The African Theatre Magazine to conduct Writing About African Arts Workshop

The African Theatre Magazine is set to run the first ever Writing About African Arts Workshop. The African Theatre Magazine is an online platform that covers African Theatre activity on and off the continent.

Their Writing about African Arts Workshop will be a week-long intensive workshop for aspiring arts and culture writers with the interest to write about African Arts and cultures through an Afrocentric lens for the African reader, and a global audience. Facilitated by experienced arts & culture journalists from across the continent.

The call for participants went out on October 30th and attracted applicants from across the continent. A total of fifteen up and coming arts writers from nine countries including Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Senegal, Botswana and more were selected.

The workshop will cover topics like, finding and horning your voice, research, finding and maintaining your sources, fact-checking, preparing for an interview, writing a feature story, events and performance reviews, working with editors and other people/receiving feedback, framing for or casting and understanding your reader, and getting your work published.

The Writing About African Arts Workshop will take place online from Monday, 22nd to Friday, 26th November with daily 2 hour sessions and individual asynchronous assignments.

Facilitators for the maiden workshop include Ugandan arts and culture journalist and critic, Kagwa Andrew Mayiga, Ghanian artists, writer and editor, Billie McTarnan, Kenyan lifestyle editor, Grace Kerongo and South African based Zimbabwean arts writer and creative industries consultant, Tonderai Chiyindiko.

“The African Theatre Magazine is intent on making the bold attempt  of creating an Afrocentric space for African Theatre. By centering African Theatre in media and cultural discourses, the Magazine seeks to reinvigorate cultural identities, uniqueness and diversity of a continent in a melting pot, with over 54 nations and its diasporas…” (Theafricantheatremagazine.com). Through this workshop, we hope to lay the foundation for the training of a new crop of writers who can wield the pen that examines, critics, and reports about African arts and cultures through an Africenric lens and narrative for an everyday African audience and beyond.

For more information on the workshop, participants, facilitators, future workshops,  and The African Theatre Magazine’s programs and work visit our website Theafricantheatremagazine.com or email us attuvugafritheatre@gmail.com or afritheatremag@gmail.com