He got on a plane from France to open Uganda’s premiere dance festival aptly known as the Dance Week Festival.Many didn’t turn up to see how graceful his moves would be, but to look and snare at festival organizers’ for always opting for foreign acts to open such shows instead …
Read More »Inaugural Short film festival set for next week
Most of the times, success of a film industry is measured by how many features or full length films have been produced. In places like Uganda where only a few are released, they will be quick to judge the industry non-existent. However, in the backdrop of any feature film like …
Read More »Amakula relishes memories with first drive in cinema in years
You can’t forget the first time you were at the cinema. Well maybe you can forget the clothes you were putting on but definitely not the film you watched.But I guess that only works for people that looked at cinema going as some kind of privilege, the ones that elevated …
Read More »Kampala Amakula, Uganda’s oldest film festival is back
For a number of years, Amakula International Film Festival (AIFF) was the sole Ugandan festival and one of the biggest in the East African region.However, due to issues beyond the management, they had to pull the plug on the festival before it celebrated its tenth birthday.This week, the festival will …
Read More »Press Release: Kampala International Theater Festival back for second edition
Bayimba Cultural Foundation and Sundance Institute East Africa proudly announce the second edition of the Kampala International Theatre Festival to take place from 25th to 29th November 2015 at the National Theatre that will host an array of readings and productions by celebrated playwrights, directors, and actors. The Kampala International …
Read More »Kerunen and team do it better at Pearl Rhythm Festival
If you have attended local music festivals before, the Pearl Rhythm Festival that took place at the National Theatre on Saturday would have left you nodding in approval of its different stroke.For its second edition, instead of struggling with not-readily-available stars, the festival continued with its artiste-tutoring, guiding and later …
Read More »Festivals are in trouble but Bayimba must go on!
It has been a muddy ride for different festivals in Africa the past few years; with financial hardships, lack of support from many governments, to little belief in the arts from the cooperate Africa, most of the shows are generally at the brink of extinction.For instance, East Africa’s most known …
Read More »Mixed feeling as Sheebah dares the Bayimba stage
At the beginning of the year, Kanye West was announced as a headlining act for the 2015 Glastonbury Festival in the UK. Only days after the announcement, a British paper ran a story of how the ‘untalented’ Kanye wasn’t needed at a festival that has been celebrated by acts like …
Read More »All set for Bayimba International Festival
Bayimba International Festival of the Arts has successively managed to position itself as Uganda’s top multi-discipline art event.With such crafts like theater, music, dance, visual art, poetry to animation, it’s correct to put it that the show turns its venue, the National Theater into a boiling pot of creativity.Tomorrow, the …
Read More »Uganda Film Festival: A festival is no one night stand
The third edition of the UCC sponsored Uganda Film Festival wrapped on Friday at Serena Hotel. As you could imagine, there was merry making as a section of film makers came together to reminisce about the year it has been and also ponder about the future.This year, unlike the past …
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