LAUNCH OF SOUTH AFRICA’S BIGGEST SERIOUS GAME COMPETITION Are you serious about games? Interested in the use of games to bring about social impact and innovation? We’re launching South Africa’s biggest serious game competition to engage communities in re-imagining their spaces for economic prosperity. THE CHALLENGE Apartheid urban planning has led to a highly split … Read more
2024 INTERNATIONAL CARTOON COMPETITION: A PLACE. SOMEWHERE “A place. Somewhere” is a cartoon competition that aims to gather voices and ideas around issues of migration and flight, hosted by EXILE Cultural Coordination Institute based in Essen, Germany. The competition is open to artists worldwide. Never before have so many people across the world become refugees … Read more
OPPORTUNITY FOR EMERGING ARTISTS – FRESH PRODUCE AT TAF CALL FOR PORTFOLIO SUBMISSIONS TOWARDS TURBINE ART FAIR FRESH PRODUCE EXHIBITION Turbine Art Fair: Fresh Produce supported by RMB The Turbine Art Fair together with VANSA and Assemblage, host Fresh Produce 2024. Curated by Rolihlahla Mhlanga, the Fresh Produce Exhibition has made an open call for … Read more
GENIUS LOCI WEIMAR COMPETITION 2024 All interested artists are invited to submit their concept ideas for the Genius Loci Weimar Festival between the opening date of 27 February 2024 up to the deadline of 09 April 2024. Submitted concepts will be displayed in a public exhibition in Weimar in May 2024. The best projects will … Read more
DST-NRF INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2024/25 The National Research Foundation (NRF) is responsible for the management of the DST-NRF Internship Programme in which unemployed Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) graduates and postgraduates (including those in Social Sciences and Humanities) are offered an opportunity to acquire practical work experience through mentoring and exposure to a research environment. CLOSING … Read more
DEFSA 2024 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 2024 marked a watershed year in the history of South African Higher Education when students called for decolonised education. The topic will be deliberated at the 14th National Design Education Conference of the Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA), hosted by the Tshwane University of Technology’s Faculty of … Read more
BLACK MARK COLLECTIVE: CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2024 VISUAL ARTS SYMPOSIUM The Black Mark Collective is proud to announce its second Visual Arts Symposium to be held from the 15th to 17th September 2024 at the Market Photo Workshop’s new premises in Newtown, Johannesburg, under the theme Urgency and Agency – Strategies and Contingencies Call … Read more
South African Cultural Observatory SA launches local leg of global creative business cup A GLOBAL model for rewarding outstanding creative and design thinking has made its way to South Africa with the launch of the Creative Business Cup South Africa concept to the South African market. The Creative Business Cup is an international competition that celebrates … Read more
PRINCE CLAUS MOBILITY FUND 2024 The Prince Claus Fund’s Mobility Fund supports the cross-cultural exchange of artists and cultural practitioners. The Mobility Fund is open as per 28 February 2024. By covering travel costs, such as economy class plane or train tickets, the Mobility Fund assists in the professional growth and networking abilities of those … Read more
RAW ACADEMY APPLICATION – SESSION 2 – SPRING 2024 RAW Academy is a residential analytical study programme of artistic and curatorial thought and practice inquiry taking place in Dakar. 3rd April – 26th May 2024 Application deadline January 31st 2024 Before filling out the application at this link, please read over the entirety of the … Read more