The Arterial Network, in association with the African Arts Institute, would like to invite arts journalists from Africa to take part to this well recognized training parallel to the International Jazz Festival. We would take care of your visa fees, travel insurance, return flight ticket, accommodation, catering and training fees during your training. If you're interested, please send us a CV and a letter of motivation before 04 March as well as two articles you've written on a subject relevant to the arts scene by mail. The places are very limited and you will need to speak English fluently. More information about the training below.

From 27 March to 4 April, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival will be presenting the 8th year of its regular arts journalism training programme. Based on South Africa's national curriculum in specialist journalism, the workshop uses the run-up to Africa's biggest jazz festival as subject matter for its practical exercises. The information content therefore focuses on modern popular music. But the skills participants learn - reviewing, specialist interviewing, dealing with press conferences and more - are transferrable: they can be applied subsequently to reporting on any arts genre.

This year, in response to many enquiries, the course will run a parallel'train the trainers' programme. Participants at this level will experience the arts journalism course, but will have their own breakaway sessions with a dedicated facilitator, where they can unpick teaching methods, design their own programmes and teaching tools, and work out how best to conduct arts journalism training in their own newsrooms and their own national contexts. The issues, debates and people on national arts scenes - and the way they're covered - can vary widely from country to country. This is an opportunity for senior arts journalists to work with a training programme that has a successful track record to develop their own country-appropriate training strategies.