Welcome
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.
Kuumba Nia Arts is 15 years old come celebrate our Sankofa Journey with us
Celebrating our past and being guided for our future
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.
Check for updates on performances, screenings and events.
On Their Own Ground IS BACK! Meet three women who's life stories show that vision plus action can change anything!
Three Interwoven Stories Of Triumph And Hope
On Their Own Ground
7.30pm 8th May
John Bunyan Church Hall
Crowell Road. OX4 3LD
Meet three women who's life stories show that vision plus action can change anything! Join Madam C J Walker, Amy Ashwood Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey on a journey post slavery, through Garveyism, Harlem renaissance, Pan Africanism and beyond
An evening of a rehearsed reading performance Q&A mingling and refreshments
SOLD IS BACK! MARKING THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
SOLD IS BACK! MARKING THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF VICTIMS OF SLAVERY AND THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE 25 MARCH 2025
SOLD TRAILER 2025
Video footage by Derek James
Photographs by David Fisher
Help support our work 'Every mikkle mek a mukkle'
Your support and contributions will enable us to keep creating great work. Every donation will make a difference.
