Art Moves Africa: Call for applications for travel grants

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Art Moves Africa (AMA) offers mobility grants to artists, arts professionals and cultural operators from Africa to travel within the continent for cultural exchanges.

AMA is an international non profit organization with the scope of enabling artistic and cultural interaction between various regions of Africa.The mobility grant offered by AMA aims to let artists and cultural organizations in Africa to travelfrom one African country to another in order to exchange information and skills, collaborate with other professionals, develop an international network.

The grantcovers the cost of travel, visa fees and travel insurancefor the duration of one month maximum. AMA does not support fees, accommodations, or per-diem.

Who can apply?             

- Artists and cultural professionals working in performing arts (theatre, dance, story telling...etc), music, visual arts, cinema, literature.

- Artists and cultural operators living and working in Africa, and travelling from an African country to another African country, and between the five African regions:

North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara

Central Africa: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tomé and Principe

East Africa: Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda

Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

How to apply:

Applicants must fill in an application form available on AMA web site. Applications are individual. Companies planning to travel for a performance are welcomed to apply, with a limit of 3 people maximum. Application forms have to be sent by email to the following address: applications@artmovesafrica.org

Deadline:

February 1, 2015 (for the travels planned after March 30, 2015)

Candidates will be notified of results on March 2, 2015

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