Kuumba Nia Arts is an Black led Oxford-based touring theatre company that produces and develops work based on traditional African theatrical forms and aesthetics. In Swahili, Kuumba means ‘creativity’ whilst Nia can be translated as ‘intention’ or ‘purpose’. Our mission and purpose is to fuse contemporary creative performance styles with historical African forms that have been passed to the diaspora to create a theatre that breaks new ground. Creating unique productions of startling authenticity that inform, surprise and entertain. We also run workshops, film screenings and events.
Sankofa - “it is not taboo to look back and collect what you've forgotten”
Over the next 6 months we shall revisit and honour some of the best elements of our last 15 year, reengaging with our community as we prepare for a bright future.
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Loss has been a big part of the last few years for so many of us....
John was much more than a Co-director of Kuumba Nia Arts. It is still hard to find the words to remember and honour him. Grief has it's own timetable. You can listen to him sharing his own words, in our development weekend workshop videos. He is and shall always be greatly missed but his work lives on. Our future Symposiums shall celebrate him and we shall share news of his book when it is published. Hear and watch John here
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