The Top 20 MTN Bushfire Firefly finalists all receive an invitation to participate in the MTN Bushfire Arts Round Table (ART).
The Arts Round Table is Eswatini’s foremost arts industry development workshop promoting skills sharing, digital media development and best practices throughout the continent. It offers opportunities for brands to network and achieve a wider reach.
An ongoing partnership with the Berlin-based Africa Rising Music Conference (ARMC) enables direct networking and connections, as well as artist exchanges, between European and African music markets. Apart from online workshops that take place prior to the festival, the ART series of workshops takes place on the Friday of the MTN Bushfire festival weekend annually. These workshops connect aspiring artists from a multitude of disciplines with a select number of seasoned festival performers and creative industry specialists from across Africa and around the world. Artists and industry experts engage in thematically driven conversations around the professionalization and development of the arts. To date, over 940 artists and industry professionals have participated in the Arts Round Table workshops.