Cultural Arts Centre Zanzibar

Cultural Arts Centre Zanzibar local goods made by local community

arts & crafts // souvenirs // workshops

support creativity! Visit us, meet our artists and watch them at work.

Our focus is on local, Zanzibari art, and with artists working within the Centre (a large, historic building with plenty of space); Our mission is to provide a space where local artists and artisans can develop, exhibit, discuss and sell their art - strengthening local sustainable arts practice whilst developing local and international audiences. Join our workshops and learn how to create your own

hand-made souvenir in our workshops. All arts, crafts and souvenirs made by zanzibarian artists with local recycled material to support community development & environmental sustainability. located in Stone Town, opposite Hamamni Persian Baths

Here you can see sustainable products we rescently made  at cultural arts center! We do recycled paper, handcrafted note...
18/12/2024

Here you can see sustainable products we rescently made at cultural arts center! We do recycled paper, handcrafted notebooks, art, soaps and a lot of other things you should take a look at!
Karibu sana/ You are welcome in our Center!(:

Last week we had the pleasure to welcome a class from London in the  to do a workshop!We showed the students how to make...
01/11/2024

Last week we had the pleasure to welcome a class from London in the to do a workshop!

We showed the students how to make our soap, which is made of only natural ingredients from a traditional Zanzibarian recipe.🧼 Additionally, we taught them about the process to make our recycled paper! In the end, they were able to create their own unique, beautiful notebook✒️📒

Asante sana/ Thank you very much; you made our workshop a full success and enjoyment!!!
You are always welcome again🌟

Here at the centre, we prioritize sustainability. We make our paper, soap wrappers, and beads in house using scraps of p...
25/07/2024

Here at the centre, we prioritize sustainability. We make our paper, soap wrappers, and beads in house using scraps of paper and magazines. In our store, you will also see products that utilize recycled glass and metal. If you purchase any piece in our store, it will be packaged in recycled boxes and envelopes as well!

For this edition of our Artist Spotlight, we have chosen our very own Abdul, who serves our centre as both a manager and...
18/07/2024

For this edition of our Artist Spotlight, we have chosen our very own Abdul, who serves our centre as both a manager and an artist. His knowledge of oils and cosmetics is vital to many of the products we offer.

When you stop by the center, you will likely see Abdul hand blending, marinating, and mixing various ingredients together to create oils. Once these are made, he mixes them in different ways each time, which creates many unique combinations of scents. These are then used to make products ranging from frangrances to moisturizers to mosquito repellents. Not only do these products feel and smell beautiful, but they're highly efficacious as well. Some of the ingredients in these blends have shown to moisturize and brighten skin, reduce eczema and psoriasis, and/or reduce inflammation and acne.

To him, passing down knowledge is of utmost importance. Just as his grandmother imparted onto him all of her knowledge about this craft, Abdul wishes to do the same to his students;
"My one goal for the Cultural Arts Centre is to see my students surpass me," he says.

For more information about Abdul, his inspirations, the products he creates, and what he does for our centre, head over to the link in our bio to read our blog! He can be personally reached out to through our Instagram or in person at the Cultural Arts Centre. If you would like to support Abdul, stop by the center to purchase his oils, or, send us an email at [email protected] to request quotes for bulk orders!

Extremely sad news for Cultural Arts Center Zanzibar and all artists from Zanzibar and Tanzania to tell u that our wonde...
08/12/2023

Extremely sad news for Cultural Arts Center Zanzibar and all artists from Zanzibar and Tanzania to tell u that our wonderful Rebecca Maguire has passed away, such a wonderful ,soft mom, kind, hard working lady, teacher, our mentor, our project manager and wonderful consultant that never had in our Center. We will always remember her working spirit, her beautiful smile and good advice to our community Centre, unexpectedly left us in body but not spirit. Much loved by her husband Mr Othman, her family and friends in the UK and Zanzibar.  May she rest in peace. ❤️

In this weeks Artist Spotlight, I want you to meet  :„Art is everything. Everything that surrounds you, even spending ti...
24/11/2023

In this weeks Artist Spotlight, I want you to meet :
„Art is everything. Everything that surrounds you, even spending time thinking about it, is art”. That’s what Kola answers me on my question “What is art for you?”. And if you want to know about art, he is the one who must know. Kola “Kolala”, also named “Professor Kola” is a well-known artist in Tanzania.

As in School every kid has his own vision for the future like becoming an astronaut or doctor, Kola always knew he wanted to be an Artist. And ambition became reality. Kola’s Art is unique. Layer by layer a huge color palette turns into a colorful painting. Kola takes his time to create texture on his canvases, which underline his unique style and make it difficult for other artists to duplicate.

Kola’s art can be classified as spontaneous realism.”This genre fits perfectly for Kola’s art as he turns basic motives into colorful explosions. There’s no doubt that by that, Kola can be named a great artist.

He is drawing inspiration only really from one artist, an Austrian named “VOKA”.
Kola is turning usual scenes from Zanzibar, Stone Town and portraits into wonderful pieces of art on canvas. Especially using acrylic on canvas, Kola often chooses fluorescent colors like pink to really make his art “pop” in the viewer's eyes.

“For art you need time to learn until you come up with your own ideas, don’t follow dogmatism”, Kola said to me.

Not only does his art make Kola a remarkable artist, but he is also invested in many projects to create a better environment in the art scene of Tanzania and Zanzibar. Born in Zanzibar, his mission over the years became to offer everything in his power for the locals to discover their love for art. In order to do that, he founded the organization “Kola-art perspective” in 2018.

Kola turned his passion into a life mission to create a bigger meaning and understanding to art.
Written by: Tomma Huettner
To read the full article go to:

http://culturalartscentrezanzibar.wordpress.com

✨Our next post in the frame of our blog-entry „Artist spotlight“ is dedicated to the Tanzanian artist Sizya.Sizya Hafidh...
06/11/2023

✨Our next post in the frame of our blog-entry „Artist spotlight“ is dedicated to the Tanzanian artist Sizya.

Sizya Hafidh Damson is a Tanzanian artist, born in Dar es Salaam but grown up and based in Zanzibar. Born with great creativity, Sizya started to paint stories on sand as a kid. One might say that he was discovered as an artist by his grandmother, as she was the one who brought him to an arts center after realizing how passionate he was about art. On the mainland in the house of art, dar es salaam, Sizya learns the real meaning to be an artist by his first teacher Lute, a well known Tanzanian artist. After finishing his second education in 2012, he went back to stone town to meet famous artists.

In a mix of surrealism, imagination and realism, Sizya creates deep meaningful paintings with mostly acrylic on canvas. Interestingly, women as a main-topic run like a common thread through all of his artworks.
Even his teachers asked why it was so important for him to use women as muses, but he could never answer it for real. It was a feeling, a necessary thing from his heart to show the world what women are going through. What their challenges are in life and what local Tanzanian and Zanzibari women are supposed to be like and work to live and to care for their families. Approaching to modern topics like the difficulties to choose between love, money, education or forced marriages, he creates a deep meaning in all of his pieces.

Sizyas art strucks out as it comes from the heart, expressing his feelings towards society. It’s not only for the eye, his art is for the heart and soul!
You can visit him on instagram and Facebook or at his art studio at Hifadhi Zanzibar/Stone Town.

You can read the full article on our website:

https://culturalartscentrezanzibar.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/sizya-from-heart-to-canvas/?fbclid=IwAR2I1v4-xP8owHdr1vjVrOSv_3l9NuR76Ae7xyoqT-EyNaDouTH8SuI0YDY

06/11/2023

Picture by picture Sizya is putting together an image in his head. With great creativity he finds scenes in his surroundings that he will later illustrate in a painting. Not knowing where it would …

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