The Pan-African Art Critics Week will be held in Ouagadougou from 15 to 21 March 2021

Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso will host the first edition of the  Pan-African Art Critics Week (SePaCA). from 15 to 21 March 2021. An event organised as part of the NO’O CULTURES programme by the North West Cultures association and the Pan-African Association for Cultural Engineering (APIC) in collaboration with the French Institute of Ouagadougou and the Goethe Institute of Ouagadougou. The programme of this edition includes training and capacity building workshops, a celebration of excellence through the awarding of the Grand Prize for Art Criticism Option Cinema organised in 2020. This event was initially scheduled to take place in July 2020 but due to the Covid pandemic19 had to be postponed.

Another major articulation of this first edition is the awarding of the prize for the best African critic 2020 to the Moroccan Cherqui Ameur. He will lead a practical workshop on capacity building on film criticism and will participate in the round table: “Art Criticism in Africa: Where do we stand?” organised in partnership with the Regional Centre for the Living Arts in Africa (CERAV/Africa) and the Centre for Linguistic and Historical Studies by Oral Tradition (CELHTO). More than twenty African art critics, both amateurs and professionals, are expected to attend this special edition of the Pan-African Art Critics Week.

More information: SePaCA

Rostand Wandja