Benemnooma - Koudougou

2002-02-09T08:18:23Z

Contact

Name of responsible structure : Benemnooma
Type of structure : non-for-profit association
Initiators of the projet : artists
Continent : Africa
Country : Burkina Faso
Adress: BP 196 Koudougou Burkina Faso
Tel : (226) 440 387
Fax : (226) 440 449
e-mail : nak@fasonet.bf
Contact : Koudbi Koala, Président fondateur

Description

Benemnoma - “a centre for basic and further training in an open setting” - was founded by Koudbi Koala in Koudougou, Burkina Faso and is aimed at children who have been rejected by the standard school system. Financed by the activities of the Saaba Dance and Percussion Company, this project has given rise to a very active NGO, to an Emmaüs International centre, and to a festival named “Nuits Atypiques de Koudougou” (untypical Koudougou nights), the first international musical festival to arise from private initiative in the “land of men of integrity.” In January 1985, the allotment of four hectares of land in Koudbi's family neighbourhood enabled him at last to firmly establish his project for schooling children with no access to the standard schooling system. Having said this, the cultural constituent remains the backbone of the Benemnooma project, and today it represents 60% of the organisation's activity. Over the years, Benemnooma's work in favour of the development of culture has been a model to others.

Former use : new building
Surface of the site : 4 ha/ 300 m2 built
Foundation year : city
Type of occupation : private land
Owner of the building : Koudbi Koala

Infrastructures

Venue
Projection room
Multi-purpose space
Associative space
Bookshop / documentation centre
Exterior space
Office

Social and artistic disciplines

Contemporary theatre : Creation / Production / Diffusion / Training workshop

Music : Residences / Creation / Production / Diffusion / Training workshop / Debates / Conferences

Dance : Creation / Production / Diffusion

Multimedia : Training workshop

Audiovisual : Training workshop

Radio : Diffusion Radio Palabre settled on the Emet centre allows to invite the village population to exchange and practice the african democraty.

Solidarity - Citizenship : Training workshop / Debates / Conferences

For more information :
Since 1996, Benemnooma organize the festival of atypics nights of Koudougou (NAK) in partnership with the atypics nights of Langon.

Financial partners

own incomes thanks to Saaba company tour. Today, the Saaba company is divised into four groups of 8 personnes who tour in Burkina Faso and in Europe.
Fédération des Oeuvres Laïques (F.O.L) of Vienne
Ligue de l'Enseignement
Agence de la Francophonie
Afrique en Création (Afaa)
The government approve morally the Benemnooma activities but give very little money

Networks

Numerous contacts in Europe : Atypics Nights of Langon ; Radio France Montpellier, the festival Mundial of Tilburg (Netherlands)...
Benemnooma is part of numerous networks of solidarity and technical assistance to development.
Each worshop set up in Benemnooma is affiliated or proposed by association or interest group in France. Numerous links with the networks of agricultural school in France for example.
Since 1990, the Benemnooma project is validate by Emmaüs International and Koudbi Koala becomes the president of the burkinabian associations coordination vocation Emmaüs.

Centre Djéliya International - Bobo-Dioulasso

2002-02-09T03:44:52Z

Contact

Name of the responsible structure : Centre Djéliya International
Type of structure : non-for-profit association
Initiators of the project : artists
Continent : Africa
Country : Burkina Faso
Adress : Diaradougou area, near the "hôtel méridien" - Bobo-Dioulasso
Tel : 33 4 90 85 57 75
Fax : 33 4 90 82 21 05
e-mail : djeliya@nomade.fr
Website: www.djeliya.fr.st
Contact : Hassane Kassi Kouyaté

Description

In 1995, troubadour Sotigui Kouyaté from Burkina Faso left a large family courtyard to his children. His three sons, Dani, Hassane, and Pape Kouyaté who are modern troubadours themselves, although they were raised as pupils of the “white school,” wanted to convert this courtyard - the traditional nerve centre of the family, a place for exchanging, education, and culture - into a cultural exchange arena that would be open to the whole neighbourhood, to the town, to other African countries, and to the whole world. Thus “Djéliya” came into being. This space, open to the whole world, sees itself as an exchange and meeting place in the Diaradougou district, one of the oldest popular quarters of Bobo-Dioulasso. It sees itself as a place for training, for information, for creation, and for dissemination, a place whose social importance and economic contribution remain the main building blocks in its development and running.

Former use : former family building
Location : city
Foundation year : 1995
Type of occupation : donation
Owner of the building : private owner

Infrastructures

multifunctional space
housing (for 40)
Library
multi-purpose venue(60 seats)
big stage (1000 people)
exterior spaces
offices

Social and artistic disciplines

Tale - Contemporary theatre: Residencies / Creation / Production / Diffusion / Training workshop / Debates / Conferences / Spaces rental / Festivals

Music : Diffusion

Dance : Diffusion

Heritage - Architecture : Diffusion Visual arts : Debates / Conferences / Spaces rental / Festivals

Solidarity - Citizenship : Creation / Production / Diffusion / Training workshop / Debates / Conferences

Piece of information :
Since 1997, around christmas, Djéliya organize a tale festival. Called “ Yéleen ” (the Light), the festival become international welcome words and musics from different background, from Africa, but too from Europe and Orient.

Financial partners

self-financing 50% : cultural and social programmes which the center develop within the context of its international cultural programme.
Private and public support are complementary and finance the whole project.

Networks

Numerous contacts

Artfactories

Benemnooma - Koudougou

Centre Djéliya International - Bobo-Dioulasso