Press Releases & News

Notice | Arts & Culture | 27 September 2024
Music conference ACCES 2024 in Ruanda
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.

Notice | Arts & Culture | 12 September 2024
An experimental laboratory of pedagogy and conciliation
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.

News | Arts & Culture | 21 May 2024
Pan-African trade show comes to Kigali
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.

News | Arts & Culture | 02 May 2024
“Hydrocommon Cultures”: Ecocritical projects and essays on water
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".

News | Arts & Culture | 24 April 2024
LA ESCUELA___ announces the Results of the “Building Schools___Public Spaces” art and architecture competition
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.

News | Arts & Culture | 11 April 2024
“Communal Cartographies”: Interactive Exhibition in Caracas / Venezuela
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.

News | Arts & Culture | 25 January 2024
Sound Connects Conference heading to Mozambique
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.

Press release | Arts & Culture | 12 October 2023
Inviting Journalists to attend ACCES, one of Africa’s biggest Music Conferences in Tanzania, from November 9-11, 2023
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.

Press release | General, Arts & Culture, Education, Social Entrepreneurship | 27 June 2023
Siemens Stiftung will work in three new topic areas for sustainable social development
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

Press release | Arts & Culture | 08 May 2023
Marking the 60th anniversary of the African Union and 10 years of Music In Africa: African Music Days Munich celebrates the continent of Africa at Muffatwerk München, May 24 and 25, 2023
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.