"Engaging our pupils is one of our greatest challenges - a daily challenge at times - you managed it in two days - fantastic!"
primary school teacher
primary school teacher
Word Garden intro (Hannah Conway directing a choir of London Borough of Southwark primary school children and audience during a warm up before a live performance of the Word Garden by Eugene Skeef and Tunde Olatunji.)
Umoya Creations (UC) was established in 2003 by Eugene Skeef and Azra Kayani to bring music and arts education, reconciliation, healing and development through the arts to regions where people suffer from deprivation, physical and emotional damage and poverty.
While we engage with all ages, UC provides these opportunities for young people by helping them to discover their creative potential and use it to empower and advance themselves and their communities.
While we engage with all ages, UC provides these opportunities for young people by helping them to discover their creative potential and use it to empower and advance themselves and their communities.
Our Aims:
Build tolerance and understanding amongst people of different cultures, races, communities, religions and class who may be divided by conflict
Promote equitable exchange between cultures
Empower people, especially the youth, and improve their lives by giving them access to music and creativity
Use music as a healing force to alleviate the trauma suffered mainly by young people
Give hope and capacity for people to rebuild and shape their own lives
Help create wealth among the disenfranchised through judicious and fair means of marketing their creative and musical talents and products
Build tolerance and understanding amongst people of different cultures, races, communities, religions and class who may be divided by conflict
Promote equitable exchange between cultures
Empower people, especially the youth, and improve their lives by giving them access to music and creativity
Use music as a healing force to alleviate the trauma suffered mainly by young people
Give hope and capacity for people to rebuild and shape their own lives
Help create wealth among the disenfranchised through judicious and fair means of marketing their creative and musical talents and products
UK registered charity no.1098189