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Festivals
Explore top art festivals and live cultural events celebrating African creative excellence. Find festival editions, line-ups, venue guides, and secure tickets.
Lubumbashi Biennale (Biennale de Lubumbashi)
Organised by the Picha art collective, it brings contemporary art and public interventions to the former mining capital.
Les Récréâtrales
A pan-African theatre festival and residency programme staged in family courtyards across a neighbourhood of Ouagadougou.
SIAO (International Arts and Crafts Fair of Ouagadougou)
A huge showcase of African crafts, design and trade, among the continent's largest arts-and-crafts fairs.
Art X Lagos
West Africa's leading modern and contemporary art fair, with galleries, talks and projects.
Dak'Art (Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art)
Africa's longest-running contemporary art biennale, dedicated exclusively to visual arts since 1992, with an official exhibitio...
Rencontres de Bamako (African Biennale of Photography)
Africa's premier photography biennale, a showcase for African photographers and the diaspora.
Lamu Cultural Festival
Celebrates Swahili heritage with dhow and donkey races, poetry, crafts and traditional dance on a UNESCO World Heritage island.
AfroFuture (formerly Afrochella)
A year-end festival of African music, fashion, food and art, tied to the 'Detty December' homecoming season; rebranded from Afr...
Calabar Carnival
Dubbed 'Africa's biggest street party', a month-long festival of costumed carnival bands, music and parades.
Roots n Riddim Pt 2
Nairobi, prepare yourself for yet another transcendent musical pilgrimage. 🥁✨Following our landmark showcase with global rhythm...
Vodun Days (Fête du Vodun)
A festival of Vodun religion and culture, with processions, masked Egungun dancers and ceremonies in the spiritual home of the ...
Sigui (Dogon festival)
A Dogon ceremony held roughly every 60 years, renewing the world in a cycle tied to Sirius; masks, dances and rituals move from...
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
A touring art fair dedicated to contemporary African and diaspora artists; the name refers to the 54 countries of Africa.
Cape Town Art Fair
A major art fair for African and international galleries, with curated projects and talks.
MASA (Marché des Arts du Spectacle d'Abidjan)
A performing-arts market and showcase bringing together music, dance and theatre professionals from across Africa.
Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK)
A major Afrikaans-language arts festival with theatre, music, comedy and visual art.
Maitisong Festival
Botswana's leading performing-arts festival, held at the Maitisong Theatre with music, dance and drama.
AfrikaBurn
The South African regional Burning Man event: a temporary desert city built on gifting and participatory art, with large burnin...
HIFA (Harare International Festival of the Arts)
A multidisciplinary arts festival with theatre, dance, music and visual art, long Zimbabwe's flagship cultural event.
MTN Bushfire
A music and arts festival linked to the House on Fire venue, noted for its social-impact work and mix of African and internatio...
Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF / Festival of the Dhow Countries)
East Africa's biggest film festival, celebrating the cultures of the Indian Ocean 'dhow countries' with films, concerts, worksh...
National Arts Festival (Grahamstown)
Africa's largest and oldest arts festival of its kind, a ten-day programme of theatre, dance, music, film and visual art with a...
Carthage International Festival
A summer festival of music, dance and theatre held in the Roman amphitheatre of Carthage.
PANAFEST / Emancipation Day
A pan-African festival of the diaspora's return, held around slave-trade heritage sites, paired with Emancipation Day commemora...
Osun-Osogbo Festival
A centuries-old Yoruba festival honouring the river goddess Osun at a sacred grove that is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Chale Wote Street Art Festival
Organised by the Accra [dot] Alt collective, it turns Jamestown into an open-air gallery of murals, performance, fashion and mu...
Art Joburg (formerly FNB Joburg Art Fair)
A leading contemporary art fair on the continent, showing work from South African and pan-African galleries.
Nyege Nyege Festival
An electronic and experimental music festival by the Nile, known for spotlighting underground East African sounds.
Bayimba International Festival of the Arts
A multidisciplinary arts festival with music, dance, theatre and film, founded to give Ugandan artists a major stage.
Morija Arts & Cultural Festival
A heritage and arts festival in the cradle of Basotho culture, featuring traditional music, theatre and visual art.
Festival Kreol (Seychelles)
Celebrates Seychellois Creole language, food, music and crafts with a week of concerts, exhibitions and community events.
Modern Calligraphy Workshop
Featuring the Elegant Italic Script – come and create a piece of art you’ll actually want to frame.Join us for a relaxing after...
Watercolor Painting Class
Join the talented Kanyi Ohawa on a creative journey into the world of watercolor painting.Whether you’re a beginner or looking ...
The Art of Baking
Take your baking further. This two-day course is built for bakers who already know their way around a kitchen and want to sharp...
Lake of Stars
A lakeside music and arts festival that became a major cultural tourism draw for Malawi.
Third World Festival of Black Arts (FESMAN 2010)
A revival of the Black Arts festival tradition around the theme of African Renaissance, which also saw the unveiling of the Afr...
FESTAC '77 (Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture)
A month-long festival that drew thousands of artists and delegates from Africa and the diaspora, remembered for its scale and f...
First Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF 1969)
A major Pan-African festival of music, dance, theatre and film in post-independence Algiers; it brought together liberation mov...
First World Festival of Black Arts (FESMAN 1966)
A landmark festival initiated by President Léopold Sédar Senghor, bringing together artists and thinkers of Africa and the dias...
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