eupaproject, Author at Eupa Project

December 5, 2021

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the first ‘eUPA project gathering! 🔥🔥
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🔥🥁We had a BLAST at the ’eUPA Project in Dewe on December 5, 2021, as you can see at the smile of our new intern Alé!

// ’eUPA (translated from Ateso as “burning flames”) aims at creating a gathering around a bonfire to share art in its different forms. A group of eight artists from Uganda, Germany and other countries have collaborated to create a multi-layered mixed media piece embedding styles of cultural conservation. The group previously participated in Roberta Wagner’s building business workshops supported by the German Embassy in 2020 and Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/ UGCS 2021.

This event not only inspired us through a beautiful drum circle letting us become part of a community, but it also engaged a multi-lingual poetry performance that carried us into other worlds for a little while. Accompanied by nice jams and reggae music, it was truly a special event!

Thank you to the ‘eUPA team and everyone who joined us on the ground!

Check out the live stream of the event!🔥✨

Event Schedule

Drum circle
Tent and installation with video
Poets responding to videos
Garden – sitting on mats and writing things for the time capsule
- Answer the questions
Drinking & Dancing
Events:
- Drum opening ceremony
  - 1-2 poets w poems at the opening
  - Intro talk Eupa can a be a poem / talk
  - Sina can to do an intro talk
- Circle talk 4pm
  - Marione, Ejuku and Maija from the group
  - Goethe-recommended moderator
  - Everyone else
  - After Brdiget’s poem: discussion on tradition & culture and harmful practices
- Interim
  - People walk around and prepare things for the time capsule
    - Camera guy asking people questions for the time capsule
    - Write things to throw in the fire
  - Poems hanging out the drum circle
- Closing ceremony – 5pm
  - Put the fire on
    - Say a poem while lighting the fire
  - Saying the written thing and throwing it in the fire

This event was supported by the German Embassy in Uganda and Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/UGCS.

We asked artists in Uganda, Germany and all over the world to submit their favourite words and sayings. We got dozens of submissions from all over the world. Here are some of them.

The Language Project started during the 2020 pandemic. It connected artists through space, time, and language barriers. The participants submitted their favourite words and created artworks inspired by each other. Poems. Videos. Drawings. Street Art. This page is a memory of the submission and created art, preserved.