So beautiful seeing the Ntunga project featured on the Ugandan UBC TV channel again. The second Ntunga Hoima cohort graduated a few days ago. In their 3-minute coverage of the event, UBC TV highlights the challenges for young women in the Hoima district to acquire vocational skills, especially after school dropouts, and includes voices of district officials, our partner SBC, and a Ntunga graduate. Ntunga provides young women with vocational training, livelihood opportunities, and role models in its team of inspiring trainers and #FemaleTalent from Streetlights Uganda, Victoria, Joanne, and Barbara. Thank you for #ChangingLivesThroughFashion!
Streetlights Uganda Ntunga #WomenSupportingWomen Victoria Merab Joan Nabwire Tamar Dekel Jaqulynn Magayane Yariv Ofek
Streetlights Uganda Ntunga #WomenSupportingWomen Victoria Merab Joan Nabwire Tamar Dekel Jaqulynn Magayane Yariv Ofek
“Bark cloth was the platform for creativity in all ways of expression,” reflects Hannah
Rothschild, who describes this year’s artist residency with the #OldJaffaArtistResidency
under the #ArtAcademiesExchange framework as a space for “sharing and listening,
learning and creating with and alongside each other.” We thoroughly enjoyed hosting the
accomplished artist and curator, whose diverse background allowed her to spark deep
conversations with the other residents. She seamlessly wove the Ugandan fabric into her
creative work with fibre, yarn, and ficus roots. During the presentations, our visitors held her
bark cloth works against the light, which showed their intricate structures. Fascinating! We will love to continue following her artistic journey.
African Studies Gallery JAR - Old Jaffa Artists Residency Jaffa Residency Hana Rotchild Doreen Namatovu Paz Galinsky Sahar Azimi Idit Toledano Tamar Dekel
Rothschild, who describes this year’s artist residency with the #OldJaffaArtistResidency
under the #ArtAcademiesExchange framework as a space for “sharing and listening,
learning and creating with and alongside each other.” We thoroughly enjoyed hosting the
accomplished artist and curator, whose diverse background allowed her to spark deep
conversations with the other residents. She seamlessly wove the Ugandan fabric into her
creative work with fibre, yarn, and ficus roots. During the presentations, our visitors held her
bark cloth works against the light, which showed their intricate structures. Fascinating! We will love to continue following her artistic journey.
African Studies Gallery JAR - Old Jaffa Artists Residency Jaffa Residency Hana Rotchild Doreen Namatovu Paz Galinsky Sahar Azimi Idit Toledano Tamar Dekel
For the past months we are following the growth of the Namutumba Agriculture for Life VSLA project and we couldn't be more proud!
10 groups of women from the villages in the district are meeting weekly to support each other with savings and small loans. They rely on each other for their household needs and their children's education.
Thank you to our implementing partner Health Child Uganda and to the wonderful local coordinator Scovia Mpiiya.
#WomenEmpowerment
10 groups of women from the villages in the district are meeting weekly to support each other with savings and small loans. They rely on each other for their household needs and their children's education.
Thank you to our implementing partner Health Child Uganda and to the wonderful local coordinator Scovia Mpiiya.
#WomenEmpowerment
Read Doreen's inputs of the artists residency this last March as captured by i24news
#Colors are all around us. Especially during springtime, bright colors on bushes and flowers in parks, gardens, and balconies catch our eye. Colors carry meaning, can move us, and appear in our creative work. But what if they not only inspired our creative work but directly entered into it? Doreen Namatovu and Maria Erhard asked high school students from #StudioAnkori these questions during their visit to the JAR - Old Jaffa Artists Residency . After a brief color hunt in a nearby park, the interdisciplinary art students experimented with #OrganicDyes, #Ugandan bark cloth, and cotton fabric. The results show what is possible when we become aware of such untapped opportunities in our immediate environment. The head of faculty at Studio Ankori, Yehezkel Lazarov, told us that his students not only enjoyed the experience but also continued to ponder the questions the artists had asked.
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African Studies Gallery Jaffa Residency
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African Studies Gallery Jaffa Residency
During this year’s Art Academy Exchange with Ugandan designer Doreen Namatovu, we welcomed reporter Deborah Benayoun, photographer Oren Shmaiser, and producer Lea Antoni from i24NEWS en Français to the JAR - Old Jaffa Artists Residency. They interviewed Doreen and her fellow residents Hana Rotchild, Maria C. Erhard, and Shira Shoval from Shenkar Textile Design Dept. המחלקה לעיצוב טקסטיל שנקר about their encounters with one another and the traditional Ugandan fabric. Their accomplished report documents the creative collaboration in and beyond the residency and has been broadcasted as part of the French channel’s ‘Afrique’ program. We are proud to see this beautiful work reach new audiences.
African Studies Gallery Makerere University College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology Jaffa Residency Tamar Dekel Idit Toledano Zehavit Carmel Paz Galinsky Sahar Azimi Gali Zander
African Studies Gallery Makerere University College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology Jaffa Residency Tamar Dekel Idit Toledano Zehavit Carmel Paz Galinsky Sahar Azimi Gali Zander
