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Essay
Embracing Universal Memory
by Dorcy Rugamba
23 March 2026
Video
Setting the Stage / Poser les Jalons 
Art Management in Africa / La Gestion des Arts en Afrique
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Uganda and Namibia
Essay
An Art Festival in Rwanda Converses with the Past and Celebrates Our Shared Present
by Giulianna Marchese
5 October 2023
event poster for setting the stage: art management in africa.
Video

Art Management in Africa / La Gestion des Arts en Afrique

Tuesday 1 April 2025
Uganda and Namibia

Guests explore different aspects of art management and share their experiences in Africa.

Four women play the drums together on stage.
Essay
5 October 2023

Giulianna Marchese discusses productions from the Ubumuntu Art Festival, which is held annually at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda. Throughout this year’s festival, performances explored what it means to be a human post-tragedy—the highs and the lows.

Eco-Films in Climate Action Teaser.
Video

What Impact can the Eco-Film Genre Make in the Journey Towards Climate Justice in the Global South?

Wednesday 2 August 2023
Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya

Since the first decade of the 21st century, Hollywood films have explored diverse challenges posed by climate change. In fact, eco-filmmakers seem to direct the blame around climate change on anthropocentrism and the rise of the capitalist economy. These films have centered on how climate change impacts more on rural indigenous communities, the politics of anthropocentric and capitalism, and the imperative of man’s revaluation of his relationship with the environment. Interestingly, most films on ecology have been churned out of the Global North than from the Global South despite the South’s being affected more by the climate scourge.

event poster for ubumuntu arts festival 2021.
Video

A celebration of arts and humanity

Friday 16 July and Saturday 17 July 2021
Rwanda

Ubumuntu Arts Festival presented Rebirth, their 2021 celebration of arts and humanity livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 16 July and Saturday 16 July at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 6 p.m. CAT (Kigali, UTC +2).

Ubumuntu Arts Festival poster.
Video

A Virtual Celebration of Arts and Humanity, organized from Kigali, Rwanda.

Friday 17 July to Sunday 19 July 2020
Kigali, Rwanda

The Ubumuntu Arts Festival in Kigali, Rwanda presented their 6th Annual Conference & Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network Friday 17 July to Sunday 19 July 2020.

Hope Azeda.
Video

An update on the situation for theatre artists in Rwanda

Thursday 18 June 2020
Rwanda

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS: Hope Azeda livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 18 June 2020 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 17:00 BST (London, UTC +1) / 18:00 CEST (Berlin, UTC +2).

a silhouette
Essay
15 July 2018

Bertie Ferdman looks at En Garde Arts’ production of Red Hills, which explores the question: “Who has the right to tell what stories?”

Three people kneel together onstage.
Essay
23 March 2026

Dorcy Rugamba advocates for a theatre that enables us to embrace other histories and draw on the full breadth of human experience in order to adopt a universal perspective.

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