Is Sarakasi Trust Worth The Hype? A Revelation

Sarakasi Trust responds to the need for the further development and promotion of culture, performing arts and entertainment in East-Africa focusing on acrobatics, dance and music.

Sarakasi, established in Nairobi in 2001, strives to empower its trainees and contracted artists (most of whom originate from slum areas around Nairobi) creatively and economically by giving them tools to manage their art, lives and careers more effectively and successfully. The Trust aims to present the best of Kenyan creativity to the widest possible audience by organizing festivals and events, cultural exchanges, local and international performance contracts and tours. 

Sarakasi also provides social development, training and capacity building and cultural awareness programs, and in addition implements special programs such as the Talanta training (involving blind and deaf performing artists), the Hospital Project (bringing edutainment to hospitalized children and children in homes and remand homes), monthly musicians workshops, Artist Agency Project, and the implementation of its own cultural agenda at the ‘Sarakasi Dome’, in Nairobi, its office, rehearsal and performance venue.

Regular features on this agenda is the weekly Friday evening event providing platforms to Sarakasi artists, deejays, Emcees and musicians, a monthly open mike Hip Hop event, a bi-monthly dance-circus fusion evening event and the annual Sawa Sawa multi disciplinary Festival. Sarakasi employs 35 staff on a full time basis, reaches over 1,000 young people on a weekly basis in its (training) outreach programs, trains about 100 people at the Dome every week and reaches thousands with its audience building activities. Sarakasi Trust participates in six partner networks.

Vision

Arts and Culture for a better world!

Mission

To develop, facilitate, support and promote performing arts and culture for social and economic advancement of society.