The Friday Roundup #10
Dear Creative,
Are you looking for opportunities to develop and showcase your artistry, but don’t know where to start? This newsletter is here to make your search easier.
Twice a month, I share 9 local and international career-enhancing opportunities in the form of open calls, fellowships, residencies, grants, and more for African creatives and culture workers. Keep reading.
Dancers & Choreographers
Choreographers, dancers and dance companies working in contemporary or fusion dance are invited to submit short dance films/digital dance performances to the JOMBA! Digital Open Horizon platform. These performances will be showcased during the 2024 JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Festival in South Africa.
Deadline: Jul 4
Film Producers Lab
The Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab welcomes applications from East African film producers working in fiction or documentary. Citizens of Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania & Uganda are eligible.
Deadline: Jun 30
Literary Representation
Literary agent Katie Gisondi is open to manuscript queries. She represents romance and fantasy authors from diverse backgrounds, and is specifically on the lookout for sci-fi romance novels.
Deadline: Unspecified
Nigerian Poets
Konya Shamsrumi invites young Nigerian poets to submit poems for their bi-weekly competition series. Theme: Retrogression. Award: ₦5,000.
Deadline: Jun 23
Paper Making Workshop
The Goethe Institut in Lagos is hosting a free paper making workshop. Led by artist Nengi Nelson and open to all.
Event Date: Jun 29
Playwrights
The IATI Theatre, New York invites playwrights around the world to submit new, unpublished work to their Cimientos Play Development Program. Selected writers will participate in a three-month workshop and a staged reading.
Deadline: Jun 30
Poetry Prize
The Wanjohi Prize for African Poetry is open to submissions. Created by Writers Space Africa, the prize encourages poems with originality, creativity, and rich use of poetic devices. Award: $100 & $50 for the winner and first runner-up respectively.
Deadline: Jul 1
Sound Artists
International artists working in sound-related practices are invited to apply to the Sound Art Lab Residency in Denmark. Selected participants will receive a €2,000 grant, €800 travel reimbursement, and free accomodation during the one-month residency.
Deadline: Jul 1
Women Artists
Latitudes Centre for the Arts, in collaboration with ANNA Pure Organic, invites women artists from Africa and the African Diaspora to submit their artwork to be considered for the 2024 ANNA Award. The prize consists of an art exhibition, a residency program, and R100,000.
Deadline: Jun 28
“Your life is already artful—waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.” - Toni Morrison