Mophradat’s Fully-Funded 10-Day Residency for Musicians in Uganda

Mophradat has partnered with Nyege Nyege Villa in Kampala to provide a residency for a composer/s (with up to two collaborators) or a band comprised of maximum three musicians from the Arab world to spend focused time working on a specific project, creating new compositions, or exploring and researching new ideas.

Contemporary composers from the Arab world can apply for a ten day residency at Nyege Nyege Villa in April-May 2022. Specific dates will be determined upon consultation with the resident(s). The invited resident(s) will have access to professional recording studios and equipment throughout their stay, to which they will receive a technical introduction. They will be accommodated in a private room on site with use of a shared kitchen. The composer(s) must be comfortable working autonomously, be open to collaboration, and be able to work under a variety of conditions. In addition to the aforementioned, Mophradat will provide the selected resident(s) with economy return airfares, and per diems, and reimburse visa costs and any required COVID-19 tests in compliance with the regulations in effect at the time of travel.

• Applicants must be working on their own compositional project.
• Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they are active in music scenes locally and/or internationally.
• Applicants active within the experimental, electronic, hybrid electronic music are encouraged to apply.
• Applicants must be from the Arab world.

Process:

• Mophradat will select the residents in collaboration with Nyege Nyege Villa team.
• All applicants, whether selected or not, receive a response to their applications by February 15, 2022.
• Due to a high volume of applications and the confidentiality of the selection process, Mophradat cannot provide individual feedback explaining the reason an application was not selected.
• Upon selection, the resident will sign separate contracts with Mophradat and Nyege Nyege Villa.
• A narrative summary of what was achieved must be submitted to Mophradat within two weeks of the end of the residency.

About Muphradat:

Mophradat is a Belgian association and its office is in Brussels. It was founded in 2004 as the Young Arab Theatre Fund (YATF), and in 2015 changed its name to better accommodate and reflect its evolving mandate and scope of activity. Also, it is an international nonprofit contemporary art association that creates opportunities for thinking, producing, and sharing among contemporary artists from the Arab World and their peers everywhere. Mophradat sees its activities as tools—artistic, discursive, logistical, and financial—for artists and cultural thinkers to use toward inventing new art practices, arts organizations, and art publics. Mophradat believes the content—ideas, artworks, and relationships—generated through its activities contributes to diversifying the artistic and intellectual ecology; making it more vital and compelling, and able to play an emancipatory role in the Arab World and elsewhere.

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