Hii
Stage
HEVA Fund has partnered with the Alliance Française Nairobi to support Kenyan artists with quality original projects in the areas of music, performing arts, and cinema to take their productions on tour across the network of Creative Arts Spaces in Kenya (CASiK) comprising performing arts spaces in 5 Kenyan counties; Kisumu, Nakuru, Nairobi, Mombasa, and Lamu.
This project is supported by the French Embassy in Kenya through the French Government’s Creation Africa programme.
OVERVIEW
Hii Stage supports the production and circulation of high-quality original Kenyan work in the performing arts, film and music through collaboration with fully equipped cultural venues across five counties: Kisumu, Nakuru, Nairobi, Mombasa, and Lamu.
Through grants of up to 15,000 Euro, the fund will enable creative individuals, collectives and organisations to refine their original production for showcasing in at least 3 fully equipped cultural venues from the CASIK network.
Practitioners in Theatre, Film, Live Music (Vocal, Instrumental, Deejaying), Spoken word, Poetry, Storytelling, Dialogue, Dance, Comedy, Magic, Puppetry/ Pantomime and Multimedia and Transdisciplinary arts are eligible to apply.
Projects awarded funding under this programme must be original works that contain African social, cultural and/or political themes, and employ strategies that encourage local communities to access cultural spaces.
All granted projects will be implemented between March and August 2024.
ABOUT CASIK
The CASiK network consists of 7 fully equipped and functional performance venues in Kenya: Dunga Hill Camp (Kisumu), Nakuru Players (Nakuru), Sarakasi Trust (Nairobi), Alliance Francaise (Nairobi), Alliance Francaise (Mombasa), Swahili Pot Hub (Mombasa) and the Utamaduni Centre (Lamu).
Read more about the Venues and their technical capacities here.
This collaborative network is the result of a two-year project supported by the French Embassy through the French Government’s Solidarity Fund for Innovative Projects to enhance the infrastructure, technical capabilities, and cultural programming in these venues in a bid to create an enabling environment for the creation, production, circulation of cultural activities across Kenya.
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