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Programmes

Performances, workshops and participatory encounters for children, families, adults and seniors. Every programme can be adapted for kindergartens, schools, libraries, arts centres, festivals and care settings.

Calabash Tales on stage: a dancer with a raised arm between two musicians in warm light

Calabash Tales

Storytelling · Live Music · Dance

A journey through story, rhythm and dance into the living tradition of the griot.
Children and adults on cushions in front of the musicians and drums in a colourful room

Afro Drumming & Movement for Children

Rhythm · Music · Movement · Participation

A playful encounter with West African rhythm, instruments and movement, where children become part of the music.
Solo Diarra and Sarjo Sankareh on stage beside a small tree, with children seated around them

Balafon and the Talking Tree

Storytelling · Live Music · Dance · Participation

A magical journey where children's rhythm, song and movement help a silent tree find its voice again.
Parents moving with their babies in a circle on a stage, with a theatre auditorium behind

BabyGroove

Music · Movement · Connection · First Encounters

A baby's first encounter with live music, shared through sound, movement and connection.
Pupils, teachers and musicians sitting in a circle around a green rug with drums

Sensory Music

Sound · Rhythm · Movement · Presence

A sensory encounter with live music and movement, where every way of being present is a way of participating.
The artists and participants in matching T-shirts gathered behind a row of djembes in front of a colourful mural

Afro Drumming & Movement for Adults

Rhythm · Music · Voice · Movement · Community

Learn the rhythm. Feel it in the body. Find your place in the ensemble.
Solo Diarra sitting on a red bench with a drum and an ngoni beside him

YIMENGA – Solo Diarra

West African griot tradition · Nordic jazz · contemporary music

A griot voice from Burkina Faso meets Nordic jazz in a live project about identity, belonging and being yourself.
Seniors and musicians gathered around a drum and an ngoni after a Rhythm & Story session

Rhythm & Story for Seniors

Music · Storytelling · Rhythm · Movement · Connection

Stories become songs, rhythms become movement, and music becomes a meeting place.
Solo Diarra smiling, leaning on a djembe with a calabash on his lap

Living African Culture

A Foli Arts residency across generations

Two days to one week of living African arts, moving through generations, spaces and communities.