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Participants

The Atelier addresses early career artistic directors, programmers and curators working for art organisations or festivals, likewise every bit those working in a programme related section in a festival.

25 emerging and practiced festival leaders, cultural activists, and artists from Belgium, Republic of burundi, Egypt, Ethopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Britain, and Zimbabwe have been selected to participate. You can find their bios below.

A total listing of participants for the Atelier Kampala can be establish hither.

Abdoul MUJYAMBERE is a young multidisciplinary creative person and entrepreneur born and based in Kigali. Abdoul holds two diplomas in Mod Languages and Performing Arts, and is recipient of the Africalia, African Cultural Fund, and Prince Claus Seed awards for the Emerging Young African Artists 2020 and 2021 respectively.

Anton Vanderhasselt, 32, lives in Brussels, Kingdom of belgium. He was born on the countryside effectually Brussels, so it was ever a mythical, dangerous big city to him. In 2013 he went to live there after living in Antwerp and Avignon for his studies. He studied art history and did his masters in cinema-science, and afterwards did a year of French in Avignon. When he got back, he got a job as a Box Role agent at BOZAR, a big cultural centre that he knew of. Selling tickets was very fun, just he was also bummed out that he could non state a better job with his iii diploma'south. Nevertheless, he worked difficult and after a while got promoted a few times, and now afterwards viii years he is the Head of Production of the music section. His dream has always been to motion over to the artistic and become a curator/developer, and with this big basis that he has at present (going from Box Role, to product, to programming) he feels confident that he is ready. Really, there is a programmer retiring in the summer and he volition take his place, then at the moment he is existence groomed to have over his programming. If all goes well, he will sign the contract in May 2022 and volition have reached his ultimate dream job at 32, which is scary and heady at the same time. Adjacent to his life at BOZAR he spends practically every spare infinitesimal of his time listening, making and recording music. Together with his best friend, their band "Zyfa" is a passion project that got style out of hand, only they both feel that information technology keeps them sane adjacent to their "more than full fourth dimension" job.

Byamukama Brian, an Ugandan, holds a Bachelors degree in Film and Drama from Makerere University. He is an actor/theatre practitioner now desiring to be a festival manager. He has performed at the National theatre of Uganda with Silent Voices Uganda in their festival of 48 hours in Harlem, and in over 100 main schools in Uganda in a product placement play of fresh dairy yoghurt. He has performed in Cologne, Düsserdolf, Oberhausen, in their play Romeo and Juliet in Kampala.

72Hours in Makerere would exist his first festival to manage as a festival managing director if it e'er happens.

Christine Nangobi is the Coordinator of Uganda'southward annual Jubilant Womanhood Festival, a 5 solar day upshot held during the International Women'due south Mean solar day Celebration week with an aim of complimenting gender disinterestedness efforts through providing a platform where women'due south stories are told from a woman's perspective.

With iii years' experience in Arts management,  Christine sought to  further the cause of amplifying Women's voices by embarking on Production and presentation FeminArt a Celebrating  Womanhood Festival  online television  program showcasing women artists works, which will exist launched beginning of Apr when post – production of  the kickoff thirteen episodes will be accomplished.

A Journalist by training having acquired a Bachelors in Mass Advice from Ndejje University and a certificate in technical aspects of filmmaking, Christine recently discovered her acting passion when she starred in the twenty five Anti – Corruption audio – visual dramatized skits and the DSTV film project where she is featuring equally a back up actor in the Showtime eleven flick where she acted equally the girlfriend to the manager of the Football society.

She also coordinates Native Voices International'due south Motion picture Society activities a venture she is so passionate virtually given that it enables her to contribute to building chapters of immature people specially rural based with multi - media skills. To this end, Christine selects the film they picket, works with management to place trainers as well equally development of the film lodge general activity programming.

Christine worked as a campaign monitor with Alliance for Campaign Finance Monitoring (ACFIM) during 2021 elections, an umbrella body hosting sixteen member organizations across Uganda.

Christine is likewise a member of the Rotaract social club of Kololo.

Henry Mubiru is a playwright and performer from Uganda. He derives his inspiration from social processes and interrogates them with theatre. Play titles to his proper noun include; _Pursuit of Fairness, Colors of Pain, Truth or Dare, The Riverbed. Henry is a 2018 graduate of Makerere University with a BA in Drama and Picture, and attained a diploma in Documentary filmmaking at Africa Movie University in Kigali, 2018. He likewise took role in the 2017/2019 Tebere Arts Foundation Playwrights Mentorship Programme and in 2020 he was i of the international artists of Spotter&Talk Artists Residency of Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Switzerland. He is currently working with Obuntu Arts Centre, producing theatrical works for social change.

Isima Ssemujju is a professional sound recordist and mixer who switched from acting. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in drama and film from Makerere Academy department of Performing Arts and Film. He too holds a Diploma in Documentary and Acoustic Storytelling from Africa Picture Academy in Kigali-Rwanda. Isima has worked as a sound recordist on several projects that include The Campus TV series, The Surrogate, The Bad Mexican, Sixteen Rounds, MTN MOMO nyabo campaigns (2018 and 2019), The Wing Uganda Campaigns, among others. He has also worked on Tv shows like The Honorables, Mixigo Express, Mpeke Town, Mistakes Gals Do, Sanyu, Mama and Me , Second Gamble, Jangu Tulye and several documentaries and reality TV shows. Isima is also passionate nigh Product Direction, Producing for film and Television receiver, Phase Management, acting and music. In his free fourth dimension, Isima volition either be dancing to adept music or swell jokes with friends most the edification of the performing arts sector in Uganda. Seeing performers evangelize their roles in a comfortable manner makes Isima smiling considering as a performer and now doing artists management on several theatrical shows and festivals, he wants performers to go on stage or in front of cameras ready to evangelize.

John Mukeni Namai is a talented storyteller/curator & festival organizer from Kenya. His stories reach back into Kenya African folklore and he weaves them back to the present day, with electric current regional and world issues. John is besides mentor and trainer to young people and active member of Zamaleo ACT,  an East African artiste founded and managed performing arts and culture organization. Recently, adapting to COVID-19 restrictions, he has been agile hosting and organising storytelling festivals and events online and offline.

 John works as a storyteller, festival producer, arts educator and community organizer in Nairobi Kenya. With Zama Leo Human action, he helps organise the annual Sigana International Storytelling festival to promote the art of storytelling. Together with the organization TICAH (Traditional indigenous culture and heritage), he has been using storytelling to disseminate cognition at the National Museums of Kenya and wider community through various workshops. He is an award-winning recipient of the Crawly Foundation Grant 2015 to transform Nairobi using  stories.

Joshua Alabi is a theatre and pic Director, Content/Concept Creator, artistic strategist, producer, playwright, teacher and Consultant. He has been invited to the Fratz International festival 2022, Berlin to phase his new show 'KOLOFU' for children on the topic of colourism, bleaching, toning and identity. He was invited as one of Africa's rise director alongside Jade Bowers from South Africa and David Kono from Cameroon to the Festival of the World (Theater Der Welt) Dusseldorf, Germany to talk about his work and join the Equity Forum console session (where he also premiered his new work 'Skin'). Joshua has besides been selected among several young global storytellers to train at the catalyst Story Institut and Join the HBO, Jada and Will Smith Foundation and U.s.a. Department of Land-Innovation Eye Funded project where he would be producing his television series. The writer/director of SNIPER, a play on mental health, depression and suicide in partnership with the Lagos State ministry of Health, SURPIN and the Goethe Instiut Nigeria. He co-produced/directed 'Queen Moremi- the musical Reloaded 2019/2020 for the Business firm of Oduduwa Foundation of The Ooni of Ife, 'Talk N exercise' for the Rule of Law and Anti-corruption Program of the European Union/British Council on issues of Anticorruption, criminal justice system and Sexual and gender based violence. In 2017, Produced/Directed 2 unlike play project for the British Council/UKAID programme and United kingdom's DFID touring 10 Nigerian states almost troubling bug such equally insurgency, domestic violence, unemployment, corruption, impunity etc. same with 'ImaginationTV' created/directed in collaboration with 'Junges Schauspiel, Dusseldorf (Dhaus) inspired by Chimamanda Adichie's speech "Dangers of a Single Story and the film "Creature of No Nation'.He is likewise the Producer/Founder of KIFT- Kininso International Festival of Theatre, the largest international children's theatre festival in Nigeria. Joshua is looking to take his new show 'Cream Body' for a UK bout in Summer 2022.

 He was part of the Next Generation Theatre Makers to present a solo and ensemble curated show at the Starke Stücke Theatre Festival in Frankfurt, Germany in a One-yr residency 2017-2018. Same year his piece 'SANDCSAPE' was hosted as the Major work in the same festival. He is Founder/Director of Kininso Koncepts, a creative/Cultural hub established with the aim of inspiring greatness and making relevant statements through storytelling and deep roots in research, civilisation and tradition. We are geared towards creating a unique storytelling technique and innovating new performance styles. Equally storytellers, we exercise non merely entertain, we inform, educate, challenge and transform the intellectual, social and cultural perspective of our communities. Nosotros are an inclusive hub that utilize creativity, engineering science, stories, and pattern innovation to tell authentic African and contemporary stories, challenge the condition quo and shift perception. Also, an advocacy organisation that utilizes performance art, documentary and theatre as a tool for social positive change. Over the years, we have served as a goad for social orientation especially as it concerns young people, and the result of our performances accept created an enlightened community of responsible and responsive populace. He is writing historical plays about The showtime African Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther and another about Funmilayo Ransom Kuti who led the women to revolt against tyranny in Abeokuta as well equally a Kudirat Abiola story. Joshua owns a B.A (hons) and Thousand.A in Theatre Arts from the Creative Arts Department, University of Lagos and other certificates in Leadership, management and business concern courses and trains other creatives in the aforementioned field. Joshua has worked in Nigeria, Arab republic of egypt, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Southward Africa, Angola, Germany and the United Kingdom

Kimberley Kute is a Zimbabwean woman with a background in Psychology and currently works in the Energy and Events Sectors in Zimbabwe with particular focus in Administration, Consequence Production and Management equally well as Sports Marketing. Her wide and growing portfolio makes her a force to be reckoned with. She is passionate about the Arts in Manufacture in Zimbabwe and beyond and has worked as the co-ordinator for Shoko Festival for 4 years and recently has been engaged with Civilization Curatives, a motility that seeks to educate and expose Zimbabweans to all things Visual Arts and aims to span the gap betwixt Artists and Art Collectors or aspiring Art collectors.

A civilisation producer at heart, Leul Shoaferaw's creative portfolio includes music management, film-making and curation. His interest in the creative industry was sparked by European and American creative movements and the urge to tell stories contextual to his African identity. Steeped in a passion and thirst for knowledge in picture show and music, he made his first professional person steps in movie theater with his commencement brusque picture Plumes Blanches which won him recognition across many festivals and an official award Best Film on African Cultural Issues at Lake International Pan African Picture Festival in Kenya. Nevertheless, the journey to accomplish there was filled with unnecessary challenges and lacked basic structural support, that's why Leul decided to pivot and establish WAG, a talent management and creative bureau that aims to represent artistic professionals and build an ecosystem that is inclusive of growth and empowers professionals that joins it. WAG's portfolio of services include music management, consequence curation, media product and corporate communications. WAG runs liaison operations betwixt Accra and Lagos.

Massira TOURE has x years experience in art, culture and community engagement in Mali. She holds a master's degree in fine arts from the "Conservatoire des arts et métiers multimédia Balla Fasséké KOUYATE in 2015" and a bachelor degree in English in the "Faculté des lettres et des sciences du langage" at University of Bamako. Massira got a scholarship to participate in the Mandela Washington Fellowship YALI 2017 in Business and entrepreneurship at Lehigh University, Bethlehem Pennsylvania in the USA.

 While creating art pieces as a painter, she also organizes exhibitions to promote visual arts in Mali. She participated to several exceptions, workshops and fine art projects in Republic of mali, Senegal, Benin, France, Congo Brazzaville etc.… She worked as the administrator in charge of grant and loans for the Fonds Maaya, an establishment that aims to support artists and cultural actors in Mali.

 Massira created in 2017 a website called AGANSI (world wide web.agansi.com). This platform aims to promote young African artists by providing an online space of the exhibition and then that they can show their works to a wider public and get opportunities to sell them. From its creation to now, the platform Agansi.com gave opportunities to more than 25 artists in Mali and highlighted nigh 300 artworks. She teaches drawing and painting at the "Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimedia Balla Fasseke KOUYATE" and works as independent consultant for institutes and NGO as the National Museum of Mali, UNESCO, World Bank, SAVAMA-DCI etc.…

 Massira is a pioneer in providing development opportunities for youth and especially women in educational training, fine art and culture.

Moustapha Diop is a cultural manager who made his start in cultural surround in 2014.He began by managing artists whith friends. Then the young Zaf as the closest call him begins training to depeen his knowledge in management,cultural project direction,creative business organization and marketing.This permit him to proceeds power in customs past designing many cultural projects for actor in urban cultures in Sénégal. In 2020,he created a cultural compagny called Keur Massar Productions to officially implement the first hip hop and urban civilisation festival in the locality of Keur Massar. In addition,Moustapha Diop works on many festivals in Sénégal and keep on to purses studies in cultural assistants.

Mphatso C.M. Chidothe is a Malawian artistic consultant, talent/artist manager, events manager cultural custodian, community mobilizer and children/youth activist who was born in 1983. Her life objective is to contribute to efforts of improving socioeconomic development of mankind especially in the fields of community mobilization, children/youth and women empowerment, career guidance, counselling, education, wellness, social justice and other social issues as appropriate through ministry building, leadership, arts, media, and culture. As an creative person who majored in drama and minored in fine art at University of Malawi, Chancellor College in 2007 she possesses skills on creative writing, community mobilization, theatre, and film and media product. Through her theatrical studies and theatre for development experience with dissimilar organizations, she had the opportunity to travel across Republic of malaŵi and report different cultural practices and expressions from different tribes within a period of 4 years (2003-2007).

Soon after graduating in 2007, she worked every bit a script author for an International arrangement called Didactics Development Centre that was implementing an interactive radio instructions programme for lower chief school in Malawi called Tikwere. Afterwards working for 2 years she became a producer and was digitally recording and editing these radio programs that aired every school day all year circular for 3 years. Whilst working on this project she was a consultant for other organizations such as Pakachere Institute for Wellness and Development where she co-authored the After the Honeymoon short pic under "One Honey" project, after being trained in film making past Pakachere Institute for Health through Soul Metropolis in South Africa. She also worked as a resident playwright for Nanzikambe Art Evolution for a year and she adapted Ngugi Wa Thiongo'south I volition Marry When I desire, a play that toured in Europe (2010).

In 2010 she was invited at the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at University of Malawi, Chancellor College to be a role fourth dimension lecture in drama. Baronial 2012 saw her shifting her career to fulltime ministry focusing on children and youth simultaneously volunteering for Royal Rangers, a children and youth mentorship and empowerment initiative. In an effort to deepen her understanding on social issues affecting societies then every bit to effectively contribute towards community initiatives past addressing such problems, she pursued a Masters of Arts in Community Psychology (2014) from Malawi Assemblies of God University.

She worked as a Station Director for a local Television set and Radio media house called Channels for all Nations (Tin) from March 2014 to March 2016, where apart from leading the authoritative attribute of the organization, she presented and produced programs. She also worked as a artistic consultant for Zathu project by Girl Effect for from September 2016 to February 2018, where she was part of the talent search and talk show product crew. Her passion for arts and culture pushed her to pursue more training in fine art and cultural management with Music Crossroads on Consequence and Cultural Management through its Creative Training Campuses in Malawi and Zimbabwe in 2016, 2017 and 2019. This compelled her to attend one semester of Music School at Music Crossroad Academy Malawi. She was also compelled me to volunteer for different festivals such as Blantyre Arts Festival in 2010 and 2019 and Lake of Stars Festival of Ideas for Youth in 2017.

In her desire to influence the next generation toward the Malawian indigenous civilisation appreciation she has attended ethno workshops in Malawi in 2018 and 2019 to deepen her understanding of Malawian Civilization. She is currently managing the first ever female band in Malawi called The Daughters Band. She is also a collector of unlike ethno instruments from Malawi and the different countries she gets to visit. She has a total of 10 different instruments course Centre East, Western, Eastern and Key Africa.

April 2020 saw her embark on an intensive 3 months children music projection where she recruited 12 children between the ages of 9 to 17 (3 girls and 9 boys) who had no prior knowledge of music as a way of keeping them engaged and focused during the Covid xix Pandemic that forced a closure of schools. By the end of those 3 months the children had non simply learnt how to play musical instruments, but they learnt basic music theory such as music reading, music composition and choir. These children formed three bands that performed on different stages and are still performing to date. This music education and practice journeying led her to become a TIVETA'southward Trade Advisory Committee member for Music and Dance. Since 2020, she has also been facilitating workshops on Artistic Freedom, Talent and Events Management supported by UNESCO and US Embassy.

She led the children squad for Beloved Malawi Festival 2016 and 2021 and SOS Adventure with over 500 staff. She has also served as the Camp Coordinator for Tiwale Army camp, a non-turn a profit system that provides safe spaces for fun, adventure and life skills for children and youth through over-nighttime camps, retreats, family unit camping ground, fun fairs, and picnics. She will exist facilitating the Pamchenga Kids Nature Adventure under the Roots Cultural Restoration Entrada Project during the Pakhonde Ethno Music Festival from 27th to 29th May 2022 at Chingalire Cultural Hamlet in Lilongwe in Republic of malaŵi.

Currently, she works as the Full general Managing director for Assemblies of God Press, a printing business firm that was established in 1948 which she joined in December 2019.

Olga Drygas is a curator of the New Europe International Festival and the Generation After Showcase at NOWY Teatr in Warsaw, Poland and a jury fellow member of the Perform Europe international granting program. She is also a guest lecturer at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, and a PhD candidate at the Art Institute, Polish University of Science.

Nassy Konan is a Creative Producer working across Theatre and Live Art. At the eye of her practice, she specialises in producing new work and introducing it to diverse audiences. She's a recipient of Live Work Fund 2021 supported by Jerwood Arts and Arts Council England (Developing Your Creative Practise fund).

Nassy'southward has extensive expertise in touring work to mid-calibration venues and festivals around the Great britain and internationally. She has produced piece of work for The Erstwhile Vic, Battersea Arts Centre, Young Vic, Brixton House (formerly Ovalhouse), Southwark Playhouse, Greenwich & Docklands International Festival.

She is currently a producer for Dropped Tea Theatre - making work that celebrates and amplifies London'south lost voices through multidisciplinary forms of storytelling in gentrified communities. Likewise every bit, producer for Swiss Selection Edinburgh with Pro Helvetia.

Career highlights include the development and touring of the honour-winning BAC Beatbox Academy production of Frankenstein: How To Brand A Monster and the touring of Touretteshero's Not I past Samuel Beckett to international & UK festivals/venues such every bit The Under the Radar 2018 Professional person Symposium, Sophiensaele - Berlin, Grenzenlos Kultur Theaterfestival Mainz (2018), Southbank Heart, Albany Deptford & DaDaFest (2018).

Nassy recently was an Associate Producer For Soho Theatre; producing Nouveau Riche's Queens of Sheba and Producer for Horizon, an international showcase platform for artists based in England and programmed equally part of Edinburgh Festival. Funded by Arts Council England and led by a consortium made upwardly of Battersea Arts Eye, Dance4, Tearing Festival, Gift, MAYK and Transform.

Nassy was previously an Assistant Producer for Sadler's Wells and an assessor for the (2019) Total Theatre Awards in which recognize and award work by professional artists creating innovative theatre and performance.

Rashid Nadhir is a graphics designer, photographer, and outcome organizer with a passion for art, inventiveness, and the environment. He lives in Arusha Tanzania and works with many arts organizations and festivals like Okoa Mtaa foundation projects, Marafiki Music Festival and Haba na Haba Dance Festival, Sauti za Busara Zanzibar, etc. Currently, he is focused about on outcome management and coordination, graphics designing, and photographs

Reem Allam is the Executive Manager and Artistic Programmer of the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF), Egypt'southward largest international multi-disciplinary arts festival that takes identify in Downtown Cairo, presenting theater, trip the light fantastic, music, film, and new media arts. D-CAF too hosts a biennial Arab Arts Focus (AAF) showcase during the festival, where international delegates fly-in to attend a dumbo programme of the latest in contemporary performances by Arab artists.

Over the years, Allam has been selected to exist a juror on international jury boards of several festivals such as Switzerland's Zürcher Theater Spektakel festival, Poland'southward Boska Komedia Theater Festival, Brasil Cena Aberta showcase, and Egypt'due south Nahdet El Mahrousa Garage Growth plan. She has besides worked in several international festivals including London's Shubbak Festival, Edinburgh's Simply Festival, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Arab Arts Focus Showcase. Currently, Allam is a curatorial advisor for Theater Der Welt festival in Deutschland.

In 2018, Allam led and managed the first international classical music festival at Cairo's Manial Palace. In 2020, Allam was on the Planning Committee for ISPA New York Congress 2021, and is at present on the Pitch New Works Committee and an ISPA boyfriend for the years 2022-2024. She has also given a grooming in Cultural Management at AUC Tahrir Cultural Eye.

In 2016, Reem Allam has been awarded with distinction a UK Primary'southward Degree in Arts, Festivals, and Cultural Management from Queen Margaret Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland. In add-on, Allam has been awarded the 2015/2016 UK Santander Scholarship Award and the 2018 Finalist Stage - Social Impact Accolade of British Council's UK Alumni Awards.

Samuel SkySam Matengu is owner of and photographer at SkySam Photography. He was born in Windhoek and moved to the United States and and then Kingdom of belgium every bit a child. Later spending some fourth dimension in Zambia, afterwards in life he chose to become a chef and took on photography. He returned to Namibia and worked in the hospitality industry pursuing a love for nutrient. Forth with his passion for food, he had a cracking involvement in photography, and pursued the development of this skill in 2015. In 2016, he fix SkySam Photography and experimented with photography in diverse lighting conditions such as specializing in ultra-violet photography. Finding a detail interest in UV light photography, he explored this technique substantially. In 2017, with his partners, he decided to form the Namibian Arts Fair which he has served equally Chief Operations Officeholder until now.

Shabani Ramadhani is a musician, bass player, songwriter and festival organiser. Shabani got started learning music when he was 15 years of age, and remembers taking classes of drums, rhythm guitar and bass guitar that thus became his favourite musical instruments upwardly to at present. Having completed the training, Shabani then participated in a wide range of bands where he got an opportunity to demonstrate his performance in various musical concerts in Tanzania and other countries.

In improver to that, Shabani has besides been a teacher of music in Tanzania especially in House of talents (THT). After that, he founded Marahaba Music Expo in Bujumbura and this latter immune him to serve as an ambassador of Visa for Music in Morocco and in a range of music events throughout Africa as well every bit in Europe.

Shadrach Teryila Ukuma is a cultural operation researcher, an thespian, a Festival Director and University lecturer based in Makurdi, Nigeria. In 2015, he teamed upwards with Revd. Fr. Solomon Ukeyima, a Roman Catholic priest to start the Kyegh Sha Shwa Cultural Festival as a platform for cultural commemoration targeting, reconciliation, community building, peace and cultural sustainability. In December 2021, Shadrach worked with the Masters students of Cultural Management at the Heilbronn University, Federal republic of germany to organize the project "Festival of Cultures" where cultural experiences from Africa, Asia and Latin America were shared in a hybrid (onsite and online) format with the University community and guests. Shadrach current interest is working on projects and researching avenues that use the arts and culture to foster understanding and cooperation in the world.

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Shane Burmania (1984) is a music programmer based in Amsterdam. He studied Musicology at the UVA, followed past a Masters in Music Programming at ArtEZ. Since 2011, he has been working as a music programmer at Muziekgebouw and since 2015 also at Korzo theater in The Hague. At Muziekgebouw he programs the biennial Minimal Music Festival and initiated The Balance is Dissonance, a concert series for genre-free, outspoken and adventurous music which has been running since 2012. At Wonderfeel, almanac outdoor festival for classical music, he has been part of the artistic team since its inception in 2015. Main theme in all his piece of work is to make connections between genres, generations and audience groups.

Sowedhi Uthman Kiwanuka is the artistic manager/c.e.o of Jabulani Arts Hub. Sowedhi is Ugandan, aged 34, and holds a training certificate in Cultural Management of Arts and entrepreneurship every bit well equally a diploma in Business Administration. Sowedhi has been at the helm of running and growing Jabulani, starting as caput of marketing and director to the overall roles of doing oversight and direction of the different activities of the organisation. Sowedhi has a squad of artistic supportive staff in the different section or artforms inside the system, and leads the strategic team that drafts and implements major objectives and goals of the organization.

Tatenda Kanengoni is a writer and visual storyteller who strives to tell stories that authentically portray the African continent. She works as a freelance multimedia Announcer and communications and PR consultant for arts organisations namely AfriKera Arts Trust overseeing documentation and coordinating The Arts Gathering, an annual multi discipline arts festival.

 Her portfolio includes communications work for The DevDispatch platform, documentation for a female led projection on sustainable fashion titled 'Fashion Futures,' in collaboration with Chenesai, British Council and Nataal Media, and multimedia reporting for bird storytelling agency. Additionally, she contributes to, and manages the weblog for AfriKera Arts Trust. This has largely influenced her contempo writing, which is centred on chronicling the experiences of dancers in the industry. Through her platform CL MEDIA, she documents cultural moments through short video. In Nov 2019, she was part of the opening panel at African Crossroads Mombasa, Kenya, exploring Africa's rapidly urbanising cities.

 Tatenda holds a Master of Arts in International Communications from the Academy of Nottingham and a Video Editing and Filming qualification from CCOSA, Zimbabwe.

Damo Mokgatla AKA Thabiso Montse is a multi-ethnical instrumentalist who has been learning and exploring dissimilar ethnical musical instruments, audio, and researching about the history of sound therapy. Since early on years He was inspired past his female parent who is deeply rooted in the Setswana culture and She has influenced his love for ethnic music through old tales she used to tell and aboriginal songs she would teach him. Since then, Damo Mokgatla took a route of healing through music instead of making music for amusement. He has in the past performed in many stages in the city of Johannesburg including Born to exist famous competition where he came showtime and won the about authentic act award. He is currently practicing equally a sound journeying facilitator at Damo foundation wellness Centre and he hosts music exhibitions every now and then. Damo has a dream to one day own a music museum where he will showcase and play unlike ethnical instruments from beyond the world. On the seventh of Dec 2019 He performed at the Salon De la Culture in Reunion Isle and later went on a residence project in Bassano Del Grappa in Italy. Damo sees himself as music medicine man than just an entertainer.

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