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#BABISHAI2017 POETRY FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

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   THE BABISHAI 2017 POETRY FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Monday 31 July 2017  

5:30pm to 7:30pm
Femrite offices, Kamwokya
Discussion of the Babishai 2017 shortlisted haikus, led by Isaac Tibasiima, literary critic and scholar from Makerere University.
Free entry

 

Wednesday 2 August 2017

8:00pm – 8:45pm Uganda Time
Facebook live chat with Philippa Namutebi Kabali-Kagwa
From her face book page.

 

 

Friday 4 August 2017
Poetry@Mabira
Departure from 7:30am in Kampala for Najjembe Eastern Uganda
Trek across Mabira, lunch, poetry performances.
Fee: Two Hundred Thousand Shillings (200,000/-)
Payabale by Monday 31 July to George Kiwanuka on +256 703147862

 

Saturday 5 August 2017
10:00am to 11:00am
Re-Launch of the African Poetry Library
32 Degrees East/Ugandan Art Trust in Kansanga, opposite Bank of Baroda

 

Saturday 5 August 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Poetry performance by leading Ghanaian poet from Ghana, Oswald Okaitei.

Performances by Tontoma Poetry Jazz, Kitaka Alex, Rashida Namulondo, Wake the Poet, Agaba Ivan and Caesar Obong.
Maisha Garden in Buziga
Entry fee: 20,000/-

 

Sunday 6 August 2017  11:00am to 3:00pm
Launch of ‘When Children Dare to Dream,’ children’s poetry and story anthology, compiled and edited by Kariuki wa Nyamu and Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva. Illustrations by John Gibu.

Co-mcing by Rashida Namulondo, BN Poetry 2013 winner and Director of Sophia Muwanika Institute and Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva, Director Babishai Poetry.

Children’s performances
Babishai championettes
Uganda Museum Main Hall
Free entry

 

Sunday 6 August 11:30am to 1:30pm The Uganda Museum Exhibition Hall
Poetry workshop on the craft of the spoken word, led by Oswald Okaitei, the 2016 Ghanaian spoken word artiste of the year. It’s free entry and participants will be certified.

#Babishai2017

Sunday 6 August 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Workshop by Kagayi Peter, leading poet, performer and trainer from Uganda
Uganda Museum
Register for workshops by sending 100 word bio and photo to babishainiwe@babishainiwe.com
Participants will be certified.

Sunday 6 August 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Babishai 2017 poetry festival sumptuous meal with sumptuous poetry

Dinner cards at 40,000/-
Call George Kiwanuka on +256 703147862 for your card.

JOIN US FOR POETRY AT MABIRA ON FRIDAY 4 AUGUST 2017

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    Haven’t you ever desired to recapture the wonder of Eden?
    Have you ever looked above 74,000 hectares of green perfection?
    We all need time away from the insanity of our daily work lives, to free ourselves by replenishing our spirits with nature.
    Mabira Forest is all that. Home to Uganda’s largest forest, Mabira is an experience for the curious, adventurous and unafraid. On Friday 4 August, The Babishai Poetry Festival team launches their third festival with a trek across Mabira Forest. Poetry and nature are the perfect remedy after a long week at work. We will explore new terrains, roots and trees of thousands of years in age, be part of a chorus of birds that will not be found anywhere else and relive perfection.

    The team will depart at 7:30am on Friday 4 August for Najjembe, Mabira. During the journey, we will begin shooting a documentary. There are those arriving from Eastern Uganda and Nairobi, whose arrangements will be detailed to them. Email babishainiwe@babishainiwe.com with your information. We have arranged for them, a camping excursion for a night, at Mabira Forest, on Thursday 3 August, after which we’ll all meet up the following day.

    On arrival from Kampala on Friday 4th, an expert tour guide will meet us, take us on this dauntless trek, where we will stop for poetry breaks and refreshments. The documentary will continue.

    After the trip, there will be a large buffet spread, during which the poetry performances will begin.

    We will return to Kampala not later than 6:00pm.

    We all need this!
    The minimal investment is Two Hundred Thousand (200,000/-), payable by Monday 31 July 2017 to George Kiwanuka.
    Call him on +256 703 147862.

    Poetry@Mabira is your chance to explore, become enraptured and empower yourself again.

    The Babishai Poetry Festival covers three days from 4-6 August.
    Follow us on Twitter @BNPoetryAward