If you check these boxes, then this is for you!

• Passionate about growing and developing as a creative?

• Looking forward to joining a creative community?

• Yearning to learn, grow and excel in a carefully crafted environment?

• Poised to develop a professional brand?

• Interested in a career as a creative?

Introducing the Creatives’ Accelerator Programme (CAP), a free capacity building programme which incorporates intensive training and hands-on practical sessions to set you up for success as a creative.

Over the course of two months, successful applicants will be taken through sessions that have been carefully crafted to advance their creativity and to strategically position them in the creative landscape.

The programme will specifically nurture the participant’s creative prowess, guiding you from a stage of discovery to finding purpose in your creative expression: either as a career path, a tool for social impact (creative activism), or as a therapeutic endeavour.

The next phases of lessons and coaching are modelled to accelerate you, the creative, into proficiency and professionalism. The programme will be presented over safe on-site workshops, collaborative projects and virtual engagements.

Storytellers

We are looking for creatives who identify as storytellers and express their art forms in the following categories:

1. Literary storytellers- you weave words to tell stories: writers of all forms

2. Visual storytellers- you use images to tell stories: illustrators, animators, photographers, visual artists, cartoonists

3. Aural storytellers- you use sound and voice to tell your stories: spoken word artists, performance poets, podcasters, voice actors

Eligibility Criteria

• Aged 18 to 25

• Possess a creative superpower or the potential to unearth a creative superpower

• Willingness to commit to the intensive programme

• Should be in Accra for the duration of the programme

Duration and Important Dates

The in-person training sessions will start on the last Saturday in February and will continue over the first three Saturdays in March.

You can be a full-time student or do your Monday to Friday (9 to 5) and still be a participant of CAP.

After this, there will be mostly virtual engagements where you carry out creative projects which lie in either of the following ends of creative expressions: career paths, for social impact and as a therapeutic endeavour.

Beyond CAP, we’d pair you with a mentor for some three months to usher you into the creative terrain.

Reach us on cap@nadeli.org for enquiries, partnerships and sponsorships.