Bayimba Festival Of the arts 2012

Bayimba Festival of the arts 2012

The 5th edition of the Bayimba International Festival of the Arts is scheduled from 21st till 23rd of September 2012 at the Uganda National Theatre in the city centre of Kampala.

Bayimba Cultural Foundation takes credit for having established the Bayimba International Festival of the Arts as an important benchmark for the consumption of Uganda’s finest arts. Every third week of September, Kampala comes alive as a vibrant and eventful city when an unparalleled feast of music, dance, theatre, film, and visual arts from renowned and upcoming artists is brought to Kampala.

The Festival has developed into a major multi-arts festival with varied and qualitative programming, presenting exciting, innovative and creative ideas. It is eagerly awaited by local artists and local people alike while artists from abroad and visitors from far afield pour into Kampala to take advantage of the exciting artistic experience – see report 2011 (http://bayimba.org/annual-report-2011/). The Festival has truly become a highlight on Uganda’s social and cultural calendar and is also gradually developing into an important (East) African destination Festival, ensuring regional and international visitation and enhancing both national and international cultural tourism.

The Bayimba International Festival of the Arts is undoubtedly Uganda’s number one Festival – physically, by offering exciting artistic experiences to as many Ugandans as possible; artistically, by presenting Uganda’s finest artists and upcoming talents from across the country (discovered through its various activities, including one-day Festivals throughout Uganda); demographically, by engaging as many Ugandans as possible, thus making the Bayimba Festival their own; and organisationally, by being led by a team of committed and experienced Ugandans.

Past editions registered a significant increase in the participation of artists from Uganda, East Africa and beyond while the Festival audience grew from a mere 100 people in 2008 to 55,000 people in 2011. In its 5th year of celebration, the Festival is aiming at again the additional value of artistic performances and productions of participating artists from Uganda, East Africa and beyond as well as an increase in the number of our audiences. 

The enormous success of the Bayimba International Festival of the Arts would not have been possible without the support from a wide range of organisations and individuals that have sustained and lead to the growth of the Festival. The Festival continues to look out to widen and diversify its financial and in kind support base.

Always looking out for new artistic interventions, new ideas, new engagements and new partnerships, the Festival has grown to inspire so many stakeholders within the East African region - http://bayimba.org/

THE 8TH ANNUAL UGANDA HIP HOP SUMMIT

Hip Hop Summit Flyer 2010

The Uganda HipHop Foundation & Bavubuka Foundation, recognize the power of Hip-Hop music and culture to catalyze positive social change. Hip-Hop is modern youth’s cultural foundation, and symbolizes the ability of people living in marginalized communities to flourish and live their dreams. With the vision of creating a peace building platform that empowers and unifies young people from diverse communities, we continue to create ...a voice for the youth in Uganda.




The Hip Hop Summit has been an on-going event for the last seven years. The main aim of the summit is promote the hip hop culture in Uganda by empowering the youth and creating positive awareness through music and culture. The Hip Hop Summit is targeted to the youth crowd mainly students aged 18-25 years old. It features live performances by local and international Uganda’s top urban artists from the Hip Hop and R&B genres. The Hip Hop summit is not just about The Concert. During the day time there is a series forums and workshops that are carried out by Uganda's top Hip Hop icons and role models. The summit touches other areas of Hip Hop culture by featuring a DJ scratching demonstration, a B-Boy dance battle, a Graffiti art display, a Motivation speakers, and a Hip Hop Fashion Show.
Favorite Quotations There is a self Liberating truth in celebrating the indigenous in you.


FEATURED ARTISTES:


babaluku at the 7th summit

 Babaluku
Saba Saba
Xenson
Tshila
Maurice Kirya
New Hope Squad
Atlas "Da African"
Batabazi (Guest Artistes  from USA)
Navio & Klear Kut
T Bro
Ugly MC

Benon & Lady Twig Of Bavubuka Allstarz

Benon & Vampos
JT Minus
GNL & The Baboon Forest Ent.
The DPPI (Bonsatule)
Lady Slkye
Lady Twig
Yala MC
Keko
Don Mc
Sylvester & Abrams
Jungle "The Man eater"
Abenganda
Abatuuze
Abaana Beka
SP Omugunjule
Abenganda

MORE ARTISTES TO BE CONFIRMED...
FRESHEST B.BOYS & B.GIRLS
Jericho Breakers
Tabu Flo
Dance Together Uganda
STREET BALLERS UGANDA.
FAMOUS FREINDS ACROBATICS
GRAFFITTI BY XENSON...


HIP HOP FASHION
KAS WEAR - Bavubuka Fashion
Lattif Designs



Hip Hop Journalists
- Gilbert frank Daniels
- African webs
- Pied Magazine
- Hyper Magazine



If your interest in performing, showcasing your work, or supporting the event Contact Us at:
ughiphopsummit@gmail.com
256bavubuka@gmail.com
Gilbert Frank Daniels +256775961079
Burney MC 00256 782 147588

Words Beats & Life Representing Peace Building in Washington DC Through Arts

Till Blogger, Facebook, twitter &word press blogs do us part !!!!

From wordpress, blogger, opera to face­book, twitter, hi5, tagged, kiwi box and the rest, social networks and blogs are the new buzz word in cyberspace.
Anyone and everyone who uses the internet knows about the concept of social networking and blogging. Be it young or old, they are all facebooking a. k. a facing the book and blogging away. But it is we the teenagers who have the briskness to use this new virtual platform to its maxi­mum potential. All it requires is being on the net, type in the website, click sign up, and in no time, you will be starting, absolutely free. People are facebooking like crazy. The blog freaks have signed up with networks like www.blogger.com, posted their articles or what­ever stuff they want the world to read and they are getting read by everyone.

Having grown up using the computer and internet as a source of information, youngsters in this generation are at ease when conveying their opinions on the blog­sites, or feelings and thoughts on the social network. The use of various platforms of communication comes naturally, to all teenagers, unlike old writers who at times experience moments of stagnation.

My pal, Adonia has managed to become a prolific writer, thanks to his blogsites, “the feeling of being read and appreciated by strangers was and is still very inspiring,” he says.

The rapid emergence of blogging and social networks can be attributed to the un­equaled characteristic of the platforms, which allow teens to acquire a sense of satisfac­tion as a result of expressing themselves, while remaining anonymous if they want to as is the case with blogs where teens create their own blog­ging space and invite friends and strangers to join.
This allows for the much needed attention that every teen craves but the only nightmare for these teens is if the parent chances upon his or her blogsite.

Although teenagers can write with great proficiency on the blogsites, they have very little experience writing beyond the internet. This is because publishers of maga­zines and newspapers are not helping teens in anyway; probably this is even throt­tling a major talent, which is meant to be emerging. Brian gave up with trying to write because “man I sent mob articles to that newspaper but none of them was published.” Well, that changed with The New Vision TEENZ. Teenagers who previously kept their articles buried in the crowded and vast cyber space are sending them for publication.

Social networking has found acceptability because to Edgar, “I have made friends with people I hardly knew on facebook.”

Social networking has found acceptability among the youth because it is where they can express themselves freely while blogging has found acceptability because here the youth can show­case their writing skills and creativity because there is no restraining arm of the publisher.

The large reach of this new-age discovery grants teens the ability of using their technical skills to acquire attention, as is on facebook, or gain readership for their writing, as is the case with blogsites.

JERICHO BREAKERS

At the beginning they had no uniforms at all, nothing like fancy clothes such groups normally wear. They had passion, were ambitious and enduring, that's all they needed. After hard training for months they managed to win the 2nd prize in a competition of Praise Dancers of the whole country. Some of their performances you see at the pictures below - you can also recognize how much fun is involved in their dancing, they not only dance well; they also transfer their joy and fun unto the viewer. Often they just dance for fun in midst of our Sanyu-Kids.
We are very proud of our young people and try to render help to them as much as possible. They are faithful people who help in running our project. All of them have the potential to change their generation for the better.

 http://www.bethelafrica.org/jerichobreakers. 
http://www.bavubuka.com
www.africa256.wordpress.com

JERICHO BREAKERS DANCE CREW

BIOGRAPHY OF THE MINISTRIES

Jericho Breakers Ministries started / commenced in late 2002 under the Glory Ministries International.

In 1997, the ministries started as a “Sunday school” which was supposed to be attended by every child that attended church service on Sunday under the leadership of several ministers from (G.M.I).

The ministry persisted as a Sunday school for quite a number of years, since the children were taught various things like teaching children how to pray, how to dance for the Lord, read the scriptures and memory verse among others.

After discovering that the children wanted & knew how to dance, in 2002 the Sunday school of Glory Church was later changed from “Sunday school” to Jericho Breakers. This was done because when ever the children danced, the anointing of God could flow to people and the people of the Lord were really touched by the way these children danced.

In the year 2002, a group of young people from Sunday school who knew very well how to sing and dance were organized to form a ministry. From then Jericho Breakers became a ministry of its own kind under the care & supervision of Glory Ministries International.

To date, the ministry is composed of about 20 youths from both sexes who have committed their lives to serving God all their lives preaching the word of God through their talents such as dancing, singing and other forms of performing arts.

The ministry derived its name from Hebrews11:30 therefore we believe that whenever we minister/ perform, people get blessed and others get relieved from evil spirits, infirmity, poverty, illiteracy among others.

Today Jericho Breakers is a ministry that engages in various activities such as singing, church comedy, miming, tutoring young ones at church and more specifically dancing various dances ranging from African to Western dances (performing arts).

CURRENTLY:

These youth have different potentials ranging from dancing, singing, academic excellence among others. Today the Ministry has got various youths with different backgrounds but with God’s grace they have changed positively to become good citizens. Currently Jericho Breakers is now one of the leading dancing groups in Uganda.

Jericho breakers Ministry think and believe that we can try to help youth discover their potentials, talents & spiritual gifts in ourselves so we can also try change the lives of our fellow youth in the society to change for the better. The fact that most of Jericho breakers come from compromising homes / societies {ghettos} such as Katwe, Mengo, Makindye, Najja nankumbi, we use this opportunity to reach people {youth} who desperately need Jesus in their lives. We have managed to do this through a series of activities like staging free of charge dance shows in their communities, among other things.

The ministry has used performing arts as a platform for sharing the word of the Kingdom of Heaven. Jericho breakers Ministry has also tried to change many lives of the youth who came from compromising background and homesteads through dancing, music, craft making among others.

VISION

Our vision at JBM is to instill a passion for ministry in today’s children and youth to plant a seed of righteous in their hearts that will stay with them for the rest their lives through music and dancing.
MISSION

A mission shouldn’t be one time event or a once in a lifetime trip… The real purpose behind a great commission is making of disciples not just go.

OTHER ACTIVITIES.

• Poetry
• B. Boy styling (Street Dance)
• Youth Rights Advocacy {Freedom Of Speech} together with Bavubuka All Star Foundation, WAPI, Charity Foundations.

B BOY STYLING

Jericho Breakers uses B Boy Street Dance to separate the actual physical battle of a gang with the same intensity of the battle of a gang, attitude and it settles the battles. We use B Boy Street dance to express ourselves because some crew members had that gangster mentality but we had to pick up our goals & to pick up swagger to perform the works of the kingdom of God.

Also Jericho Breaker using Street Dance has helped to create a voice for youth through creating categories of music, art, fashion, various dances, attitude and other ways of expressing ourselves in that we have pride in our culture and bring in our own elements and explore the ways where we can Re-claim our voice in order to have self confidence and believe that we have values and that our life is important.

CHALLENGES OF THIS MINISTRY.

1. We have no proper dancing lessons
2. We have no proper training gadgets thereby increasing rates of accidents during rehearsals.
3. Poor attitudes from our parents and general audience towards children being dancers.
4. No proper documentation of our performance (video camera)
5. Inadequate funding
6. Tuition fees
7. Lack of sound systems necessary for practice (CD Player.)
   

SOME OF THE ORGANIZATION WE’VE PERFORMED WITH.

Bayimba Cultural Organization

WAPI

Mwmba Children Choir

Watoto Children Choir

Father’s Heart Club

Spoken Truth

Seroma Christian School

Nkumba University

St. Lawrence Campuses

In various Music Videos

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

www.myspace.com/jerichobreakersdancecrew

http://www.facebook.com/search/?o=69&init=s%3Agroup&q=JERICHO+BREAKERS#/group.php?gid=72738405398&ref=search&sid=1628526733.1344171397..1

P.O. Box. 15028

Kampala – Uganda
Mob: +256 – 775-961079

jerichobreakersdancecrew@myspace.com

bwette_frank@yahoo.com