BY PHUMZILE NDLOVU
MBABANE – Are you an artist or creative residing in Africa?
The Kuonyesha Art Fund 2024 Small Grant Applications are now open, calling on all African artists and creatives to take the chance and apply for small grants.
This official announcement was made on The African Theatre Magazine’s Facebook page yesterday. There is no application fee, and the deadline for applying is May 3, 2024.
Apply at https://CIVFUND.smartsimple.com.
To learn more, visit this website: https://www.kuonyesha.civsourceafrica.com/.
Kuonyesha is a Swahili word that means ‘show.’ Kuonyesha Art Fund exists to support, nurture, and develop art in Africa; to promote and/or support artists to improve the quality of arts in a way that enhances the meaningful influence and participation of art and artists in the issues shaping society and public life in Africa today.
The Kuonyesha Art Fund’s mission is “to support, promote, and celebrate art and artists in all their diversity in Africa.” The Kuonyesha Art Fund (KAF) is managed by CivFund and the Executive Board with support from its partners, Stitching DOEN and the Robert Bosch Foundation, and backed by an advisory committee comprised of reputable practicing arts and culture personalities in Africa.
The first year of the fund (October 2019 to October 2020) was a pilot phase, during which the fund was open to and deliberate about learning and growing as it went along—learning from the artists themselves, learning from and about the art field, learning from and with the Advisory Committee, and learning from and with the partners of the fund and other stakeholders.
The Kuonyesha Art Fund is now in its second year. It is worth mentioning that the fund will not support art projects that incite hatred, violence, or any sort of exclusion or discrimination. In this pilot phase, the Kuonyesha Art Fund will not support organisations.
