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African Festival Network
At the invitation of the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), Arterial Network co-hosted (with ZIFF) a two-day symposium on African festivals with a view to launching a continent-wide network of festivals and major events in all disciplines.  Forty-one delegates representing more than twenty festivals including FESPACO in Burkina Faso, Harare International Festival of the Arts, the National Arts Festival of South Africa, analysed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing African festivals and events and agreed on the need for a network that would help festivals address their challenges and realise their possibilities.

A Task Team comprising six members was elected to work towards recruiting other festivals and major events in dance, theatre, literature, visual arts, film and music into the network which will be launched formally by the end of 2010.  The British Council – a member of Creative Coalitions (an informal alliance of 17 European agencies engaged in the African creative sector) – has indicated its desire to work as a partner of this African Festival Network.

Members of the Task Team are Charity Maruta (Zimbabwe), Brenda Asio (Uganda), Lina Chaabane (Tunisia), Jean-Michel Kobushi (DRC), Martin Mhando (Zanzibar) and Ardiouma Soma (Burkina Faso).  Arterial Network’s secretariat will provide logistical and strategic support to the Task Team.  

To become part of this network, write to info@arterialnetwork.org, with the details of your festival [name of festival director, festival genre(s), dates of festival].

kadidia sidibe (association malienne cinéma numérique ambulant)

Participant: Kadidia Sidibe (Association Malienne Cinéma Numérique Ambulant)
 
Cultural Policy Task Group Meeting
Following its earlier meetings in Harare and Mbabane, Arterial Network’s Cultural Policy Task Group met in Kigali, Rwanda to consider the latest draft of the generic cultural policy framework being developed to assist African countries – and civil society players in particular – in devising cultural policies based on international and African policy instruments.

The skeleton of the framework developed by South African expert, Avril Joffe, has been given substantial flesh and at the end of the seminar, participants were excited by this tool.  The next steps in the process are a further draft based on input from the Kigali meeting, additional comments from participants at that meeting, and a further seminar with other African cultural policy experts to test and further refine the content.

This project is supported by the Commonwealth Foundation, and is intended to conclude its first phase with the launch of the generic policy framework in Africa and London later this year.