Category: Opportunities for Creatives

DEADLINE EXTENSION: The My Town, My Life, My Lens workshop has returned with a call to talented, English Proficient young filmmakers from the East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan and the Comoros Islands.

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We believe that a great story can come from anywhere, and be loved everywhere. Africa has a rich heritage of storytelling and a young population that is ready to step up and tell Africa’s stories, in all their multiplicity.

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The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is issuing a call for The Decade of Action Short Stories an initiative targeted at young African creatives in an effort to broaden the conversation,

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Kenyan filmmakers, here’s a great opportunity to secure funding for production and post-production for fiction and documentary features in the World Cinema Fund.

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The UK has launched a Climate Changemakers photography competition to spur Kenyan voices to share what climate change means to them.

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Nairobi, November 5, 2020 – The three-week #16BarsforPeace hip hop campaign targeting Kenyan youth on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter has announced its top three winners and released a peace anthem, Mbekse, on YouTube. The campaign was co-created and led by Kennedy Ombima aka King Kaka, a popular Kenyan rapper, entrepreneur, and philanthropist in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Within the […]

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Community Over Scarcity This toolkit was written by lens-based workers with the goal of creating resources that strengthen collective power. By sharing these skills and tools for navigating the hardest parts of what we are asked to do, we are able to demand more for ourselves, working with a sense of community and abundance. We […]

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Are you a filmmaker, photographer or an illustrator and can produce content that breaks visual boundaries?

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The National Celebrations Committee has come up with an initiative to record the National Anthem and East African Community Anthem virtually.

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Register to join the launch webinar Social Enterprise and Jobs Creation in Sub Saharan Africa Report 09 September 2020 bit.ly/RegisterJobReportLaunch

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