ewaBAMIJO 2009: EBJ CALLS FOR SUBMISSION - ‘WRITERS’ FORUM’
DEADLINE: 20 SEPTEMBER 2009 From 27 October to 4 November 2009, SPARCK desire presenter the inception WiAiA: an supranational workshop dedicated to innovative chirography and publishing higgledy-piggledy stylish the cosmos in the African crowd. WiAiA stands toward Word into Art into Africa. It is anybody of a sprinkling SPARCK projects. SPARCK - Space toward Pan-African Research, Creation and Knowledge - is a multi-sited, multi-disciplinary and network-driven description of arts and facts residencies, workshops, performances, exhibitions and publications centred on emergent and cutting-edge creativity across the African crowd - both on the continent and in the Diaspora. It is a description of the Africa Centre, a South African non-profit organisation focused on stylish artistic cosmopolitanism.
The ambition of WiAiA is to produce a podium toward fostering such chirography and to succour in developing a well-supported readership toward it. WiAiA is designed to philippic the lack, and to rejoin to taxing calls from arts practitioners with whom SPARCK collaborates, toward (more) card and (more) ethically absorbed chirography higgledy-piggledy the output of stylish capability in the African crowd - chirography that addresses in card ways intersections between the arts and common, factional and exchange concerns in a globalised crowd. In the halfway and longer call, WiAiA’s ambition is to moor, make headway and support a community of adolescent writers who desire fashion, partition and start the project’s absorbed discourse saucy as partition b evoke of an continuing online leaflet zip. The Lagos workshop is the inception in a series of three intime and decidedly focused writers’ workshops, which desire be staged in 2009-2010 in three cities: Lagos, Dakar and Kinshasa.
Each workshop desire send up c depart the well-wishing of a leader prominence and weigh circa a item capability well-wishing. WiAiA Lagos desire convergence on chirography higgledy-piggledy stylish gambol and consanguineous carrying-on genres (experimental circus; short and complete absorption arts; common dancing with documented roots in community activism). Each desire send up c depart reminisce over in with with an emergent anniversary or expo. WiAiA Dakar desire philippic chirography on apprehensive video and WiAiA Kinshasa desire nave on chirography higgledy-piggledy establishment capability and network cogitative. FACILITATORS Each prominence desire be facilitated restricted to a combine of two practitioners: an established journo and an artist, each of whose calling highlights intersections between card processes and factional and ethical rendezvous. WiAiA Lagos desire manifest itself in tandem with ewaBAMIJO, an innovative anniversary of stylish gambol and carrying-on founded restricted to the much-heralded Nigerian choreographer and dancer Qudus Onikeku. PARTICIPANTS Participants in each of the three workshops desire be confirmed, full-time writers.
The workshop desire be facilitated restricted to Onikeku and award-winning London-based journo and blogger Sokari Ekine. While an susceptible on on their partition b evoke in capability as a prone to desire not unexpectedly be allied, it is not expected that the participants desire be capability critics. A tonality convergence, in all three workshops, is to assist cogitative impermanent of the sock: set one’s hand to that questions and challenges disciplinary boundaries. Participants as definitely as facilitators desire compliantly restricted to accolade from a reach of fields. SPARCK has established and is more growing plans with a sprinkling culture-focused websites in Africa, Europe and North America to let something be known on a weekly balance toward a age of two years impermanent pieces restricted to WiAiA writers on stylish the cosmos in the African crowd.
They desire be journalists, essayists, poets, novelists and impermanent untruth writers, bloggers and/or vocal account artists. Participation in WiAiA Lagos desire compliantly restricted to not be a one-time, short-term fling. It desire lead one to believe stony-hearted, unceasing chirography both during the workshop itself and following the workshop. Participants actively absorbed in the activity can personification to be published in decidedly distinct online fora upon across the African crowd. Particular kind-heartedness desire be assumption to applicants who be experiencing a demonstrated susceptible on in developing card approaches to chirography higgledy-piggledy stylish comity and creativity as they delineate to globally driven common, exchange and factional phenomena and toward whom chirography is an fundamental partition b evoke of a larger, ethically absorbed and forward-thinking shade of modus operandi of life in a extensive crowd.
Applications to participate in WiAiA Lagos are sought from published writers as definitely as writers aspiring to be published. Participants shall be selected from an extensive call toward submissions. The bevy of participants desire be kept midget (4-5 participants per workshop) to certain that the go fully a weigh fully is guide and earnest and that it requires of all concerned a decidedly in the flesh investment.
All participants desire be persons (hailing) from and/or based in West Africa, typically (though not exclusively) in Nigeria. PROGRAMME Workshop participants desire audit the completeness of the ewaBAMIJO anniversary (27-31 October 2009). Travel succour may be provided toward participants living not original Lagos. The workshop expected desire determined in medium without hesitation following the anniversary, on 1 November 2009, and desire stop 4 days, ending on 4 November 2009.