Theater mourns Wycliffe Kiyingi

In March 2013, when Dr. Mercy Mirembe Ntangare put together a Theater festival, Wycliffe Kiyingi’s Muduuma Kwe Kwafe was set to showcase on ...

Theater festival comes to Kampala

Visual Art, dance, music and food festivals have all been held in Kampala, yet for some reason, Theater has been marginalized. Finally, a fe...

Kwivuga back to poetry basics

When Kwivuga was launched at Gato Mato in 2012, it was indeed the best thing to ever happen to poetry. A night where over twenty talented l...

Escape from Uganda, fails to impress

Early on in October, it was announced that the 2013 Bollywood film Escape from Uganda would premiere at the plush Serena Hotel in Kampala. ...

KLA ART: Riding art to the market

One of the biggest problem art has faced over the years was a fact that the consumers didn’t know how and where to find it. The ones who ...

Kirya serves a sound cup of orchestra

On Thursday, Maurice Kirya surprised many when he decided to program the Kampala Music School in the first ever Orchestra live concert at ...

Much Ado offers Shakespeare’s soft side

Last week, National Theatre was under some love spell as William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing was staged. The collaborative produ...

Sound Cup: Orchestra in a coffee cup

Photo credit: The American Prize Kampala Music School will tomorrow evening be playing at Maurice Kirya's Sound Cup. we've prob...

Shakespeare's epic comedy to grace theater

Much Ado About Nothing is comedy play by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599 as he was approaching the mid of ...

Maddox still has it

Three names come up when the reggae music genre in Uganda is mentioned, Maddox SSematimba, Bebe Cool and Henry Tigan. Bebe Cool is the se...

Sifa Kelele takes baby steps at Bayimba Fest

Sifa Kelele’s debut was highly anticipated at this edition of the Bayimba International Festival of the arts, being an all-female band wit...

Surprises at this year’s Bayimba arts festival

For a long time, many city event organizers have been attacked for deliberately promoting central based talent at the expense of those in ...

Bayimba back for an epic seventh

Bayimba International Arts festival is definitely the biggest arts gathering in Uganda, giving platforms to all different genres of arts and...

East African Film makers finally get a home at Maisha Magic

A few days ago, Multichoice Africa unveiled a new channel, Maisha Magic, a station dedicated and tailored for East African viewers and conte...