Are you passionate about audio and video documentaries?
The Fati Abubakar Arts Foundation invites you to a 10-day workshop in Maiduguri, Borno State, designed to equip individuals with the skills to create impactful audio and video documentaries.
This initiative aims to amplify powerful narratives through documentary storytelling, focusing on real-life experiences, social issues, and cultural heritage.
Please note that the workshop covers tuition fees only; travel and accommodation costs will be the responsibility of the participant.
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Applications are now open for individuals in North East Nigeria who are eager to learn photography!
This workshop project seeks to give victims and survivors in the North East Nigeria a platform to heal and give testimonies of their lives and experiences through photography.
We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups; women, individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and those from ethnic minority communities. We also welcome applicants from diverse educational backgrounds and do not require a specific formal qualification.
Please note that the workshop covers tuition fees only; travel and accommodation costs will be the responsibility of the participant.
AUDIO AND VIDEO DOCUMENTARY WORKSHOP
The current landscape in Borno state is one of turmoil and uncertainty. There is also minimal coverage of the region by its own indigenes who are telling their own stories. With this project, there will be an element of bringing new media and technology to encourage citizen journalism and survivor agency in reporting. The second strand of this project is to work with ordinary people to counter the negative narratives about life in conflict-stricken Borno state and the North-East Nigeria generally. Through partnership for capacity enhancement, the proposed project will give true agency to selected survivors of the Boko Haram conflict in Maiduguri. It will equip them with tools such as audio records, smartphones and a creative space for them to use their creativity and skills to engender communal healing and community-led truth-telling. Project participants will be trained to generate their own contents and exhibit them in an online platform to promote messages of peace, reconciliation and healing.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
The Fati Abubakar Arts Foundation is starting the training of young people in the area of digital literacy; photography, videography, audio documentaries, social media. Adequate digital literacy is missing in North Eastern Nigeria and in today’s world, technology plays a pivotal role. To navigate and contribute to society, young people need to be digitally literate. The phase one of this project will be a photography workshop. The focus of this workshop will be to empower women and young people in the area of digital capacity building and create a community well versed in new media and reporting issues affecting survivors of the Boko haram conflict. This will enable young people in communities to contribute to the transformative information sharing that will help bring succor to victims of conflict.