'MUSIC DANCE AND DRAMA PRODUCTION AND PROMOTION'
UPA Cultural Troupe (UPACT)
4th August - 25th August
Project back ground
UPA Cultural troupe runs its activities through music dance and drama and promotes community development through sanitation, environmental
management and HIV/AIDS awareness. The Cultural troupe started in 1994 as a pilot project of UPA. At present the branch runs community projects through
work camps aimed at building schools and other development work for the community.
Project objectives
- To promote intercultural cooperation among youth and other group members.
- To enhance educational awareness through music dance and drama.
- To make local musical instruments for the Cultural Troupe, schools and the local community.
- To enhance sanitation knowledge, sports and interaction through music and drama.
Expected results
- After the work camp participants will have acquired team work skills and respect of each others culture.
- UPACT will have music instruments for its members to use.
- Sports and Drama activities will promote intercultural understanding with the different local communities.
Beneficiaries
The beneficiaries are the community in Bukomero village, Mubende district.
Activities
- Making and construction of different music instruments for the branch
- Drama, sports and music as a means to promote intercultural understanding
- Sports and games
- Construction of drying racks in different parts of the community
- Rock and hill climbing.
- A cultural night will be organised and participants will displace items, songs and dances from there home countries and traditions
Cultural and educational visits
- Playing mirror games and major games
- Making of musical instruments
- Story telling and rhymes
- Music dance and drama songs.
- Different Sports games
Who qualifies to participate
- Open minded, ready to interact with other people of different cultural background
- Willing to share his/her experiences
- Flexible to live/stay in simple life conditions
- Flexible to the taste of other foods (local)
- Ready to work on the projects
- No experience needed
Location
The camp will take place in Bukomero Village in Kiboga district 56 kilo meters from capital city Kampala.
Health services
The Health services are near. The main hospital is only 3Km away from the camp site with a possibility to get transport.
The host community
The people in this part of Uganda are multi tribal with the majority population being Baganda. The major language spoken is Luganda also
a big percentage of people speaking English well.
The major food eaten in this region matoke, cassava, sweet potatoes, rice, beans, ground nuts, yams etc.
Like most regions in Uganda people in this community always welcome visitors and always interested to talk/work with people from other cultural
backgrounds
Participation
The project expects 35 participants maximum with a composition of people from other regions of Uganda and people from the north of
the world (that is Europe, Asia and America).
The camp participants will be joined by other community people working for 6 hours daily from Monday to Friday. Work collecting rush, educative
discussion with the community members on sustainable environment management and construction of energy saving stoves.
Water Source
The water source is 1/2km away from the camp site
Climate
The temperatures usually range between 19°C and 29°C with few rains during the month of August. This region is very green
all the year due to two seasons of rains in the year.
Accomodation
- We shall provide simple rooms for sleeping
- Participant will use their sleeping bags and mats
- The camp site has simple bathrooms with no showers
- The camp site has latrines not toilets
- And a simple cooking shelter (kitchen)
- Participants are requested to bring with them mosquito nets, working clothes and shoes
- If any games, information/pictures from home country bring them
Meals
- There several local foods, matooke, cassava, sweet potatoes, yams, pumpkin and also rice, spaghetti, meat, fish, ground nuts, beans, peas and
different types green vegetables
- Fruits can also be easily bought from local markets, mangoes, sweet bananas, water melon, pineapples etc
- Participants will chose food to prepare depending on the availability