{"id":21541,"date":"2025-07-18T14:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/demarrage-mbuji-mayi-jeunesse-creative\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T20:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:33:31","slug":"start-mbuji-mayi-youth-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/demarrage-mbuji-mayi-jeunesse-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Youth in Mbuji-Mayi: music project launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the project <a href=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/creative-youth-project\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"18798\">Jeunesse Cr\u00e9ative project,<\/a>, an initiative of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.enabel.be\/fr\/?_gl=1*86oqqq*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTAzOTE3OTE4MC4xNzUyODMzNTUx*_ga_9KW9PQQN9K*czE3NTI4MzM1NTAkbzEkZzAkdDE3NTI4MzM1NTAkajYwJGwwJGgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Enabel<\/a> in the DRC, Africalia is implementing a <strong>support program for young singers in Mbuji-Mayi<\/strong>The auditions for the music program were held on July 10 and 11, 2025. This key stage aimed to identify 10 promising young singing artists, who will benefit from an intensive training program with a view to professionalizing their artistic practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"19966\" src=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG-20250711-WA0004-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19966\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"19968\" src=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG-20250711-WA0002-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19968\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Auditions and selection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a call for applications in June 2025, 28 young people were shortlisted. 26 of them attended the auditions, organized at the premises of Radelkor, our local partner responsible for implementing the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The selection process was conducted by a jury of experts, composed of emblematic figures of the African music sector: Saintrick Mayitoukou (artist, producer and arranger, Senegal), Gabriel Wadigesila (multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and arranger, DRC) and Mardoch\u00e9 Kadiayi Tshilumba (cultural actor in Mbuji-Mayi, DRC). During two days rich in emotions and artistic discoveries, the members of the jury rigorously and kindly evaluated the candidates&#039; performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"19969\" src=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OMDC1863-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19969\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"19970\" src=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG-20250711-WA0003-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19970\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collective album<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the auditions, 10 young artists were selected to join the program. They will begin their first training session in August 2025, kicking off an ambitious and promising collective artistic adventure. At the end of this support from Africalia and Radelkor, a collective album will be produced, offering young talents the opportunity to showcase their music far beyond local borders.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dans le cadre du projet Jeunesse Cr\u00e9ative, une initiative d\u2019Enabel en RDC, Africalia met en \u0153uvre un parcours d\u2019accompagnement pour de jeunes chanteur\u00b7euse\u00b7s \u00e0 Mbuji-Mayi. Les auditions du programme musique se sont tenues les 10 et 11 juillet 2025. Cette \u00e9tape cl\u00e9 visait \u00e0 identifier 10 jeunes artistes chanteurs prometteurs, qui b\u00e9n\u00e9ficieront d\u2019un parcours de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":21578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"%%post_excerpt%%","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1018],"tags":[],"pays":[],"class_list":["post-21541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites-agenda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21541"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=21541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}