Kamitan Arts CIC is a Performing Arts and Heritage Non-Profit Community Company, whose presence in the RBKC community has been evident for over 15 years.
Who we help with our work:
Kamitan Arts (KA) brings together inter-generational communities from disadvantaged and challenging backgrounds, amplifying marginalised voices through the power of bi-lingual poetry, harnessing the arts as a powerful vehicle for grassroots-driven social change.
Our objectives are to explore cultural identity and the heritage of our diverse community, as well as highlighting injustices and empowering women. We do this by promoting community cohesion and understanding of humanitarian issues through the performing arts. This includes workshops and productions in rap-poetry, dance, drama, music, art and film. KA collaborates with a wide network of artists and youth practitioners from Kensington and Chelsea and beyond. Our leadership team is rooted in the very community we serve, ensuring strong connections with both the local community and the wider voluntary and secular sectors.
Community, Heritage, Culture, Well-being, Equity and Creative Social Action, are values close to our heart. Ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) Philosophy also underpins our artistic and socially inspired activities which deliver positive outcomes for the community that we are part of and are passionate about serving. All our programmes are inclusive, and we always observe, critique and evaluate the learning and apply this to future work. Using these approaches shows that our ethos is to respect and understand without discrimination and embrace all communities in Kensington and Chelsea and beyond.
KA has been actively championing equity in the arts and culture sector, particularly within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) by amplifying marginalised voices, advocating for authentic representation, investing in grassroots performing arts and heritage organisations and artists and fostering more transparent, equitable partnerships.
Our work has taken us to Brazil, Egypt, Europe and Sudan, as we continue to develop and implement cross-disciplinary arts and cultural projects, which connects people, builds and empowers communities through contributing to a future that is resilient, rebalanced and regenerative; helping to create social change.
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