BAYIMBA REGIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS GULU 2014

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Since the beginning of Bayimba Regional Festival i have had an opportunity to participate has an artists . Bayimba gives a platform to express and share your creative artistic works with the rest of the country and other artists. 

Each year has an artists am always preparing for the Bayimba regional Festivals of the arts and the finally Bayimba International festival of the Arts in Kampala.

STREET PERFORMERS UGANDA.

Street performers Uganda is group that brings together different young creative artists to do their work in the public spaces to charge the social life of other people through using art and culture.

This group came into being in 2011 after being trained by the professional internationally acclaimed artists Warner van Wely and Andre Dienske from the Netherlands street performers from the Netherlands for 5 weeks with the Bayimba Cultural Foundation. In 2011 the group had a country tour with bayimba regional and international festival of the arts 2011.

Since then the group has been engaging in various performances and festivals within the country .the group has performed in the LABA STREET ARTS FESTIVAL organized by the German Cultural Centre in 2012, this is Uganda festival 2011.

·          Interactive vocal and physical performance with no dialogues but with a lot of physical performance, use of images and body statues to tell the life of an African Abandoned Baby. this performance was show cased at sanyu babies home during the painting @ sanyu babies home event 23rd /02/2014.

WHAT IS OUR WORK ABOUT?

The group uses arts to effect social change and awareness. We show vices and follies in community through our performances exposing ethnic differences, sexuality, corruption and religious differences.

The group has done this through the monthly performances it carries out on the streets of Kampala city, and its suburbs. Indeed the performances have caught the eye of the public to such an extent that it has led to the growth of street theatre in Uganda.

 A Great performance at the Bayimba International Festival of the Arts 2011 at the Uganda National Theatre Parking Space

UPE REVIEWED IN NEWSPAPER THEATRE BY FOURSUM AT UGANDA NATIONAL THEATRE

http://www.newvision.co.ug/mobile/Detail.aspx?NewsID=633092&CatID=417

http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7631&Itemid=106

 http://www.presidentmuseveni.com/Uganda/Education.aspx

Confluence of Rivers Tour: Free Outdoor Performances in Hong Kong

Pearl River, Mekong River, Ganges River, River Nile and River Seine are five of the major rivers in the world, where ancient population, civilizations were born and cultivated.

While wars, exclusion, pollution and injustice are happening across these same areas, the artists dig deep into the history and cultures, to explore the wisdom from the birthplaces, to investigate into the challenges today, and to fuse them into a new alternative to deal with our modern world.

The Confluence of Rivers, incorporating stories, myths and legends and arts around the Rivers, connects, creates and celebrates the river tales of the past, present, future and beyond.

Artists from the Confluence of Rivers will share with the local communities in Hong Kong to share the cultural arts from their own countries. A MUST To EXPERIENCE!

14/ 4/ 2013(Sun)
12:30- Golden Computer Arcade, Shamshuipo
16:30- Outside YuenLongPlaza, Yuen Long

21/ 4/ 2013(Sun)
12:30- In front of the PeakTower, the Peak
16:30- Pedestrian Precinct,Central

27/ 4/ 2013(Sat)
12:30- Star Ferry Pier, Tsim Sha Tsui
16:30- Pedestrian Precinct, Mong Kok

Participating artists:
Faiz Zahir (Aranyak Natyadal | Bangladesh)
Shahidul Mamun (Aranyak Natyadal | Bangladesh)
Pei Jung Lee (University of Auckland | Taiwan/New Zealand)
Preechayut Saechang (Makhampom | Thailand)
Rogers Williams Mpaata (Theatre Factory | Uganda)
Maxime Sechaud (Théâtre de l’Ordinaire | France)
Ng Man Kei (Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society | Hong Kong)
Chung Chi Kit (Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society | Hong Kong)
Kwok Pui Yan (Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society | Hong Kong)
Lai Wing Sze (Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society | Hong Kong)

Project page: https://www.facebook.com/5river

Confluence of Rivers Tour: "ASHES BLOOD RIVERS" Theatre Performance

Confluence of Rivers World Tour
“ASHES BLOOD RIVERS”
Theatre Performance HONG KONG

Black Box Theatre, JCCAC // HONG KONG
2013 / 5 / 3 – 4

Participating artists:
Faiz Zahir (Aranyak Natyadal | Bangladesh)
Shahidul Mamun (Aranyak Natyadal | Bangladesh)
Pei Jung Lee (University of Auckland | Taiwan/New Zealand)
Preechayut Saechang (Makhampom | Thailand)
Rogers Williams Mpaata (Theatre Factory | Uganda)
Maxime Sechaud (Théâtre de l’Ordinaire | France)
Ng Man Kei (Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society | Hong Kong)
Chung Chi Kit (Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society | Hong Kong)
Kwok Pui Yan (Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society | Hong Kong)
Lai Wing Sze (Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society | Hong Kong)

"FOURSUM" NEWSPAPER THEATRE SHOWING AT NATIONAL THEATRE OF UGANDA 31ST JANUARY 2014

http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Bringing-your-news-on-stage/-/812796/2159018/-/aooxxiz/-/index.html

Four artists by the name of Edwin Mukalazi, Simon kivumbi, Mpaata Rogers Williams, Felix Bwanika and Esther Komweru all prominent theatre and film actors in the entertainment industry of Uganda will have a two hours newspaper theatre production.  They will create the structure, with minimal text but enormous movement and music, utilizing significant art forms originated or developed around the Newspapers Headlines since January to December 2013.

The performance will take the approach of an easy-understanding, simple yet attractive and interactive nature. It will embrace use of physical, mime, and improvisation.

OTAKO BOMB'S THE WEST GATE 2013!!!!!!

There is nothing great in acting like being part of an invisible provocative performances. This was a performance done at the Uganda national cultural centre at the gate.
Great thanks to the team that made this possible,Edwin Mukalazi,Arthur,Abraham and ssekumba.