Global Bridge Network’s blog: Activity report of ‘Sanyu’

Hello, everyone! Greetings from GlobalBridge Network（GBN）

Sanyu!_No2 was held at Calabash: African restaurant on June 9^th Sat.

This is the second event of Sanyu! That was held the last August, 2017.

‘Sanyu’ means ‘Happy’ in Luganda, one of the languages spoken in Uganda. Despite of the many challenges such as poverty in Africa, there are so many rich cultures such as dynamic dance, colorful fashion, fashionable craft etc.

At the Sanyu! event, we mainly aimed at our participants getting that feeling and enjoyment towards the mentioned aspects above.

Calabash: African restaurant in Hamamastu-cho

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A Ugandan traditional costume for the men called 'Kanzu'

A pink girl wearing a Ugandan traditional costume for the women called 'Gomesi'

and another one wearing an African fabric called 'Kitengi'

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On that day, we had programs like, introducing GBN activities, talking about Uganda’s culture, Q&A session about Uganda, African style dance & drum show, live paint show, and lastly Uganda’s music & dance as all members also joined the stage to participate and enjoy the dancing session.

The event was not only attended by Japanese, but also some few Africans participated making a total of 40 people. We all really enjoyed and warmed up♪

Introducing of GBN’s activities

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Introducing of Uganda’s Culture

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Q＆A Session about Uganda

Here, Mr. Arafat provided an amazing original Quiz

which many of the members really loved and enjoyed

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Live paint
TEEJ painted by her inspiration
and she also participated in Dance&Drum show as a performer!

Djembe players from African drum class

led by Mr. Eiichi Hanaoka and his fellow crew.

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African style dance with drum sounds (Djembe)

which was beautifully and enjoyably performed

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Drum performance by Mr. Hanaoka

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Solo dance and drum show

by dance instructor, Atsuko and drummer Mr. Hanaoka.

It was just AMAZING.

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Ugandan music and dance session

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They really enjoyed dancing with Ugandan friends

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All members joined to participate with in the session

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We would like to take this opportunity to push a bottle of thanks to the following members for the roles they have played towards the Sanyu function.

To begin with,
Ms. Atsuko from African style dance/STUDIO BARJARA who supported as the coordinator of this event,

Mr. Yamaguchi Kosuke from Uganda Diaspora Japan and he helped in event planning and being MC,

Mr. Eiichi Hanaoka who plays the drum and percussion leading Djembe players from African drum class,

Ms. TEEJ who performed in the beautiful live painting,

and importantly, Ugandan friends, Arafat, Raff, Precious who acted as event staff members and as well played a big role in assisting of the event organizers in as afar as cheering and creating an enjoyable atmosphere during the event.

You are such lovely people.