Goethe-Institut Johannesburg Sound Waves Podcast Training for Audiovisual Professionals 2025 – YOA

Deadline: May 23, 2025

Applications are open for the Sound Waves Podcast Training for Audiovisual Professionals 2025. The Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), and the South African Podcasting Guild (SAPG) invite purposes for Sound Waves: Podcast Training for Audiovisual Professionals – a novel, in-particular person coaching programme aimed toward early to mid-profession audiovisual creators from South Africa, Lesotho, and Malawi.

Taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 7 to 11 July 2025, the 5-day coaching programme will equip 12 chosen contributors with the artistic and technical expertise to harness the ability of podcasting for storytelling, advocacy, and neighborhood engagement.

The programme is supported by the French Institute in Paris and the German Federal Foreign Office by way of the French-German Cultural Fund, a joint initiative of the French and German governments selling cultural cooperation in third international locations. It will function professional facilitators from South Africa, France, and Germany. Participants will have interaction in a dynamic mixture of sound-centered workshops, podcast manufacturing coaching (together with scriptwriting, authorized and moral frameworks, and distribution), stay recording classes, studio visits, and public discussions – all designed to foster skilled development and amplify underrepresented voices within the podcasting panorama.

Cost

• Selected contributors from outdoors Johannesburg could have their journey and lodging coated for the period of the programme.

Eligibility

• Applications are invited from audiovisual professionals and rising creators who’re primarily based in South Africa, Lesotho, or Malawi.
• Professionals who’re captivated with podcasting and audio storytelling, particularly ladies and people working with underrepresented communities, are inspired to submit purposes.
• Applicants should be accessible to attend the complete coaching in Johannesburg.

Application

The name will shut on 23 May or as soon as 150 full purposes have been acquired – whichever comes first.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Sound Waves Podcast Training.