CULTURE FOR EVERYONE: EUROPEAN UNION AND CULTURE FUND EMPOWER ZIMBABWEAN ARTISTS WITH GRANT AWARDS

PROJECT SUMMARY

AWARDED GRANT (USD)

Advancing Creative Capabilities, Entrepreneurship and Leadership (ACCEL ZW)

ACCEL ZW aims to strengthen capacities of young groups and creative practitioners from marginalized rural and urban communities. Its responsive programmes aim at reinvigorating the weakened incomes and audiences disrupted by COVID-19. ACCEL ZW will leverage on talent abundance, digital platforms expansion to render training sessions coercing accessibility to new markets, skills acquisition and increased incomes for young artists.

$41,984.00

Zimbabwe Fashion Week (ZFW) 2023

ZFW seeks to provide education and training opportunities to emerging young designers and foster mentorship and networking opportunities. It plans to partner with Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) - design department in quest for exposing the talented and creative young designers to fashion industry trends and technologies. Mentees will be certified during the Zimbabwe Fashion Week (2023) showcase.

$25,000.00

Vana Vanotamba Television Programme

The project aims to produce one season - 13-episode televised show with children and young people. These will be drawn from 3 provinces housing key institutions for children with disabilities. It will further scout, identify and build capacities of children with various forms of impairments. The initiative will expose them capitalising on their strengths in artistic expressions through rendering creative skills in preparation for career-path development, education before their capture on camera.

$30,000.00

Women At Crossroads: Next Chapter

The initiative seeks to host a film festival which promotes gender sensitivity and preferential tolerance around women's matter. It aims to enhance production standards through workshops, networking and film(s) showcasing. The festival will foster engagement and dialogue with the audience by providing a safe space for films produced by women to be showcased thereby depicting Afrocentric tales and experiences of women by women.

$25,000.00

Intellectual Property Rights in The Cultural and Creative Industries

The project aims at strengthening the capacities of cultural and creative industry (CCIs) practitioners through improving the understanding of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).It will raiseawareness on Intellectual Property Rights in the cultural and creative industries and work with the local creative enterprises to document their experiences in the fast-paced changing digital terrain.

$16,338.00

National Arts Merit Awards - (NAMA)

NAMA seeks to explore ways that provides opportunities of publicity and marketing of creatives locally and internationally. It will award talent as a modality of celebrating and recognising creative consciousness and excellence. The national event will be done to increase creative industry traction and growth. NAMA is a public engagement event that will promote interaction of artists, creative sector practitioners and policy makers. It expects to facilitate a better appreciation of Zimbabwe's artistic showcase and diversity.

$17,300.00

Phenomenal Festival of Lights

The project aims to hold an inaugural Zimbabwe's first 3-day showcase platform for artists and service providers working with electricity and light to display creativity, imagination, visual designs and talents. It seeks to challenge and break gender related biases, barriers and stereotypes through the coordination of a female founder leading the processes in the male dominated area. The festival will feature various forms of artistic expression - theatre, dance, poetry, and music.

$ 24,650.00

The Shoko Pipeline

It seeks to host a 2023 edition of urban culture festival. The event will orient young local artists - song writers, performing artists, dancers, instrumentalists, and producers in physical and soft skills pertinent to creative expansion. The aim is on directing trainees to pursue sustainable and profitable career path in the creative space. The oriented trainees are expected to perform during Shoko pipeline's Mash Up Night and tap into new networks from within Zimbabwe and the region in promoting youth popular culture.

$ 25,000.00

Celebrating Deaf Culture: A Theatrical Journey of Inclusion and Empowerment

The project aims to raise the awareness of deaf culture. It will drive its promotion, acceptance and tolerance starting with the local deaf community in Bulawayo. The promotion will be executed through theatre performances, workshops, community outreaches, networking and collaboration usingsign language interpreters to inhibit work in-accessibility. The expectation is around enhancing opportunities and increased employment opportunities for those with hearing impairments.

$31,525.00

Amplifying Deaf Performances Through Trained Interpreters

The project seeks to train more interpreters to support the deaf group's theatre and drama performances. It aims to supporting interpreter training and rehearsal function to foster continuity in the amplification of deaf creative performances and promotion of accessibility in the arts. The expectations of the work go beyond recruitment, interpreting, training into testing and certification in redressing shortage of trained sign language interpreters.

$30,000.00

Literature Performance Based Workshops

Literature performance-based workshops aims to support the visual and performing arts syllabus by engaging schools in 3 Southern Region Provinces - Bulawayo, Mat-North and Mat-South. Itwill use theatre as a tool to integrate arts education into the main school's curriculum through researching on African Languages to inform performance-based trainings. Capacity building will interact with teachers and learners to appreciate performing arts and their different roles in community followed by in-depth discussions.

$23,700.00

Bulawayo Arts Awards Elevation

Arts Awards seek to cross-pollinate skills and ideas in events architecture between those from other cities and Bulawayo. The event will hold skills exchanges with technicians and seasoned choreographers prior to event kickout. Beyond skills training, an awards ceremony - Bulawayo Arts Awards will be held inorder to compliment efforts that are made nationally in recognition and honour of artistic excellence from the country's southern region.

$25,000.00

Vic Falls Multi-Cultural Remote Arts Incubation Centre

The project aims to promote next generation of cultural and creative entrepreneurs in the stone/visual arts sub-sector. It will establish a multi-cultural remote arts incubation program to service three districts - Hwange, Binga and Lupane within the Matabeleland North considering its proximity to Victoria Falls, a tourist zone that presents vast market existence opportunities for the sector. The project expects to improve product quality, marketing, networking and increased incomes for the rural youth.

$14,285.00

San Community Organized Rebirth Events

San Community aims to resuscitate and bring recognition of the San/Tjwao community creative vibrance, languages and culture. The project will foster open space and platform initiatives for the Tjwao people to unleash potentials and cultural abilities, so they are equally recognized of their existence even though they are regarded minorities from Tsholotsho. The project will use various participatory initiatives such as traditional games, boot-camps, fashion shows in order to create self-discoveries.

$ 21,840.00

Binga Craft Centre (BCC) Revamp Programme

BCC seeks to render training in baskets product quality control to crafters in Binga. It will facilitate and support quality control workshops for 400 weavers from the surrounding wards whose basketry quality is still having compromised appeal. The project expects toincrease supply of high-quality baskets which competes at world marketswith a huge potential toempower female crafters to strengthen their household livelihoods incomes and fight feminisation of poverty.

$20,890.00

Transformative Capacity Building of Matabeleland North Creatives

An arts festival that aims to provide a creative and capacity building platform for practitioners from Mat-North's six districts - Hwange, Binga, Tsholotsho, Lupane, Mguza and Nkayi. It will clear the buffering of COVID-19 recovery pathways by offering opportunities to young creatives and women in rebuilding the creative spaces and expression which are innovations and inclusive. The festival will bring marginalised cultural groups together for musical, fashion and theatrical showcasing.

$14, 250.00

Art For Empowerment

Seeks to groom and showcase talents of youth from under-privileged communities. Art for Empowerment aims to address challenges confronting youth in rural and urban communities such as limited access to professional skills mentorship and high unemployment levels. It will establish supportive structures for youths to acquire new skills towards creative expression in performing arts focusing on dancetechniques, voice projection, and stage presence. Critical issues around climate change and gender equality will be raised.

$13,500.00

Munwahuku Sculpture and Outreach Research Project

It seeks to awaken art consciousness in the rural Murehwa community by promoting youth and women's participation in sculpture theory and practice as key art disciplines. The outreach research initiative will be supported by an established studio and workshop school where mentorship and research-based programmes will be carried out. The expectations include enhancing local economy through producing competitive artistic works for empowering and elevating a local ecosystem of creatives.

$14,900.00

Elevate 1

Elevate 1 seeks to promote gifted and upcoming Murewa based artists. It will establish a music recording studio in preparing for engaging and exposing young creatives pursuing studio and video sessions. Identification, recruitment, training and equipping them with the necessary tools marks part of Elevate 1. The expectation is to close knowledge gaps on intellectual property while promoting commercialization of artistic content. 20 videos and 50 songs are expected to be created and aired during the course of project lifetime.

$22,325.00

Learners Mentorship & Training

Project seeks to identify, nurture and promote creative talent at grass-roots level through mentorship and skills transfer. It will work closely with learners from 14 secondary schools in 7 districts of Matabeleland South province. It expects to guide learners towards alternative career choices in the cultural and creative industriesas significant trigger towards high levels creativity from young minds.

$ 19,791.00

Visual Expressions of Matobo Youth Voices

Seeks to empower young creatives in Matobo with knowledge and skills in research, artistic citizen reporting and advocacy. It will establish Matobo youths' peace advocates network and conduct skills development trainings, conducting interactive art and dialogues sessions in close collaboration with Centre for Information and Technology (CITE). Project expects to use visual art to contribute to accountability, transparency and inspire youths' participation in decision-making processes.

$29,015.00

Manicaland Attached Instruments and Dance Exploration

It aims to document seven cultural dances, instrumentation and sounds from Manicaland. It seeks to bridge the knowledge gap between researchers and the custodians of culture as visual communication and information will be collated, into one consumable format easily accessible. It expects to produce an archive of digitised content that will benefit educators, learners and other samples and loops for music and film producers.

$ 33,000.00

Arts And Culture in Action

Project aims to discover and expose hidden talent found in more than four Mashonaland Central districts - Muzarabani, Mt Darwin, Shamva, Rushinga and Mbire.It seeks to give a chance for sustainable and professional development of young artists through talent search, show contests and training workshops. A festival will be held with the expectation of discovering and exposing new talent, improving competences in digital skills and marketing them as efforts to curb other social scares such as drug abuse.

$25,000.00

Spotlighting And Formalization of Rural Creatives Towards a Sustainable Arts Industry in Shamva

An incubation space for rural talent identification, nurturing and mentorship of young artists in Shamva. It seeks to spotlight the underrepresented rural artists through, hands on training, mentorship, formalizing their operating spaces. It will expose and enhance capacities of more than 200 artists and practitioners in digital marketing skills, production, networking and improving creative products quality. It expects to increase formal recognition and improvement of livelihoods for rural artists.

$ 33,038.00

Rethinking Arts in Pandemics (Drug and Substance Abuse)

Aims to further strengthen the capacity of 50 Masvingo based artists in digital skills, production, marketing and networking. It will hold Masvingo Youth Arts (MAYA) Festival which is a platform for artists to showcase their work and expand on networks to influence collaborative opportunities with other established creatives. It expects to increase capacities, create safe spaces for artists and more platforms for artistic expressions.

$ 41,000.00

PROJECT SUMMARY

AWARDED GRANT (USD)

Matamba Immersive New Media Content Development and Showcase

A newly established digital basedinstitute, which focuses on training and empowering a new generation of women storytellers. It borrows from the Afrocentric orature in the illumination of African perspectives through incubation and co-creation of content with other Virtual Reality (VR) / Augmented Reality (AR) experts.It seeks to engageyoung women creative technologists in building a community revolving around immersive technology with cynosure of distributing online and influencing the gaming culture.

$ 9,570.00

Participate In the MYSTERY 45_Atelier Elefsina

A mid-career professional selected to travel to South East Europe for arts management and event coordination conference. He prepares his international travel to participate in the MYSTERY 45_Atelier Elefsina - Greece, the 21^st edition of the Atelier for Young Festival Managers to be held from 21 - 28 June 2023. The mobility support aims to facilitate his participation. An intensive training support programme will culminate into shared back sessions with other emerging festival managers in Zimbabwe after his return.

$ 5,467.00

Constitution Culture Musical

Seeks to pilot capacitation of young artists in contributing towards Zimbabwe's constitution. The aim is to awaken creatives of their role in constitutionalism that requires attention through promotion of public awareness, inclusion and promotion of culture. The project seeks to conduct awareness raising of sections 7 and 16 of the Zimbabwean constitution; competitions, music production and awards ceremony will make part of this activities. Young and emerging creatives are targeted.

$ 10,000.00

The Hudson Road Trip

A season jazz musician will embark on a trip to look for the unrecognised and talented jazz artists residing in the rural parts - Lupane, Tsholotsho, Hwange, Gwanda, Ntabazinduna, Plumtree, Kezi, Nkayi, Matobo and Victoria Falls. With a mobile recording studio, the aim is to spend time jamming and creating jazz songs. The inter-generational skills transfer is expected to happen with only ten marginalised artists featuring in a ten-track album - The Hudson Road Trip; a Video Documentary and a Photo Essay.

$ 10,000.00

Kwantuthu Comedy Festival

An engaging, informative and entertaining comedy festival which will work towards creating new platforms for talent identification and showcasing. It will target young and upcoming artists in need of a space to explore their artistic capabilities.The festival is set to bring international attention to local comedians thus making it attractive. Support will be done through performances and content creation, in order to grow the stand-up comedy sector.

$ 5,415.00

Bulawayo Intellectual Property (IP) School Clubs

A school based Intellectual Property Rights club being run by learners. It seeks to establish clubs in schools to curb a creative scourge of Intellectual Property Rights violations as photocopying, plagiarism and production of counterfeits. The work includes introducing the project to the provincial education leadership; identification of schools from each district to join the clubs; selection of 30 participants expected to benefit from the planned initiative as well as conducting IP schools' exhibition/competition.

US$ 9,240.00

Bulawayo Art Fair - Outreach - Symposium

A growing institution will continue to build new audiences and prioritise professionalisation of contemporary art productions and curatorial practices. It seeks to expand on opportunities and exhibition spaces by supporting visual identities and signatures of young creatives. The project expects to provide alternative spaces that incubates fairs and expose bodies of art to find their way into secondary market dealers, artists, collectives, associations and audiences within and beyond Zimbabwe's borders.

$ 10,000.00

Danica Studios

An upscaled musical production hub which started operating as a backyard studio in the Vic-Falls town and uplifted a number of artists from Matabeleland North. It seeks to establish a fully equiped recording studio by procuring appropriate equipment. It will help emerging talent development to provide a space easily accessible to local creatives. The studio expects to become a centre of musical influence to identify talent, record and promote the music value chain.

$ 9,941.00

The Marimba Songs Transcription and Distribution Initiative

The preservation and promotion of Zimbabwean traditional music through the transcription and distribution of marimba instrumentalised songs. It will transcribe, document and create an online database of transcribed marimba songs formatted for easy accessibility by learners, musicians, researchers etc. Trainings will to be organised in different regions of Zimbabwe to teach the transcription of traditional marimba songs processes hinting on distribution.

$ 7,000.00

@Mukoma Nthume Aka Mundau

The project seeks to build the capacity of an emerging and unpublished vernacular author. It aims to promote restoration of pride in the Ndau language by supporting written work get to printers. It will result in the publication of several materials that exist in the Ndau language. The expectation is to see more literary works being developed to celebrate Ndau language recognition as one of Zimbabwe's sixteen official languages embedded in the Zimbabwean Constitution.

$3,000.00

Granite Sculpturing

A rural based visual artist working with simple-tools migrates from use of soft stones - soap stone, serpentine stone and other common materialsto some hard granite raw stones due to their weakened strengths. He aims to improve on the quality of sculptures to increase high end product output. Project seeks to acquire power tools - angle grinders, drills and an air compressor as a modality of improving and value adding artifacts appearances, outlook and product durability that resists all weather conditions.

$6,829.00

Culture Meets ICT

40 artists from Makonde rural inclusive of those living with disabilities will be identified and trained to improve household incomes. They will be capacitated and equipped with networking, marketing, and digital skills to grow their creative enterprises. Project seeks to strengthen artists in business ethics, communication and technology use.

$7,655.00

One Man Exhibition Empowerment Proposal (OMEEP)

The applicant needs to acquire adequate resources for painting artworks. An art production retreat will be used to create enough paintings for a solo exhibition. The body of artworks produced during the retreat will be exhibited at established art galleries.

$ 6,873.00

Engaging Men and Boys in Promoting and Preserving Cultural Entrepreneurship

A three phased project aiming to - Introducing entrepreneurship, cultural preservation, and management skills, to youthful cultural practitioners. It seeks to assist the engagement in artistic production retreat as ways aiming to produce enough material to be showcased during a solo exhibition. The expectation is on creating employment and raising awareness of cultural diversity and inclusion.

$3,307.00

Grooming and educating young marginalised rural talents

An instrumentation establishment process which will set-up a rehearsals space to be accessed by young talents. It seeks to offer opportunities for budding musicians to learn musical instruments playing and conducting primary sound engineering orientation. It will be a benefit for the youths. Grooming and educating young marginalised rural talents and improving village life will be coupled with performance demonstrations by seasoned artists. Project expects to develop new talent and empower the rural creatives.

$ 10,000.00

Ziya And Community Development Plan

Ziya works towards promoting tolerance on socio-economic and cultural practices at community level. It seeks to engage in provocative diverse themes which identifies with communities' conflicts. It seeks to further engage with all community stakeholders in creative work development and peace building. Ziya expects to conduct capacity building trainings community dialogues targeting 180 participants in Masvingo district. Video skits will be produced to touch on pertinent intolerance which violates communities' peace.

$9,960.00

Roots Arts Academy

Decentralised approaches to skills enhancement. The project aims to introduce cutting edge horning processes limiting the growth of opportunities for rural based creatives. It seeks to capacitate aspiring and upcoming young creatives based in Mutoko. Roots Academy will engage aspiring actors, directors, scriptwriters, producers and arts managers and mould them in preparation for future opportunities. It expects to fully function as a self-sustaining institute that will export talent outside Zimbabwe.

$6,000.00