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Art and writing can change the world
Art and writing can play a crucial role in the process of psychosocial transformation. Written language has a big influence on all kinds of communication. Also, art has often been described as a...
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The Sons of the Master: Tingatinga painters coming to ISU Kampala
The Sons of the Master is the title of the upcoming contemporary visual arts exhibition at the International School of Uganda (Entebbe Rd). The official opening of the exhibition is planned on March...
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Making an Artists’ Village work: Nesting for the next, big thing
Contemporary Ugandan art has historically been influenced by formal educational institutions. Thereby produced a generation of famous artists, whose practice also has been nurturing the current...
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Street theatre is taking the floor in Uganda
What is “Street theatre” really all about? This writer grossed in wonder when hearing the phrase Street theatre performance. Is it like an acrobats show, or a magician act? Or a kind of voodoo done in...
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Acoustic moments: A portrait of Michael Ouma
Photo of Michael Ouma. Taken from his Myspace-site. A talented and multidimensional artist in his own right, Michael Ouma has been there and done that and lived to play the tune. His insight into music...
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Bayimba Festival: Champion of the Arts
Between the 16th and the 18th September, the National Theater and Dewington Road next to it will be a riotous blaze of sound, colour, fashion and the spoken word: The Bayimba Festival is coming to...
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The Umoja Cultural Flying Carpet is landing at Ndere centre September 30th
Imagine 80 talented young artists from five countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda coming together in one phenomenal two-hour performance at the Ndere centre. Expect drums and...
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In memory of Geoffrey Mukasa: Exhibiting at AKA Gallery at Tulifanya
Geoffrey Mukasa – friend and “genius loci” – will they name a street after you – one day, print a stamp with one of your iconic paintings? Written by Klaus Betz The French, no strangers to Fine Art,...
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Liberation-Arts-Participation at the 6th LaBa! Street Art Festival
This year Uganda will celebrate its golden jubilee, and what better way to celebrate such a milestone other than with art! On June 9, Mackinnon road Nakasero will be ready for the sixth LaBa! Street...
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Bayimba: Celebrating five years of artistic inspiration
The Bayimba International Festival of the Arts will be running from 21-23 September 2012, and this year’s theme will be celebrating 5 years of artistic inspiration. There will be other activities like...
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Visionary Africa – Art at Work: Itinerant exhibition platform in African...
September 19-October 14, 2012, Kampala Railway Station Gardens This project includes an itinerant urban exhibition of contemporary African artistic practices, residencies for African artists, and...
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Using art to help communities: The Benet Story
What do you do as a minority community in a greater Uganda when you find yourself landless and your heritage about to be extinguished? The Benet people, high up on mount Elgon in the district of...
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Countdown to LaBa! 2013, May 25th
Preparations are in full swing. Artists have been chosen. The pitch nearby has been measured out. Security has been ordered. Street closure has been applied for. Adverts are running. LaBa! is coming...
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transFORM#1: A conversation with Afriart Gallery Art director Daudi Karungi
The transFORM #1 Contemporary Art Experience is happening this Saturday 5th December at a warehouse behind the Nakumatt in Bukoto. The event, which is organised in partnership with the Goethe Zentrum...
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