GZK Podcast

After losing his sight in 2020 due to an unsuccessful operation, Ugandan Teacher Alfred Wamani was forced to quit his teaching job at a local secondary school. A job he loved doing. He joined a computer literacy skills school for the blind and grew his business and computer skills and pitched a winning business idea at a startup capital competition. The story is about Alfred Wamani, a person with visual impairment who is beating all odds to make ends meet - from the psychological implications of visual impairment and financial shocks of covid-19 and shows disability is not inability.

This story was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Juliet Kasirye and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

A DIVE INTO CULTURAL PROJECT PROCESSES IN UGANDA

An audio format by Goethe-Zentrum Kampala / Ugandan German Cultural Society / Skillz East Africa.

This edition features a Ugandan performing artist, Shane Munina, who is the co-founder of the Local Get Down (LGD).  LGD, also currently supported by GZK is a collective of performing artists of various styles and movements who come together to share and build skills, confidence and creative energy through freestyling. Shane sits with us to talk about starting and sustaining a dance movement; Its impact on the larger dance community, what to know, when to collaborate, and organising LGD's biggest event yet in September, a freestyle theatre production dubbed 'Alacakin' which means Freedom. 

Get ready for an insightful talk with Shane Munina!

In this episode, 26 year old Elljoy Muthee from Kenya shares how, at the height of Covid-19

pandemic in 2020, she started an online business just a few months after losing her job. She

takes us through the process of getting a business idea, how she started, the challenges she

experienced, the lessons she has since learned and how she landed two international sales.

Kennedy Gichinga, an economist at Mentoria Economics, also gives insight on what sparked

the growth of online businesses during the pandemic.

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This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents

are the sole responsibility of Mercy Chelangat and do not necessarily reflect the views of the

European Union

This week, in collaboration with Skillz East Africa, we sit down with a Ugandan process-based interdisciplinary visual artist, Jacqueline Katesi Kalange aka "The Kalange"  to talk about her project named 'Nature Invasion' that won her the GZK small project fund in 2021, the grim reality of climate change, and her prospects. 

She breaks down the fact that it is Humans that indeed get in the way of the environment without regarding the necessary tools to coexist with it. She also shares her experience recently winning a Prince Claus Seed Award for 2022 and the possibilities for other artists. 

Listen in!

A DIVE INTO CULTURAL PROJECT PROCESSES IN UGANDA

An audio format by Goethe-Zentrum Kampala / Ugandan German Cultural Society (GZK/UGCS)

This edition is with ATITE, PAPSHER & MICHEAL: The three are team members of the production 'Behind the Mask'. The event will take place on November 13th 2021 at GZK/ UGCS at 2:00 pm. 

'Behind the Mask' is an outcome of the Global Stance Workshop by Skillz East Africa happened in May 2021 at GZK premises - an artistic collaboration workshop bringing together creatives of performing art disciplines to equip them with both artistic and business skills to be able to build their “stances” as professional creatives. To make the workshop sustainable, the team got a seed fund of 5 million UGX by GZK to come up with a production crossing art disciplines and raising voices of the Ugandan performing art scene.

A DIVE INTO CULTURAL PROJECT PROCESSES IN UGANDA

An audio format by Goethe-Zentrum Kampala / Ugandan German Cultural Society.

This edition is with the Ugandan professional dancer and performing artist Lilian Nabaggala who is part of the experimental residency Lost + Found by East African Soul Train.

A MONTHLY DIVE INTO CULTURAL PROJECT PROCESSES IN UGANDA

An audio format by Goethe-Zentrum Kampala / Ugandan German Cultural Society.

This time it is going to be a different kind of a fashion talk- meet Beatrace Angut Oola, founder of Fashion Africa Now.

A MONTHLY DIVE INTO CULTURAL PROJECT PROCESSES IN UGANDA

An audio format by Goethe-Zentrum Kampala / Ugandan German Cultural Society.

‘My intention is to draw the unseen struggles of women who are seen as strong, capable and independent.’- Pamela Enyonu

She is a mixed-media artist from Kampala. She has been working on different projects, lately uncovering and re-narrating debates around feminisms. For her it is not about the term or definition, more important is the work, the lifestyle she is following as a feminist. Since her involvement in ‘FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time’ Kampala edition showcasing her EVERYDAY QUEENS for the first time, we have a tight cooperation with Pamela. She was recently part of the regional project ‘Learning Feminisms’, which was launched in 2020 by Goethe Institut Kigali and Burkina Farso.

Learn more about what’s behind ‘feminisms’ in a Sub-Saharan context. It is going to be an honest talk, with the realization that this topic will always be a learning process.

A MONTHLY DIVE INTO CULTURAL PROJECT PROCESSES IN UGANDA

An audio format by Goethe-Zentrum Kampala / Ugandan German Cultural Society.

We are back with our first episode in 2021: Happy belated new year everyone! 

Inspired by TV Shows like ‘Project Runway’ or ‘Americas Topmodel’ Maria-Sheba Atukunda is going to bring that kind of show to Uganda. A design show ‘from Ugandans for Ugandans.’ She is a Ugandan architect and designer, won one of our project grants and now she can realize her vision of creating a TV Show like that. Maria Sheba feels like everyone is trying to copy the European or American style but what about the Ugandan designs/ culture. She is saying ‘feel free to dream but based on Ugandan culture’. A group of 2-4 people have a certain challenge, designing something and the winner will be chosen by popularity, not only social media, also by laypeople. Shootings will be along town, historical, cultural places preferably. It also includes a cash price. The participants are free in their designing but their inspiration must be based on the Ugandan culture.

GZK Podcast #5

A MONTHLY DIVE INTO CULTURAL PROJECT PROCESSES IN UGANDA

An audio format by Goethe-Zentrum Kampala / Ugandan German Cultural Society

Finally it is here: The 5th edition of the GZK PODCAST! After some postponements we very happy to present to you a special edition of our podcast series where we enjoyed talking with Isaiah Mucunguzi (performs under the pseudonym IZAYA THE COMPOSER) - Afrofuturism artiste, producer, and film composer from Kampala, Uganda who is currently  involved in the East African regional project "Urban Music Rebels (UMR)". A cooperation project by the Goethe-Institutes Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya and the Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/ UGCS.