FUNDRAISER: Support Collective Cares, a new peer-led curatorial initiative for contemporary arts in Zambia.

WHY IT’S NEEDED

Zambia’s artistic landscape is rich in expressions but lacks visibility, infrastructure and support. Practitioners have few chances to present their works, no shared platform or advocacy for fair/sustainable practice, and limited paid opportunities. Funding is often short-term or foreign-dependent, while curatorial education and critical discourse remain minimal. To improve this, we’re creating a hybrid (physical/digital) space for conversation, research and collaboration. We grow slowly, believing that an intimate approach with mutual care, not speed, creates lasting change. Framing curation as a practice of care, we root ourselves in solidarity and critical friendship over competition and collusion.

WHAT WE DO

Offline: Host conversations, studio visits, writings and experimental collaborations among curators and artists.

Online: Create a living platform where peers share research, archives and curated features. Artists can rent affordable pages to connect, promote, and sell their work/service.

WHO WE ARE

Co-led by Luyando Muleya (Lusaka-born, Livingstone-based); and Naoko Mabon (Japan-born, Scotland-based), with a growing network of peers: Chibuye Changwe (Lusaka-born, Brussels-based); Kabila Stéphane (DR Congo-born, Berlin-based); Lifang Zhang (China-born, Beijing-based); Samba Yonga (Lusaka-born, Lusaka-based); Sana Ginwalla (Lusaka-born, Lusaka-based).

YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS

We need your support to gain self-sustaining momentum. This is a not-for-profit initiative centring on the long-term benefit for the contemporary arts community in Zambia. No big money or institutional backing. Just people—forming and nurturing community, criticality and opportunity from the ground up.

OUR GOAL

GBP £3,200 — this amount allows us to run the first 3 years’ activities to the desired level in a fairer working condition.

Please visit our WhyDonate page for full story & to make donation: https://whydonate.com/fundraising/collective-cares

Thank you very much for your support in advance!
Collective Cares Team