professionals |
| A call is made to arts professionals, researchers and interested parties for contributions addressing one or more of the symposium strands: Arts Education Practice, Studio Practice, Curatorial/Museum/Community Arts Practice, Arts History/Criticism, Arts Administration/Management/Marketing Practice, and Open Session. The Bamako Symposium on the Arts entails paper presentations and practical activities such as workshops sessions, mini-projects, and artistic interventions that would result to an exhibition or public performance. With the practical acts and theoretical presentations we aim to promote critical dialogues on the best practices around the world on how the arts as resource feed civilisations in hope that we will generate new initiatives to boost human capital development in Mali in the 21st century. The symposium coincides with the celebration of the fifty year of independence of Mali. The working languages of the conference will be French and English. Applications for individual and team presentations will be reviewed until the space is filled. For paper presentation, all abstracts and short biographies (ca 100-150 words) should be submitted electronically to africoae@gmail.com; deadline for full paper (c. 3000 words) submission: 30th June 2010. For workshops and artistic interventions (visual arts, music and theatre) the proposals should be submitted to the Balani's Association in Bamako: balanise@yahoo.fr The symposium is organised as collaboration with African Community of Arts Educators (AfriCOAE) and Balani's Association in conjunction with the Université de Bamako, Ministry of Culture Mali and the Conservatory of Arts and Craft. For further information, contact: africoae@gmail.com |
| The 13th Zanzibar International Film Festival 10th-18th July, 2010 Call for Entries |
| The Zanzibar International Film Festival is the largest multi disciplinary art and cultural festival in Africa dedicated to the exhibition of films, music, Panorama. Each year ZIFF exhibits more than 150 films made in Africa, Middle East, Europe, Latin America, USA and Asia. The Zanzibar International Film Festival is currently accepting applications for all African films and films from the Dhow Countries region- South East Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, The Persian Gulf, Iran, Pakistan, and the Indian Ocean Islands. Films must be directed by an African or from a Dhow country and produced after 2007. ZIFF reserves the right to accept any films with a specific interest to the festival. Films should preferably depict the Festival theme; HOPES IN HARMONY. Films on this theme will be given priority and we encourage filmmakers to submit works in any genre, in features, documentaries, short films, animation and music videos. We will accept submissions of works in progress; however, films must be completed no later than May 15, 2010. For Submission Procedures Contact: P.O. BOX 3032, ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA Tél: (255) 777 411 499 Fax: (255) 777 419 955 Email: filmdept@ziff.or.tz Or Laurian Kipeja: marketing@ziff.or.tz |
| Call for Papers: Advertising, Media, Culture, Economy and Politics in Africa |
| A special book project to commemorate the 50th birthday celebration of Dr Rotimi Williams Olatunji. The advertising institution is an integral part of the society, media, culture, economy and politics everywhere in the world. Advertising influences and is subject to the influences of other institutions in society. It is this theme that continues to dominate the research, thoughts and scholarly writings of Dr. Rotimi Williams Olatunji for nearly two decades now. Invitation is hereby made to you to enrich this vast and fertile area of scholarship as you join the exploration of numerous points at which your own area of specialisation in communication and related disciples touch on advertising. This seminal book, to be published by the Department of Public Relations and Advertising of the Lagos State University School of Communication, is primarily aimed at honouring Dr. Olatunji as he celebrates his golden jubilee anniversary (21 February 2010). But secondly and more importantly, the book project aims at advancing the frontiers of knowledge on the theme: “Advertising, Media, Culture, Economy and Politics in Africa” SUB THEMES:
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For more information contact: Dr. Rotimi Williams Olatunji Department of Public Relations & Advertising School of Communication Lagos State University, 21 Olufemi Street, Surulere, Lagos Nigeria. E-mail: rotimiolatunji@yahoo.com |
| III Meetings and Conferences |
| 8th Conference of the International Society for the Oral Literature of Africa (ISOLA), Mombasa, Kenya, 15-20 July 2010 |
| The 8th ISOLA International Conference hopes to open a broad platform of discussion, bringing together scholars working in the fields of the arts, literature and the social sciences. It will provide a forum for scholars to share knowledge focusing on various aspects and forms of indigenous knowledge, including their study, practice, relevance, promotion and protection in the age of globalization. Participants are invited to explore how the liberalisation of knowledge and technological innovations have impacted on the intangible heritage. Attention will be paid to oral literature and to popular culture, which constitute important aspects of the living reservoir of the intangible heritage. Presentations will focus in particular on the ways in which oral literature, alongside its aesthetic, moral and philosophical preoccupations, serves as an effective vehicle for transmitting, reinventing and diffusing diverse aspects of the intangible heritage in the age of globalization. Participants are also invited to present papers on the ways in which oral literature, popular cultural and various forms of the intangible heritage are expressed and reinvented through the media and the visual arts. Contact information of the local conference organisers: Dr. Peter Wasamba Department of Literature University of Nairobi Tel: +254202245311 Tel: +254722734121 Fax: +2540202245566 E-mail: pwasamba@uonbi.ac.ke or kenyaorature@yahoo.co.uk Link: http://www.africaisola.org/mombasa2010documents.htm |
| Second World Conference on Arts Education, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, South Korea, 25 May to 28 May |
It is the 34th session of UNESCO's General Conference in October 2007 that decided the Second World Conference should take place as soon as possible and accepted the invitation of the Korean Government to host this event. Following the ongoing preparation through numerous initiatives across the world, this conference in Seoul aims to promote and to reinforce the value of quality arts education for all, in developing a capacity for creativity in the 21st century for youth and all generation. The significance and value of arts education has already been underlined and expressed in the "Road Map for Arts Education", resulting from the First World Conference on Arts Education held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2006. It is now the time to focus on encouraging the implementation of the "Road Map". Furthermore, this new global encounter in Seoul of art education actors will target to highlight the socio-cultural dimensions of arts education and reinforce research and knowledge of practices, ensuing from new conceptual and methodological tools. For more information on this conference please visit: http://www.artsedu2010.kr/upfiles/eng_0128.html; http://www.artsedu2010.kr/upfiles/eng_0128.html; http://www.artsedu2010.kr/htm/en/con_info/101_greeting.jsp |
| Preserving African Cultural Heritage, Dakar, Senegal, Nov 1-7, 2010 |
| The 13th PAA Congress (Panafrican Association of Prehistory and Assimilated Disciplines) and the 20th conference of the SAFA (Society of Africanist Archaeologists). The University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) of Dakar, and Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop (IFAN-CAD), are pleased to announce the joint organisation of the 13th PAA Congress (Panafrican Association of Prehistory and Assimilated Disciplines), and the 20th conference of the SAFA (Society of Africanist Archaeologists). This unprecedented opportunity to bring together members of these two associations dedicated to African Prehistory, in African soil, will certainly represent a turning point in the history of African Archaeology. The local organising committee proposes the following list of topics: 1. Geology of the Quaternary; 2. Hominids Evolution; 3. Paleo-Environments and the peopling of Africa; 4. Prehistoric Art in Africa; 5. Transition from Stone to Metal; 6. Food Production; 7. Pastoralism; 8. Megalithism in Africa; 9. The African Iron Age; 10. Complex Societies; 11. Power, Society and State Formation; 12. New Research on Urbanisation and Cities in Africa; 13. Historical Archaeology in Africa; 14. Recomposed Past: The Archaeology of Identity in Africa; 15. The Archaeology of Inequality: Gender, Class and Material Culture in Africa; 16. Population Movements in African Past: Rethinking Migration; 17. The Archaeology of African Diasporas; 18. Heritage Management in Africa; 19. Ethnoarchaeology in Africa : Beyond Analogy? 20. Matter and Techniques; 21. Experimental Archaeology; 22. African Languages; 23. Bioarchaeology; 24. Archaeology and NTICs in Africa. Participants are encouraged to propose additional topics and initiate thematic panels. It is desirable that teams working on specific or related issues lead sessions. Abstracts must be submitted either in French or English, and no later than April 30th, 2010 to e-mail panaf2010@ucad.sn or panafsafa2010@yahoo.fr Link: http://panaf-safa2010.ucad.sn/pag_fr/deuxcirc.html |
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The Spanish Agency of International Development and Co-operation (AECID) has recently published the number 9 monograph of the “Culture and Development” series, entitled “How to evaluate cultural projects for development. A methodological approach for the definition of indicators”. http://www.aecid.es/web/es/cooperacion/coop_cultural/documentos/monografias
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AMA is an international non- for-profit organisation aiming to facilitate cultural and artistic exchanges within the African continent. AMA offers travel funds to artists, arts professionals and cultural operators living and working in Africa to travel within the African continent in order to engage in the exchange of information, the enhancement of skills, the development of informal networks and the pursuit of cooperation.
AMA welcomes applications from artists and cultural operators living and working in Africa. The next deadline for application for mobility funds is 01 May 2010. |
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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 |
