32º East | Ugandan Arts Trust

32° East is closed tomorrow for the National Census operation. The art centre will be open again on 13th May from 9am to 5pm.

May Members’ Meet-Up Recap 💞

May's Members’ Meet-Up took place on Thursday 2nd May from 1pm to 5pm.

First off was Gracie’s delicious lunch, accompanied by sauerkraut from the KLA ART '24 artists as part of their workshop on fermentation with Mirembe Musisi. Tasty!

Our host this month was Matovu Hassan who introduced a fun icebreaker using image prompts that helped us to all get to know each other better. Magezi Phillip was our photographer and Samora Sanga was the set-up volunteer for the day. All were participating in 32's Collectively programme which offers members a fee for different 32 related tasks. After a welcome message from our director Teesa, our administrator Sheillah shared the different Collectively opportunities for the month and reminded members that they can bring items to stock the 32° East Corner Shop.

Programmes Manager Darlyne then introduced the KLA ART '24 artists who were present and gave the members a recap of the recently concluded workshops. She also shared open call opportunities for the artists, and did a show-and-tell from her recent visit to the Venice Biennale, including the Uganda Pavilion.

Lastly, we heard updates from the 32 members. artists Nicole Remus and Mona Okulla Obua have a show that opens on 11th May at the Alliance Francaise basement, and Mary D mentioned Pamela Enyonu’s solo exhibition which opens on the same day at Summit View Apartments.

Members' meet-ups are usually a wonderful time of connection and a big part of what makes the 32° East community special. You can attend the next one on Thursday 6th June.

| CALLING ALL ARTISTS AND CULTURAL WORKERS

AFIELD is looking for innovative ideas and projects that respond to, advance, and contribute to the processes and mechanisms of transitional justice in diverse contexts.⁠
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Transitional justice, a concept pioneered by legal scholar Ruti Teitel in the 1990s, encompasses "the full range of diverse processes and mechanisms used by a society to address massive past abuses, with a view to establishing accountability, providing justice, and enabling reconciliation."⁠
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4 grants of US$10,000 will be distributed. Artists of any discipline and cultural workers are invited to submit applications.

⏰ Deadline: 19th May ⏰

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today highlights Almas Art Foundation and 4 of their beautiful publications 🔖

Almas Art Foundation is committed to celebrating the invaluable contributions made by African and African diaspora artists to modern and contemporary visual arts. Almas aims to present and create an awareness for the practices of established and mid-career African and African diaspora artists through a programme of publications, exhibitions and films, documenting these artists’ practices for a new generation of African artists, scholars and the wider international art community.

Their very first publication was on our very own and giant on Uganda’s art scene, Dr. Lilian Nabulime!

You can now buy Dr. Lilian’s book for only UGX 250,000 only. You can also purchase the Almas publications on Gerald Chukwuma Souad Abdelrasoul and Salifou Lindou Fouanta for the same affordable price.

The titles are available at the located at the 32° East Art Centre on Plot 212 Sonko Close in Kabalagala just behind Equity Bank.

Members' Meet-Up & LANDING Open Studios recap ✨

April's 32° East meet-up was brief to allow for enjoyment of the Open Studios. Director Teesa announced the new name and new website, 32east.org. Darlyne discussed April's opportunities, and Sheillah reminded members to renew memberships. We briefly heard member announcements before closing. Thanks to host Ayine and photographer Magezi from the Collectively programme. The next meet-up is on 2nd May.

The LANDING Residency Open Studios featured Mohammed Altaj, Nusreldin Eldouma, Tanzil Abdallah, and Hamza Teirab's captivating work, delving into Sudanese culture and history. Taj's 'Survivor's Canvas' captured Sudan's beauty and the April 6th revolution. Douma's gallery showcased delicate watercolours of Kampala and Sudan. Tan's crochet art addressed Sudan's realities with surrealism, and Hamza's studio displayed illustrated leather bags and abstract pieces inspired by Sudan's war.

Beyond the art, connecting with these artists was a delight!

32° East Director Teesa Bahana is at the to take part in the session 'Creative Tensions: Reimagining the Way Donors & Doers Collaborate'

Teesa's session is tomorrow Wednesday 10th April at 10.30am BST at the Saïd Business School. If you're at the forum, go and dream up new worlds with her and the panel.

.ke | CALLING ALL ARTISTS AND PREVIOUS BRAID FUND GRANTEES

The Braid Fund offers grants to innovative practitioners of art and culture projects in
East Africa. Evans Akanyijuka and Victoria Nabulime are previous recipients of the Braid Fund!

Applications are now open for 3 grants:

COLLABORATION GRANT - To support creative projects involving collaborations between different generations of artists or cultural practitioners and/or between different art/culture disciplines.

COMPLETION GRANT - To support creative projects that are close to finishing but need a little more funding to complete the work.

CONTINUATION GRANT - To support Braid partners with the next chapter of their projects (this is only available to previous Braid grantees)

Each grant is for $5,000 each and interested projects should last 6 to 8 months.

⏰ Deadline: 14th April ⏰

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Thursday 4th April from 2pm to 3pm is April Members’ Meet-Up 💞

We’re having a shorter members’ meet-up to allow all of us to enjoy the Open Studios happening at the same time. We will hear updates from 32 on KLA ART ‘24, opportunities for the month of April and announcements from .

See you on Thursday!

32° East will be closed over Easter weekend from Friday 29th March to Monday 1st April. We will be open again on Tuesday the 2nd April just in time for a busy week with Members’ Meet-up on Thursday 4th and Open Studios on both the 4th and 5th!

Have a lovely long weekend and see you on Tuesday 🫶🏿

| CALLING ALL PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, PRINTMAKERS & ARTISTS WORKING ON PAPER

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation supports working artists internationally. The Foundation provides resources to emerging and established artists.

Throughout the year, the Foundation welcomes applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist's professional work and personal expenses and amounts range up to $50,000.

⏰ Deadline: Rolling ⏰

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is a pair of Afriart Gallery publications: ‘The Sun, The Moon and The Truth’ by Ingabire Gretta and ‘Where The Wild Things Are’🔖

‘The Sun, The Moon and The Truth’ is the written outcome of ’s first residency programme Vivid Synergies with Ingabire Gretta and Muhumuza Daniel. ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ is a continuation of a group exhibition by the same name that took place at Afriart Gallery from June to August 2022. The book contains artwork from the exhibition, and interviews with exhibiting artists Charlene Komuntale, Emmie Nume, Mona Taha, Odur Ronald, Richard Atugonza and Switzin Twikirize. You can read both these books at our library any weekday between 9am and 5pm.

Our today is Billbergia Distachya aka Red Torch Bromeliad, Fairy Bouquet, Anchovy Plant, Brazilian Anchovy Plant, Painted Feather Plant, Two-Spike Billbergia, Spiked Urn Plant or Distachia Queen's Tears🪴

The Painted Feather Plant is typically used as an ornamental plant in gardens and parks and also as hedging. Its bright pink-purple flower with a yellow centre is one of the reasons why it makes a lovely potted house plant. It prefers bright indirect sunlight and collects and uses water in the well created in the centre of the leaf rosette. You can purchase both pot and plant for only UGX 52,000 in our art centre garden located at Plot 212 Sonko Close Kabalagala.

| CALLING AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS/VIDEOGRAPHERS

The 14th edition of the Bamako Meetings - Biennale Africaine de la Photographie will be held from 16th November 2024 to 16th January 2025 in Bamako, Mali. This edition will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Biennale by giving a particular echo to contemporary photographic discourse.

This call is open to artists from the African world and its diaspora, photographers and videographers, amateurs and professionals, alone or in groups, without age or nationality limits. The chosen theme is “KUMA”: Word, Silence and Noise.

⏰ Deadline: 31st March ⏰

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Join us for the LANDING Residency OPEN STUDIOS on THURSDAY 4th April and FRIDAY 5th April from 11am to 6pm!

artists Tanzil Abdallah, Mohammed Altaj, Nusreldin Eldouma, and Hamza Teirab invite you to visit their studios as their residency concludes. The LANDING Residency was designed to provide displaced artists from Sudan a space to rest and reorient to a new environment. Thanks to Newcastle University for financial support and to Elsadig Ahmed and Amani Azhari for the advice and recommendations, we were able to offer this space to these 4 artists.

Tan, Taj, Douma and Hamza have used the time to create, get embedded in the local artist community and also hosted many of their friends and family also displaced by the war. As they conclude their residency, we invite you to come see what they’ve been making, how they’ve settled in and to welcome them to Kampala. All the artists will have pieces available for purchase.

Drop by our art centre on Plot 212 Sonko Close in Kabalagala anytime from 11am - 6pm to meet the artists and discover their work. See you there!

CALLING ALL WRITERS BASED IN THE UK AND SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA!

iniva is an evolving visual arts organisation based in London, home to the Stuart Hall Library and our UK partner in KLA ART ‘24 ‘Care Instructions’

is looking for writing commissions for its project Unseen Guests - A Post-National Digital Pavilion that will take place during the Venice Biennale.This opportunity is for one writer based in the UK and one based in Sub-Saharan Africa. The new work will be hosted on the Unseen Guests Digital Pavilion, alongside audio and film commissions and will engage in the digital public programme.

Writers whose practices are informed by anticolonial methodologies, Pan-African thinking, climate justice and archival research, and who are keen to work in collaboration with others are encouraged to apply. Writers will receive a fee of £1000 each and have the opportunity to go on a research trip to the 60th Venice Biennale in May 2024.

⏰ Deadline: 27th March ⏰

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| CALLING ALL THEATRE ARTISTS

The Kampala International Theatre Festival (KITF) is an annual 5-day festival. KITF was launched in November 2014 as a platform to develop professionalism among East African theatre practitioners, connect the East African theatre-making communities with one another and their counterparts from elsewhere, broaden access to theatre and develop new audiences by supporting and facilitating the creation and presentation of the best and relevant theatre productions.

Submit scripts, plays and portfolios to the XI edition of the Kampala International Theatre Festival (2024) before March 31st! No borders, no limits - all theatre genres and nationalities encouraged.

⏰ Deadline: 31st March ⏰

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Here's a photo recap of our lovely members' meet-up last week 💞

Host led us in an energetic intro session before we heard 32 updates. Programme manager Darlyne updated us on the progress of reviewing applications and the current artists in residence. Administrator Sheillah talked to us about the new membership rates and collectively before inviting a special guest to share with us.

Mr. Ssemwanga is our neighbour on Sonko Close and he came by to share some of his vintage technology collection. We then heard updates from the members like .d who shared her group exhibition By'abakala opening on 16th March. We closed the meeting with on Sonko Close. After the meeting we visited with the artists in their studios and enjoyed drinks in the garden.

What a fun time!

Thanks to host Zuzi and photographer

Remember to join us in person TODAY at 5pm for our teach-in on Palestine: Decolonisation & Patriarchy with Haneen Maikey. The online portion of the teach-in starts at 6pm EAT and you can still register to attend at bit.ly/32teach-in4

| CALLING ALL AFRICAN FEMINIST WRITERS AND VISUAL ARTISTS

Adventures From The Bedrooms of African Women is accepting applications for the 2024 Adventures Creators Program under the theme 'Scars'

The Adventures Creators Program seeks to amplify feminist and progressive content creators and support their creative vision. Each creatorship track will take place over a period of three to five months. Three writing creatorships and two visual arts creatorships will be awarded including; editorial support from Adventures editors to prepare publications across our various platforms, a monthly stipend of USD 400 to support each creator throughout the duration of their program and access to creative workshop sessions, mentoring support and resources.

⏰ Deadline: 30th March ⏰

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is Think Tanger’s annual journal MAKAN-مكان 🔖 The second issue Manufacturing Narratives focuses on how interrogating narrativity can provoke fundamental questions about how societies define or choose to accept societal or historical truths in today’s world.

is a non-profit cultural agency in Morocco shaping Tangier's development through art, research & collaboration. It aims to promote creativity, innovation and knowledge exchange through art and culture, by setting up creative workshops called StudioCity, talks, exhibitions, art residencies, an annual journal and a cultural space in the heart of the city: KIOSK. Our director Teesa had the privilege of a one-of-a-kind Tangier tour from Think Tanger co-founder and host extraordinaire Hicham Bouzid, and was gifted this book for the library. Here's to future North/East Africa collaborations! You can read MAKAN anytime between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday at the 32 library.

Our today is Black Cardinal a self-heading cultivar of Philodendron Erubescens aka Red-leaf Philodendron 🪴

Whereas the philodendron is a climbing plant, the Black Cardinal is not climbing; in time, it forms dense, compact colonies of individual plants, originating from a single larger stalk. This and the fact that it was specifically cultivated for its darker leaves makes it a striking indoor plant for your living area. You can purchase both pot and plant for only UGX 78,000 in our art centre garden located at Plot 212 Sonko Close Kabalagala.

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animation | CALLING WOMEN ARTISTS IN ANIMATION

Stories x Women launched in 2022 as a collaborative program between Women in Animation and the International Federation of Film Producers’ Associations.

It supports access to international opportunities for women creatives with pitch-ready projects from emerging national film and audio-visual animation communities of Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America who want to tell their authentic stories.

⏰ Deadline: 17th March ⏰

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Happy Women's Day!

Join us next Thursday 14th March for a 32° East x MISR teach-in on Decolonisation and Patriarchy as it relates to Palestine.

This teach-in, produced together with Makerere Institute for Social Research, will be led by Palestinian community organiser Haneen Maikey who joins us in person in Kampala.

Maikey is the founder and former director of Al-Qaws, a civil society organisation disrupting gender-based oppression and transforming perspectives on marginalised groups. Maikey will be speaking on Palestine, decolonisation and patriarchy and inviting the audience to consider certain questions on these topics such as: what is our individual positioning within patriarchy? How is gender politics used by colonial powers? And is patriarchy the extension of colonialism?

As with previous teach-ins this is a hybrid event, with an in-person and online audience. You can register for the event at bit.ly/32teach-in4

You can find recordings of our previous teach-ins with Ora Wise and Amanny Ahmed, Baha Hilo, Anselm Kizza-Besigye and Yahya Sseremba on our spotify for podcasters channel

| CALLING ALL ARTISTS

Garage Gallery is a contemporary space for exhibitions, artist studios and artist in residence programs in Prague's Karlín district in the Czech Republic. It is an open platform for interdisciplinary exhibitions along with events such as lectures, workshops and readings.

Garage Gallery Prague is receiving applications for its international residencies that will run from 1st July to 15 September. The call is open to all artists regardless of their background. Artists can fully commit to their artistic process and create a new body of works which is presented at the end of the residency stay. On offer is accommodation and a work space as well as technical support, professional documentation and studio visits.

⏰ Deadline: 15th March ⏰

🔗 to apply

CHERGUI #003 Food Issue is our 🔖 CHERGUI is a seasonal publication that experiments with form published by LE 18. The fourth issue focuses on the culinary practices of Morocco as an entry point to grasping with larger existential issues like the nature of work and the evolution of selfhood. The essays are tri-lingual with French, English and Arabic submissions and the issue invites you outside its confines by way of a sonic map, with locations linked to audio storytelling, and a spotify playlist to accompany it. Our director Teesa brought the text back from a recent visit to LE 18.

is a multidisciplinary cultural space and artist residency opened in 2013 in the medina of Marrakech. It is a space for research, creation, meeting, mutual learning and sharing of knowledge. You can come by the 32 library and read through the paper anytime between 9am and 5pm on weekdays.

Euphorbia candelabrum aka the Candelabra Tree is our 🪴
Its wood is light and durable and has been used to make furniture and musical instruments. The sap, while it can lead to blindness, has been used to treat syphilis, leprosy, tuberculosis and malaria.

The Candelabra Tree is a succulent and so requires little watering and does well indoors as well as outdoors. Purchase both pot and plant for only UGX 78,000 at our art centre on Plot 212 Sonko Close in Kabalagala.

| CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Photographers without Borders invites photographers working with communities on land/water protection to apply for the Revolutionary Storyteller Grant.

Five recipients will receive $5000 USD to support the creation of an impactful photography project, community exhibition and training and capacity development plus publication in the print magazine and features across its platforms. The project should support grassroots, frontline movements and initiatives that have measurable goals to protect Mother Earth.

Anyone anywhere in the world may apply as long as the project meets the criteria as detailed on the application form.

⏰ Deadline: 7th March ⏰

🔗 to apply

Join us Thursday 7th March for our March Members’ Meet-Up!

We look forward to catching up on the past month and finding out what the 32 community have planned for March. This Women's month is already shaping up to be a busy one for ! , .d and are all in shows/exhibitions plus the annual Njabala exhibition opens featuring .dralega and .atukunda produced by and

Come at 1pm and enjoy Gracie’s delicious lunch with us. The meeting will start at 2pm and end with Sonko Road community clean-up.

stegi | CALLING ALL ARTISTS

Onassis AiR invites artists, curators, designers, dancers, theater makers, chefs, activists, writers, educators, performers, architects, creative developers, filmmakers and other art professionals from any medium of expression, from anywhere in the world, to submit application for the part of the program of their choice, which will take place in Athens from September 2024 to July 2025.

Applications are open for one of the following categories:
‣ Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies
‣ Onassis AiR Dramaturgy Fellowships
‣ Onassis AiR/ONX Fellowships

⏰ Deadline: 4th March ⏰

🔗 to apply

Our today is a bouquet of exhibition texts and catalogues from the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. Thanks to 32 Director Teesa for bringing these back after her recent visit to 🔖

Catalogues and exhibition texts available for the following shows; Seismography of Struggle, Past Disquiet, To Let, SALA, ‘Seekers, Seers, Soothsayers’, Self as a Forgotten Monument and the cosmic companion for Afrofuturism that showed at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington DC, USA. You can come by the library to read through the texts on any weekday between 9am and 5pm.

Photographed along our texts is our Pilea Peperomioides aka Chinese Money Plant, UFO Plant, Pancake Plant, Lefse Plant, Missionary Plant, Friendship Plant or Pass-Along Plant.

The Friendship Plant has air purifying properties, requires low maintenance and is even a symbol of prosperity and abundance in parts of the world. You can purchase both the pot and plant for only UGX 46,000 from our location on Plot 212 Sonko Close, Kabalagala.

| CALLING ALL AT THE INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ART
The first S+T+ARTS Prize Africa is out now

S+T+ARTS Prize Africa, the African edition of the well-known STARTS Prize, will recognize African artists and institutions whose innovative projects have a significant impact on economic, ecological, and social innovation.

A Grand Prize of €15,000 as well as five Awards of Distinction of €3,000 each will recognize pioneering works that contribute to the positive development and digital transformation of the cultural sector in Africa.

Note: This is not to be confused with the S+T+ARTS4AFRICA Open Call for artists.

⏰ Deadline: 1st March ⏰

🔗 to apply

Come and co-work with us 💻

With the fast internet and quiet workspace, 32 is the ideal place to set up. Kampala's heat will not find you inside the library's rammed earth walls with its large airy windows. You can also use the garden to take calls, visit with the current artists-in-residence when they are available, and join us for a lively lunch conversation over Gracie’s delicious food.

You can pay UGX 200,000 for the month, or pay UGX 15,000 per day inclusive of lunch.

We are open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm at Plot 212 Sonko Close just behind Equity Bank in Kabalagala. Come through!

| CALLING ALL ARTISTS

Pro Helvetia Johannesburg supports residencies of up to 3-months for artists and cultural practitioners from Southern, East, Central and West Africa in Switzerland. The aim of the residency is to gain inspiration, establish networks, develop work and explore new collaborations.

Pro Helvetia provides accommodation, daily allowances, professional support, travel expenses, a contribution towards production and material costs (on request) and a workplace (on request). In addition, parents may apply for support to co-finance the organisation of childcare, at home or where the residency takes place.

Artists and cultural practitioners in the fields of visual arts, design and interactive media, music, literature and performing arts, as well as arts practitioners with a transdisciplinary focus are eligible to apply.

⏰ Deadline: 1st March ⏰

🔗 to apply