Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) is the largest youth music NGO in the world with the mission to "enable young people to develop through music across all boundaries". With a vast array of activities, JMI has established four priority activity fields: Young Musicians, Young Audiences, Youth Empowerment and Youth Orchestras & Ensembles.
Arterial Network’s Artwatch Africa programme aims to assert, promote and defend artist rights and freedom of creative expression for artists and cultural practitioners in Africa. The Artwatch Africa project is premised on the understanding that freedom of expression is an essential condition for creative practice in the arts, and that to promote freedom of expression is to advance democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms on the continent.
Nai Ni Who concluded on a high note on 3 August 2013, after 12 weeks of continuous and varied festival programming, shifting location from neighborhood to neighborhood around Nairobi. A program of events uniquely developed by neighborhood teams, offered insight into each neighborhood area and its residents. Overall, the festival gave a glimpse into the city’s heart.
Front page, Annual report of Mimeta
Mimeta has published an extensive view on our activities for 2012. You can Download the Norwegian edition here!
The Prince Claus Fund 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. Below you will find the 18 projects selected from the call.
On April 16 and 17, in Tunisia, at Al Hamra Theater, the first meetings of the Recommendation Follow-up Committee, issued from the Independent Culture for Democracy Conference, were held. Organized by Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy), in December 2012, the conference was ended with recommendations that included the formation of a follow-up committee of 18 participants, from 13 Arab countries.
KPY Yearbook: Cultural Changemakers Against the Grain.
What is the Role of Culture in Syria Today?
Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru gives us a fresh
perspective.
Cyrus practices in Nairobi
and is a self taught painter and sculptor. He has been at the Kuona Trust Art Centre for the past six years.
Today, Mali is experiencing an unprecedented crisis and cultural actors have not been on the sidelines of this great change in progress. More than ever, it is urgent to produce artistic and cultural thoughts likely to change practices and behaviors that threaten the cultural intelligence of our society. See more in KYA Networks second issue of its cultural Magazine.
Independent culture is an especially important voice and movement in periods of transition.
Ettijahat Independent Culture is an organization that stimulates the growth of independent culture in Syria by encouraging a positive and real relationship between culture and Syria’s diverse communities. The organization is part of an active and independent cultural movement in the country by cooperating on dynamic and relevant projects. They provide basic tools and structures required to build projects that are in-line with regional and national developments in the culture sector, and develop national policies to art and culture and shifting general understanding of culture from part of the service sector, to a vital element in the development sector.
Mimeta collaborates with Ettijahat on a research project aimed at building the capacities of young researchers and granting them the opportunity to focus on working in the field of cultural study and research. Ettijahat will train and support 10 young researchers. The project’s objective is to improve the skills of researchers, offer them direction and give them the opportunity to realize a research project under the direct supervision of professional researchers specialized in culture that forms the scientific committee of the project. Through the selection criteria for the participating researchers, the project focuses on relevant subjects of cultural research connected to the bewildering developments that Syria is undergoing at present.
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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.)
