Welcome Back | A Refreshing Start AfroLatin Night 2026 🤩 Let’s Dance! 💃🕺 Kizomba | Salsa | Bachata | Konpa Zouk | Urbankiz | Semba | Afrobeat & more 📅 This Saturday, 3rd January 📍 Crafty Dee’s, Masaki ⏰ Time: 8PM – Midnight 🕛 No worries if you think you can’t dance — we say, […]
Uhenga Collective invites writers, scholars, artists, poets, researchers, and cultural practitioners to contribute to a multigenre and multilingual anthology co-edited by Demere Kitunga, Diana Kamara, and Rehema Chachage. This anthology revisits and reinterprets the Dar es Salaam Intellectual Debates of the 1970s—and their afterlives—through decolonial, and intersectional feminist lenses. Uhenga Collective inawaalika waandishi, wasomi, wasanii, […]
Wito kwa Wasanii wa Sanaa za Uoni umefunguliwa rasmi. Kama unachora, unapaka rangi, nimfinyanzi, unapiga picha au hata kama bado hujui chochote lakini unashauku ya kujifunza, huu ndio muda wako. Hujasoma rasmi? hamna shida unakaribishwa. Umefunzwa? Pia sawa. Tunachotaka ni ari na moyo wa kujifunza. Huu ni mwaka mzima wa mafunzo, unaoanza Februari 2026, umeundwa […]
Let’s get the NEW YEAR to a cracking start with the DSM edition of “Niko Njiani…Nimefika” - a @gcsmus sound & poetry exhibition on the experiences of Tanzanian women and urban public transport. The exhibition will be held at Mikoko White House @ajabuajabu on 9th JANUARY 2026 from 18:00-22:00. Through recorded interviews, street sounds, poetry and oral histories, the […]
We are so excited to invite readers aged 9-12 to our very first book club session on Saturday, January 10th at the Tanzania National Library,Dar es Salaam. Get ready for awesome book chats and a magical introduction to the world of reading together with other friends. We can’t wait to see you there!
We are very happy to support Dorine Mugisha’s second edition of Strike the Beat Battle, a platform for dancers to shine and showcase their talent. Following a one-week intensive workshop on Whacking, we will experience top Tanzanian dancers battling it out on stage. There will be two categories to enjoy: a 1 vs 1 Whacking […]
ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT FILM? Nafasi Art Space invites you to apply for FILM CLUB: a free program designed to build real production skills. The program is whole year program and it is expected to begin on February 2026. Learn the full filmmaking process: • Pre-production • Production • Post-production • Photography & cinematography • […]
Join us for a shared writing and painting workshop with Italian artist Stefania Galegati, part of the Isola delle Femmine / Kisiwa cha Wanawake manifesto. 🗓 Monday, January 12, 2026 🕒 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Arrival from 10:30 a.m.) 📍 Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam This collective creation project explores female desires, insularity, […]
Nafasi Art Space is calling on bold and visionary creators to join our 2026 Artist in Residency Programme. We welcome contemporary artists across all disciplines painters, sculptors, welders, printmakers, performers, dancers, musicians, video artists, photographers, writers, curators, and researchers to immerse themselves in a space built for growth, experimentation, and artistic freedom. For 2026, we […]
Wicked Tunes Tuesday 🗓 Jan 13 | 7PM This Tuesday, we welcome back Freed (@freed_mushaga) — a Congolese singer-songwriter whose music moves effortlessly between soul, African pop, jazz, folk, and Afrobeat. Born in Bukavu, eastern DRC, Freed draws from African griot traditions, weaving storytelling and emotional depth into a contemporary sound that feels […]
Jan van Esch is a Dutch multimedia artist based in Amsterdam. His practice combines video, performance, drawing, and socially engaged art. He explores power relations, systems of exchange, and global inequalities by transforming discarded materials into carriers of new meaning. PART I Meters of tangled textiles drift across the Indian Ocean before washing ashore. Using […]
JUMATANO GROOVE #160 LORD EYEZ (TZ) – Hip-Hop The Garden comes alive with Lord Eyez, one of Tanzania’s most respected hip-hop artists and songwriters. Originally from Arusha, he is renowned for his poetic Swahili lyricism and socially conscious storytelling. A founding member of Nako 2 Nako and a key figure in the Weusi collective, Lord Eyez […]
