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Shi, Shi, Shi,
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First, I'm thinking this artwork is going to cause reflections, you know, why they are coming from their villages, you know, their villages back home in the rural areas, cultural sites, you know, I'm thinking this artwork is going to cause reflections.
Yes, I just want it to cause, basically we are trained to create an experience, a moment, you know, where someone can come and reflect.
And I think it's going to cause an impact, it will be brilliant.
This festival is helping us and that's why I'm taking part, because I can see it fits very much with what I believe in.
You know, also about free expression and using public space, that's also part of the agenda now.
All of a sudden, it's becoming more real to me, we have a right to have public space and use it for our lives, you know, but this is a public project, so it should be in public space.
We are working on our rights, rights to identity, rights to free expression, a lot of this work here, someone said that all the gods of Africa are in here.
I am very, very, very excited, the day has come.
Imagine the years, like 50 years from today, I mean, people will be referring to what we've done today as a genuine way of starting, like a starting ground.
My TED talk is about urban inspiration, and we're going to have a workshop about how do you feel about the city, so that people can get to react and see if they are given time to imagine how the city is going to look like,
how they want to portray it, so it gets the discussion moving, like opening them up and seeing the different ideas they have for the society.
7,000 refugees were sent from mainly Poland and Ukraine to Uganda in 1941, they arrived here from India, strangely the British government sent them to India first and then they sort of wended their way to East Africa.
There were 7,000 Poles in Uganda at a time when the white population was only 2,000 people, so they were a huge number, but they kept them in these camps and they really made it difficult for them to get in or out,
and they refused everyone's mission to settle after the end of the war.
7,000 refugees were sent to Uganda in 1941, they arrived here from India first and then to Uganda first and then to Uganda first and then to Uganda first.
7,000 refugees were sent to Uganda first and then to Uganda first and then to Uganda first.
7,000 refugees were sent to Uganda first and then to Uganda first and then to Uganda first and then to Uganda first.
It's not one individual piece on a piece of paper, it's like a composition and every painting contributes to the other, so you get a rhythm that takes you.
The story was inspired by something that happened to me, I was arrested for something I didn't do. I guess the whole point of the film was to give a voice to the people who don't have a voice and some of us people are awful.
I'm doing a eco-friendly collection about fashion and I'm trying to help clean the environment.
We are using old clothes people might not want or the cheapest clothes people never buy because they think it's not out of fashion or they think it's too cheap to be put on and most of the time you find them thrown on the streets.
The other part I'm going to have all the materials and the people will come maybe you pick what you want to tell me what you want to need and then you can do it.
They either bring their own or they pick from what we have and then tell us how they want them to be transformed.
So you want to catch up, don't very much catch up but a little flare, it flares a little. I'm having stale at how do I clean it. This one doesn't need it.
So my idea was like I wanted people to be part of the process of the piece. That's the reason why like I wanted something more challenging. That's why I was trying to do my own container in a way that I found like the containers limiting on my side.
Because they were closed almost four sides and tied on one opening. But like to me the idea was not really political. To me the idea was especially for the posters showing people were littering our city.
To be politicians, normal people, because people can easily just stick anything, can even look around. And those live the walls dirty, afterwards when it rains, no one even takes the responsibility to come and even remote them.
What you see are beads and these beads are made of paper and they're made of buck cloth and they're made of banana fiber. And these beads are making a living for almost 10,000 people in Kampala and this is art that has actually succeeded in creating jobs for so many women.
And when I started to make these beads or teaching people to make these beads about 1990, it was totally new and I'm continuing to bring this out by teaching skills in making new things that will create jobs.
The art work I do, communicating HIV-AIDS using sculpture, the soft sculptures to the communities, not only the highly educated ones, but I found it as a powerful tool among the people who are not educated and yet this disease, HIV-AIDS affects the poor people more.
And I think what, I don't know if these organizations are aware that most of these people, they're giving out organizations, they're giving out powerfulness, but the people read them, they don't understand them, so they have to be more verbal.
And then they also have to have interesting, creative means to educate our people and maybe you can also fight HIV-AIDS and reduce on the infection rates. So art should be used in society, in communities, it's a powerful tool.
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