Osun Arts aims to create awareness and appreciation of neglected African traditional Arts and Culture and to encourage the understanding of Britain as a vibrant multi-cultural society. The Osun Arts Foundation is a non-profit making organisation (Charity registered in the UK No:1039875) based in Liverpool, England, founded in 1992 and co-ordinated by Oladimeji Adisa.
We organise participatory combined arts workshops, in schools community and arts centres, as well as taking a performance on tour each year. Most people in the West only get to view African treasures in the glass cabinets of museums, where they are treated as past history. In line with official policies, using our Participatory Combined Arts Projects, we offer presentations that aim to bring children and others in the community closer to African arts and culture giving them the opportunity to touch, use and interact with ceremonial art forms.
The video below showcases the dynamic drum and dance activities by Osun Arts Foundation. Promoting a selection of the dance styles are used in the participatory school workshops they deliver.
Further information is available from our address below, or our booking form.
We organise participatory combined arts workshops, in schools community and arts centres, as well as taking a performance on tour each year. Most people in the West only get to view African treasures in the glass cabinets of museums, where they are treated as past history. In line with official policies, using our Participatory Combined Arts Projects, we offer presentations that aim to bring children and others in the community closer to African arts and culture giving them the opportunity to touch, use and interact with ceremonial art forms.
The video below showcases the dynamic drum and dance activities by Osun Arts Foundation. Promoting a selection of the dance styles are used in the participatory school workshops they deliver.
Further information is available from our address below, or our booking form.
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Our workshops are specifically designed not only to enable people to have fun and enjoy themselves, but also encourage participants to be actively involved in learning new things, with the aim to:
A performance -accompanied by an exhibition of the children's artworks is the culmination of the project. Before an audience of their friends and family the children show and celebrate all that has been learned through the project.
Our latest project - Moremi is an epic drama piece in the Yoruba tradition featuring theatre, dynamic dances, masquerade, powerful music, and elaborate costumes. Moremi is divided into six chapters containing traditional style dialogue, songs and music.
It was a brilliant time dancing the way Africans dance. I certainly enjoyed it especially trying the customs on, I felt like a real African person wearing the colourful costumes. I wish that you could come again and teach us another dance.
Christopher Pierce, Sudley Junior School
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