Company Information
About the Company:
The biennial Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) takes place in conjunction with the Vrystaat Arts Festival and offers a snapshot of Africa’s culturally diverse art scene to an audience of national and international arts professionals.
PACE offers a showcase platform to present high-quality work across the performing arts by artists and companies based in Africa and from the African diaspora. Additionally, the showcase provides opportunities for visual art; moving images; arts and crafts; and interdisciplinary and live arts to be presented. This will be separately curated.
The main aim of PACE is to put talented African artists in touch with people who can help them develop, book, and support their work.
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Location:
Bloemfontein, South Africa
Opportunity Description:
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IN ALL ART DISCIPLINES!
PACE 2025 - is scheduled to take place in July, 2025 in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Artists are invited to submit their applications for tour-ready projects, works-in-progress, or pitches in all disciplines of the arts before 9 September 2024.
Please make sure to read the Guidance Notes carefully, before filling out the Application Form.
KEY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: 1. Artists whose work responds to contemporary Africa. 2. Work must be either tour-ready, a work-in-progress, or a concept in the early stages of development. 3. Work must be from artists or companies based on the African continent OR, for a limited number of places, part of the African diaspora. 4. PACE recognizes the African diaspora, which includes people of African descent living outside of the African continent, such as in the Americas, Oceania, Asia, and Europe, which is officially recognized by the African Union (AU) as its sixth African region.
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Rates/Compensation + Hours of Work/Dates:
PACE will cover the costs of the stage and present the successful performance, work in progress, or pitch.
THIS INCLUDES: 1. Venue 2. Technique equipment – including sound and lighting. 3. Artist book. 4. PACE will also provide a free PACE Showcase Artist Pass to all artists that are selected to present work at the Showcase. You will need to provide information on what the normal cost to present your work is and whether the presentation of your show is dependent on any other funding. This will help the selection panel ascertain if the cost of the show is affordable to tour in a variety of countries.
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Deadline:
September 9, 2024