Deadline: June 25, 2025
Applications are invited for the Unpublished Africa Creative Business Studio 2025. Creative Business Studio is a flagship program developed by Unpublished Africa, specifically designed to empower African visual storytellers and creative entrepreneurs. It’s a capacity-building initiative aimed at bridging the gap between artistic talent and essential business acumen, enabling creatives to build sustainable and profitable careers. The program has successfully run 3 cohorts, impacting creatives from 15+ African countries.
Participants will be selected and supported by professionals from the business world with expertise in business development, finance, and social media, to name a few, as well as creative industry experts. The program will last 6 weeks. Over the 6-week period, a group of professionals will train and drive you to build your own creative business. In addition to the support of professionals, some documented guides will be issued which will allow for follow-up to the objectives to be achieved and the tasks to be carried out in order to achieve these objectives.
Benefits
Get Access to:
- Guidance from seasoned business and creative industry professionals.
- Hands-on learning in critical areas like brand strategy, digital marketing, finance, and legal aspects relevant to creative ventures.
- A platform to connect, collaborate, and share ideas with a pan-African community of peers and industry leaders.
- Opportunities to publish their work with Unpublished Africa and gain exposure for their creative practice.
Eligibility
- Open to African photographers, visual storytellers and creative entrepreneurs;
- They should be operating in an African context.
Application
This Creative Business Studio Cohort will start on 7 July 2025 and end on 14 August 2025. Application deadline is June 25, 2025.
For more information, visit Creative Business Studio.
