Sound System Training

We organised Sound System Training from 7-11 September 2020 Mwl Randall Stubbs and Emmanuel Ndale were the instructors . The course was 50 hours of instruction and practical exercises. The training was for both beginners and advanced sound engineers. Topics covered included purpose of a sound system, importance of acoustic, understanding the channel strip, Analogue vs Digital, Microphone types and best uses, good mixing, understanding instruments, sound engineer toolbox and picking the right equipment. Meals was included in the fee and accommodation was also available. Their schedule started at 8:0am -9pm with lunch and dinner breaks. The training kicked off well we had 18 students who were eager to learn, most of them were from churches and some from arts organisation. They came from different parts of Tanzania Arusha, Moshi , Dar and Tanga . Training ended well the trainees received certificates and were happy with the knowledge they got and were looking forward to put it into use. It was productive week.

End of semester concert

End of semester concert entitled “Kwetu Nyumbani” took place at Makumira’s Cultural Arts Centre Performance Hall on Sunday, 23 August 2020 . 24 music students presented choir, drumming and dancing, African Fusion, brass, and more this. Admission was free and we had full audience.

The students were all amazing, every piece they presented audience like it and they had fun performing. CAC artists also had 15 min performance, they performed both dance and fusion.

Nanenane Cultural Day

Nanenane cultural day is a family event hosted at CAC on 8 Aug 2020. Nanenane is farmers day holiday here in Tanzania the holiday is largely known as nanenane because of the date of event 8/8. Number 8 is nane in Swahili and it happens on August each year which is other eight (nane in swahili). This year we wanted people to celebrate the day with us by having cultural experience.

We offered fun activities for family . We had face painting, acrobats, drumming, dancing workshop, tour to bomas and exhibit. We had food at affordable prices chips with grilled chicken or beef.

The day ended with wonderful performance from music department and CAC. Music Department did an open act for 15 minus and CAC performed for 1hr.30min their performance was both traditional dances and fusion. We had more than 400 people in the audience it was full house. It was a lot of fun and this was our first concert during the pandemic.

Covid 19 social liaison officers training at CAC

Things has been quiet here due to world pandemic corona virus. We closed for 3 months and the university was opened again on early June. On July we hosted two trainings that involved tourism stakeholders. First training was 26 June 2020 organised by TATO (Tanzania Association of Tour Operators ) more than 100 tour operators attended and the second training was 10 July 2020 organised by HAT (Hotel Association of Tanzania )and more that 80 people attended.

Both training was aim to train covid 19 social liaison officers. it is a requirement from a government for each company to have a covid 19 liaison officer . The host brought doctors which educated the participants on COVID 19 and safety procedures. Participants got chance to ask questions and section ended on customer service presentation during corona virus. It was a very educative training with very helpful information.

We provided venue, tea and lunch to the participants. We also did small performance in the beginning of the training. It was good to have tour operators, tourism stakeholders at our facility and for us to get a chance to provide our service to them. This will make them have a confident to bring tourists to us and it was a good chance to show them what we can do.

Swedish Visitors at CAC

We received 18 visitors from Sweden who stay with us for 2 days. University guest houses were their accommodation. CAC catered for their meals. They had a cultural experience with us , we were able to teach them drumming , dancing. They also had a guided tour to our meru boma. Traditional dance performance was done for them at our CAC Performance hall which they joined at the end of the show and danced. They loved the experience. For sure it was good to have them around.