With the East African Festival network Bayimba is partnering shared programming, enabling skill exchange programmes and production. Mobility and exchange among festivals, enhancing access to regional creative content among stakeholders in the arts.
Bayimba established DOADOA, the East African Performing Arts Market, in 2012 with the support of Mimeta, as a regional platform for networking and learning among sector stakeholders. The DOADOA market is a four-day event with conferences, exhibitions, workshops, networking sessions, and showcases for performing arts sector stakeholders.
Given the very challenging context for free expression in East Africa, our long-term partner in Uganda, Bayimba, together with its regional partners, find it relevant and appropriate to invest in the revival of the spirit of artistic activism and advocacy to give hope and confidence within the working environment
I work carefully and imperceptibly below the surface when it comes to freedom of artistic expression. Deep down I stand by those who want to break it but remind them of realities above the surface. At the same time, the water becomes shallower. This is my duty as a producer.
(Faisal Kiwewa, Bayimba, Uganda.)
Poster A3 for uploading
Poster A3 for uploading
The short version
Mimetas vision is to give GIVE PEOPLE THEIR RIGHT TO FREE CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS, created on free terms and presented by independent institutions.
Our mission is to support and protect those who want to enhance a culture by aesthetic or intellectual means.
By both our vision and mission Mimeta highlight the impact arts have on developing open societies, including the culture itself and the political spfere.
On the strategic level Mimeta is acheiving results by supporting organisations and individuals who work on behalf of the arts, to improve the sectors´ position on rights issues, in political and legal matters, on professionalism and skills, the distribution of the arts and - in the end - the sustainability of the sector.
We call them the service providers to the arts.
For more information on our priorities and strategic initiatives
Nadia Cherif was given the task of evaluating Mimeta's program for cultural sector development (2020-22. It was finalized in november 2023, and gave good input for next stage. Read here
