A Performance at ISHYO with AMIZERO Dance Co.
Founded by eight Rwandese women, including Carole Karemera, who is the star in the movie Sometimes in April, ISHYO is a cultural organization that has been working with young people in elementary schools as well as in the streets and in bars and cafes, bringing intelligent theatre to the Kigali community for several years as well as educational theatre and youth literacy programs. The organization’s moto is “culture for everyone” and they strive to engage Rwandans in their shared cultural experience and heritage.
In August 2010, ISHYO will be entering into a partnership with the Market Theatre of South Africa (one of the most famous theatres in the world for producing socially conscious plays). The Market Theatre and ISHYO will be analyzing the role of Jazz music in the lead up to the overthrow of apartheid and they will be looking at the pop artists in Rwanda today and the traditional artists and discussing how the music business is both advancing and erasing Rwanda’s past music that could be harnessed for social change.
