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

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Yaoundé, Cameroon

In operation since:

2010

Contact person:

Skriim

BIO

SKRIIM (lire scream) est un compositeur et DJ de musique électronique résidant au CAMEROUN. Il commence son apprentissage de la musique au collège au sein du Groupe Best of Duty qu’il a crée avec quelques amis sous le pseudonyme Shadow White. Mais sa carrière artistique débute officiellement en 2010 en tant que beatmaker. Très orienté hip hop, il produira des beats pour quelques artistes nationaux (LSM, DAREAL) et étrangers (JURIKID, TWINSKI). Mais très vite, son univers musical va s’ouvrir à la musique électronique dans lequel il retrouve une vraie liberté de création qu’il n’avait pas dans le beatmaking qui désormais lui semble monotone: Shadow White devient SKRIIM. Il intègre par la suite le groupe 3009 Rascal avec lequel il produira 3 singles avant d’entamer une carrière solo.
En Février 2016, l’artiste présentera au public son 1er album digital de 8 titres intitulé : EVOLU+ION. C’est une œuvre musicale dont le thème central est la Théorie de l’évolution de DARWIN. Son travail intéressera le label suédois YELLOW RHINESTONE RECORDS avec qui, il signe un contrat de distribution. Quelques mois après la sortie de l’album EVOLU+ION, SKRIIM dévoile 02 singles : « DON’T GO » et « YOU’RE EVERYTHING ». Les deux singles disponibles sur les plateformes de vente et de streaming cumulent près de 30 447 écoutes sur Spotify pour « DON’T GO » et 87 554 écoutes pour « YOU’RE EVERYTHING ». Dans le souci de concilier la musique électronique à un univers plus commun à l’environnement musical camerounais, SKRIIM lance le projet « JE NE SUIS PAS DJ » qui est constitué de mixtapes de remixes de titres faits par des artistes de musique urbaine camerounaise sous fond de musique électronique. Ce projet lui permettra de collaborer avec quelques artistes influents de la scène urbaine camerounaise. Porté par ce projet, SKRIIM obtient sa 1ere scène le 02 Février 2017 avec un apéro concert organisé par l’Institut Français du Cameroun. Dans la foulée, il participera au projet musical « MBOATAPE 4 » avec le titre remixé DEVIL NO DI SLEEP de JOVI : Titre inclus dans le projet JE NE SUIS PAS DJ vol 2.
En Janvier 2018, SKRIIM signe avec le label de distribution anglais AFRICORI basé principalement en Afrique du Sud et intervient, depuis le début de l’année, comme Guest DJ dans une émission radio sur SWEET FM intitulée TIA RADIO SHOW. Le 03 Août 2018 marque la sortie de l'EP "RENAISSANCE" qui révèle un nouvel aspect de la créativité de SKRIIM qui crée ici un son qui constitue une ouverture vers un nouveau genre à savoir l’électro camerounais. Cet EP sera pour lui l’occasion de faire sa 1ere série de concerts au Cameroun et marquera aussi la mise en ligne de son 1er videogramme dont le titre est REPLAY. Par ailleurs, SKRIIM est lauréat du programme DECOUVERTES 2019 initié par l’INSTITUT GOETHE DU CAMEROUN dans la catégorie SON.
Les productions musicales de Skriim s’identifient particulièrement par le cri « WOW » notamment à l’origine de son nom de scène SKRIIM et le port du masque qui suffit à parfaire son identité artistique et visuelle. SKRIIM aspire, à travers ses chansons, à attirer l’attention de l’auditeur sur des situations concrètes le tout dans une ambiance à la fois festive, détendue. Son univers musical se rapproche assez de celui de STROMAE ou encore IBEYI. C’est un artiste qui a des influences musicales aussi diverses que variées de Sally Nyollo à Meiway en passant par Boudor, Etienne Mbappe, Ryan leslie, Cardiak, Kanye West, Sia, David Guetta sans oublier le coté classique influencé par Beethoven, Mozart. Cet éclectisme fait de lui un artiste qui même s’il a une réelle propension pour la musique électronique (electro/house, future bass, EDM trap et un style plus afro du fait de ses origines), garde une certaine liberté créatrice vis-à-vis de sa musique.

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