This is La Guilde's site dedicated to solidarity projects. Make a donation to The Guild
This is La Guilde's site dedicated to solidarity projects. Make a donation to The Guild
Tambacounda is considered the "great crossroads" of Senegal. Its geographical location constitutes a strategic meeting point between peoples and cultures.
However, the city's youth lack stable artistic and cultural structures and educational opportunities.
Since its creation in 2008, Free label has been implementing large-scale national and international cultural and tourist events on an ad hoc basis through training courses, exhibitions, residencies for foreign artists, festivals, film productions, support for young talents…
The Free label association is thus working to decentralize professional training in arts and culture, notably through the creation of Tamba art school, which is the first art training center outside of Dakar.
To provide a space for the young people of Tambacounda where they can develop their creativity and art, meet each other, and show solidarity.
Create an art school nearby with diverse training programs: cultural administration, production, directing, art direction, artist, music, graphic design, stage management…
Supporting and integrating young people from Tambacounda into the workforce
Construction of the Tamba art school with several rooms that can accommodate workshops, a recording studio, and administrative offices.
Workshops offered by the art school: visual arts (painting, drawing), photography, festival management, development and management of a cultural project, art history
Training modules: digitalization in the music industry, songwriting workshop, video workshop, web radio workshop, organizing a showcase with a Senegalese artist, interviewing female griots from Tambacounda, producing a music video with a local band, producing a music video with a Senegalese-Malian duo
Professional support for young people: a group internship in Dakar for 20 young people at the Théodore Monod Museum, organization of a group exhibition, organization of a film festival,
2000 young women and men aged 16 to 30, whether in school or not, employed or unemployed, mostly single, and living in different neighborhoods of Tambacounda
Through its Microprojects division, the NGO La Guilde, in partnership with the French Development Agency and the Fondation de France, supports the implementation of microprojects serving sustainable development internationally.