Human Rights Are Universal
We hosted East African Visual Artist, an innovative human rights media organisation that celebrates the diversity and inclusion of all humanity in September to celebrate Human Rights. It was a packed event with different highlights. Artists were showcasing their latest work and our audience were able to buy art pieces. Poets were performing their poems…
Christmas Book Fair
Our year ended with our yearly Christmas Book Fair. The first edition of this event happened in 2021. It shall bring together publishers, literature associations/ communities, individuals and all who are interested in the art of reading. Further, we want the book fair to be a platform for our close partners to connect, showcase their…
Mitchz Manifest
On 10th of August Isabirye Mitch and other artists performed a silent poetry show at our basement. By performing poetry with and without acoustic music the audience could really enjoy various kinds of poetry. Each with their individual touch given by the performers. With the earphones given out each person in the audience could really…
Amani Festival
GZK GOES UPCOUNTRY! The cultural team has been travelling to Arua to join the Amani Festival 2022. This festival went for three days from 18th to 20th August including many activities with many different partners. There were dance, singing performances, fashion shows, workshops and a lot more. GZK’s supported Amani Festival with a poetry slam…
Online Reading Culture
In general, our reading culture events aim to promote the writers and poets of Uganda and other African countries, but also to build a bridge between our language and cultural program. This event reaches out to Ugandan writers of all genres, often cooperating with Uganda’s female writers association FEMRITE, which we are collaborating with for…
Reading with Femrite: Amazing Grace Kirabo
On February 20th 2019, Uganda Women Writers’ Association (FEMRITE) held a reading at Goethe Zentrum Kampala/ UGCS Conference Room with the now 14-year old Amazing Grace Kirabo, who presented her book “Nurtured by a Blind Mother. The Courage to Believe”, which was published during the time she was only 12 years old. Amazing Grace Kirabo…
The Jalada Mobile Literacy & Arts Festival
The Jalada Mobile Literacy & Arts Festival is the first mobile literary festival in Africa initiated by a group of writers who came together to link up and work together and celebrate cultural diversity. The festival is a hybrid between a traditional place-based festival and a bus tour. The tour covered 5 countries (12 towns): Kenya…
THE SPOKEN WORD PROJECT AT THE GZK/UGCS
In recent years, the Spoken Word has gained great popularity in Germany – the biggest Poetry Slam of Europe, the Bunkerslam, takes place annually in different German cities. But also in bars, museums and coffee shops of Kampala and other African cities a Spoken Word and Poetry Scene has gradually developed. Until now it has…