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All systems go for Arterial Network's new Steering Committee
January 19th, 2012, at 10:24 am | Posted by Mari Stimie
Arterial Network's new Steering Committee, appointed at the organisation's third Biannual conference held in Nairobi during December, is conducting their first planning meeting in Dakar this week.
The ten members of the committee was appointed by a conference of close to 200 delegates representing more than 30 African countries. Since its inception in 2007, Arterial Network has established chapters in 33 African countries.
Arterial Network's 2012/2013 Steering Committee members are:
Korkor Amarteifio (Ghana) is the Chairperson of ARTerial Network Steering Committee. She started her career in the seventies in Montreal, where she created a platform for artists from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. She was also a member of the Canadian Arts Council. In Ghana she worked for the National Theatre until she founded the Institute for Music Development in 2004.
Aadel Essaadani, Deputy Chairperson of Arterial Network, co-directs the Institute for the performing arts center for training in technical and administrative performing arts, based in Montpellier (France) and Casablanca (Morocco). He is also a technical designer for the construction and renovation of theaters and a cultural policy adviser to public entities or cultural institutions.
Patrick Mudekereza is an author and a cultural operator from Lubumbashi in DR Congo. He is currently involved in the administration and programming of visual arts in Halle de l’Etoile, French Cultural Centre in Lubumbashi and also leads the biennial of image arts Picha.
Abderrahmane Ahmed Salem (Mauritania) is an author and producer of several films and plays. He received training in film from the EICAR film school in Paris in 2002 after which he established a cultural institution for the promotion of film. Currently he is the Director of that organisation and Chairman of the Artistic Committee of Al Mawred Thaqafy (Culture Resource).
Aghan Odero (Kenya) is the Managing Trustee/Artistic Director at Zamaleo Arts & Culture Trust Commissioner and a Board Member at Kenya Film Commission. He is the former Director of the Kenya Cultural Centre.
Evaristo Jose Madime (Mozambique) is the Director of CEDARTE, an organisation that supports the Mozambican craft sector. From 2008 he was appointed the African Regional Representative of WCC- World Crafts Council and for several years now, he is an active member of the Board of Mozambique - USA Chamber of Commerce.
Currently based in Rwanda where she works as the project manager of Ishyo Arts Centre, Nadia Beza Nkwaya is also the Arterial Network country representative. She is part of the task force for the development of a cultural policy for Rwanda and the secretary of the East African Arts Biennale Rwandan committee.
Tade Adekunle (Nigeria) is an actor and director of theatrical productions. Currently he is the Executive Director/CEO of Towncriers Limited – a foremost experiential marketing and brand activation company in Nigeria.
Telesphore Mba Bizo is a prominent arts journalist and instructor in Cameroon who has been working with the Cameroon Radio Television, CRTV, since 2000 as journalist-translator.
A writer, journalist and poet, Zilanie Nyundo (Malawi) is also a creative consultant, artist manager, motivational speaker and event organiser. Having firmly established a very large and feminine footprint in the emerging arts and culture sector of Malawi, Zilanie is the Chairperson of Arterial Network, Founding Chairperson of CREAM Women In the Arts (WITA), Creative Director of the annual multi-arts discipline all woman Superwoman Arts Festival and Fashion Malawi Edition (FAME) and a committee member for the newly networked Coalition on Cultural Industries of Malawi.
For more information, visit www.arterialnetwork.org