FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE
World Music Day at Alliance Francaise Arusha happened at 3rd July 2021 . Artists from cultural arts centre, music department, dcmazanzibar, collaborated to celebrate the folk music of Indian Ocean. Reinterpreting the music traditions from Mauritius, Réunion Island, Madagascar and Comoros. It was a good collaboration.
Summer Learning Institute sponsored by the Teaching Artist Institute from the United States was two weeks training started in Bagamoyo Taasisi ya Sanaa na Utamaduni Bagamoyo(TASUBA) then to Arusha from 14-18June 2021. The Cultural Arts Centre artists , Music Department students joined other Tanzanian artists from Bagamoyo (TASUBA) and University of Dar es Salaam was involved in the training. A total of 90 persons were involved and hosted at the CAC facilities.
The discussions and participatory activities centered around topics including Arts in Society, Arts in Community, Arts in Health, Arts in Business, and Arts in Spirituality. On June 18 Friday they did a special performance celebration Juneteen in Africa for the first time. The show was live streamed and university students and other people from community attended the performance . The day ended with dinner for all participants .
We had acoustic projects with different churches. Our first large scale acoustic project at Engarenarok Lutheran Parish in Arusha. Our CAC team designed , built and installed the frames. the second church was Karatu Lutheran church in Karatu . The panels absorbed sound(mwangwi) well we were able to reduce reverb from about 4 sec to about 2 sec. With this acoustic treatment it is easy for hear music well, the spoken words.
EduAfrica is an organisation that develop and facilitate Transformative Learning Journeys through our Faculty-led, Virtual Exchange, Service Learning, School and Individual Study Abroad programs in Southern and East Africa. Due Covid 19 the students could not travel to Africa for learning. We worked with them in virtual exchange programme on cooking traditional meals, tour to our traditional bomas. It was a new experience for us, we learned a lot and was happy to have shared Tanzanian culture with them.
US Ambassador to Tanzania Dr. Donald J. Wright and his team visited the centre 3 December last year. We were honoured to have them. They toured the Centre, all the buildings and went to the bomas(traditional houses. Our dancers did a small performance which they enjoyed and joined at the end. We were gifted caps we loved it. It was indeed a great day.
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Randall Stubbs
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