Africa Writes joins the Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival

Africa Writes joins the Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival

Date & Time: 3rd – 31st March 2016

Venues: 5 countries and 12 towns: Kenya (Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu, Mombasa), Uganda (Kampala, Kabale), DRC (Goma), Rwanda (Kigali) and Tanzania (Mwanza, Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar) plus a showcase at Africa Writes festival in London, 30 June – 2 July 2017.

Africa Writes is delighted to announce a partnership with Jalada Africa on the inaugural Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival, travelling through 5 East African countries in 28 days.

A hybrid between a traditional place-based festival and a bus tour, the festival will cover 5 countries and 12 towns: Kenya (Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu, Mombasa), Uganda (Kampala, Kabale), DRC (Goma), Rwanda (Kigali) and Tanzania (Mwanza, Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar).

The festival will celebrate diversity and create living connections between writers, artists, and diverse audiences in the big cities and small towns across East Africa.

Presented as a series of full-day events, the festival will feature an expanded retinue of panel discussions, literary readings and debates, spoken word and theatrical performances, creative writing and translations master classes, poetry workshops, exhibitions, art installations, and film screenings.

The events will feature writers and artists drawn from the Collective, and tens of exciting authors, performers, and thinkers drawn from East Africa and beyond, as well as international voices. The mobile festival will travel over 4500 kms and engage directly with over 10,000 enthusiasts.

You can follow the tour online, with the team’s new and imaginative ways of documenting literature and art using mobile-phone mini-documentaries. Keep your eyes on the Africa Writes and Jalada Africa accounts!

About Us

Jalada Africa was formed in 2013 by writers from Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa, and currently comprises of writers and artists, of African origin, from the continent and the diaspora. The Collective seeks to break boundaries by publishing works that stretch the reach of creative writing, expand the range of reading experiences, and diversify audiences for literature.

This partnership will result in the creation and publication of a poetry anthology featuring voices of refugees from Burundi, and a showcase of the Jalada festival to be presented at Africa Writes in London, 30^th June – 2^nd July.

Come and join us!

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Download the Press Release – Jalada Mobile Literary and Art Festival and Africa Writes

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