Open call: Mentorship for women cultural curators in East Africa

The call is designed for female curators based in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It will run under the theme Curating as Multiplying Mediation and Access to Culture. The mentorship seeks to support emerging arts workers by creating a platform to develop their practice, gain resources, enhance research and discourse, and engage with established curators from East Africa and beyond.

Offering opportunities to develop tools and actions to raise awareness about gender issues in the East African context, the programme will support a new generation of cultural workers sensitive to the place of women artists and augment the agency of female-identifying artists, curators and educators in the region and globally.

Eligibility

• This opportunity is available to female-identifying cultural workers based in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
• Applicants should have more than three years of experience curating, working in the arts, or working with artists.
• Mentorship sessions will take place virtually. Participants will be invited for one in-person group meeting in Kampala, Uganda, during the programme (date TBA).

Application requirements

• All applications should be submitted through the application portal.
• Description of project the applicants would like to develop during the mentorship period, including the next three steps they would like to take to move the project forward.
• Projects should in some way engage with female-identifying artists, creative producers, or publics (400 words max).
• Letter of intent describing why the applicants would like to take part in this programme, including specific mentorship needs to support the project (300 words max).
• Biography outlining relevant experience (250 words max).
• Work sample/portfolio (uploaded as an attachment).
• CV (uploaded as an attachment).

View the original call here.