PPP Fridays@2: A Conversation with Kiki Katese

Join PPP's Fridays@2 speaker series for a conversation with Kiki Katese, founder of Rwanda's first-ever female drumming ensemble.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a conversation with Kiki Katese, founder of the all-female drumming ensemble Ingoma Nshya. 

About Kiki Katese

Gakire Katese Odile (Kiki) is a Rwandan actor, playwright, director and cultural entrepreneur whose work has been honoured around the world. She is the first recipient of the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Rosamond Gilder/Martha Coigney International Theatre Award and one of the recipients of the 2012 Carnegie Common Ground Awards, which honour outstanding accomplishments in conflict resolution, negotiation, community building and peacebuilding around the world “for healing Rwanda’s past and giving hope for its future;" and the Fair Saturday Award in 2019 “for being a reference in inclusion and empowerment, ensuring access to the arts for all”. She is also a fellow of Sundance Theatre Lab and Salzburg Global Seminar.
 
Currently, she is the Principal Investigator on the research project “Gira Ingoma – One Drum Per Girl" that aims to ensure that the Rwandan National Curriculum Framework in Music, Dance and Drama is gender responsive. 

DATE

September 29, 2023 at 2:00 p.m.
WIN 2.112

A virtual option for attending this session is available via Zoom.

Join The Conversation Virtually

Ingoma Nshya will be performing at Texas Performing Arts the following Sunday (October 1) in Odile Gakire Katese and Volcano Theater's The Book of Life.

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