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From November 14 to 16, Africa's largest music conference will bring together music professionals, artists and experts in Kigali. It offers a platform to experience and shape the continent's rapidly growing music industry.

In CUNA's nursery, mangrove seedlings are continuously grown and matured in the hands of local caretakers and citizens for further planting. CUNA strengthens plural learning in the public space and seeks to generate social and environmental interaction.

Registrations for the 2024 edition of the Music In Africa Conference for Collaborations, Exchange and Showcases (ACCES) are now open on a first-come, first-served basis. This year’s ACCES takes place in Kigali, Rwanda, on 15 and 16 November.

The first issue of the new LA ESCUELA___ JOURNAL focuses on man's relationship with water. It brings together educational, aesthetic and ecological projects and essays with proposals for the protection of water bodies "as a place for life".

LA ESCUELA___ called on architects, artists and communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to submit concepts that transform public spaces into learning environments. The Colombian project CUNA, an interactive mangrove nursery, was selected.

Collaboration, weaving networks, and the bonds between art and territory: this is what the interactive project "Collective Reticuláre" by artist Miguel Braceli in collaboration with artists, Venezuelan professors and students is all about. It builds on the work of the Venezuelan-German artist Gego.

Cultural practitioners and creatives from Southern Africa will gather in Maputo, Mozambique, for the Sound Connects Conference from the 31 January to 2 February 2024. The event will bring together organisations that have been implementing cultural projects funded by the Sound Connects Fund in the past three years.

Music In Africa Foundation and Siemens Stiftung invite journalists to attend the Music In Africa Conference for Collaborations, Exchange and Showcases (ACCES) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from November 9-11, 2023. The conference has grown to become a trade show for African and international music industries offering a platform to exchange ideas, discover new talent and create business linkages.

Moving forward the internationally active Siemens Stiftung will focus its project work on the three cross-foundation topics of “Access to Essential Services,” “Connected Societies,” and “Climate & Sustainability.” The necessary transformations demanded by these global challenges will be actively shaped by the foundation in an increasingly interdisciplinary manner from its Education, Social Entrepreneurship and Arts & Culture working areas

As the African Union turns 60 and Music In Africa turns 10, African Music Days Munich is set to be a wonderful celebration of a peaceful, self-confident, and creative Africa. Seven bands and artists from seven African countries will take to the stage at the Muffatwerk München arts center in Munich.