Apply for the Luxemborg Art Prize

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Apply for the Luxemborg Art Prize

THE Luxembourg Art Prize is an annual international competition aiming to discover talents, amateur or professional, regardless of age and nationality. The ambition of the Prize is to accelerate the careers of unknown artists by providing them with professional art gallery space, first as part of a group exhibition showcasing the finalists for the Prize and then as a solo exhibition for the winner.
To help the winner prepare and create a solo exhibition at the gallery, a grant of 25,000 euros (about 26,703 USD or 21,293 GBP or 26’723 CHF or 35,030 CAD or 3,075,250 JPY) is awarded by the gallery for the 2024 edition of the prize. Deadline is 31 May 2024. READ MORE.

Call For Papers on new Cultural Policy, Cultural Planning And The Creative Industries

THE Tshwane University of Technology has recently put out a call for papers for a proposed book project: Cultural Policy, Cultural Planning and the Creative Industries: Perspectives from African Contexts and Beyond.  The book will be co-edited by Mzo Sirayi & Kennedy Chinyowa, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.  This call invites proposals/ abstracts for papers/ chapters that can demonstrate how the cultural policy landscape has, or can be, transformed from a mere preoccupation with preserving arts, culture and heritage towards what Throsby calls, “the economics of cultural policy” (2010:xv).
The major theme of the book will focus on exploring the interface between cultural policy, cultural planning and the creative industries. Proposals will be expected to address the following sub-themes:

  • Cultural policy and the African Union’s Agenda 2063
  • Cultural policy and the creative economy
  • Why South Africa and Africa need a cultural policy
  • Dilemmas in cultural policy development
  • Decolonisation of cultural policy in African contexts
  • Cultural policy and the creative industries
  • Cultural policy as a marketing strategy
  • Creative industries and sustainable development
  • Culture, planning and citizenship
  • Cultural mapping and cultural planning
  • Cultural diplomacy and/or International cultural policy
  • Local cultural policy and rural, town and city regeneration
  • Cultural planning and decolonisation
  • Cultural planning and sustainable development
  • Cultural planning and its interpretation

Contributors are invited to submit proposals/abstracts based on the above-mentioned sub-themes. The proposals should not exceed 500 words in length and should be in MS Word format. The deadline for submission of proposals will be 15 February, 2024. Receipt of proposals will be acknowledged and letters of acceptance will be sent to the respective contributors by 30 April, 2024. Please note that each proposal should be accompanied by a brief biography of the contributor(s).
Abstracts should be submitted to: Brenda Nkhumise (NkhumiseMB@tut.ac.za) and Kennedy Chinyowa (ChinyowaKC@tut.ac.za). For more information – READ MORE.
Call for papers