Africa

The Wits School of Arts is inviting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship. The postdoctoral fellowship will begin in September 2020 and last for one year. WSOA particularly encourage applications from candidates who have an interdisciplinary focus in their arts research. Applications are open internationally, but the fellow will have to base themselves in Johannesburg during the period of the fellowship. Deadline: 30 June 2020.

Akademie Schloss Solitude together with the National Art Gallery of Namibia and the Goethe-Institut Namibia is establishing a new residency programme that will be committed to a long-term artistic and cultural exchange between Namibia and Germany. Applications are open for artists from Germany working across the fields of visual arts, literature/journalism, and digital practices. The organisers especially welcome applications from Black persons and/or persons of African descent living in Germany. The residency will last four months, running 1 November 2020 - 28 February 2021. Deadline: 27 June 2020.

The Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg calls for proposals for the 2021 edition of the Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS), a multi-disciplinary roving project space support programme for South Africa. The programme supports work realised in any part of South Africa; ranging from workshops to exhibitions, events and performances; in any discipline including visual art, performing arts, film, music or combinations of these forms. Deadline: 17 August 2020.

The Goethe-Instituts in Africa are launching a networking and self-driven learning programme for museums in Africa. The project is based on a peer to peer learning approach, aiming at accessing knowledge within different museum structures to develop future concepts for museum work in Africa. For this project, which will be steered from Johannesburg, but implemented in different countries on the continent the Goethe-Institut are looking for a project manager. Deadline: 10 May 2020.

Dans le cadre de leur 11e édition les Récréâtrales ont lancé deux appels à textes: un appel à Textes pour le cycle de lectures langues d’Afrique 2020 et appel à textes pour le Prix Récréatrales 2020. Date limite : 15 juin 2020.

L’Art Rue use the vector of art as a tool for dialogue and social and human development. They are developing various large-scale programmes where art and social ties are intimately linked. Currently, they are looking for a Communication Manager. Deadline: 25 April 2020.

Les Jeux de la Francophonie 2021 se dérouleront du 23 juillet au 1er août à Kinshasa, en République démocratique du Congo. Sous l’égide de l’Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF), cet événement réunit tous les 4 ans plus de 3 500 jeunes artistes et athlètes issus des Etats et gouvernements membres de l’OIF. Les inscriptions pour les candidats aux concours culturels sont ouvertes auprès du ministère de la Culture en charge de présélectionner la délégation qui représentera la France. Date limite : 30 avril 2020.

L’Art Rue, a Tunisian association carrying out citizens’ and innovative art projects in public spaces, is offering two residency sessions for artists of any discipline from the Middle East and Africa. The first will take place from September to December 2020, and the second from January to April 2021. Regardless of which session(s) artists attend, all successful applicants must also participate in a thinking laboratory, taking place 5-18 October 2020. Deadline: 20 April 2020 (sessions 1 & 2) / 30 June 2020 (session 2 only).

The 5th African World Heritage Youth Forum, an event focusing on Youth, Entrepreneurship and Heritage Sustainability in Africa, will take place 28 April – 5 May 2020 at Robben Island, South Africa. Applicants should be an African citizen between the ages of 18 – 35, with at least a post-secondary certified training and/or qualification. They should also be fluent in English and able to communicate in at least one of the other three official languages of the African Union (French, Portuguese and Arabic). Deadline: 23 February 2020.

Pro Helvetia work with a network of organisations that can host residencies in different cities in Switzerland and the Arab region. Swiss artists, curators and cultural practitioners can apply for residencies in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. Artists, curators and cultural practitioners from Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia can apply for residencies in Switzerland. Deadline: 1 March 2020.

The African Writers Trust Publishing Fellowship programme is open to early career publishers and creative writers intending to self-publish their manuscripts. Applicants will be selected from Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The first stage of the programme will be a residential Mentoring and Training Workshop, held in Uganda from 8-14 March 2020. Following the workshop, fellows will be invited to apply for seed funding. Deadline: 16 February 2020.