MAY 1-6th
The Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) is a 6-day annual festival that showcases the very best of Zimbabwean, regional and international arts and culture in a comprehensive programme of theatre, dance, music, circus, street performance, spoken word, craft and visual arts. HIFA brings together socially and culturally disparate groups of Zimbabweans to celebrate the healing and constructive capacity of the arts.
A MAZE. calling.
We are seeking for curious, playful and adventurous artists and indie game developers from the sub Saharan region to participate in A MAZE. Interact 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
A MAZE. Interact is an experimental and visionary media art festival, which will take place from 29th of August to the 2nd of September in several locations in Braamfontein, Downtown Johannesburg.
Since 2008 A MAZE. is celebrating the convergence of games, art and society. It is a series of events as well as a conceptual format that offers a regularly emerging platform for interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange. Creatives are encouraged to break down the conventional computer game and surpass established digital or analog concepts of play.
The goal of the A MAZE. Interact Festival in Johannesburg in South Africa in 2012 is to create an annual platform for African and European media artists and game developers. A MAZE. Interact targets the collaboration between artists and the exchange on an artistic, academic and cultural level.
Besides a general interest in the broader field of Gaming and Playing, contributions by the selected artists towards one or several of the allocated modules are very welcome.
*Exhibition:
The exhibition will show artistic computer games, interactive and playful installations, video documentations of public intervention and games.
*Conference:
The conference focuses on the topics “Mobility, Public Space, Games and Play”.
*Workshop:
The workshops teach practises of engineering by using open source tools for artistic approaches.
*Public Gaming/ Interventions:
Playful game concepts with amazing and wired rule sets which engages interaction in the public and focuses on social and economical issues.
*Performance:
Performative interventions, music or dance performances, using electronics and micro-controllers in public/ stage, mixing music with realtime visuals, circuit bending.
A MAZE. provides the playground. You are welcome to play with this enviroment and make this festival to a powerful game/ platform for social/media critical discourse with international participants and publicity. Please check us out at www.amaze-festival.de and contact me thorsten@amaze-festival.de
The call is open from February 16, 2012 till June 1, 2012.
Our partners are Goethe Institute Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University, University of Johannesburg, Praekelt Foundation, VANSA, Trinity Session, Transmediale, CIANT, Coded Culture.
The A MAZE. team and I am looking forward getting in contact with you and your artistic outcome.
All the best,
Thorsten S. Wiedemann, A MAZE. festival director
For those interested in films, documentaries and shorts, we would like to inform you that the FCAT 2012 Call for entries is now open. FCAT is the most important African Film Festival in Spain and it is its 8th edition which will take place in Córdoba in October, 2012.
The 9th FCAT Córdoba 2012 will take place 13th – 21st October
The city of Cordoba and Al Tarab, the NGO behind the African Film Festival-FCAT, announce changes in both the host city and dates for 2012. The festival which has been held since 2004 in Tarifa, Spain, will now take place every Fall in Córdoba, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, cradle of civilizations and cultures for over 2000 years.
Call for entries now available in our web site:
http://www.fcat.es/FCAT_en/
Dead Line: 15/05/2012
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Le 9º FCAT Cordoue 2012 aura lieu du 13 au 21 octobre
La Municipalité de Cordoue et le Centre de Divulgation Culturelle du Détroit Al Tarab, association organisatrice du Festival de Cinéma Africain – FCAT, annonce qu’à partir de 2012 le festival changera de ville et de dates. Le festival, organisé depuis 2004 à Tarifa, déménage à Cordoue, unique ville d’Andalousie déclarée Patrimoine de l’Humanité par l’UNESCO, berceau de cultures et de civilisations, d’une histoire de plus de deux millénaires.
Appel à candidature désormais disponible sur notre site internet
http://www.fcat.es/FCAT_en/
Date limite d’inscription : 15/05/2012
Contact: Marion Berger / marionb@fcat.es
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El Ayuntamiento de Córdoba y el Centro de Divulgación Cultural del Estrecho Al Tarab, asociación organizadora del Festival de Cine Africano-FCAT, anuncian que a partir de 2012, el festival cambiará de ciudad sede y de fecha. El festival, organizado desde 2004 en Tarifa se muda a Córdoba, la única ciudad andaluza declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por UNESCO, cuna de culturas y de civilizaciones con más de dos milenios de historia.
Convocatoria ya disponible en nuestra página web
http://www.fcat.es/FCAT_en/
Fecha límite de inscripción: 15/05/2012
Contacto: Marion Berger / marionb@fcat.es
D&AD celebrates and nurtures outstanding work in design and advertising. This year’s Awards mark our 50th anniversary of doing just that.
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The Yellow Pencil is recognised the world over as a symbol of the very highest creative achievement. Last year we added the ‘Slice’ to honour those who are awarded at Nomination and In Book level. This year, as every year, the D&AD Annual will showcase the best work, providing an invaluable and unrivalled source of creative inspiration.
Then, of course, there is our annual Awards Night, a unique get together of creative talent to celebrate the very best of the best.
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