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We Make Books Workshop, ‘Co-Publishing Art Books in Africa’ (Cameroon)

December 16, 2022
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We Make Books invites art publishers from Africa to participate in a programme that looks at the questions and challenges around co-publishing between art book and magazine publishers in Africa. The ‘Co-publishing Art Books in Africa’ workshop, networking event, and mini book fair will take place in Yaoundé, Cameroon from 16-19 February 2023.

December 16, 2022
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Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is launching the call for applications for its Sound Art Residency progamme. The Sound Art Residency is open exclusively to artists who come from one of the four continents represented in the collections of the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac: Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. There is no age limit to apply.

December 2, 2022
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The 5th Brixen Water Light Festival powered by Durst is looking for artists working with light, designers and architects who would like to showcase their light art, installations or video mapping at the biggest light festival in the Alps. The fifth edition of the festival will be on view from 3-21 May 2023.

December 2, 2022
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New Curators is a paid twelve-month curatorial training programme based in London for individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds. It will start in September 2023. Training to become a curator is expensive and entering the profession can be difficult. Little wonder the industry is often seen as elitist and characterised by a lack of diversity. This programme aims to help make the art world more accessible and equitable in order to make it richer and more relevant.

December 2, 2022
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This call invites Italian and international artists and companies (maximum 3 people), whether emerging or established, to submit projects around the theme of the ‘interaction between theatre and new technologies’.

December 2, 2022
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Academie voor Theater en Dans (AHK) in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Ecole des Sables in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal are currently seeking applications for African based dancers to participate in a residency exchange. This exchange between the two institutions aims to enrich, stimulate and develop the creativity of the participants while contributing to building a cultural and artistic bridge between dancers from different countries with different educational and professional backgrounds.

December 2, 2022
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The 5th Little Islands Festival, starting from Sikinos, invites new media and performing arts artists to submit proposals that engage with ecology, anthropology, and science in the enduring dialogue about the relationship between humanity and nature. The island frontier, which like life itself emerges from the liquid element, becomes the principal space for exploring modern contradictions of human geography through art.

November 21, 2022
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The 24th edition of the annual Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF), organized by the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), ended on Sunday 20th of November 2022 with 1000 Poets for Change show at the Freedom Park in Lagos. The show was produced by Unchained Vibes Africa (UVA) in partnership with Culture Advocates Caucus (CAC). With the theme Politically Motivated towards 2023 Elections, the show provided a creative platform for voter education, mobilization and general civic engagement by attendees of the festival.

November 12, 2022
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Unchained Vibes Africa condemns the arrest, detention and punishments meted out to two Kano-based comedians, Mubarak Muhammad (Uniquepikin) and Nazifi Muhammad over allegation of defaming the character of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State through the video of a comedy skit on their Tiktok accounts.

November 1, 2022
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The Executive Producer of Unchained Vibes Africa, Ayodele Ganiu, has called on the Nigerian Police Force not to enforce its new policy aimed at prosecuting movie and skit makers for using police uniform or portraying the police institution in movies and comedy skits without authorization. Speaking at the Youth and Policing Summit for southwest region hosted by the Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria (NOPRIN) in Lagos from 31st October – 1st November 2022, Ayodele advised the Police to change their approach from coercing artists to embracing dialogue. He noted that skit makers and filmmakers have massive followers and can be strategic partners with the police in improving the relationship between the police and the people, especially the youth, if properly engaged.

We Make Books Workshop, ‘Co-Publishing Art Books in Africa’ (Cameroon)

Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac: Sound Art Residency (France)

Open Call for Brixen Water Light Festival (Italy)

New Curators: Curatorial Training Programme for Individuals from Lower Socio-economic Backgrounds (UK)

Kyber Teatro: Call for Work on the Interaction Between Theatre and New Technologies (Italy)

École des Sables / AHK: Residency Exchange for Africa-based Dancers (Senegal)

Little Islands Festival: Open Call for Site-Specific Projects (Greece)

1000 Poets for Change: UVA and CAC close LABAF with Voter Education and Mobilization

STATEMENT ON THE DETENTION AND FLOGGING OF KANO SKIT MAKERS

Unchained Vibes calls on the police to embrace dialogue with artists

Legendary actress Taiwo Ajai-Lycett Inspires Graduands of the UVA Freedom Vibes Academy in Lagos

The Salzburg Statement on Supporting Artists on the Front Line

The UN Special Rapporteur, Alexandra Xanthaki addresses participants at UVA’s Freedom Vibes Academy Project Briefing Session in Lagos.

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