Tanzania's art center fosters artistic growth for community

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Tanzania's art center fosters artistic growth for community

STORY: Tanzania's art center fosters artistic growth for community DATELINE: March 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:04:10 LOCATION: DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): REBECCA MZENGI COREY, Executive director of Nafasi Art Space 2. SOUNDBITE (English): AHMED BATENGA, Freelance photographer and graphic designer 3. various of the Nafasi art space 4. various of an artist painting 5. various of artists singing STORYLINE: A glance at a sprawling compound on a rough industrial plot filled with shipping containers in the Dar es Salaam commercial capital's Mikocheni area does not raise any feelings to a passer-by. But a walk into this unassuming compound leaves the passer-by agape. It is home to Nafasi Art Space in which the art platform has turned the shipping containers into artistic studios and a warehouse exhibition gallery. Studio spaces, residencies, workshops, film screenings, festivals, performances, exhibitions, children's art activities, and much more have filled the compound

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