{"id":13351,"date":"2015-08-12T14:25:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/ishyo\/"},"modified":"2015-08-12T14:25:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:25:53","slug":"ishyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/ishyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/assets\/files\/logo_ishyo.jpg\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1411 size-full wp-image-13349\" src=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/logo_ishyo-240x240-jpg.webp\" alt=\"logo_ishyo\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Ishyo Arts Centre is a platform for artists, cultural entrepreneurs and art lovers... in short, Kigali's cultural hub!<\/p>\n<p>Ishyo was founded in 2005 by eight Rwandan women who wanted to put art and culture back at the heart of the social and political concerns, cities, hearts and minds of Rwanda. It is a non-governmental organisation whose main objectives are to develop and strengthen the artistic and organisational skills of players in the sector, democratise access to culture, and promote freedom of creative expression and cultural diversity in Rwanda and the sub-region.<\/p>\n<p>Since its creation, Ishyo has been promoting contemporary and traditional Rwandan, African and international culture by: supporting the most innovative artists in the fields of literature, dance, music, comedy, poetry and theatre; promoting research into different artistic forms and practices; strengthening advocacy and networking for the development of new interdisciplinary and inter-institutional synergies; and encouraging the active participation of the entire population, without discrimination, in all forms of cultural activities and projects.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The many projects carried out by the organisation include<\/span>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The 3B project: Rwanda's first mobile library,<\/li>\n<li> Ishyo Arts Centre: Rwanda's first arts centre offering residencies, training and a regular, varied artistic programme<\/li>\n<li> Kina Festival: the first international performing arts festival for young audiences<\/li>\n<li> Espace Madiba: a new library devoted entirely to African and Caribbean literature, with literary caf\u00e9s, writing workshops and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Programme 2015-2016<\/em> Africalia: Africalia supports the strengthening of associative, administrative and financial management; technical training for cultural players in Rwanda and advocacy to ensure that the needs of the sector are taken into account by the public authorities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The partnership with Ishyo Art Center ended at the end of 2018<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"mailto:info@ishyoartscentre.org\">info@ishyoartscentre.org<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ishyo.artscentre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ishyoartscentre<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IshyoArts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ishyoarts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ishyo2-jpg.webp\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1413 size-full wp-image-13350\" src=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ishyo2-jpg.webp\" alt=\"ishyo2\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ishyo Arts Centre est une plateforme pour les artistes, les entrepreneurs culturels et les amoureux des arts\u2026 bref le hub culturel de Kigali ! Initi\u00e9e en 2005 par huit femmes Rwandaises qui souhaitaient replacer l\u2019art et la culture au c\u0153ur des pr\u00e9occupations sociales et politiques, des villes, des c\u0153urs et des esprits au Rwanda, Ishyo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1026],"tags":[],"pays":[],"class_list":["post-13351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}