Agenda

What events are not to be missed the coming weeks? Have a look and fill in your agenda! We look forward to continuing activities with our...

The festival "les rencontres dramaturgiques de Kinshasa", 1-4 June 2023

Tarmac des Auteurs

"Les rencontres dramaturgiques de Kinshasa" was initiated by Tarmac des auteurs and nurtured by a desire to celebrate authors of plays. In other...

Désiré Sawadogo, artist in residency at WIELS

Artistic residency

At the beginning of July, we received a visit from Désire Sawadogo, a painter from Burkina Faso specialising in acrylic painting on traditional...

Paul Panda Farnana, a life committed to human rights and Canon van Vlaanderen

Canon Van Vlaanderen

Paul Panda Farnana M’Fumu was born in colonised Congo in 1888 ou 1890 (?) and arrived in Belgium as a child in 1895. He had the good fortune to be...

Consultation workshop: What type of cultural infrastructure in the city of Bujumbura

PASACC-BU

From January 18th to 19th 2023, a consultation workshop on the type of cultural infrastructure in the city of Bujumbura was held. This meeting,...

Mobility grantees to Fespaco 2023

Fespaco 2023

Two partners in the cinema and audiovisual sector in DRC benefited from the mobility grant under the PPA 22-26 to attend Fespaco. They were...

Call for propositions 2022 : the selected proposals.

Education for Global citizenship and solidarity

The veil has finally been lifted on the projects selected for the Africalia 2022 call for proposals. We want to thank all the artists and...

FestBuk a festival by 3 TAMIS in Bukavu

3 TAMIS

After two years during which the covid-19 crisis put cultural activities on hold, the Festbuk returned at the end of July. This multidisciplinary...

Festivals in Africa and their impact.

Festivals in Africa

These days, African cultural events and festivals enjoy a level of success beyond the continent’s borders, resonating with an increasingly...

Call for projects 2022 : co-creating Global Citizenship and Solidarity Education tools in Belgium

GCSE Tools

Africalia launches it’s call for projects 2022.

News about the multi-annual program 2022-2026

Africalia received the long-awaited response from the Directorate General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD). The submitted...

Meeting with Israël Tshipamba Mouckounay

Tarmac des auteurs

On Tuesday 28th March, Africalia welcomed Israel Tshipamba Mouckounay, artistic director of the Tarmac des Auteurs, actor, director and author....

Africalia scholarship

Africalia scholarship

Freddy Sabimbona, Artistic Director of the theatre company Troupe Lampyre and Hadassa Ngamba a multidisciplinary artist received a scholarship...

Equip and organise yourself more effectively to protect yourself more effectively

Closing symposium

Cultural Administration Programme in Rwanda. Rwandan cultural stakeholders get engaged. On 15 and 16 October 2021, was held in Kigali a...

Enabel Burkina Programme : Creativity for Developement

Creativity for Developement. C4D

Starting of the activities of the bilateral cooperation programme between Burkina Faso and Belgiumhttps://africalia.be/en/Africalia-w...

Make it Possible ! Tell us about your projects

Tell us about your projects!

Are you a cultural operator? Are you active in one of Africalia’s priority countries of intervention? Present your project until March 19th and...

The winners of the call to proposals in Belgium 2020 are revealed

The winners of the third call to proposals are revealed

There have been many applications to the 2020 Call for Proposals. The expert jury had difficulty in deciding between all the excellent proposals...

Discover The Challenges Achieved By The Winners Of The Call For Proposals 2019

Discover The Challenges Achieved By The Winners Of The Call For Proposals

Despite the ups and downs of this particular year, three of the winners of the call for proposals launched in 2019 have already completed few...

Facing the health crisis, our partners are inventive

Facing the health crisis, our partners are inventive

Africalia’s partners "in the South" aren’t discouraged by Covid-19. Theyhave thought outside of the box to continue their activities in a new way...

Training in Cultural Management in Rwanda: the program is launched!!

The program is launched!!

Africalia’s administration training program in Rwanda begins in October 2020. 23 Rwandan cultural actors will be attempting a series of online...

Call for proposals 2020: co-creating Global Citizenship Education tools in Belgium

Global Citizenship Education tools

Africalia launches its third call for proposals in the framework of its Belgian programme. The aim of this call is to encourage the audience to...

Art and education and global citizenship: Interview of Africalia’s CEO

Partnership between Africalia and Enabel

For Annoncer la Couleur, Africalia’s CEO talks about the relation between art and education for global citizenship.

CREATIVITY IS LIFE GRANTS: Discover the creations of the 50 winners

Discover the creations of the 50 winners

After two months of residency at home, the Creativity Is Life project has come to an end. Discover the works created by the grant...

« CREATIVITY IS LIFE » GRANTS : DISCOVER THE WINNERS!

DISCOVER THE WINNERS!

Faced with the current situation, Africalia supports artists in their creative dynamic by setting up the "Creativity is life" grants in order to...

CALL - RWANDA: Cultural management training workshops

Cultural management training workshops

As part of its multi-year program 2017-2021, Africalia is launching a capacity-building program for Rwandan cultural...

"CREATIVITY IS LIFE" CREATIVITY SUPPORT GRANTS

"CREATIVITY IS LIFE" CREATIVITY SUPPORT GRANTS

In response to the covid-19 global health crisis, Africalia wants to support artists in their creative dynamics by setting up the "Creativity is...

CULTURE FACING COVID-19

CULTURE FACING COVID-19

Innovative initiatives and actions of Africalia’s cultural partners in the face of covid-19.

[COVID-19] Africalia offices temporarily closed

Contact via : africalia@africalia.be

Because of health measures taken by the government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the Africalia team works from home. We can be...

Best Long Documentary Award for "On a le temps pour nous" at the Luxor African Film Festival 2020

"On a le temps pour nous"

The documentary produced by Africalia On a le temps pour nous by Senegalese director Katy Léna Ndiaye received the Best Documentary Film Award at...

Winners of the Call for Proposals 2019

Winners 2019

Find out who are the winners of the call for proposals to co-create GCE tools in Belgium.

Afrika Filmfestival – DOCAFRIKA

DOCAFRIKA

Afrika Filmfestival schedules each month, a high-quality documentary via DocAfrika, followed by a debate.

Call for applications: art residency 2020 at WIELS, Brussels

Call for applications art residency 2020

The call for applications for a 3-month visual arts residency in 2020 at WIELS in Brussels is now open. Apply before September 1st...

The residency of Frank Mukunday and Tétshim

Residency Frank Mukunday and Tétshim

Congolese artists Frank Mukunday and Tétshim came for several residencies at Atelier Graphoui to create their animated movie...

Expo: Rebel Lives – Kristof Titeca & Georges Senga @ FOMU

Rebel Lives @ FOMU

FOMU, the photography museum in Antwerp, presents an exhibition that highlights life in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group....

Call for proposals 2019: co-creating Global Citizenship Education tools in Belgium

Global Citizenship Education tools

Africalia launches its second call for proposals in the framework of its Belgium programme.

Afrique Créative - The call for applications is open

Afrique Créative

Afrique Créative is an incubation programme for African cultural and creative businesses. Would you like to take part in the programme? Apply for...

Expo WIELS - Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age

Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age

This group exhibition gathers the works of eight contemporary African artists, inviting us to look at the transversal artistic legacies at work...

Missing - Adams Mensah

Missing

’Missing’ is a multidisciplinary performance by Adams Mensah mixing video, dance and word showing a boy talking to his absent...

Afrika Filmfestival 2019

Afrika Filmfestival 2019

The conference “Humanizing Culture, Art & Media" takes place on Friday April 26th at M - Museum in Leuven and Saturday April 27th at the Royal...

Upright.Be, street art in memory of the victims of the Rwandese genocide

Upright.Be

Upright.Be is a project based on Upright Men conceived by Bruce Clarke. 25 years after the Rwandese genocide, this work aims to commemorate its...

Making Men

Making Men

A debate, a film, a dance performance.

Same Same but Different

but Different

“SAME” SAME BUT DIFFERENT est un festival pluridisciplinaire qui se concentre sur la relation entre Gand, la Belgique, l’Europe et le continent...

Sauti za Busara, the festival promoting African music in all its diversity

Sauti za Busara

Starting in a couple of days, from February 7th till 10th 2019, it makes a good reason to get to know the values of the festival Sauti za Busara...

Mamounata Nikièma, portrait of a director and entrepreneur

Mamounata Nikièma

Mamounata Nikièma (Burkina Faso) is a passionate film director, producer and entrepeneur. Presentation of her new platform...

26th edition of FESPACO - Presentation Brussels

Presentation Brussels

Africalia welcomes the FESPACO team in Brussels to promote the African cinema biennial on January 17th 2019.

Bayimba Foundation has a new home

has a new home

Bayimba Foundation, one of the leading cultural operator in Uganda, active in diverse artistic disciplines, is the new owner of a very particular...

DJ Kampire, an essential figure of the music scene in Uganda and East Africa

DJ KAMPIRE

DJ Kampire, the rising star of Uganda, is an artist, a writer and an essential figure in Kampala and East Africa electronic music...

Presentation of Gahugu Gato by Gaël Faye

Launch of the book "Gahugu Gato" by Gaël Faye

"Gahugu Gato" is the Kinyarwanda translation of a book by the Franco-Rwandan writer Gaël Faye. The book was originally published in French under...

Joyeux Noël, portrait du technicien responsable du matériel de sonorisation de la PCBF

Joyeux Noël

Since 2007 Norbert Sawadogo, also known as Joyeux Noël, has been responsible for the audio equipment of the PCBF.

33rd edition of the Festival International du Film Francophone (FIFF)

Festival International du Film Francophone

The 33rd edition of the FIFF will be held in Namur from September 28th to October 5th 2018.

Aristide Tarnagda, le nouveau patron des Récréâtrales

Aristide Tarnagda

Aristide Tarnagda, the new director of the Récréâtrales, tells us more about him, his new role as well as his vision of the...

La Vitrine

La Vitrine

La Vitrine is a former sea container converted into a mobile exhibit hall that will be installed in different locations in...

The May Events @ Vooruit

The May Events

From May 22nd to 26th, Vooruit in Ghent is organising "The May Events", on all matters ‘revolution’.

« Ça se passe à Kin », un autre visage de la République démocratique du Congo

« Ça se passe à Kin »

The festival of our partner the Tarmac des Auteurs ’Ça se passe à Kin’ took place in Kinshasa from June 1st till 8th,...

Winners of the Call for Proposals 2018

Winners 2018

Find out who are the winners of the call for proposals to co-create GCE tools in Belgium.

Afrika Filmfestival 2018

Afrika Filmfestival 2018

Several activities are planned for the 2018 festival as part of the partnership between AFF and Africalia.

Sankara Legacy Acte II

Acte II

Sankara Legacy Act II is the second stage of a multidisciplinary festival from April 13th till 15th, 2018.

The Gathering of April - Halles de Schaerbeek

The Sacred

The 2nd edition of the Gathering of April takes place from 17 till 28 April 2018 with people coming from 6 European and African...

Africalia Presentation

Africalia Presentation

Africalia invites you to the debate "Culture and creativity, vectors of change in Belgium and in Africa" on 29/03 at 10:30 AM at La...

The Caravane du court

The Caravane du court

The Caravane du court presents a programme from the South with two short films shown in Namur and Liège.

Cinéma Parents non admis

Screening "Mateso"

The short film on African theme "Mateso" is shown on 21 April 2018 at 9:30 AM at the Cultural Centre of Namur.

Expo : Ebifananyi – Andrea Stultiens & R. Canon Griffin @ FOMU

Ebifananyi @ FOMU

FOMU opens a new exhibition treating Ugandan historic photography collections.

Décès de Kita-Phambu Pambu

Kita-Phambu Pambu

Le CA, la direction et l’équipe d’Africalia ont la tristesse de vous faire part de la disparation de Pambu Kita-Phambu.

Call for proposals 2018: co-creating Global Citizenship Education tools in Belgium

Global Citizenship Education tools

Africalia launches a call for proposals of artistic tools with an objective of Global Citizenship Education.

Premiere: "Kaniama Show" - Baloji

Baloji

Africalia co-produced the short film "Kaniama show" of Belgian-Congolese artist Baloji.

SLOW #03: KIN <> BRU

KIN <> BRU

For the third SLOW session, KVS is inviting a slam poet from Kinshasa: Do Nsoseme Dora.

"Great Black Music" captivates Rwanda

captivates Rwanda

From May to the beginning of November 2017, Rwanda Arts Initiative (RAI) invited the East-African public in Kigali – thanks to Africalia’s support...

10th Edition of the MASA – Market for African Performing Arts: press conference in Brussels

Press conference - Brussels

Africalia is pleased to welcome the representatives of the MASA in Brussels for a press conference on January 16, 2018 at the Secretariat of the...

Isabelle Kouraogo, portrait of a young Ivorian film director

Isabelle Kouraogo

Isabelle Kouraogo, young Ivorian film director, was selected to participate in the 32nd edition of the FIFF.

Masterclass "Creative Photography" 

Creative Photography

Africalia organised a Masterclass on Creative Photography from 13 to 17 February 2017 in Dakar. This training was followed by 15 promising...

32nd edition of the Festival International du Film Francophone (FIFF)

FIFF - Namur

The 32nd edition of the Festival International du Film Francophone (FIFF) will be held in Namur from 29 September to 6 October 2017. In addition...

CDC-La Termitière : danser pour élargir l’horizon

danser pour élargir l’horizon

This is what African choreographers, meeting in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou end of February, had in mind : to develop a method to organise...

"Culture and Development" at the European Development Days, 7 June 2017

Africalia participates in the European Development Days (#EDD17). Together with other partner institutions active in the Culture &...

Afrika Filmfestival 2017 - conference "Humanising Culture, Art and Media"

Afrika Filmfestival 2017

Afrika Filmfestival (AFF) takes place from April the 21st till May the 6th 2017 in Leuven.

Masterclass "Creative Photography"

© Mustache Mupwanya Only a small number of photography schools exist in Africa. To address this need, Africalia organised a Master class on...

The Gathering of April - Halles de Schaerbeek

Between 18 and 28 April, les Halles de Schaerbeek invites you to create a new reality with people from differents...

East African Soul Train 2017: a traveling residency with a Difference

The contemporary art scene in East Africa is buzzing with initiatives such as E.A.S.T bringing together artists from different...

ISIS-SE: TENTH ANNIVERSARY AND GOLDEN DREAMS

© ISIS-SE The tenth anniversary of the Institut Supérieur de l’Image en du Son, Studio École (ISIS-SE) to download it in pdf (in French)....

AFRICALIA, FROM BRUSSELS TO OUAGA - FESPACO 2017

Africalia is a longstanding partner of FESPACO and ISIS-SE, two of Africalia’s partners. 2 MARCH 2017, 15:00-17:00 PM - MASTER CLASS ISIS-SE...

Récréâtrales 2016, ces artistes venus des Grands Lacs

The artists of the Great Lakes took part in the Récréâtrales. They discuss their contributions to the Panafrican Festival of Ouagadougou’s theatre....

25th edition of FESPACO

The press conference of FESPACO and a special evening dedicated to African cinema takes place on January the 17th 2017 in...