Imagination Circle

A brief look into our traditional drumming activity for kindergarteners.
Here we go beyond rhythm and aim for whole growth, we aim for them to grow in areas like;
Listening & Focus - Call-and-response rhythms sharpen attention and active listening.
Motor Skills & Coordination -
Drumming strengthens fine motor control, bilateral coordination, and overall body awareness.
Pattern Skills - Rhythms teach sequencing, counting, and pattern recognition—math in motion!
Emotional Expression - Children learn to express feelings through tempo and volume while practicing self-regulation.
Teamwork & Social Skills -
Playing in a group builds cooperation, turn-taking, and a sense of belonging.
Cultural Appreciation -
Many drumming traditions from Uganda connect children to storytelling, heritage, and cultures.

Photos from our ongoing drum circle club we offer as part of extracurricular activities program at Kampala International School Uganda.

As we look ahead to 2026, we are resharing some of the unique engagements we did in the year we have left behind.

In March, we facilitated a breakdance skills development workshop to breakers based in Kitintale and surrounding areas.
This workshop targeted beginners & semi advanced level breakers, taught by Kim-uli Steven Valentine Droplets.
He taught - Introduction to semi- pro breaking drills; Share & practice concepts for building strong foundation movements; Teach top rock, footwork and power move transitions, and Cyphering practice.

This engagement is part of our ongoing efforts to grow the quantity and quality of breakdance, hiphop & urban dancers based in Uganda.

Shout to;
Collaborators - Banakibuga & The Uganda Skateboard Union.
Uganda Skateboard union.
Guest attendees - Nambalirwa Joanah Jojo & Mirembe Ritah.
Bgirl Jojo & Bgirl Mirembe.
Photos by Morriz Ochan Nhdpu.
Breaking & hiphop community 🙏🏿.

As we look ahead to 2026, we are resharing some of the unique engagements we did in the year we have left behind.

Enjoy these photos from a breaking (breakdance) workshop we provided for breakers of all levels based on Nansana & surrounding areas.

Taught by Darius Tinytrix, the workshop comprised of - Warm up & drills; Stretching & conditioning; General floor-work movements & development practices; How to apply learned concepts; Cyphers and more.

This engagement is part of our ongoing efforts to grow the quantity and quality of breakdancers based in Uganda.

Shout to;
Collaborators - God’s talent Africa, Dance light kids Africa, Mama kids foundationion.
Photos by Morriz Ochan Nhdpu.
Breaking & hiphop community 🙏🏿.

Our collaborators and friends of Edirisa UK released their 2025 annual report.
Spare some minutes and read it.

We are glad and humbled to be a part of the needed and life changing work they are doing in Southwest Uganda.

Wishing all our followers a very Happy New Year and all good wishes for 2026.

You can read our annual newsletter here:

https://mailchi.mp/ffc97df0826b/highlights-of-2025-httpsmailchimp83e02288fd47edirisauk-2025-news-9303331

HOLIDAYS! That earned time to look back, rest, reflect on what matters most, build & strengthen relationships, exercises your hobbies, tryout new things, gain new experiences, invest in yourself, do those things which you wouldnt have time for while on your work schedule.
Our friends and community, we hope that this holiday season brings you meaning, re-energizes you, fuels your drive, challenges you to drop & unlearn and inspires you in big & small ways.

Thank you for being part of our community! We look forward to continuing with you.

Happy holidays.

#2025

made a very long self financed travel to Uganda last September to come build, exper, learn, share and grow with our community.
For that, we are grateful!
We are happy to see her winning, being recognized and appreciated!

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Faces of focus, participation, exploration, learning, enjoyment and during our week of creative activities in collaboration with Edirisa UK at Kitanga primary school in Kashambya - Kitanga village, Rukiga district (Southwest Uganda).

On 22nd/06 we headed to Kitanga primary school with an aim; To share creative skills and practices with young people of special needs education centre, involve their teachers in the process to adapt some of our creative approaches to instructing impactful lessons and share relevant computer operation & digital skills to resident teachers of Kitanga primary school.

Over a period of 5 days, We offered a variety of activities; art fusion, dance & creative movement, physical mobility, digital skills, beatboxing/vocal percussion, play centered learning, making games from recycled materials, sewing, creating & installing communicative public art pieces, singing, drumming, and finished off the week with a school show during which our students performed, presented, interacted, shared, inspired and enjoyed!
We worked with approximately;
•35 children with various impairments.
•300 main stream students (P.1 - P.7).
•10 teachers.

We thank our collaborators of Edirisa UK for their trust, making our 4th visit to Kitanga possible and fruitful.