Tamasha la ngoma za utamaduni na maonyesho ya biashara 2009
Special thanks to our - Sponsors
The Swiss Embassy, the Finish Embassy, Artumas Africa Foundation, the German Embassy.
For the second time ADEA-The centre for African Development Through Economics and the Arts is delighted to inform the public that the “MaKuYa Festival” will take place again in Mtwara region August 14th,15th and 16th 2009.
This festival is an initiative of the Non-Governmental Organization ADEA, which has been active in the region since 2004 improving the livelihood of artisan (Carvers, metal workers, tailors, basket weavers and painters) in southeastern Tanzania through training to stimulate creativity and develop market accessibility for their products.
More than 20 groups, including four hundred traditional artists from the main tribes in Mtwara region (Makonde, Makua and Yao), will perform at this year’s MaKuYa Traditional Performing and Cultural Arts Festival. MaKuYa will bring together traditional dance performers from all over the region, as well as feature educational exhibits related to culture, traditional games, and local handcrafts and arts producers who will show their products.
Public activities in Mtwara are rare. This festival is assured of a big and interested crowd if last year is any indication when over 2000 people attended. Though Mtwara may be known to other parts of Tanzania as a difficult and expensive place to reach, this festival will prove that this region is well worth a visit.
Event Structure: MaKuYa Festival activities will cover four categories
Traditional performances
Traditional games
Educational Exibition
Vendors booths of Tanzania products
The aims of this festival are:
To provide an annual venue for local ngoma (dance and drumming) troops to perform in the Mtwara region of Tanzania.
To validate and encourage this traditional tribal cultural art form
To create awareness of the rich heritage of the performing arts among the local community, nationals and international visitors.
To promote interest in traditional culture within the Mtwara region.
To help young Tanzanians experience the richness of their own heritage.
To promote and encourage intergenerational education between elders and youth.
To help ensure the preservation of the ngoma art form.
To promote traditional tribal performing arts and crafts in southeastern Tanzania.
To facilitate the exchange ideas between performers through exposure to other groups.
To create awareness and make clear to the public that traditional performing arts are still alive in the southeastern region of Tanzania
To boost up the daily life of Mtwara municipality and to promote cultural tourism in the region.
To showcase a variety of performance styles from different tribes in various categories.
The second annual MaKuya festival will happen in August for three days (Friday 14th through Sunday the 16th). As this is the second edition of the festival the initiators want to try out if this formula is successful. In future editions an event will likely expand to include more days in future.
This year’s festival is primarily sponsored by The Swiss Embassy and the Finnish Embassy of Tanzania. Other donors include Artumas Africa Foundation and the German Embassy. The funds will allow ADEA to caver transport costs for artists, meals and accommodations as well as construction of booths for exhibition, administration and other related costs.
We would like to send special thanks to our donors who have generously expressed their belief in our efforts by supporting ADEA’s festival for a second year, and thus making MaKuYa 2009 again reality.
On behalf to the MaKuYa planning team, thank you very much for taking your time to be with us.
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