Nhimbe is a non-profit Arts Education organization, and a leader in Cultural Policy Research and Advocacy in Zimbabwe. The organization was founded in 2003 by Josh Nyapimbi.
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Busara Promotions was set up as a cultural NGO in Zanzibar in 2003 and their main event is the annual music festival Sauti za Busara which is celebrating music from East Africa and beyond.
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That culture plays an important part in the development of society goes without saying. Yet it often seems to be left in the wake of other sectors.
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Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy) is an organization that seeks to support artistic creativity in the Arab region and to encourage cultural exchanges within the region and with developing world.
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Asociación Pro Arte y Cultura (APAC) is a non-profit organization set up in 1998 to encourage cultural activity in the eastern region of Bolivia.
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African Tour Circuit (ATC), established by African Synergy Trust in Johannesburg and Harare, organizes performing arts tours, linking touring African artists with venues and festivals in a “tour circuit”.
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That culture plays an important part in the development of society goes without saying.
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With the support of Mimeta - this year three books are published in Mali at the La Salihenne publishing - inspired from the diversified well of Malien stories. From everyday life - to kings.
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For the period 2010-2011 we welcome proposals from prospective partners until 15th September 2010. Please also consider our strategic approch (we partner the service providers to the arts and culture sectors) as a strong guidance - in addition to the following priorities.
1) Democratization: Foster improvement in structures and the organizing of the arts sector:
a) How to improve culture sectors´ position, professionally, politically and marketwise?
b) How to organize the culture practitioners’ move towards better living conditions?
2) Mobility: Foster intercultural cooperation of the arts sector:
a) How to improve mobility of artists and works locally, regionally and internationally?
b) How to improve platforms’ resources and strengthen artistic representation at major events?
3) Creativity and Economy: Foster cooperation between culture and the business sector:
a) How to establish co-operational bodies etc to get the culture and the business sectors to work togheter in order to boost the potential of the crative economy?
b) How to use art and cultural heritage as attractions in tourism and utilize tourism as income generator for art and cultural heritage?
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Iranian artist Mahsa Vahdat and Norwegian producer Erik Hillestad have been translating 100 Hafez poems into Norwegian. Forlaget Press (publishers) will be releasing the poems in both Persian and Norwegian language in a beautiful book funded by Mimeta and Kirkelig Kulturverksted (KKV). Additionally a CD with Sufi poems will be released.
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Given the continued shortage of finance for the cultural sector and the relatively small number of organisations that provide funding in terms of subsidies, Strømme and DOEN fond it worthwhile to research the possibilities of a more revolving finance mechanism for culture. This "microfinance for the culture sector project" is still in its' pilot phase. The pilot is executed in Mali.
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The Dhow revival project shows that sustainable and long term tourist business has to be integrated with local and global concerns for cultural and environmental conservation and pro-poor community development.
The summer school project is an artistic event gathering artists from different cultural sectors for exchanging their experience and building a network for strengthening the sector of culture.
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Dune verte is a project which aims at building peace between people in the North and South of Mali after some years of war in the North. Two books are being published to provide tools making this peace possible.
The project is coordinated by La Sahelienne Edition
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Is it possible to to preserve the lighthouse at Ilha de Goa - localized just outside the former capital Ilha de Mocambique - by generating income from its visitors? A feasibility study finalized last year concludes that the chances are there. But before turning this into sustainable value chain, you need to invest in the full restauration of this proud lighthouse.
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This programme will explore further the idea of empowering and capacitating artists to engage in the creative economy and to continue to identify investors and business people whom we can work with to discuss and frame a matrix (or matrices) of engagement between business and the arts. The neext steps in this East-African project is to 1. Strengthen cultural entrepreneurs and professional Artists with management tools and other similar skills. 2. Strengthen the creative field as a sector through better organization and structure. 3. Promote the creative industries and show the potential for other fields. Raise awareness with businesses and investors.
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Long term travels is a tradition anchored in West Africa. According to the Malian writer Amadou Hampaté Bâ, it’s the way people enter the stage of adulthood and responsibility
During the last 40 years, west African cultural practitioners used to travel to help their counterparts in organising their events. Some of the events became the meeting points of cultural practitioners of the region, where they seek exchange, develop projects and follow up the news of the field.
To facilitate the mobility of cultural practitioners within Africa, AMA is developing methodologies to increase access to information and knowledge on arts and culture within Africa.
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Art Moves Africa (AMA) is an international organization aiming to facilitate cultural and artistic exchanges within the African continent. AMA offers travel grants to artists and cultural practitioners living and working in Africa to travel within the African continent in order to engage in the exchange of information, the enhancement of skills, the development of informal networks and the pursuit of cooperation.
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Arterial Network is a continent-wide, independent, civil society-driven network of artists, activists, NGOs, institutions and companies active in developing, celebrating and promoting the African creative sector in its own right, and as a means of building democracy, human rights and social transformation within African countries.
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The Centre for Crative Arts fulfils a function as facilitator, promoter, networker, and capacity builder, and plays a vital role in bringing to fruition the artistic potential of both Durban and the Sothern Africa.
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