Founded in 2011 32 degrees East in an independent non-profit organisation and home for the visual arts community in Uganda. To date they have hosted over 100 artists-in-residence, provided emergency relief to artists during the Covid-19 crisis, and held 4 editions of Kampala’s longest-running public art festival KLA ART bringing contemporary art to over 10,000 people.
Ishyo is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the development and promotion of culture in Rwanda. Guided by its fundamental mission of making culture accessible to all, the organization directs its activities towards a diversity of cultural & artistic projects and initiatives.
Visa For Music is a cultural event carried by ANYA, an independent cultural engineering structure based in Rabat. Since its creation in 2014, it has been working to develop cultural and creative industries for the benefit of artists and society as a whole
Arterial Network is a dynamic Pan-African, civil-society network of artists, cultural activists, entrepreneurs, enterprises, NGOs, institutions, and donors active in Africa’s creative and cultural sectors. Established as a member-based, non-profit organization, Arterial Network operates all across the continent in both English and French, and is led by an elected Steering Committee which represents the five regions of the continent
KYA is the network of cultural organizations in Mali. It was born from the desire of its members to establish a space for reflection and analysis of issues relating to the culture of Mali.
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.
By catalysing the growth of a vibrant cultural sector in Kenya and across the region The GoDown Arts Centre aims to “stimulate cultural self-assurance and confidence between Kenyan society and Kenyan creative and cultural resources.” All Kenyan communities boast a rich artistic and cultural heritage
Racines is an international non-profit association working for the integration of culture in public policies for human, social and economic development.
Since its inception in 1999, the HIFA had received recognition for its support of arts and culture in Zimbabwe and was seen as a major contributor to development in this area. HIFA was the largest cultural event in Zimbabwe and among the eight major festivals in Africa.
CDEA’s work is aligned to the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Diversity Cultural Expressions and the African Union Plan of Action for the Cultural and Creative Industries as well as the 1972 UNESCO Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Our programming is focused around research, incubation and acceleration of the creative industries, support of creative writers through our Writers’ Lounge and implementation of projects around preserving natural heritage, climate justice, peace and social cohesion, sustainable cities and tourism.
Art Moves Africa (AMA) is an international not-for-profit organisation that aims to facilitate cultural and artistic exchanges within the African continen
Pamberi Trust is a Zimbabwean registered non-profit making organization. It was established in 2001 with the thrust of specializing in the promotion of local arts through financial assistance.
The Centre for the Creative Arts (CCA) is an inter-disciplinary hub in the School of the Arts in the College of Humanities at the University of Kwazulu-Natal. The Centre plays host to four festivals which over many years have built a strong international profile for artistic excellence and for how the arts are engaged to advance social change and to strengthen South Africa’s constitutional democracy.
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
APAC provides opportunities for artistic training, preserving and disseminating cultural heritage through promotion and cultural tourism, so that all the historical wealth and living culture existing in this region is valued so that it generates also an economic income for the population, allowing them to remain in their places of origin and preserve their cultural heritage.
The Prince Claus Fund (NL) and Mimeta joined forces in an attempt to develop synergies by publishing a joint call for proposals. The call had a special focus on freedom of speech, censorship, marginalised groups and culture and conflict. 18 projects were selected from the call that covered countries in Arica that were underrepresented in our portfolios.
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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
