From jobs, residencies, open calls and fellowships: here is an updated list of opportunities this September for artists, writers, and creatives.
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OPEN CALLS
Fakugesi 2022 Awards for digital creativity
The inaugural Fak’ugesi 2022 Awards for Digital Creativity are the first awards of their kind, recognising digital innovation in creativity across the countries of Africa. Since our inception 9 years ago we have seen, worked with and applauded the meteoric rise of African creativity in the digital space. In 2022, we want to further this growth by awarding the best works in five categories: arts (visual, performance), animation, music, video games, and extended reality (AR, VR).
The Fak’ugesi Awards trophies are unique representations of the spark of innovation, our iconic lightning bolt motif comes to life at dusk with an internal led light array.
Application deadline: 21 September 2022
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The Hopper Prize (Grants for artists)
The Hopper Prize was established to provide grants, visibility, and career-enhancing validation to artists who demonstrate a serious commitment to their work.
They accept submissions for grants through a bi-annual open call. Each grant cycle is juried by a new team of contemporary curators who select grant winners on the basis of artistic excellence and the promise of future potential. They provide unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $3,500 and $1,000 to artists around the globe.
Application deadline: 15 November 2022
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Call for Submissions – The New River: A Journal of Digital Art & Literature
The New River is a journal of digital writing and art, originally created and edited by Edward Falco. The current managing editors are graduate students enrolled in the MFA in Creative Writing or MFA Creative Technologies program at Virginia Tech. They are interested in receiving submissions of original and unpublished digital writing and art (such as new media art, electronic literature, web-based sound art, computational text, moving image work, and anything in between). Before submitting, please review their past issues to familiarize yourself with the kind of work we showcase in our journal.
Submission deadline: 30 October 2022
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Call for creatives: Display your digital portfolio with Humusha Art & Science
#Humusha is the isiZulu translation for ‘interpret’ or ‘translate’. A collaboration between the South African Research Chair in Science Communication (SciCom) at Stellenbosch University and VANSA (Visual Arts Network of South Africa), Humusha provides a platform where applied artists and scientific researchers can find one another and work together. Visual communication is used as a key conduit that can bring together art and science, making science accessible to the public and aligning with the SciCom goal of using science for social change and justice.
Submission deadline: 7 October 2022
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EMPLOYMENT
Content Partnerships Lead (Entertainment) at Tik Tok
The Entertainment Partnership Lead for Sub-Saharan Africa will be responsible for growing the Entertainment space and vertical on TikTok in the region. This job will require you to develop a comprehensive localized strategy to drive creator development and growth pipeline for the Entertainment vertical, with a focus on PGC/PUGC (top creators, publishers, public figures), among other responsibilities.
You will need a bachelor’s degree or above, with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in the entertainment/media/ technology/social media/digital media/content production field.
For more information, click here.
Remote Digital Marketing Associate at Brafton Inc.
This is a remote full-time contract position and is open to candidates throughout South Africa.
Brafton’s Digital Marketing Associates are members of their Consulting Department. This role supports Brafton’s client service teams through thoughtful and precise data collection, research (like keyword research and competitor analysis), and reporting. This role will receive significant onboarding and ongoing training as part of Brafton’s commitment to employee development. You will need a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
For more information, click here.
Remote Content Writer at Brafton Inc.
This is a full-time remote contract position and is open to candidates in South Africa.
As a member of the Brafton Editorial department, you’ll be dedicated to producing strong, creative written work that fuels clients’ strategic SEO objectives and content marketing goals. You will need 1-3 years of relevant content marketing industry writing experience as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Journalism, Communications, or a related field.
For more information, click here.
Remote Social Media Strategist at Brafton Inc.
This is a 100% remote, full-time contract position and is open to candidates in South Africa.
Brafton is hiring a Social Media Strategist. This position requires an individual with a passion for social media to interface across all areas/networks and who is up-to-date on the most recent industry changes and trends. The Social Media Strategist is a great communicator, writer, and project manager who understands how to manage their time and workload to get the best results for our clients. Successful candidates are proficient in maintaining quality across clients’ social contracts, contributing to our office and team culture and improving the offerings of social media services at Brafton.
You will need +1 year of relevant content marketing industry writing experience as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communications or related-area.
For more information, click here.
Content Marketing Writer at OfferZen
OfferZen is on a mission to help more people thrive in tech – becoming the central place for software makers to build great careers and companies to build winning teams.
As a Content Marketer, you’ll play a crucial role in creating guides and using case content to help our audiences win at tech hiring and getting a job in tech. In addition, you will be working with different stakeholders (both internal and external) to plan, create and distribute content.
You will work closely with the Content Team Manager and the rest of the content team (including freelancers) to create relevant, high-quality content. You will interview internal and external experts to gain insight and inform your content, as well as do research to create world-class content about tech hiring and finding a job in tech. You will need 4+ years of experience in content marketing, journalism or a similar field.
For more information, click here.
Influencer Marketing Executive at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is looking for an Influencer Marketing Executive. The candidate will actively participate in the Brands’ Earned media strategy development, annual planning and monthly review process, as well as in the definition of their optimal SOV objectives.
Degree or equivalent in Marketing, Media or Communications – ideally with a specialisation in Digital Marketing as well as 2 to 3 years of social media experience.
For more information, click here.
Journalist at Lowveld Media
Lowveld Media, a dynamic, award-winning media house in Mbombela, Mpumalanga is looking for an enthusiastic, passionate full-time journalist who can write on a variety of topics. You will need a recognised journalism degree or diploma, fluency in Afrikaans and English and experience in a community newspaper and newsroom environment.
Closing date: 27 September 2022
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Multimedia Journalist at Independent Media
The Independent Media has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a multimedia journalist position in Cape Town. The successful candidate will be responsible for producing copy for use across multi-media, multi-platforms and across verticals (print and digital).
The key responsibilities of the multimedia journalist will include producing high-quality stories that are error-free and ready for publication for all platforms and producing regular front-page leads.
Closing date: 22 September 2022
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Content Creator and Community Manager at Digify Africa
Digify Africa is looking for a Content Creator and Community Manager. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to generating creative content ideas that are in line with Digify Pro Online’s content and project management strategy as well as locally relevant to its intended audience.
Applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree/diploma or three-year post-matric (communications, PR, BA, marketing or related qualification), as well as 3-5 years of experience in content marketing.
Closing date: 21 September 2022
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Junior Post Production Supervisor at Rawkraft Media
Rawkraft Media are a TV production company based in Randburg, in search of a Junior Post Production Supervisor to play a role within our multi-platform post-production team. The ideal candidate should have a good understanding of the TV production industry and be passionate about storytelling.
The candidate will be required to actively participate in department leadership, and collaborate in the development of strategic and tactical plans to increase customer satisfaction. This job requires one year of experience in a similar role.
Closing date: 25 September 2022
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FUNDING
Gert-Johan Coetzee Fashion Bursary
Celebrity fashion designer Gert-Johan Coetzee plans to grow the South African fashion industry through the Gert-Johan Coetzee bursary programme. The winner of this bursary will win a three-year bursary to study Fashion Design at his alma mater, North West School of Design in Klerksdorp.
The North West School of Design Fashion Design course, worth over R 187 000.00, provides a broad spectrum of knowledge that provides graduates with extensive knowledge in fashion illustration, apparel construction, pattern drafting and manipulation and computer-aided design, as well as fashion retail.
The bursary includes tuition for three years, as well as a sewing machine (Bernette – Chicago 5 sewing machine) sponsorship from Bernina RSA.
Application deadline: 23 September 2022
For more information and to apply, click here.
RESIDENCIES
Web Residencies: Akademie Scholoss Solitude
In the framework of the project Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience, SAVVY Contemporary and Akademie Schloss Solitude’s Digital program offer four web residencies to practitioners and communities within the tropical belt, exploring situated knowledges, forming local DIT (Do It Together) community networks, and/or connecting intertropically on a planetary level.
During this six-week online residency, we will offer support to set up a local community network using a Raspberry Pi, where your situated knowledge exploration can be hosted.
Application deadline: 23 September 2022
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EPFL CDH Artist-in-Residence Programme
Located in Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) is a leading university and one of Europe’s most vibrant and cosmopolitan science and technology institutions. EPFL hosts more than 350 labs at its international campus in the Lausanne area.
After the program’s successful launch in 2022, CDH Direction is now welcoming proposals for its Enter the Hyper-Scientific 2023 edition.
Initiated by EPFL College of Humanities (CDH) Direction, amplified by EPFL Pavilions, and now inaugurating a partnership with The City of Lausanne, the EPFL CDH Artist-in-Residence Programme promotes artistic research and experimentation that connects art, humanities, science, and technology by supporting up to four artists for three-months residencies at the EPFL.
Application deadline: 3 October 2022
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Künstlerhaus Dortmund Summer Residency
Since 2005, Künstlerhaus Dortmund has been offering an artist residency in the summer months for artists from abroad in all fields of the visual arts.
The residency period will be 4-6 weeks and can begin in mid-July by arrangement. Künstlerhaus Dortmund will offer free accommodation as well as a working space, travel allowance and subsidy for living and production costs.
A presentation at the end of the residency will be supported. The Künstlerhaus will take care of the press and publicity work as well as the invitation cards. The Künstlerhaus will support the guest artist in all organisational and practical matters.
Application deadline: 30 October 2022
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Künstlerhaus Lauenburg Residency
Künstlerhaus Lauenburg was founded in 1986 and is an international scholarship holder’s place of the state of Schleswig-Holstein for contemporary visual arts, literature and composition. It offers young talents from all over the world the opportunity to realize new projects in an undisturbed working environment and to present them publicly to an interested audience.
Every year, Künstlerhaus Lauenburg regularly awards 3 residence scholarships in the fields of composition, literature and visual arts and automatically awards a scholarship in the field of visual arts by invitation to an artist. Artists can apply for the 3 residency scholarships without limiting their age or residence.
Application deadline: 31 October 2022
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Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination Fellowship
Bringing together creative artists of all kinds with scholars from across the humanities and sciences, the purpose of the Institute is to question the established ways in which knowledge is defined, produced, and taught.
The Fellowship stipend is $37,500 per term, or $75,000 for a full academic year (September through May). Fellows also have their own office at the Institute in Paris, administrative and research support and access to Columbia’s libraries and various research facilities in Paris and in Europe.
Application deadline: 5 November 2022
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