The 2nd WAAO Children Arts & Culture Festival

 Are you ready? If you are not then this is your time.

The 2nd Children Arts & Culture Festival is just around the corner. This year the festival will be held on 7th and 8th December 2012 at the National Museum and House of Culture which is opposite to the institute of Finance Management (I.F.M) in Dar es Salaam.

The festival this year will carry the theme, "Participation and access to the arts is a right and not a privilege".

The festival will feature workshops for children, exhibitions and performances from the children to their fellow children, parents and the society.

Various Stakeholders, schools and groups are urged to prepare and register their items with us. The deadline for the registrations will be 1st October, 2012. We also invite sponsors to sponsor some items that will feature in the festival and at the same time advertise and showcase their products.

For more info please contact us at artswatoto@yahoo.com or call Theresia Gratta at mobile number 

0715 985 251 or 0754 985 251

You are all welcome

The 1st Chilren Arts Festival

Hatimaye tamasha la kwanza la watoto la sanaa (The first Arts Festival) lafanyika. Tamasha hili limefanyika leo hii tarehe 17/12/2011 kuanzia saa 9:00am -4:30pm. Tamasha hili lilihudhuriwa na watu mbali mbali na maonesho yalifana sana. Yafuatayo ni matukio katika picha.

Watoto wa TCTC Tabata wakiimba wimbo wa Bob Rudala katika Tamasha hilo.

Watoto wa Shada kutoka Bagamoyo wakionyesha Sarakasi.

Watoto wa friends of Don Bosco kutoka Kimara-Suka wakicheza Mganda

Ukumbi wa Nyumba ya utamaduni ulivyolipendezesha Tamasha

Mwenyekiti (Chairperson) Akifunga Tamasha

Mtoto wa KAOMU High view Nursery and Primary school kutoka Mbagala akipokea zawadi.

Na hawa ndio walikuwa wanakamati wa Tamasha hili la kwanza

Tamasha lilibarikiwa na Uwepo wa Bob Rudala mwenyewe Pamoja na wasanii wengine kama Raza na Vitalis Maembe.

Bob Rudala

Vitalis Maembe akiwa na Chanjo ya Rushwa

Tamasha liliahirishwa kwa mategemeo kufanyika tena mwakani mwaka 2012.

Watoto Arts Organization (WAAO)

Watoto Arts Organization (WAAO)

Watoto Arts Organization (WAAO) is an NGO which is situated at Migombani Street at Tabata Segerea, Ilala Municipal in Dar es Salaam-Tanzania. The word ‘watoto’ is a Kiswahili word which means children. The organization’s main purpose is to find, identify and expose young talented children in the world of arts. Moreover the organization also nurtures and shapes the children and their talents into the realm of arts. To do so the organization conducts trainings, workshops, seminars, exhibitions and public performances on Arts and culture. Towards the productions children are main target and proprietors under guidance.

WAAO Children in a performance (1)

Activities at WAAO include Traditional dance and Choreography, Theatre/Drama (Storytelling included), Poems, Solo singing and Choir, Acrobatics and Gymnastics, Painting and Drawing, Sculpture, Designing and handicrafts.

WAAO Children in a performance (2)

Vision

WAAO’s vision is to be the leading organization in Tanzania then Africa towards developing the children and the youth’s talents in arts and culture.

Mission

To find, identify, realize and expose the talented children and youths and to further expose these children and youth into the realm of Arts and culture.

The way forward 2011

This year, from 15-17^th December, 2011 Watoto Arts Organization will be the main organizer of the 1^st Children Arts and Culture festival. However, the event will be expertise by volunteers from the Department of Fine and Performing Arts of the University of Dar es Salaam and Taasisi ya Sanaa na Utamaduni (TaSUBA) former Bagamoyo College of Arts.

The theme for the festival this year will be “Arts and Culture for peace, Security and Unity”. In this festival we will also celebrate the 50 years since Independence anniversary of Tanzania.

WAAO Children on a performance at Tabata Segerea

During the festival WAAO expects performances from other children groups who have already confirmed to attend and participate. These include Shada Group-Bagamoyo, Kaomu High View Nursery and Primary School-Mbagala, JUA Group-Bagamoyo, Mwembeni Primary School-Vingunguti, Mtema Lugodi-Bagamoyo, KAPE Group-Kariakoo and Tanzania Children Talents and Culture Organization from Tabata Segerea.

Theresia Gratta-The Director of WAAO

For more information about WAAO or the 1^st Children Arts and Culture festival please contact:

Theresia Gratta-Director WAAO at Mobile Numbers: 0715 985 251 or 0754 985 251

Or e-mail at: artswatoto@yahoo.com