Projects

Project: pre-production and presentation of the play 'The Island of Future Dreams/Eiland van Drome Wat Nog Kom'. Beneficiary: Vrystaat Budget: 37.000 euros Period: 2019 The Island of Future Dreams' is a joint project of the Vrystaat Arts Festival (Vryfees, South Africa), Bram De Goeij (Netherlands) and Stef De Paepe van De Maan (Flanders). This collaboration is the result of encounters during their participation in the Assistej-festival in Cape Town (May 2017). The Island of Future Dreams' is a play made for, and based on conversations with, South African young adults.

Project: Visitor programme of South African and Zimbabwean curators in Flanders and the Netherlands Beneficiary Kunstenpunt Budget: 5.900 euro Duration: 2019 Kunstensteunpunt and the Mondriaan Fund are taking part in an orientation trip to South Africa from 2 to 16 September 2018. The trip will be organised by the Mondriaan Fund for professional curators in the contemporary visual arts.

Project: Flanders ukudansa eMzansi in South-Africa (Oudtshoorn, Cape Town and Johannesburg)  Beneficiary: les ballets C de la B Budget: 189.000 euros Period: 2019 With this project, three well-established Flemish dance companies want to present a series of prominent productions in South Africa (Oudtshoorn, Cape Town and Johannesburg) in 2019. It concerns the production 'Rule of Three' by Jan Martens, the boxing project '(B)' by Koen Augustijnen and 'Requiem pour L.'.

Project: the African Festival Beneficiary: Stichting Afrikaans en de Lage Landen Amount: 3.500 euro Duration: 2018 The African Festival is a festival in the Netherlands that focuses on various facets of African culture, such as music, literature, dance, film and theatre. During the festival, African and Dutch-speaking artists from different parts of the region will perform. However, the focus is on South African artist and their work. The festival aims to introduce Dutch speakers to related culture from South Africa.

Project: Co-financing the UGent Chair “South Africa: Languages, Literatures, Culture and Society” Beneficiary: Ghent University Budget: 21.000 euro Duration: 2018 This Chair is the first Chair ever to be established at the UGent Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. The first chair holder, prof. Hein Willemse from the University of Pretoria, gave his inaugural speech in 2017, in the presence of the subsidiaries who made this Chair possible – including a representative of the Flemish Government, the vice-rector of Ghent University and representatives of the South Africa Foundation in Amsterdam.