Mzuka Records - Music

  Tanzania

Dar Es Salaam

Term: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer, Throughout the year, Trimester, Winter 
Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months and 7-12 months
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks
Dates: Any date

Description: Art in Tanzania music sector projects include top Tanzanian musicians & singers & dancers and bands. We produce music for large number of top Tanzanian artists and search for young talents at our talents Shows & Competitions, we perform, arrange shows and festivals, teach music in schools, make music videos and publish music oriented monthly quality magazine Fiesta. We dare keen to get more people to assist and develop the ongoing programs.

The program is located in Dar es Salaam. The program fee of usd 230 for volunteers and usd 240 for the interns, including airport transports, accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner, orientation and project guidance. Our volunteers hotel is located at Bahari Beach some 20km from the Dar es Salaam city north nearby the Indian ocean beach. You can also select upgraded accommodation giving you more privacy, AC and hot water showers by usd 100 per week per room that you can share by 3 people if you so wish.

You will enjoy the presence of tens of other international volunteers and interns participating our various projects all around the year. We produce lot of occasions and music shows at our garden stage covered with the makuti roofing. The hotel has internet facilities, shops and a bar.

Thereon you can enjoy during your free time participating our safari programs, to visit our Zanzibar facilities, to go to the coral islands or to take a bus and visit our facilities at Kilimanjaro or Masai land.

Highlights: This Art in Tanzania program is covering the most of music sector. We need musicians, dancers, music producers, studio and PA system technicians, promoters, marketing and media people, music sector teachers, music journalists etc. You can work with the top studio and musicians in the country.

Qualifications: The Mzuka Records music studio - artists - performances project placements are on field of music production, musicians & singers & dancers, music marketing, show & festival management, music journalists among the other music related professions. We also welcome semiprofessionals in the team. You do not need to have a specified educational qualifications but a reasonable amount of skill at your field. We also welcome music video makers.

We have good facilitation at the studio as well as a big PA system to perform small shows up to the size of festivals. You work together with our media team, assist to make music articles to our monthly magazine Fiesta, you may visit at the radio and television shows etc. You can use your innovation to create new things and certainly you will experience and learn yourself as well.

Cost in US$: usd 230 per week

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: Art in Tanzania has some 1,500 volunteer and interns arriving annually and we have more than 100 volunteers in the country most of the season. We have more than 300 placements, 70 people staff including expatriate team leaders. We get all ages, all professions participating and those placements we do not have at a particular time, we are usually able to tailor in.

Age Range: All capable can participate, young people with care taker

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Tanzania Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently Or in Groups of 2-4

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

Art in Tanzania's Mission Statement: Volunteering and adventure tours in Tanzania. Helping poor and underprivileged. Supporting arts and music. To enhance the livelihood of the rural villages, orphans, women and tribal people as the Masai tribe. We also perform environmental projects as introducing fire bricks made of waste materials to avoid forest cutting for charcoal. We operate in grass root level so the work is easy to attend to all volunteers. We finance our operations with the small profits from the attending volunteers as well as from our other financial resources as from meaningful safaris.

Year Founded: 2004