Daniel Okiror | Uganda
Sunday 20^th September 2015
6 pm (18:00 hrs)
Main Stage

Originally from Eastern Uganda, Daniel Okiror’s musical roots can be traced through his personal journey in creating a unique and true Ugandan genre; fusing his roots instruments like the Akogo, Adungu, Adeudeu, Edodoi, Arigirigi and percussion with western instruments mainly acoustic, bass guitar, saxophone and keys. As a radical global minded artists, he is a musician pursuing his vision beyond the borders. Daniel will be opening #BAYIMBA2015 main stage on Sunday 20th Sept. at 6pm (18hrs).

Paras Dlamini | South Africa
Sunday 20^th September 2015
10 pm (20:00 hrs)
Main Stage

Born and raised in one of Durban’s well known Townships KwaMashu, South Africa – Siphamandla Dlamini, aka Paras is an energetic Ubuntu Soul-Afrique Music Crooner who‘s style blends tribal sounds with modern day soul to create a unique Afro-Centric Contemporary style of music he named Ubuntu Soul Afrique. He is also known as a drummer.

Paras Dlamini will be performing #Bayimba2015 on Sunday 20th Sept. at 10pm (22hrs) on the main stage.

Cyno MC | Uganda
Sunday 20^th September 2015
6 pm (18:00 hrs)
Upper Stage

Cyno MC aka Moses Mpiima was born in 1990 in Katwe, a slum district on the edge of Kampala, His talent in music was realized at a young age when he joined the church choir that exposed him to gospel and soul music. Since then, Cyno has been producing Hip Hop and Reggae music. In 2011, Cyno’s music career suffered a setback when he was diagnosed with a failing aortic valve in his heart, which would require open heart surgery and the continuous use of medication. It was at this time of need that the global Hip Hop community rallied together and raised the money necessary to fly him to Germany and have the open heart surgery. In 2012 he was fully recovered and used his experience as the basis of a new album with a fresh focus. Cyno released his first Hip Hop album and gained airplay within Ugandan radio and T.V stations. He then toured the album throughout Europe, playing shows in Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic, and France.

Cyno MC will be sharing his love for hip hop #BAYIMBA2015 on Sunday 20th Sept. at 6pm (18hrs) on the Upper stage.

For each of these films, there will be a short discussion after.
It will just be an informal reflection and responses from the audience.

September 19th, “Conflict Resolution” 12-4PM – Auditorium

• “The First Grader” – Justin Chadwick, 103 min
  The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
• “War Dance”- Sean Fine, Andrea Nix, 105 min
  This powerful film shows the redemptive power of music. Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country’s national music and dance festival.

September 20th, “Romance” 12-4PM – Auditorium

• “Mississippi Masala” – Mira Nair, 118 min
  An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
• “Touki Bouki” – Djibril Diop Mambéty, 95 min
  Mory, a cowherd who rides a motorcycle mounted with a cow’s skull, and Anta, a university student, have met in Dakar, Senegal’s capital. Alienated and disaffected with Senegal and Africa, they long to go to Paris and work up different con schemes to raise the money. Mory steals clothing and money from a wealthy gay man who had brought him home, and he and Anta book passage on a ship to France.

September 21st, “Youth” 12-4PM – Green Room

• “Yaaba”- Idrissa Ouedraogo, 90 min
  The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her ‘Witch’ but Bila himself calls her ‘Yaaba’ (grandmother). When Bilas cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana’s medicine who saves her.
• “New Boy” – Steph Green, 11 min
  “New Boy”, an Academy Award nominee for Best Short Film in 2009, is about a nine year old Rwandan boy who struggles to fit in socially over the course of his first day at an Irish school.
• “Christmas Turkey”- Washiwala Reagan, Maisha, 9 min
  A story about Kim, a young teenage boy, whose father is a no-good-drunk who does not provide for the family. This creates a lot of domestic problems between his parents, which really upsets Kim. He spends his free time playing football with the neighborhood boys, and it’s on one of these occasions that he comes across the Christmas turkey offer that promises to be an opportunity for him to save Christmas at his home.
• “She’s Not My Mother”- Omona Collines, Maisha, 4 min
  The story is about a boy who tries to avoid his lowly impoverished mother who works as a school cleaner in the school he attends. His aim is to impress upon the other students that he comes from a well–to-do background, but this does not last as his antics are uncovered when a motorcycle knocks down his dejected mother and his emotion and empathy take over.
• “Never Lose Hope” – Katushabe Patience, Maisha, 8 min
  A story about Grace, a 16-year-old girl, who is taken in by her aunt after her mother’s death and forced to become the family housemaid. Grace hopes to be able to go back to school but her aunt refuses to pay attention saying she doesn’t have money. Even when Grace manages to get a scholarship her aunt refuses to let her go and destroys the scholarship letter. Grace writes a letter to her teacher explaining the situation, which is delivered by her friend Gift. Her teacher confronts Grace’s Aunt about the situation. Will they be able to resolve the situation and get Grace back into school?
• “Kanyambo”- Nicolas Impano Blaise, Maisha, 11 min
  Kanyambo an 11-year-old girl, dreams of competing in a tyre race, usually reserved for boys. Her mother, Miss Alice, will hear none of it while Mr. Harera, the owner of the Boys’ tyre club, is not ready to allow her into the competition….
• “Rastasophical” – Arnold Aganze, Maisha, 13 min
  A story of a former child soldier Arnold Aganze from Congo who finds himself in Uganda. Arnold tries to integrate into the Ugandan community but discovers that he cannot. He is trying to come to terms with his past, a dark story from the time when the civil war in Congo had spilled over into his village in South Kivu. Now he only feels safe with people who, like him, have lived through a violent past. Eventually Arnold meets with a man from Kampala’s Rasta community, a community that has lived through exclusion and isolation. Finally Arnold feels he has met his family.
• “4G Spirit” – Rahema Nanfuka, Maisha, 10 min
  4G Spirit is a Bobi Wine Fan who sings Bobi Wine’s lyrics by the roadside to entertain people. Will he finally meet Bobi Wine?

The Bayimba International Festival cannot be without its famous Silent Disco. The concept was introduced by Bayimba back in 2009 and has ever since excited our fans. Also this year, our festival audiences can dance to the tunes of the Silent Disco, with IVO- DJ, DJ RACHAEL and @Ras Brown on the Dance Floor.

Throughout the festival, the Theatre Foyer will host two photography exhibitions, by French photographer Frederic Noy and Ugandan photographer Papa Shabani. 

@Frederic Noy has spent 11 of the last 18 years as a documentary photographer covering civil war in Africa and has been published in Le Monde, The Guardian, Vanity Fair and many more. His exhibition at the festival pictures the life of a group of over 20 youth in Kyaka II refugee settlement in Kyegegwe district in south west Uganda that have come together to for the « Dynamic Crew » who perform at schools and events across the settlement spreading messages of non-violence and hope and trying to realize their individual dreams of becoming singers, rappers, dancers and producers.

www.fredericnoy.com

Papa Shabani Photography is an award winning photographer (UPPA ’13) who uses photography, film, graffiti, graphics, fashion and water color painting to create. He has exhibited in several group exhibitions in Kampala and his work has been featured on various websites and blogs. During the festival he will present a collection of his recent work that pictures life in Kampala and Uganda.

http://papashabani.wordpress.com/

The Auditorium is traditionally the space where dance groups present their works. Two young and upcoming local dance companies are lined up to present their talent and dance productions: Restless Feet, a young and growing group that sources and fuses its movements from various dance forms, like folk, vernacular dance forms, contemporary, classical, jazz and ballroom dance, and La Balia Clinic, an upcoming dance young dance group from Entebbe.

The Auditorium is traditionally the space where dance groups present their works. Two young and upcoming local dance companies are lined up to present their talent and dance productions: Restless Feet, a young and growing group that sources and fuses its movements from various dance forms, like folk, vernacular dance forms, contemporary, classical, jazz and ballroom dance, and La Balia Clinic, an upcoming dance young dance group from Entebbe.

The Bayimba International Festival also provides space to comedy. Amongst the groups that will get on stage to crack your ribs is Abazeeyi Be Bama, known for their regular sketches on #NBS TV.

There is increasing recognition of the potential of cultural industries as economic drivers but is there requisite support for artist rights and freedom of creative expression? What needs to be done to improve conditions for democratic arts practice in Africa? Does society fully recognise the intrinsic value of arts and culture for its citizens? A panel of experienced cultural practitioners – Faisal Kiwewa (Director of Bayimba International Festival), Blick Bassy (artist from Cameroon), Ayeta Wangusa (Director of CDEA/Culture and Development East Africa), Sara Nsigaye (Director of Native Film Travel), moderated by Peter Rorvik (Secretary-General, Arterial Network) – will focus on these issues during a discussion at the Bayimba International Festival, that is organized by Artwatch Africa and Arterial Network.