VISA for Music (MA)
From 22 to 25 November 2017, Rabat is hosting the fourth edition of Visa For Music, the most important professional music meeting for Africa and the Middle East. In the framework of our collaboration with organisations in the MENA region over the coming years, Flanders Arts Institute / Kunstenpunt offers Flemish music professionals the opportunity to take part in the meeting and a parallel programme that we organise there.
This programme consists of professional network events and working visits to several music organisations, including the Hiba Foundation in Casablanca, the center for contemporary music Boultek, and l’Uzine, an artistic work space that also presents concerts, among other cultural events. We can offer support to a maximum of eight music professionals.
Visa for Music mainly promotes music from Africa and the Middle East and welcomes professionals from all over the world to meet these musicians and their representatives, and to forge collaborations. This showcase festival was born from a constatation that there is a vibrant artistic dynamic and musical creation by African and Middle-Eastern artists which at an international level is still not sufficiently visible or recognised. To address this problem, Visa For Music offers 30 showcases, but also conferences, documentary projections, speed dating sessions and workshops.
