Three participants of the ArtXchange Project creative entrepreneurship training program facilitated by The GoDown Arts Centre are in Rome for a 6-Day residency workshop. 

Photographers Mahad Mohammad and Hinda Ahmed, (Cohorts 1 and 2 respectively), and Digital Artist Njung’e Wanjiru from Cohort 2 are part of a group of a group of 20 artists from Africa and Europe in Italy for the 6-Day workshop.  

The residency is part of the EU-funded ArtXchange project, and is leading up to the co-creation of a final event to be showcased at CoopCulture’s Palazzo Merulana on Sunday 8th of May 2022. 

Exploring the role of arts in society, both from a personal and collective perspective, the artists will devise a performance-installation entitled Into the Mirror. 

This evening, The GoDown’s Executive Director, Joy Mboya, and Dr Garnette Oluoch-Olunya will be participating in a hybrid panel discussion at the event under the theme Cultural and Creative Enterprises in a Dialogue for Sustainability and Innovation. 

A second panel will be discussing Culture as a Factor of Social Cohesion and Enterprise.