Artists, creatives to be funded

By Neo Kolane

The Music in Africa Foundation (MIAF) has launched an initiative to support art organisations in Southern Africa and is calling for applications for funding. Applications opened on June 17 and will close on July 25 2021.

Eligible creative and cultural industry organizations based in Angola, Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia can apply for the fund.

MIAF and its partner Goethe-Institut, with funding from the ACP-EU Culture Programme, invites organisations in the Southern Africa creative and cultural industries to apply for grants from the recently launched ACP-EU Culture Programme (Southern Africa)

The press and information officer of the Delegation of the European Union in Lesotho, Mookho Makhetha, says the programme aims at accelerating development and increasing the capacity of the cultural and creative sectors in Southern Africa.

Makhetha said the fund will support projects across a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to, performing arts, visual arts, animation, film, gaming, photography and videography.

For more information, the Music in Africa website is a https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/music-africa-foundation-and-goethe-institut-launch-sound-connects-fund