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Issue 036 – Festivals, Awards & Prizes
An Editorial Note What is the first thought that comes to mind when you hear about an art festival: Can I go? Who will be there? And if an artist has won a prize or an award, do you immediately want to...
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Kampala’s Spoken Words
Competitions can be classrooms. The Spoken Word Project in Uganda could be exactly that — a space to teach and learn. Designed by the Gothe Institut in Johannesburg, this transnational competition...
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Issue 037 – There Are Problems… and There Are Solutions
The art world is full of problems and solutions. Sometimes the problems seem so insurmountable that one wonders how an inspired mind could surpass them. Other times the possibilities are so apparent...
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Issue 038 – Arts Education: an editorial brief
education noun • the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, esp. at a school or university • the theory and practice of teaching • information about or training in a particular field...
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Issue 039 Inspiration
Arts and culture journalism focuses on critiquing and reviewing the sensory representations provided by the artists around us. We use text to analyse past works and project toward future changes,...
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Issue 040 – Gender & Sexuality
The Brief In a globalized world with borders and boundaries constantly being challenged, how can the arts define or redefine ambiguous states of gender or sexuality? Are there clear roles for men and...
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Issue 041 Public vs. Private
The tension between public and private forms of art marks part of the identity crisis that defines making, exhibiting, performing and selling. Do we need to tick the public box to be relevant? How...
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Issue 042 – Kampala Art Biennale
Biennale, Biennale, Biennale. Like a war-cry, the artist of Africa have something to say. This time they will be shouting out from the streets and galleries of Kampala. In a push to showcase Kampala...
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Editorial: Start Journal Re-imagined
Editorial: Start Journal Re-imagined Start Journal of Arts and Culture is coming back after a break of almost a year. The break was necessary for its internal adjustment and re-organisation to set it...
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Editorial: Returning to the archive: It is still rich, accessible and usable!
Editorial by Angelo Kakande This issue demonstrates that the available archive of the history of Uganda’s visual culture is still rich, accessible and usable. However, it could shape a conversation on...
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The art we make, the words we profess
By Margaret Nagawa It is almost a year since the rebirth of Start journal. Artists write about their work and that of other artists. Editor in Chief Margaret Nagawa Art historians theorise and...
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Startjournal 2018: New Media, Channels and Connections – Editorial
Editorial by Jantien Zuurbier Jantien Zuurbier It has been little over a year since our new Editorial Board was established, and with that came a shift towards publishing more scholarly, peer reviewed...
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From Archival Articles to Future Festivals – Editorial June
By Gloria Kiconco With a season of arts and music festivals drawing near, this issue of Start Journal invites the Kampala arts community not only to look ahead to the opportunities of future festivals...
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Issue No 004 Dec ´09
Read Start Journal Issue No 004 Dec ´09 in pdf-format. Table of contents Issue 004 Free Expression: A Work of Fiction. by Henry Mzili Mujunga Art Collectors. Q&A Pamela Kertland Wright. by Daudi...
View ArticleStart Journal launches next issue online December 15th
Start Journal will launch its fifth issue online. With the move to the Internet, Start aims to be an entry point for exploring East African Arts. But, of course, we can never beat the live experience...
View ArticleStartjournal.org launches first 2011-issue on February 3rd
The START-team is happy to say we have a new collection of articles ready for the readers in the beginning of February. Sign up as subscribers to get the next issue delivered to your email. By Thomas...
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Join us at Start First Sundays at Cayenne at 6pm
Welcome to the third online edition of Start – A Journal of Arts and Culture. We are now officially a monthly journal. Please join us at Cayenne at 6pm March 6th, to meet like-minded and to discuss the...
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Issue 008 will be out April 1st, followed by Start First Sundays at Cayenne...
Look forward to a new online edition of Start – A Journal of Arts and Culture. There are lots of Arts events happening in Uganda these months, and Start will once again host the informal meeting place,...
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Issue 043 Bayimba International Festival of the Arts
Bayimba International Festival of the Arts, now in its seventh edition, continues to provide more for its expanding audience. This year’s program has two performance stages, yoga classes, experimental...
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Introducing Dominic Muwanguzi: The New Startjournal Editor
Today we’d like to introduce you to the new editor of Startjournal. But first… a little backstory. ”START – A Journal of Arts and Culture” is a Kampala-based journal covering visual arts, performing...
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