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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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APPRECIATION POST Much love to the creatives behind this masterpiece! Go on and show them love on their pages (BODY link in bio) Produced by: @rodneybeatz Director: @zorodzai_chibuwe Stylist: @ministerofwhitelinen Hair and Make-up: @realtouchzw Photographer: @dice.photography__ Teaser video: @wills.visuals.zw Record Label: @kloo.music BODY is supported by the British Council Cultural Economy programme, which supports cultural organisations, festivals, artists, and creatives between the countries of SSA* and the UK to create art, build networks, collaborate and develop markets and share artists’ work with audiences. #ScriptsandBars #SouthernAfricaArts #bodypositivity #womensmonth #womenempowerment @SouthernAfricaArts @kaymediaafrica @comicconzim @reprezentradio @pagepoetryalive @khuraagency https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch_yoo9I6Vh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Can you guess which African culture these colourful geometric patterns come from? Give you a hint. #southernafricaarts #southernafricanculture #southernafricanart #southernafrica #africancultures #africanculture #ujamaalive https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs_fgzQjUdI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7eiy6jjs0ljo

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💕 @southernafricaarts The British Council Arts Programme 💕 https://bit.ly/3TPwHyZ ⬅️ in Sub-Saharan Africa is seeking expressions of interest for a £100 000 research grant facility from existing research organisations, consortiums and hub organisations/consultants across the UK and SSA to design and deliver a three-year research programme. The programme has five main programme components – Commissions including the creation of New Art Evaluation Capacity and Support Engagement and Storytelling Peer and Collaborative Learning and Networking across UK and SSA. Call for Grant closing on: 09 December 2022 Appy Here: https://bit.ly/3TPwHyZ Please register your business on the page to access the tender documents. #newopportunity https://www.instagram.com/p/ClepO3Eod-p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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British Council Southern Africa Arts ColabNowNow 2019 for young digital creatives – (Fully Funded to Maputo, Mozambique and Johannesburg, South Africa)

British Council Southern Africa Arts ColabNowNow 2019 for young digital creatives – (Fully Funded to Maputo, Mozambique and Johannesburg, South Africa)

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 collaborative artmaking and storytelling.…

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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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#MusicMonday - Refentse ‘Genesis’

Ease into the week with this gem jam by Cape Town-based singer-songwriter Refentše Solo.  

Listen here

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#BODY LINK IN BIO BODY is supported by the British Council Cultural Economy programme, which supports cultural organisations, festivals, artists, and creatives between the countries of SSA* and the UK to create art, build networks, collaborate and develop markets and share artists’ work with audiences. #ScriptsandBars #SouthernAfricaArts #bodypositivity #womensmonth #womenempowerment @SouthernAfricaArts @kaymediaafrica @comicconzim @reprezentradio @pagepoetryalive @khuraagency https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch788b2IwFy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Link in bio 👑 BODY is supported by the British Council Cultural Economy programme, which supports cultural organisations, festivals, artists, and creatives between the countries of SSA* and the UK to create art, build networks, collaborate and develop markets and share artists’ work with audiences. #ScriptsandBars #SouthernAfricaArts #bodypositivity #womensmonth #womenempowerment @SouthernAfricaArts @kaymediaafrica @comicconzim @reprezentradio @pagepoetryalive @khuraagency https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch2P3_toaQY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Girls in Film_GiF Takeover Marathon

We’ll have a series of takeovers on our Instagram featuring Jabu Newman (22 Nov), Nikola Vasakova (23 Nov) and Joelle Ducray (24 Nov) for the Girls in Film workshop in Mauritius!

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The association Porteurs d'Images and the British Council Mauritius are delighted to invite you to this free workshop, hosted by Nikola Vasakova, Film Maker and founder of Girls in Film (UK), with Jabu Nadia Newman, Film Maker (South Africa)

GiF: Girls in Film represents, champions and connects the new generation of female-identified creatives in the film industry.

As there is a limited number of seats available, please register through the following link if you would like to attend the workshop: https://goo.gl/forms/KhnnDMEEeWj77EeR2

★ Workshop Dates: Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd of November, 2018 Time: 10am to 5pm Venue: Lakaz d'Art, Second Floor, Saint Georges Street, Port Louis

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#RacklessKazi Instagram Takeover

In partnership with Zambian creative hub Modzi Arts, Rackless Kazi is a 6-day interactive residency featuring an all women line up of international DJ mentors from Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and the U.K. The aim of the project is to facilitate, connect and build networks amongst young women who are largely underrepresented in electronic music culture. To give us a sneak peek into this exciting project, DJ mentors Jamz Supernova, Rosie Parade, DJ Sich and DJ Alba will takeover our instagram from 4-7 December.

Follow us for all the action: instagram.com/connect_za

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#Opportunities - Bag Factory Young Female Artist Residency

The Bag Factory Artists’ Studios is inviting applications for the Bag Factory Young Female Artist Residency. The programme, funded by the Department of Arts and Culture, will offer an emerging/early career female artist (under 35) with a 6 month fully funded residency at the Bag Factory Artists’ Studios. The artist will be provided with studio space at the Bag Factory, a small materials budget, and a monthly stipend towards travel and living expenses. The programme will culminate in a solo exhibition at the Bag Factory showcasing the artist’s work in March 2019.

Deadline Friday 31 August 2018 at 17:00 (SAST).

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#LitWednesday - In Light of What We Write at EIBF Podcast

In Light of What We Write is a cutting-edge creative project, bringing together young Scottish and South African artists. It's a multi-disciplinary work that was first presented in Cape Town in February 2018.

In this podcast, Georgina Godwin heads to Edinburgh, Scotland, for the specially-created second chapter, presented at Edinburgh International Book Festival, to meet some of the artists who had been brought together for the programme.

The podcast features the artists who took part in the project in conversation with each other about the role of poetry, language and cultural differences.

Listen to the podcast

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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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#MusicMonday - Mushroom Hour Half Hour presents Richard, the second single from Thabang Tabane’s long awaited debut album

The release of Thabang Tabane’s second single, Richard, on the 31st of August 2018 acts as a precursor to the release of his debut solo album, Matjale, which drops on the 14th of September, 2018 under independent Johannesburg-based record label, Mushroom Hour Half Hour.

For malombo drummer Thabang Tabane, rhythms bear no nationality and heed no gatekeepers. His career up to this point has cast him as a sought after hand drummer in South Africa, collaborating with masters of the country's contemporary and indigenous musical idioms.

While the contemporary and indigenous might be thought of as mutually exclusive, the very core of Tabane's musical precepts serve to counter that antiquated notion.

His second single, Richard, titled after Cameroonian bass player Richard Bona, is a driving slice of updated malombo. A truncated, dubby bassline provides the footing for a nimble, reprised riff that meets its comeuppance in the song's climactic breakdown. Vocally, Tabane inserts himself in the song's meter, teasing out its melodic contours and later decoding its guitar phrases into lyrics about the state of black life in his country.

As for the title, Richard Bona is a philosophical kindred spirit, that space where the elements and the environment are both the music and the inspiration.

Listen here