Paa Ya Paa Arts Centre

© Paa Ya Paa Arts Centre
Genre : Gallery
Status : Public administration
Principal country concerned : Column : Fine arts
P.O.Box 49646-00100
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel. : +254- 733 270 109 | +254 (0)20 851 2257
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Paa Ya Paa is a compound Swahili name which literally means "The Antelope Rising". In Swahili "paa" means "rise" and also means an "antelope". In the 1960s the antelope had become a regular subject for the curio wood carvers designed to attract tourists in East Africa. Symbolically, therefore, Paa Ya Paa is a spiritual calling in the hope that the simple artistic expressions will rise in to a new realm of open-minded creative adventures, adventures that will give new scope for free creative self-expressions of the artist as well as the ethics and aesthetics that make the pursuit of excellence in the creative arts a worthwhile discipline.

Source: Paa Ya Paa Arts Centre

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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