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
- People walk around and prepare things for the time capsule
- Closing ceremony – 5pm
- Put the fire on
- Say a poem while lighting the fire
- Saying the written thing and throwing it in the fire
- Put the fire on
- Drum opening ceremony
This event was supported by the German Embassy in Uganda and Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/UGCS.