1. Wikiendi Live is a platform formed by Nafasi Art Space to support creatives especially peforming artists to help them showcase their work. The platform does not charge artist or audience. It started with an average of 500 people to current audience of 1500. One of the aim of the project is to dicover new talents. 2. Nafasi offers Consultancy services like gigs booking, nagotiating and help them manage their groups or entities for the purpose of supporting creatives grow sustainably. 3. Although the instituions was formed to support contemporary art, Wikiendi live have a special Space for traditional art groups to perform and showcase their products. Many of these groups like mwiduka have grown to perform in bigger venues in and outside the country after their initial debut at Nafasi. 4. Financial support. All groups that perform are given renumeration for their contribution which helps in covering their costs of production, transport and individual incomes. Video productions. The program also offers artist knowledge in Video production and editing to support their work online, in television and social media marketing. 5. Some of the artist, groups that have grown with this project and perfomed local and international level are Mwiduka, The spirits, jaguar music, Moyo girls group, Hijab dj ( only female dj from Zanzibar), abeneko, Wahapahapa, Leo mkanyia.

Between 2014 -2017, CDEA implemented a project titled ‘Research in Culture and Creative Industries focusing on the Film and Music sub-sectors contribution to creative economy in Tanzania and EAC Common Market’ that supported by CKU/DANIDA. The overall objective of the project was to enhance advocacy and lobbying for a stronger national focus on cultural and creative industries in the film and music sector, through research, documentation, and knowledge sharing. 

The Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), also known as Festival of the Dhow Countries, is an annual film festival held in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It has been described as the largest cultural event in East Africa. The key features of the festival include: Capacity building for underground film maker Competition of films produce by film school students from East Africa and from all over the continents

Stakeholders Opinion on Creative Industries Administration Review including joining of National Arts Council, Tanzania Film Board and Copyright Society of Tanzania. Collected challenges facing artists as individuals and as a group. Finding their views on how the current system of administration serves them in service delivery. Sectorial challenges in visual arts, film, Music and Performing arts The means to create sustainable environment for the growth of creative industry. Policy recommendations to cope with the current changes. Investment in the sector from Government, financial institutions, art funds, crowd funding and donors and international partners. Infrastructure recommendations in creating new art spaces while preserving the older ones.

The main goal of the organisation is to develop a strong reading culture and societal appreciation and support for literacy. The organisation promotes, development and promotion of quality relevant reading books for pleasure to be easily accessible in primary schools in various regions in Tanzania. Creating children friendly class rooms for lower grades in primary schools and pre-schools in areas of extreme poverty Preparing a manual on the production of simple wooden and other accessible materials of teaching aids for schools. Support the coordination with juvenile carpentry training centres. It also gives training in Child Rights to Children, Teachers, Parents and society especially in areas where children rights abuses are rampant. It also supports the setting up, running and management of school libraries The grant supports travel within the East African region for artistic connections and shared learning through residences, showcases, festival and academic research projects

Soma use multimedia storytelling as an approach with a focus on literature. Soma’s programme contributes to SDG Goals # 4, 5 and 9; and UNESCO 2005 Convention Goals # 3, 4 & to some extent # 2. Its approach is intergenerational but investing in young people; and because of skewed gender equality quotient, our politics are feminist. Multimedia storytelling (literature, orature, mix media—digital, visual, audio, TV, Video) is chosen as a‘language’ for innovation, inclusive education and lifelong learning; dialogue, contestation and consensus on rights, equality and empowerment of women, girls and other marginalised people, promoting Kiswahili language and culture, excavating, producing, disseminating and preserving knowledge new narratives as well as espousing cultural diversity and inclusivity in thought, talk and action. Soma programme falls underthree interlinked outcome areas: Skills, Space and Enterprise integral to our Soma Book Café a literary hub and space for leisure, culture and learning. It has a bookshop, café and event spaces, hosting events and forums for young women and men age 18 to 45 Soma’s key program activities are: 1. Public forums, platforms and events on books and literature (Space & Enterprise); 2. Watoto na Vitabu, after/out of school multimedia storytelling program with children age 6 to 13 (Space & Skills); 3. Andika na Soma short story competition for secondary schools with teenagers age 13 to 18 (Space & Skills); 4. Multimedia feminist storytelling, documentation and archiving platformwith a coalition of women rights organisations; and5. UlizaWahenga Dada(Ask the ancestors sistah)! An art as preservation project seeking to excavate women’s stories along the Swahili coast(Space and Skills). In a nutshell: Public Forums, Platforms and Events: a)WAKAPoetry Consortium and Taswira book club meeting monthly; b) Book Bazaar—quarterly; c)Andika na Soma prize giving ceremony; Book Valentine, book launches, book exhibitions, book launches, book talks and public discourse and storytelling events—annual and on demand; d) online platforms; d)collaborative creative writing training workshops in poetry(USAID poetry for peace, Badilisha poetry, co-creation with SAWT, Irish Embassy and Badilisha), fiction, creative nonfiction, creative translation and digital storytelling (Commonwealth Writers,... Watoto na Vitabu: a) a regular reading and storytelling forums hosted at Soma Book Café on Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm featuring:i) reading alone, read alouds, retelling, enacting and talking about stories;ii) creative writing using prompts, experience, scenes and gadgets; iii) games and storytelling experimentation with rhymes, drums, clapping, stamping, role modelling, performances and dance;iv) Introduction to book care, book selection and book story ‘where stories and books come from’; v) Organizing—negotiating common space and—negotiating rules and rights, organizing and preparing inputs for wall display, showcasing and performances on open day events; b)Vijiwe vya Usomaji (aspiring to turn jobless corners into reading and literary spaces for children and through them communities)asa)above plus: i) Managing a common use book box/tin trunk library; ii) Self-organizing and negotiation for community support and patronage; c)Multimedia storytelling hub—a multimedia library and recording studio producing digital, print, and audio books for and with children—initial productsin ‘kalamu ndogo’ (little scribes) series arebooks researched and authored by children in pre-press stage— to be publishedas print, digital and audio books under creative commons framework. Andika na Soma: a)theme selection, announcing, entry indexing and judging; b) Creative writing training for top ten authors; c) Cash and book prizes for winners andrunners up (female and male pairs); d) book prize for overall winner’sschool; e)Graduation and awarding ceremony—end annual cycle; f) online alumni mentoring; g) anthology of revised top ten authors’ works in print and digital. Multimedia Herstories: a) mapping creative storytelling capacity and use of avant-garde media within the feminist movement coalition in Tanzania; b) test case research on legislating for women to propose protocol for documenting and recognising women’s contribution to gender equality and women’s empowerment; c) feminist online TV to debunk patriarchal myths in everyday parlance; d)multimedia research based storytelling on feminist movement building experiences at grassroots; e) online feminist archive; f) steering dialogue on the role of literature and art in feminist communication and movement building. UlizaWahenga Dada (Ask the Ancestors Sistah)!:a) artists call, assessment, selection; b) identification of sites and local female interlocutors; c) orient and facilitate artists excursions to costal historical sites to excavate women’s histories; d)art resident training and mentorship; e) curation of an exhibition; f) public dialogue during the exhibition; g) online archiving.

Right to Work and receiving just remuneration: Every person who is able to work, has the opportunity to engage himself/herself in any legitimate activity so as to earn a living. Thus, both Constitutions provide Artists with the right to work by giving them equal opportunity to perform their artistic works in the country.(ARTICLE 22) Freedom of movement: All artists have the right to move from one place (or country) to another (mobility)to conduct their arts and culture activities. (ARTICLE 17) Freedom of Association: Artists have the right to freely form associations and federations and take part in them. (ARTICLE 20) Freedom to own properties: Artistic creations are recognised as properties (intangible). Ownership of their creative properties is their fundamental right. (ARTICLE 24) Formulation of Policies, Laws and regulations that do not contravene with freedom of artists. Both the constitutions direct the state to adhere the international treaties on human rights and good governance. Right to participate in public affairs such as electing or being elected, appointing or being appointed to take part in governance (ARTICLE 21) Right to access information(ARTICLE 18) Right to education(ARTICLE 11)