What's Next with Art Management in Africa on Tuesday 20 May 2025

Lire en Français. This concluding episode summarizes the key highlights of the previous episode and offers the opportunity to consider the future of art management in Africa. How do we need to intentionally prepare our future art managers for the challenges ahead? What are the existing resources, and how might we galvanize relationships and partnerships to create a robust, nurturing, and thriving art management ecosystem in Africa? Guests Funmi Adewole Elliott, PhD, Founder, FAE Studios (United Kingdom) Deborah Asiimwe (presented by Rosette Nteyafas)—Tebere Arts Foundation—Uganda Funmi Adewole Elliott is the founder of FAE Studios, which is a platform for her arts consultancy, dramaturgy, and performance practice. She designs and delivers professional/sector development workshops, labs, and talks in education and for organizations that support arts practitioners in African, Diaspora, and transnational contexts. She has worked in Europe, Africa, and Canada. With over thirty years of experience in industry, she holds an MA in Postcolonial Studies, a PhD in Dance Studies, and a Professional Certificate in Education. She also runs a community interest company, Enact Arts. Asiimwe Deborah Kawe is an award winning playwright, producer, and performer. She is the founding producing artistic director of Tebere Arts Foundation and the Kampala International Theatre Festival. Ms. Kawe worked with the Sundance Theatre Program, leading the East Africa initiative for several years, dividing her time between New York and East Africa. She received a BA in Theatre from Makerere University, in Kampala-Uganda and an MFA in Writing for Performance from the California Institute of the Arts. She was recently a playwright in residency at The Residenz Theater in Munich. She lives in Kampala, Uganda with her family. About the Series This series of seven episodes focuses on art management as it concerns Africa's performing art and cultural sector. This subject is under-discussed on the continent, and there exists a variety of experiences, exposures, and practices that, if shared, might support the sector. Specifically, this series focuses on the administration of arts and culture organizations, including marketing, fundraising, and policy in Africa. In addition to the specific thematic direction of each episode, each guest shares their journey and offers practical insights into their operations as art managers, administrators, entrepreneurs, and creatives. The objective of the series is to open space for this important yet silent subject matter on the continent. Through the various dialogues with art managers of festivals, art organizations, etc, the series offers practical insights into critical aspects of art management within the art, culture, and creative sectors/industries in Africa. Led by Taiwo Afolabi, this series is a partnership between the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE), Theatre Emissary International, its social enterprise Mobile Research Lab, La Cité universitaire francophone, and Kininso Creative. Producer Bios Taiwo Afolabi (host of the AMA Series) Dr. Taiwo Afolabi is an interdisciplinary artistic scholar with internationally recognized expertise in social/applied theatre and creative industries. His practice-oriented research confronts critical social issues through global theatre initiatives and scholarly publications. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET), Theatre Emissary International, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre (Tier II). Natasha Ama Eck (co-host of the AMA Series) Natasha Ama Eck is an Afro-Caribbean artist and Kemetic Yoga practitioner who explores African knowledge systems through embodied practice and guided ancestral memory. Her work honors the significance and sovereignty of African traditions, using socially sustainable art-making practices to preserve and amplify this wisdom. As a HowlRound co-host, she brings insightful, dynamic conversations alongside Dr. Taiwo Afolabi. Segun Afolabi (translator and interpreter) Dr. Segun Afolabi is an assistant professor at La Cité universitaire francophone of the University of Regina. His research interests are at the intersection of professional translators/interpreters training, theory, and history of translation, translation policies, CAT tools, neural machine translation, FLE/FLS pedagogy, bilingualism, French for Special Purposes (FSP), languages for sustainable development, and education in a migration context. Professionally, he is a certified translator and member of the Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec (OTTIAQ) as well as the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Saskatchewan (ATIS).  *** https://howlround.com/happenings/what...