Applications for Africa Centre's Artist In Residency Open Until 30 September

Since its inception in 2011, the Africa Centre's Artists in Residency Programme (AIR) has successfully awarded 39 African artists the chance to take up residencies across the globe. The Africa Centre is a platform for exploring contemporary Pan-African cultural practice as a catalyst for social change. Through continued partnerships with residency programmes in Australia, Brazil, India, Spain, China and the United States, the Africa Centre is proud to offer eight new residency opportunities through the 2016 edition of this programme.

Last year, another layer was added to the residency programme by launching a separate competition for seasoned, mid-life career artists, allowing them to apply for artist-in-residence positions at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Centre in Italy. We are delighted to announce the second installation of this competition that will award an additional five residencies for Africa's more experienced artists.

AIR is seeking applications from high calibre African artists, in different stages of their career development (from emerging to late career), who are provocative, innovative, and are stretching the boundaries of their artistic practice. The residencies are available to composers, fiction and non-fiction writers, playwrights, poets, video/filmmakers, curators, visual and performance artists as well as artists of other forms whose work is inspired by or relates to global or social issues and promotes the well-being of humankind.

AIR partners select an artist from a short list provided by the Africa Centre, for one of their 2017 or 2018 residencies. Each residency offers a distinct structure, set of requirements and duration. The costs of the residency and round-trip airfare are included in each residency award made.

Visit the Africa Centre's Artists in Residency website for further information about the 2016 programme. Applications for both the general residencies and the Rockefeller Foundation programme close on 30 September 2016.