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Art Workshop - Uganda

SELF EXPRESSION THROUGH ART

Art workshops in collaboration with The Walking School Bus, (A Vancouver based NGO) in Uganda, Africa, 2016

This is a collection of rustic experiences that I’ve documented visually through my journey as a traveling art facilitator to Uganda, Africa. I worked with three multi-faith schools - Semai Kankungulu School and Hadassah Primary School at Mbale village and Jonathan Netanyahu Memorial School in Putti village.

Muddy roads, dense greenery, open air classrooms, cheeky children who pinch pencils and crayons for drawing and writing … all figured in my mixed bag of adventures. Conversations with locals, midday meals, bricked houses, local markets and wildlife safaris complete the bigger picture of how parts of Africa appear in my own visual memory.

These images were taken over a span of a fortnight; I worked with over 220 children from different age groups covering a range of activities like pattern making, drawing from observation, painting and textures, which will be a part of a contextual storybook based on coffee-farming in this region.

I swear I did not steal the pencils. Students having some fun at Putti Village.
Handmade bricks, drying in the sunlight at Mbale, Nabagoye Village.
On the way to Semai Kakungulu School, Mbale, Uganda - Making new friends.
Mbale village, Uganda - Near the school, view from the top.
Happy Artists - Mbale Village - Drawing by Observation - Local Trees
I'm the sign painter. TWSB built a chicken coop, with a 100 chickens for the Putti Village school. As a nutritious in-house supply of food for the children.
A rafter of turkeys, village house, Mbale, Uganda, Africa - On the way to school
Lady who brings breakfast everyday - Hadassah Primary School - Nabagoye - Banana Chips, fried bajji's and avocado slices.
A local child in Mbale Village. He looked beautiful.
Little girls, near their school. Mbale Village, Uganda, Africa
Local Mbale Town Market, Uganda, Africa.
Dinner, waiting patiently in a hardware shop at Mbale Market.
Local girl, head-dress. Mbale town, Nabagoye village, Uganda, Africa.
Sipi Falls, Nagaboye, Mbale, Uganda.
Walking to School. Traveling over large distances - to the Jonathan Netanyahu Memorial School, Putti Village
Jonathan Netanyahu Memorial School, Putti Village, Uganda, Africa
JJ one of the students, doing some art. At the Jonathan Netanyahu Memorial School in Putti
If the water won't come to you .... getting water for the art class.
Boating on the White Nile or Jinja, Uganda, Africa.
Art class, outdoors. Jonathan Netanyahu Memorial School, Putti Village, Uganda, Africa.
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Pattern Making. Happy Artists, Happy Faces at Putti Village.
The African Elephant - Murchison Falls - On a game drive. Uganda, Africa.
Through the bus window - a Giraffe that we spotted on a Game Drive near Murchison Falls.
Ugandan Cobb, Game drive, Murchison Falls, Uganda, Africa.
Mount Elgon, Mbale, Uganda, Africa - With the TWSB Team.
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