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Ensibuko Arts Festival is an annual arts gathering at the heart of the historical jinja city. The festival brings together people from diverse cultures and backgrounds to exchange knowledge, artistic skills, and life experiences, but also showcase and market their work. Every once a year, the world comes to the historical jinja to experience the tales of the African cultures, ancestral games and sounds as they are being blended into the modern culture. the festival provides artists with a platform for joint learning, exhibitions and knowledge exchange, with aim to open international opportunities for local creatives. It is at athe core of our purpose to produce innovative Unique concepts, mind bending performances and art works.

Though our primary element is dance, we also host a variety of other artistic expressions like music, theater, visual arts and poetry in accompaniment with traditional games, arts entrepreneurship conferences, exhibitions and fashion.

Ensibuko Arts Festival strives to develop a generation of performers with unique identities. We give dancers a platform for ​knowledge exchange, exhibition and a stable networking environment. We envision the social and economic growth of the dace scene in Uganda especially Jinja and the surrounding communities. Would you want to perform on the next edition? Please fill in the form in the “perform” section and you might be selected to perform on the next edition of this year.

Watch a short video recap of the previous editions on this link:  Recap video