Febrayer is a media network, based in Berlin, working in and for the Arab region and the Arab communities in the diaspora. Born in 2016, initially as a growing informal coalition of like-minded journalistic and artistic Arab media outlets, the network current member institutions are online media groups operating in Egypt (Mada Masr), Lebanon (Megaphone), and Syria (Al-Jumhuriya Collective), while others operate regionally, covering the Middle East and North Africa (Sowt.com).
Beirut DC is a key player in an ecosystem of regional and global civil society organizations nurturing the power of film to achieve social impact and narrative change. Beirut DC was founded in 1999 when a group of Lebanese filmmakers and cinephiles, faced with a lack of funding, support, and emancipation opportunities, sought to create them for themselves.
BAYIMBA (Cultural Foundation) is a major force in Uganda's cultural life that seeks to bring about change in the status quo of arts and culture in Uganda and East Africa.
Action for Hope (AFH) is a pioneering organization that offers innovative models for civil society work on the cross line between cultural rights, artistic creativity and social change. What about acces to artistic production as a cultural Right?
Kuona Trust is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1995 at the National Museum of Kenya to serve visual artists and has since worked with over one thousand five hundred artists giving them skills and opportunities to advance themselves while increasing the profile and role of the visual arts in Kenya.
In Senegal and in urban areas more generally, urban culture generates diverse and dynamic forms of expression without, however, the appropriate frameworks to best promote and contribute to the successful structuring of a sector that can generate substantial income and professionalize the chain of creation, production, distribution and export, but also to optimize the networking and partnerships for urban culture to be truly taken into account by national and regional sectoral policie
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.)
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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
