NEFCISA
NEFCISA

The Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) is proud to announce its partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) as a Strategic Implementing Partner (SIP) for its Social Employment Fund (SEF). Through this collaboration, MIAF is launching a new national programme designed to create jobs, address skills gaps, and strengthen South Africa’s creative industries — in line with the SEF’s overarching goal to generate work for the common good and build community value through employment, social contribution, and inclusive economic participation. Operating under the banner NEFCISA (National Employment Facility for Creative Industries in South Africa), the initiative will recruit and train participants, match them with host organisations, and place a minimum of 1 000 workers across the country. Key Objectives: Support employment and entrepreneurship in the creative industries. Offer skills development and training programmes. Foster partnerships between public and private creative sectors. Promote South African creativity at both provincial and national levels Foster community development through social contribution.

Gender@Work
Gender@Work

Music In Africa Gender @ Work is a three-year training programme aimed at upskilling and increasing the participation of female professionals in the African music sector. Launched by the Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) in April 2019, the programme is connected to the MIAF’s ACCES music conference – a pan-African event held in a different African country every year. This connection enables the programme to reach new participants in a different African country every year. The programme marks the beginning of a more concerted effort by the Foundation to support the participation and inclusion of women in all facets of its programmes and the music sector in Africa as a whole. Over the three years, the programme will aim to address gender imbalances in the sector through training, lobbying, facilitating knowledge exchange and dialogues that foster the interest of women. The broader objectives of the programme are to: Provide industry training for women on critical music industry skills, focusing on: Stage management Electronic music production and recording Music business management Technical knowledge Provide an opportunity for both professional and aspiring women to benefit from the Music In Africa network and its broad range of activities in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Provide a solution-based platform in the form of a round table at ACCES with a view to identify challenges, discuss opportunities and lobby for the interests of female practitioners. Offer participants the opportunity to benefit from programmes offered by MIAF’s partners. Increase access to educational materials. Integrate participants in the broader ACCES programme to maximise experience and exposure to the industry. Record and present training materials on the www.musicinafrica.net, including but not limited to tutorials, templates and other best-practice materials. Communicate women-based themes that support the initiatives and messages of the programme. MAIN TRAINING ACTIVITIES Training in first country (Ghana): In the first year, participants will be trained on all aspects of stage management by a team of experienced stage managers from 10 to 17 November 2019. The programme will offer robust classroom training as well as practical, hands-on training in which participants will also be given the opportunity to manage various aspects of the ACCES performance programme. Training in second country: The second training iteration will take place at ACCES 2020 when the programme will diversify its course to include music production lessons and training on other music business topics. A round-table platform will also be introduced to coincide with the ACCES programme. Training in third country: The third training iteration will take place at ACCES 2021 in a different country, offering an advanced course. HOW DO YOU GET INVOLVED?  As a participant, facilitator or trainer: The programme enrolls up to 12 trainees every year. All opportunities are advertised publicly on this website, and will be added to this page. Please keep checking this page for new calls (below under UPDATES & CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES). As a partner Please contact Claire Metais at claire@musicinafrica.net. APPLY The call for applications for 2020 will be announced soon. The Music In Africa Gender @ Work programme is made possible with the support of the Prince Claus Fund, Siemens Stiftung and Goethe-Institut.

Sound Connects Fund
Sound Connects Fund

For cultural and creative practitioners and organisations operating in southern Africa, access to funding remains a major challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic has also had a massive impact on government policy, spending and the economy in general, and has seen spending on culture being moved further down the list of priorities. Further, the cultural and creative industries repeatedly cite four main areas where investment is needed for growth, which are increased visibility, mobility including access to new markets, finance and support structures.

Instrument Building And Repair Project
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Call for applications: Intercontinental Bienal tour 2023

18 May 2023 - 10:52

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Intercontinental Bienal is calling on music and dance artists to apply to join its 2023 Crossing Continents programme.

The application deadline is 15 July 2023. Photo: Geo Chierchia

Intercontinental Bienal is an organisation seeking to promote art, design and performance by taking artists from around the world on tours across different continents to showcase their works.

This year’s tour will begin in South America and see artists travel through Colombia, Argentina and Brazil.

Music and dance artists interested in participating in the 2023 tour may submit their works for consideration by 15 July.

Music applications should be made here, while dance artists can make their submissions here.

Requirements

  • Projects from any country in the world whose authors over 18 years of age may participate.
  • Works consisting of a single piece of music, with no limit of duration, will be awarded.
  • Group proposals may also be submitted.
  • Any musical genre. The work may not have been published by any record company.
  • The works must be submitted in MP4 format and the file named as follows: country of origin followed by the name of the song and your first and last name. Finally compress it in ZIP or RAR format.
  • Brief description of the project in DOC, DOCX or PDF file. In the description, you can add some web links related to the work to have a better overview of it.

All projects received will enter a selection process, with selected works being certified and recognised by the organising committee and moved to the second (finalists’) phase.

In a second phase, the finalist projects will be evaluated to choose the winners of the contest.

The selection jury will be composed of internationally recognised professionals in the arts industry. Any challenge, foreseen or not, in the selection will be resolved by Intercontinental Bienal in a final and unappealable way.

Timeline

  • Application deadline: 15 July 2023
  • Announcement of selected projects: 25 July 2023
  • Announcement of finalist projects: 28 August 2023
  • Announcement of the awarded projects: 30 August 2023
  • Tour dates: To be announced

View the original call here.

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