Call for applications: Mobility East Africa grant

The grant is accessible to East African artists, cultural practitioners, researchers and curators as well as art groups/collectives and organisations looking to create new connections between Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan.

Kenyan Jazz trumpeter Christine Kamau received the grant in 2018 and travelled to Ethiopia to collaborate with Ethio-jazz musicians.

The grant offers up to £1 000 ($1 300) per person and up to £5 000 per collective/group/organisation (paid in local currency).

The Mobility East Africa grant programme accepts applications all year round, and only applications submitted through the form will be considered.

Successful applicants will be notified at least two months after the application process.

How to apply

Interested individuals should answer the mandatory questions in video format, which should be uploaded on YouTube or Vimeo, and paste the link to the video in the application form.

The three questions are:

1. Where do you want to go, why, and what will you do when you are there?
2. How will you share your journey with others?
3. What are the dates for travel?

Selection criteria

To be considered, the application should:

1. Show generous and innovative ways of sharing your travel experience with others, both online and offline.
2. Demonstrate a clear connection to how this travel experience will support your artistic practice.
3. Exhibit an interest in building community and connections between artists and art sectors in East Africa.
4. Describe at least one community/person/organisation that you will connect to in the host location you are traveling to.

For more information, visit the British Council official website.