NEFCISA
NEFCISA

The Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) is proud of its partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) as a Strategic Implementing Partner (SIP) for its Social Employment Fund (SEF). Through this collaboration, MIAF is running a national programme that is creating jobs, addressing skills gaps, and strengthening South Africa's creative industries — in line with the SEF's overarching goal to generate work for the common good and build community value through employment, social contribution, and inclusive economic participation. Operating under the banner NEFCISA (National Employment Facility for Creative Industries in South Africa), the initiative is recruiting and training participants, matching them with host organisations, and has already placed 1 500 workers across the country — surpassing its original target of 1 000. NEFCISA is delivered through a network of 20 host organisations spanning five provinces, who are actively hosting participants and contributing to work for the common good across South Africa's creative and cultural industries. Key Objectives: Support employment and entrepreneurship in the creative industries. Offer skills development and training programmes. Foster partnerships between public and private creative sectors. Promote South African creativity at both provincial and national levels Foster community development through social contribution.

ACCES
ACCES

ACCES Conference and Showcase Festival is Africa's leading music industry gathering, bringing together the people shaping the future of the continent's music business. Artists, entrepreneurs, executives, investors, policymakers and cultural leaders from across Africa and around the world come to ACCES to build partnerships, exchange ideas, discover talent and create new business opportunities. Since its launch in 2017, ACCES has become the continent's premier platform for professional exchange and music market development. Combining a high-level conference with a curated showcase festival, networking, exhibitions and industry programmes, ACCES offers a unique space where creativity meets business and where African music connects with the global industry.

Gender@Work
Gender@Work

Music In Africa Gender @ Work is a three-year training programme aimed at upskilling and increasing the participation of female professionals in the African music sector. Launched by the Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) in April 2019, the programme is connected to the MIAF’s ACCES music conference – a pan-African event held in a different African country every year. This connection enables the programme to reach new participants in a different African country every year. The programme marks the beginning of a more concerted effort by the Foundation to support the participation and inclusion of women in all facets of its programmes and the music sector in Africa as a whole. Over the three years, the programme will aim to address gender imbalances in the sector through training, lobbying, facilitating knowledge exchange and dialogues that foster the interest of women. The broader objectives of the programme are to: Provide industry training for women on critical music industry skills, focusing on: Stage management Electronic music production and recording Music business management Technical knowledge Provide an opportunity for both professional and aspiring women to benefit from the Music In Africa network and its broad range of activities in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Provide a solution-based platform in the form of a round table at ACCES with a view to identify challenges, discuss opportunities and lobby for the interests of female practitioners. Offer participants the opportunity to benefit from programmes offered by MIAF’s partners. Increase access to educational materials. Integrate participants in the broader ACCES programme to maximise experience and exposure to the industry. Record and present training materials on the www.musicinafrica.net, including but not limited to tutorials, templates and other best-practice materials. Communicate women-based themes that support the initiatives and messages of the programme. MAIN TRAINING ACTIVITIES Training in first country (Ghana): In the first year, participants will be trained on all aspects of stage management by a team of experienced stage managers from 10 to 17 November 2019. The programme will offer robust classroom training as well as practical, hands-on training in which participants will also be given the opportunity to manage various aspects of the ACCES performance programme. Training in second country: The second training iteration will take place at ACCES 2020 when the programme will diversify its course to include music production lessons and training on other music business topics. A round-table platform will also be introduced to coincide with the ACCES programme. Training in third country: The third training iteration will take place at ACCES 2021 in a different country, offering an advanced course. HOW DO YOU GET INVOLVED?  As a participant, facilitator or trainer: The programme enrolls up to 12 trainees every year. All opportunities are advertised publicly on this website, and will be added to this page. Please keep checking this page for new calls (below under UPDATES & CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES). As a partner Please contact Claire Metais at [email protected]. APPLY The call for applications for 2020 will be announced soon. The Music In Africa Gender @ Work programme is made possible with the support of the Prince Claus Fund, Siemens Stiftung and Goethe-Institut.

Sound Connects Fund
Sound Connects Fund

For cultural and creative practitioners and organisations operating in southern Africa, access to funding remains a major challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic has also had a massive impact on government policy, spending and the economy in general, and has seen spending on culture being moved further down the list of priorities. Further, the cultural and creative industries repeatedly cite four main areas where investment is needed for growth, which are increased visibility, mobility including access to new markets, finance and support structures.

Instrument Building And Repair Project
Instrument Building And Repair Project

Experience the Vibrations African Instruments Exhibition online in 3D

The Relations

The Relations

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Victoria, Seychelles

In operation since:

2022

Contact person:

The Relations

BIO

THE RELATIONS

Relations Band comprises of 8 members including three of Seychelles top artists Mia, Travis and Telsy. Established in 1985, the group at that time consisted only of family members. They performed mainly in hotels, restaurants and clubs.

After a change of members and relaunch in early 2000's they have since performed many concerts including prestigious award ceremonies. Now performing mainly for one events such as parties, corporate events and concert Relations performs mainly modern and international repertoires. Using state of the art equipments and technologies they will get the audience moving alongside Travis, Mia and Telsy.

Having released 6 albums and numerous singles with the artists since 2010, the Relations has a discography of over 100 songs available.
They have backed award winning artists for many concerts and award ceremonies.

Band Members

Mr Clifford Telemaque - Guitarist: The founder of the Relations Band back in 1985. He has over 38 years of experience as a guitarist.

Mr Eddy Telemaque - Drummer: He is an award winning producer, sound engineer, musician. Being one of the most reputable sound engineer and musical arranger in Seychelles Eddy is the band leader of the Relations.

James Telemaque - Percussionist: At the age of  45 years old and over 25 years as a musician, James  adds all the extra flavours of percussions to the band.

Marcus Labrosse - Bassist: A music teacher by profession, Marcus is well versed in music theory. He joined Relations in 2016. He is a fluent musician able to play a wide variety of instruments from saxophone to Keyboards.

Nabby Jules - keyboardist: At the age of 25, Nabby Jules is one of the most sought after producer and musician in studio and live performance. He has performed alongside most major artists locally.

MIA: In 2015 she released her first single "Naiv" where she started making a name for herself as a Solo artist. The following year she released her second single which is still a favorite amongst the locals especially after the release of the music video in 2018, which has often been described as the best music video in Seychelles.
She is well known for music videos which has set the bar extremely high for other artists in the Seychelles.
In September 2019 she released her second album in collaboration with Travis, another artist under the Relations label. During the same year in December she received two awards in Paradise FM music awards, most played female artist and most chart entries.
She racked up more awards in January 2020 in Cable Tunes awards for best female artists for 2019.

TRAVIS: Travis is amongst the most recognized Seychellois male singer of his generation. Travis is known for his charm, elegance and on stage presence as a performer, entertainer and host. He is praised for his musical fusions, captivating lyrics and award winning music. With a discography of over 70 original songs distributed amongst 4 albums, since 2013, Travis boasts an amazing accolade of awards, local musical records and personal achievements which labelled him amongst the top 10 most selected Seychellois artist to fly the Seychelles flag at national events. He has topped many charts and received many awards in the Seychelles with his 3 albums and other singles.

TELSY: Telsy started singing when she was six years old, whereby she released her first cassette entitled BEHIND THE SHADOWS. In 2005, at only 13 years of age, She released her first
album LITTLE QUEEN with 10 tracks. The song little
queen became an instant hit. One of her biggest projects was releasing her second solo album. It was released November 2012 entitled JUST ME with 11 tracks. The song LANMOUR was one of the biggest hit on the album, it was followed with her first live concert, which had a technologically approached system used to raise the level of performance in the Seychelles. Her third solo album entitled MON LESKPRESYON was released on her 25th birthday in May 2017. It featured 12 tracks and MON DEFAYANS was the hit, followed by PLEASE COME HOME TONIGHT and MERSI. She has also received many awards for her albums and singles in the Seychelles

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