NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA…

In association with one of its funding partners, Africalia, Arterial Network has issued calls for applications for support for projects that decentralise access to African creative goods and services. "Decentralisation", includes touring products or disseminating creative goods and services beyond the major centres of a particular country to second cities or rural areas, or from one country to another country or to a number of countries i.e. building regional markets, which at the same time facilitates exchange and/or collaboration between different artists; and providing access to the arts to people, communities or marginalised groups who may not traditionally have access to these. The maximum grant will be in the region of 12 000 Euros and should be regarded not as the sole support for the project, but to catalyse further funding if required. The project must be completed by 30 November 2011, although, hopefully, it will leave a legacy beyond that time. Only registered members of Arterial Network may apply. The deadline is 26 November 2010.