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Sep 23
1 min

5th Kuonyesha Artists' Online Conversation

Artists are a mirror to society and its aspirations. As such they must be honest in representing and articulating what the society percei...

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Sep 8
1 min

An art exhibition, at last

Since the coronavirus started having a toll on humanity, life as it is known went into limbo.Kampala’s social life was brought to a stand...

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Sep 7
1 min

Debutant visual arts quintet with the look of one

It looks like the visual arts are turning out to be the most resilient art form in these COVID19 pandemic times. While theatres are close...

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Sep 2
1 min

Artsy Jinja Beckons

Jinja may want to leverage its new city status by tapping into its artsy side. After all, the “industrial hub of Uganda” lustre it once h...

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Aug 25
1 min

ART AND THE LAW

This conversation was informed by the fast rate at which arts spaces are shrinking due to the laws that have been enacted deliberately to...

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Aug 25
1 min

Artists and the digital economy space

With the digital space taking on the “new normal” for all interactions due to the COVID-19 pandemic ; this 2nd online artists’ conversati...

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Aug 10
1 min

Awed and Humbled

As I rode back to Kampala from a field trip to Gulu, the two words on my mind were awed and humbled and this is why..... During my 3 day ...

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Aug 8
1 min

Does art need permission to create?

Censoring art: The regulations on artistes have taken the bigger part of the industry by surprise. But what are the regulations and how w...

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Aug 6
1 min

How to improve the Stage Play and Public Entertainments Act

I had been hearing artistes expressing concern about the ‘new law’ suggested to regulate their industry but had not bothered to look it u...

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Aug 3
1 min

IT IS JUST A GOAT! The Proposed Solution To Uganda’s Creative Industry

By :Sylver Kyagulanyi In the year 1999, at the dawn of my music career, I was working with Diamonds Production, a music band which was th...

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Jul 27
1 min

SYLVER KYAGULANYI: Uganda’s Creative Industry Under Siege Again

The entertainment or creative arts industry is as old as humanity. It is one of the ways through which people demonstrate ingenuity and c...

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Jul 21
5 min

KUONYESHA ART FUND IN KARAMOJA.

After months of demanding selection of the recipients for the Kuonyesha Art Fund support program, it was time for the team to visit the b...

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Jun 27
1 min

ARTISTS' ONLINE CONVERSATION

The notion has been that the Culture and Creative Industries, which are the bedrock of the Creative Economy are resilient and recession-p...

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May 26
5 min

The Resilience Of a Creative Entreprenuer

By Solomon King My biggest business lesson from 2019 starts with this: One of the most painful things that ever happened to me was shutti...

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May 25
1 min

African artists take creative approach to fighting COVID-19 pandemic

Top artists from across Africa and throughout the African Diaspora have joined forces with UNESCO, to save lives and counter misinformati...

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May 24
1 min

Government should invest more in arts and culture sector

PHOTO BY MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI By Nuwa Wamala Nnyanzi In the past, musicians, painters, and sculptors enjoyed patronage of kings, popes, and...

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Apr 29
5 min

Kuonyesha resilience through COVID-19

Kuonyesha Art Fund was still in a celebratory spirit having just announced the awardees for its pilot phase - a total of 67 artists from ...

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Apr 17
4 min

Here is how the show may go on amidst a global pandemic

A belly dancer conducting lessons via the ZOOM video-communications app in Vietnam. A violinist playing off his balcony in a housing esta...

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Apr 16
5 min

Surviving a 24 day quarantine that was to continue

Some have said it was all by good luck that I ended up in quarantine. I do not know what to think of this, I can only tell my experience ...

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Apr 15
0 min

Participation guide for artists and cultural professionals

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