Artists’ Mobility In / Connected To Africa: Realities, Challenges and Positive Practices

Venue: Jatka78 – PQ Talks Stage, Prague Quadriennal, Date: 14 June 2023, Time: 14:30-16:00

The first results of the Visas: Mobility from African Countries to Schengen Countries will be shared at the Prague Quadrennial on 14 June 2023. It will be followed by a conversation, which will provide an opportunity to discuss the findings of this ongoing mapping of practices of funding mobility for artists and cultural professionals within and with Africa.

 

Who are still the key actors? To what extent have new forms of solidarity and collaborative practices developed, including with the private sector? How can this information be made more accessible? How to deal with the remaining challenges related to visas or administrative problems, in particular for artists and cultural professionals from the African continent? How to reach people outside the information networks? How to democratise access to information in order to support mobility in Africa?

 

These and related questions will be addressed in this talk, which will also be an opportunity to share existing and ongoing mapping and action tools useful for the sector.

 

About the speakers

Marie Le Sourd (On the Move) is a General Secretary of On the Move, the cultural mobility information network, since 2012. She has also worked for the Asia-Europe Foundation in Singapore.

 

Ouafa Belgacem (Culture Funding Watch) is a Founder of Culture Funding Watch, with over 15 years of experience in designing international cooperation and development programmes (Africa, Asia and MENA).

Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu is a Director of Greatmore Studios and makwande.republic in South Africa. She focuses on artists’ mobility, decoloniality and a black radical feminist position.

 

Paul Julio Serge Fouhakué, born in Cameroon, is an actor and director. He has participated in various literary and theater festivals in Africa and Europe. He has worked in theater, opera, and cinema in Germany, Switzerland, France, and Belgium. Currently, he is working on a project Lost in the Representation or I don’t know how to play the black inspired by his experiences in Berlin

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