Music, Dance and Performance

Mutaki is an Afro-soul and Rnb artist (singer and songwriter). He has written his music mostly about romantic love and hate relationships among people. Mutaki who is a member of the Cajon Music House musician collective has performed live at Sofar Kampala, Games and Politics, Stonefest, African Christmas Festival, The Music House Live, and others.…

The Skillz East Africa is an annual breaking Championship that demonstrates the uniqueness of a multi cross cultural expression of dance across the different generations of female and male dancers in the Sub-Saharan African region, the championship is an embodiment of diversity as they are set to bring together breakers and dancers (10 – 35…

In November we celebrated the international hip-hop week in cooperation with Authentic Voices Africa. Local artists were re-doing our rooftop painting in the theme of Hip-Hop accompanied by a jam session: dancers, hip-hoppers, rappers came all together while the painting was going on. On the 6th of January 2023 we re-opened the new mural painting…

The workshop on scenography was one of the Tebere Arts Foundation’s series of mentorship activities for the 2021/22 emerging artists cohort. The facilitator was Frieda Schieder, a renowned scenographer from Germany but who has worked across Europe as well as in Cairo, Egypt. The objective of the workshop was to build capacity for the emerging…

On Saturday, October 23rd 2021, Skillz East Africa (SEA)’s annual breaking Championships, dubbed as “The return of champions” featured top seeded breakers (Adults, youths and kids) from across the regions who once again stepped on the dance floor and competed for the prestigious breaking titles at the Joy Arena at the Ndere Cultural Centre. A…

The fourth edition of East African Soul Train (EAST), founded by Poppy Spowage and Geraldine Hepp, – a pop-up residency centred around a journey on Tanzania’s historic railway – took place in August/ September 2021 as a hybrid residency and research programme engaging 13 artists from across Africa, India and Europe working in different disciplines…

In November 2020, we organized an online dance project connecting Germany and Uganda. The Dance Call took place in cooperation with the German Embassy Kampala, addressing German and Ugandan urban dancers to come up with a catchy video of 1 minute presenting their global shout-out for 2020. Until 9th November dancers had time to submit…

The Urban Music Rebels’ journey continued in 2020 and reunited the musicians at the Sauti za Busara Festival in Zanzibar from February 13 – 17. The regional project is a cooperation between the Goethe-Instituts Rwanda, Tanzania, (since 2020 also) Kenya and the Goethe-Zentrum Kampala. The Urban Music Rebels collective was founded in 2019 to reflect…

In August, the first workshop of the regional project ‘‘Urban Music Rebels’’ took place in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. The idea for this project emerged after noticing a continuously growing trend to connect traditional instruments and local singing with modern beats and production techniques of the electronic music scene. The Goethe-Institutes in Tanzania and Rwanda are organizing…

On November 22nd, 2019 the Ugandan German Cultural Society (UGCS) celebrates its 30-years anniversary with a full programme honoring 30 years of engagement and cooperation. The journey of UGCS hast started in 1989, until it officially became Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/ UGCS in 2008. It works as a platform for intercultural exchange and promotes the German language…