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Connecting Creative Communities: Bringing together digital artists from Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK.

In October 2018, nine selected digital artists met in Maputo, Mozambique.

This was part of ColabNowNow, a partnership between Maputo Fast Forward & British Council, connecting the creative communities of Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK.

The project inspired collaboration between artists from East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, and the UK.

Over ten days, the nine artists brought their work - representing the best in African and UK digital practice today - to Maputo where they collaborated to create the projects.

Click here to see the exhibition

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Open call for visual artists, sound artists, & video artists living in Africa or UK. Deadline: July 24, 2019 Repost for @zmbritish #Opportunity - #OpenCall / British Council invites young digital creatives to take part in the third edition of #ColabNowNow, hosted with Maputo Fast Forward in Mozambique and Fakugesi in South Africa. bit.ly/colabnownow2019 - Deadline 24 July 2019 We’re looking for visual/graphic artists, architects, technical artists, programmers/coders, music/sound artists, performers and animators, writers, photographers, filmmakers, videographers, bloggers and vloggers. If you live in East, West, North, Southern Africa or the UK, and you love collaborating and making cutting edge art this is for you! Apply now! #opencallperformanceart #opencallforvideoart #graphicarts #opencallfornewmediaartists #opencallforartists #paintersofinstagram #soundartists #artistsonig #photographersofinsta #videoarts #ukarts #africanart #africanartists #instaarts #southafricanartists #africanculture #mozambique #zimbabwe #filmmakers #africanfilm (at Zimbabwe) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzwVe25lwdC/?igshid=1w8dou6bn6xpu

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ColabNowNow (Johannesburg and Maputo)

Deadline: 24 July 2019

ColabNowNow will select 11 digital artists from Africa and the UK to develop cutting edge digital artworks through collaborative artmaking and storytelling. Applicants will apply with proposed projects which will then be developed with artistic and technical facilitators. Together they will create a collaborative exhibition to be launched on 11 October 2019 at the opening of the Maputo Fast Forward festival.

Selected creatives will meet in Johannesburg at the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival (3-8 September) where they will share their creative work with each other and the public through workshops and presentations. These days will set the groundwork for the collaborative work over the next month, where an artistic and a technical facilitator will engage with the creatives online to develop the work from 9 - 31 September. 

Creatives will then meet in Maputo, Mozambique, 2-12 October, to work collaboratively in the lead up to the opening of the ColabNowNow exhibition which coincides with the opening of the Maputo Fast Forward Festival.

The exhibition will be catalogued and digitised, allowing it to travel from November 2019 - February 2020 to East, West and North Africa, THE UK, and in its entirety online.

Criteria

Applications are open to artists and storytellers working in digital media who are aged 18-35.

You must live in and have a valid passport from one of the eligible countries (including Egypt).

You must be available to travel to Johannesburg 3-8 September, and Maputo 2-12 October - including travel time before and after said dates. Full attendance is required.

Previous selected ColabNowNow creatives are not eligible to apply.

Artists can include, but are not limited to: visual/graphic artists, architects, technical artists, programmers/coders, music/sound artists, performers and animators.

Storytellers can include, but are not limited to: writers, photographers, filmmakers, videographers, bloggers and vloggers.

Benefits

Creatives will receive artistic and technical support from two facilitators, who will work with the creatives to develop complex collaborative works in both their conceptual and technical forms.

All travel, accommodation, meals and VISA costs are covered by the British Council.

Artists will be paid a fee of 500 GBP for their participation.

A technical and installation budget is available for the collective use of the ColabNowNow team.

Details

Apply

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British Council ColabNowNow 2019 for Young Digital Creatives (Fully-funded)

British Council ColabNowNow 2019 for Young Digital Creatives (Fully-funded)

Deadline: July 24, 2019

Applications are open for the British Council ColabNowNow 2019. The British Council invites young digital creatives to take part in the third edition of ColabNowNow in partnership with Maputo Fast Forward and Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festivals.

ColabNowNow will select 11 digital artists from Africa and the UK to develop cutting edge digital artworks…

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Fully Funded to Travel to South Africa: 2019 British Council Southern Africa Arts ColabNowNow for digital creatives

Fully Funded to Travel to South Africa: 2019 British Council Southern Africa Arts ColabNowNow for digital creatives

2019 British Council Southern Africa Arts ColabNowNow

Application Deadline: July 24th 2019

The British Council invites young digital creatives to take part in the third edition of ColabNowNow in partnership with Maputo Fast Forward and Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festivals.

ColabNowNow will select 11 digital artists from Africa and the UK to develop cutting edge digital artworks through…

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British Council ColabNowNow 2019 for Young Digital Creatives (Fully-funded)

British Council ColabNowNow 2019 for Young Digital Creatives (Fully-funded)

Deadline: July 24, 2019

Applications are open for the British Council ColabNowNow 2019. The British Council invites young digital creatives to take part in the third edition of ColabNowNow in partnership with Maputo Fast Forward and Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festivals.

ColabNowNow will select 11 digital artists from Africa and the UK to develop cutting edge digital…

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British Council SouthernAfricaArts ColabNowNow 2018 for young digital creatives – (Fully Funded to Maputo, Mozambique)

British Council SouthernAfricaArts ColabNowNow 2018 for young digital creatives – (Fully Funded to Maputo, Mozambique)

Software Cut-off date: August 31st 2018

British Council #SouthernAfricaArts invitations younger virtual creatives to participate in the second one version of ColabNowNow, hosted with Maputo Rapid Ahead in Mozambique.ColabNowNow will make a choice four virtual storytellers and four virtual artists from East, West and Southern Africa and the United Kingdom. Running with…

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#ColabNowNow in the spotlight

To highlight the incredible works made during last year’s #ColabNowNow residency, we’ve put the spotlight on the 9 participants on our Instagram page this week. 

The 9 digital creatives from sub-Saharan Africa and the UK spent a week collaborating with each other at Maputo Fast Forward in October 2018.

Check out our feed to find out more 

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#ColabNowNow 2018 - Creatives Announced

Entries for this year’s #ColabNowNow residency at Maputo Fast Forward were brilliant, imaginative and creative. Thank you to everyone who applied the decision was not easy!  

Congratulations to Valerie Amani (Tanzania), Andrew Munuwa (Tanzania), Hakeem Adam (Ghana), Afopefoluwa Ojo (Nigeria), Maxwell Mutanda (Zimbabwe), Nikiwe Dlova (South Africa), Nilton Mungamba (Mozambique), Will Hurt (UK) and Tanyaradzwa Chitunhu (UK). 

See you in Maputo!

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British Council #SouthernAfricaArts is calling digital storytellers and artists working in digital to partake in #ColabNowNow at @mptfastforward in October! Apply Now! festival-mff.com/colabnownow

Catch our webinar this Friday, 24 Aug 2018. RSVP here.

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ColabNowNow Creatives - West Africa

To get more information on ColabNowNow, click here.

Papi - Senegal

Mamadou Wane, aka Papi, is a visual artist and freelance creative director who is currently based in Dakar, Senegal. Painting theory and photography taught him to look at the world through light, composition and colour, and subsequently, he is often contemplating how his experiences would translate in an artistic context. Mamadou has participated in two Dakart Biennale OFF, co-founded a socio-cultural platform "DakarLives" which is an information hub about Dakar and is a creative catalyst for conversation among the young people of Senegal. Mamadou also own a clothing brand, Mwami, and his last series of paintings "Or du temps" has been partially bought by the King of Morocco itself and is now part of the Royal collection. Twitter: @artofpapi  Website: https://www.behance.net/artofpapi

Mukhtara Yusuf - Nigeria

Mukhtara Yusuf is a Yoruba-Nigerian Muslim, visual artist/scholar, cultural activist and designer. Her work focuses on black speculative design pedagogy, african identity, hybridity, urban design and environmentalism. She is a graduate from Dartmouth College, and her educational background is in sociology and african/african-american studies. Her most recent creative practice focuses on the capacity to use afrofuturism as trauma healing modality by exploring larger conceptual motifs of colonial time, indigenous epistemology and material counter memory. Her transdisciplinary work crosses creative genres of architecture, fashion, and product design. Strong influences in her work include Kunle Adeyemi, Ai Wei Wei, Wangechi Mutu, Mona Hatoum, John Akomfrah, and Kodwo Eshun. Twitter: @mukhtarayusuf / Instagram: @mukhtarayusuf Website: www.mukhtarayusuf.com

Prince Kojo-Hilton - Ghana

Prince Kojo-Hilton is a production designer, art director, and art advocate from Ghana. He graduated from the National Film and Television Institute, NAFTI, with a major in Art Direction and Production Design, and has had the opportunity of enhancing his career with the Technical Department of the National Theatre of Ghana, in the areas of Scenic Design, Props Design, Makeup Effects, Set Design and Construction. Prince is the 2016 Osagyefo Pan African Eminence Art Director Award winner and the Greater Accra Regional Chairman for Ghana Association of Visual Artists (GAVA). Instagram: @kojohilton

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Live-Stream: #ColabNowNow Work

We'll be live streaming the #ColabNowNow works today from 4-5pm on the British Council Connect ZA Facebook page from the Fak’ugesi Beats Bloc Party. You don’t want to miss it!

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The Future of Creative Innovation & Technology

Catch the live-streaming of cultural ambassador and ColabNowNow curator, Jepchumba’s keynote speech at Fak’ugesi Conference 2017 tomorrow, 14 September at 14:00 on British Council Arts Global Facebook page. Presenting “The African Digital Renaissance, New Frontiers and Territories”.

Jepchumba will also be chairing a panel discussion with ColabNowNow creatives Papi (Senegal), Lindokuhle Nkosi (South Africa), Mukhtara Yusuf (Nigeria), Kampire Bahana (Uganda) and Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo (UK). The panel discussion will be "Culture & Innovation: A Pan-African Conversion", and is streamed live on the Fak’ugesi Festival Facebook page at 16:00.

Fak'ugesi Festival 2017 is hosting its first full-day conference at Tshimologong Innovation Precinct, Braamfontein. The conference is bringing together some of the best digital minds from around the world. William Kentridge is the keynote speaker alongside Jepchumba.

Watch Jepchumba’s keynote speech here: https://www.facebook.com/Arts.BritishCouncil/ Watch the ColabNowNow panel discussion here: https://www.facebook.com/Fakugesi/

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ColabNowNow Creatives - East Africa

Find out more information about the ColabNowNow Residency click here 

Darlyne Komukama - Uganda

Darlyne Komukama is a queer intersectional feminist and photographer engaging with the bodies of Ugandan women. She is interested in powerful and timeless images of black women and use installations of my work in physical spaces to directly connect with Ugandan, African and Afro diasporic women on the full scope of our humanity. She is currently doing work with The Salooni, a project she co-founded with 3 other Ugandan women. They explore the politics, science, technology and history of black hair with a multidisciplinary approach including photography, videography, theatre and a traveling pop-up salon that has just returned from our European debut at the Africa Utopia festival at the Southbank Centre in London, England.

Twitter: @darlkomu / Instagram: @darlkom  

Website: http://darlkomphotography.tumblr.com

John Magati - Kenya

John Magati is a Visual Artist from Nairobi, Kenya who mainly uses photography and illustration as a medium. His work focuses on fashion, time and location as they help him define the impact of society, and help him express himself and his ideas. Twitter: @magati_maosa / Instagram: @magatimaosa 

Website: http://magatimaosa.tumblr.com

Kampire Bahana - Uganda

Kampire Bahana is a DJ, writer and arts organiser based in Kampala. She has written for Okayafrica, Afripop Mag, Jalada Magazine and Dynamic Africa, among others. She honed her fundraising and communications skills working in civil society and arts organisations like Maisha Foundation. Along with 3 others, she co-founded The Salooni project, an art installation that has traveled to festivals in 5 countries. As resident DJ with Boutiq Electroniq, she opened for Jojo Abot and Diplo, played at Nyege Nyege 2016, and followed The Black Madonna as part of Santuri’s Femme Electronic. She has traveled to DRC for Amani festival and was one of two women, and the only East African, at Burkina Faso's Africa Bass Culture.

Twitter: @Vugafrica / Instagram: @kkaybie