Festivals

Over a year back, artists almost lost their minds when the president called the arts useless, regardless of the noise that was made on social media, radios or TV, no one from the president’s office came up to address the situation.Yet, during the just concluded presidential elections, many artists were …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …