Loving you by Lakhpin to be released soon

Lakhpin  is a renowned country musician in Rwanda who has proven poetic influences in all his writings since 2006. He has recorded a couple of songs back in 2011 and 2012 though he doesn’t consider them as part of his professional music career because they were all rap songs sung for only fun. Since then, he has been active in other different activities including teaching and theatre directing.

This October 2017, a new single “loving you” is being released. It is a perfect track for Lakhpin’s unique sound with an uplifting country beat and catchy tune. The song is at its final stage and I think it will be such an inspiring song to my fans and music lovers. I spent many years readying myself, getting together all the tools I need to get going as well as setting up my favorite genre through which I’ll be telling my personal experiences and point of views as an artist; says Lakhpin.

He is calling upon music lovers and supporters to stay an active and engaged audience because he will never let them drawn.

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Ibirorirori - Mwalimu LAKHPIN

     Havugwe ibirorirori

     Mvuga abivuga bahinde

     Ubumwe umurimo ukunda gihugu

     Ubuhanga bube intego,

     Usugire usagambe iwawe.

      Imyato ah’ejo

      Imahanga batijajara

      Tubatambuke bose

      Indogore, abagaga baze

      Ndore ba ruvonyezabwehe

      Akarimbiro aho kabagera

      Umwuga ukiza utuvangire

      Dukagukire guhumuriza

      I buhoro tuhahore iteka

      Intangamuganzanyo ngombwa.

Turindukire mu bikorwa

Wenda uze urute benshi

Sinshaka abate i Rwanda

Nshaka abagaga badahonya

Bakabura uwo basubiza inyuma.

Ubute butera ubutindi

Ubute butesha ubutunzi

Utururutse i butebwa

Gusakuza bitere urore

Ubugome utazi bugwire.

Bimwe byifuzwa bibure

Intebe ivunike ituramira

Tubyiteje kudakora

Abana bose ngo karabaye

Na yo imihanda ibaha ubugenzi.

Ubusambo ntiwareba

Inkoni ni bwo zibabonye

Nyamukuka izo z’imbuzi

Bamwe bakabandagara

Ibineza byo bikarumba

Amahoro dufite ubu anyemeza

Ba mawe bagengere

Ba dawe bakukuze

Ubukene burohwe na gakora

Dukure mu kuri kw’iwacu

Ni nde uzindutse iwawe

Muhane inka mwubahane

Umuco wimakare iwanyu

Nyiramahoro tumushimye

Dususurukiwe na rwanda

Twumve ntidukore inabi

Tuzongwe urukundo rumwe

Umurava ube uturanga

Impotore tuzisingire

Ngo ejo ubute butatwokama.

Mwereze imisago ukuri

Twimar inambu biriho

Nsanga ngusomere wisobe

Urasanga warasikaye

Umbaze iyo mvana nkubarire

Amateka matoya mfite

Agombe abwirwe abatoya

Bataragira ako batera

Bakataze batunganirwe

Umutekano ubature.

Bari bashiki banjye mwe

Mwisamara mwiyica

Ubwo bufaranga bw’ubuzima

Icyerekezo ni ubukungu

Si ubukonde nta bukene

Ni bwa bute ngica umfashemo

Maze ubwo mubona mbaciye

Izo nyana za kadegembya

Ngo aho nzasomera nzihire

Urukungahaza ntangutse.

Amahame bwana ategwe imbere

Aha si ahacu hate hose

Usembure uwo musa utuje

Ushire amanga ute agahama

Abate ubanza bakabyumva

Duce ubuzana bukebanya

Ba kuri bakeremukike

Ubuzana bube ubw’i ruguru

Iyo epfo bibone i mashuri

Maze abahanga bagwire.

Mu byo turirikira byose

Nihabemo umuco uturange

N’imvugo yonyine ibe ingiro

N’amacakubiri acyomwe

Ukuri kuganze tunezwe

Si ugucika uruhondogo

Si ugucunaguza karande

Ni inkokora nabatizaga

N’urubyiruko mu iterambere

Ntiruhejwe mu ntego.  

                                                                        Written in 2005 by Lakhpin

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Nyumvira Shenge - Mwalimu LAKHPIN

    Nyumvira nkumve muhorakeye

    Narakubonye mbona urakeye

    N’ibiryo by’ubwo sinabiriye

    Mbona akamama kadasukuye

    Nyumvira mwari mbone ngukoye

    

      Ingabo zanjye maboko yanjye

      Ziruse igaju ngo ribe iryanjye

      Ubufaranga ubwo bw’ubushakwa

       Sinabuhombye twabushaka

       Rugero rwiza mpa inseko ikeye

      

       Nyumvira shenge mere nk’abandi

       Mbone akabanga karuta akandi

       Ako njye nshaka ntabona ahandi

       Maze n’icyasha kiruta ibindi

       Ni rwo rukundo ntasaba abandi

      

       Ngusabye akanya karuta akandi

       Nkubaze akantu gatega abandi

       Mvunira sambwe nkurushe abandi

       Nkugabe ituze ntari mutindi

       Ngo n’ifaranga rijya mu rindi

      

      N’iyo naba ndya ibi by’abatindi

       Nagusiga nkarya uruhayi

       Nkabura amazi nguha divayi

       Ngabira ituze nkubone waje

       Kuko ababeshya baratuganje

      

       Komeza wumve nyumvira shenge

       Narabibonye sinakubwira

       Ngusabye kuza utaguze inshinge

       Nkaguha amazi nanakubwira

       Nyumvira shenge mbone agahenge

      

       Ngize ngo izuba riranarenze

       Kuko ribonye mvuze irihenze

       Singuhenda ni ibi nsinze

       Abaryi bose ntibakurenze

       Urariboye njye mbona undenze

     

       Ngeze aha ngaha ntabihishuye

       Dore iri jambo njye ndarikuye

       Nguca amarenga ngo umenye ryose

       Kuko ndashaka ko umba iruhande

       Mpora nkureba nta gikingo

     

      Tetero ry’i tare mu batezi

      Ry’uwagutoye w’uruti rwiza

      Agata urwano rw’urutaturwa,

      Tikiro bwite uruta abatunzi

      Ukanatera umuteto iteka

       

       Nsigaye numvira nka karisimbi

       Ngo mpore ndota ndora iryo simbi

       Maze nkubwiye mbona aka kanya

       Ngo umenye cyane ko ntakurwanya

       Ko nagukunze bifashe umwanya

      

       Iyo nkureba ubwo mpita ntwarwa

       Nakureba nkabura indebo

       Iminwe yanjye yo ikagutinya

       Ingohe zose ubwo zigapfuka

      Ariko sinzi ko ari njye ukunda

     

      Mbona uyu munsi mbivuze none

     Ubite iwawe umenye ko mpiye

      Ubyumve n’ejo nkubone ikaze

      Unkize icyago cy’urukukumbe

      Mpore udasanga narasereye

      Ibi nkubwiye mbiteze umunsi

      Utari kuza unsubiza none

      Gusa unashake ako gahe keza

      Ibi nkubwiye ungabe iryo nkwiye,

      Nyumvira shenge nkurore ubwanjye

      

       Ni ibi akabanga mporana ngenda

       Iwanjye hanjye ni muri njyewe

       Haze ungenge ungenze neza

       Nitwe muhire mbe nkwihariye

       Utone ntatijwe nguhawe!

                      By Lakhpin in 2008            

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Ingeri Arts Organization

 Ingeri Arts was founded by Drama artists in 2013 to enhance and promote artistic education, participate in the development, enhance cultural values and contribute to the well-being of the community, designed for arts to arts inspirations as well as arts for education, development and social well-being.

                                           1.      Mission statement and vision

Mission: Participate in the development, the well-being of the population and promoting education for cultural values through performing arts. In other words, our core target is to participate in the development, education, the well-being of the community and enhancing cultural values through performing arts.  INGERI ARTS aims at empowering, educating, inspiring, engaging communities, promote the arts and art appreciation, and sustaining culture through performing arts.

In addition to the mission, INGERI ARTS has established the following guiding principles whereby programs will reflect on:

•      High professional standards;

•      High regard for cultural diversity;

•      Equitable and fair management of artists.

Vision: a healthy and wealthy community where cultural values and humanity are respected.

2.      CORE VALUES

v  Mutual respect

v  Commitment

v  Divine principles prioritization

3.      Objectives

•       Gender balance sensitization for the family development

•      To promote education for Rwandan cultural values

•      To promote artistic education

•      Youth development and job creation

•      To promote artistic education in schools and in the community.

•      To promote children rights

•      To fight against HIV/AIDS and other epidemics

•      To promote the culture of peace.

•      To fight against corruption and its tentative ways.

•      Sustainability of Rwandan culture

•      Reinforce and promote unity and reconciliation

•      Human rights sensitization

•      Nurturing creative language and reading skills by encouraging children and young people to find in performing arts a source of pleasure and a means of self-expression, developing their awareness of language and confidence in using it.

•      Fight against drug abuse and juvenile delinquency in youth and children

4.      PROGRAMS

                                      DRAMATHERAPY

This is a program through which INGERI ARTS uses participatory theatre and debate approaches for participants to tell their own stories and solve their own problems with the active non-violence problem solving techniques to Promote positive behavioral changes, Improve interpersonal relationship skills, Integrate physical and emotional well-being, Achieve personal growth and self-awareness, Improve overall quality of life,… Areas of focus: hospitals, mental health centers, schools and rehabilitation centers,...

                             TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS

Through this program, INGERI ARTS organizes learning sessions that provide different skills in performing arts to artists, arts teachers, prospective artists and others. The organization organizes lectures, debates and different trainings for youth and children to acquire life skills and explore/discover their talents as well as inspiring/motivate new ones in arts as an effective tool for a better social well-being.

                          ARTISTIC EDUCATION

 They provide multiple opportunities for schools to view each other’s dramatic works. Their aims are to sharpen and develop students’ skills in oral language and all expressive mechanisms, developing the intellectual skills and we strongly encourage group-level cooperation, arts integrated learning, acculturation, school community relations and develop recreational outlets for the future. They thus provide a significant training ground for students and teachers in dramatic arts. Their work strongly intends at promoting at arts integration in an educational setting by encouraging performance based learning.

                          COMMUNITY OUTREACH

This is a program whereby INGERI ARTS reaches its targeted populace (community) to empower communities listening to their concerns and encouraging them to voice and solve their own problem accordingly. We sensitize communities to government programs and share life experiences with them through community theatre, theatre for development and other various entertainments creating a good societal environment with effective social communication. Community outreach also emphasizes on the development procedures that may take the people out of poverty towards a sustainable well-being especially children and youth by doing what they like doing and creating different income generating activities to improve lives. Our focus is: arts and crafts, music and Theatre. This is a program through which we create societal profitable initiatives (SPI) as well as contributing to the well-being and development of the population.

                                       ZEIGEN

This is an arts for arts program. This program covers performing in front of a no-specific audience like organizing live performances, tours, competitions…through all the mediums. INGERI ARTS may run a show on invite from other parties, self-exhibitions, festivals,… or it may be a showcasing new talents event organized through all the mediums ( Theatre, music, dance, poetry, arts,…).  Ingeri Arts is a renowned organization that uses Theatre of the oppressed (Intote), Invisible Theatre (Uruyobere), Theatre for development, ...in Rwanda.

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Amasaro Yaka Cultural Troupe

 Amasaro yaka is a cultural dance troupe that was established by Ingeri Arts Organization in 2016 through its Zeigen program as one of the ways to expand and propagate the rich Rwandan culture to the next generation and entertain all Rwandans with the traditional music and dance. 

Ingeri Arts is a non-governmental organization that was founded by Drama artists with a mission to participate in the development, the well-being of the population and promoting education for cultural values through performing arts. Ingeri Arts aims at empowering, educating, inspiring, engaging communities, promoting the arts and art appreciation, and sustaining culture through performing arts.

Amasaro yaka (Glittering Pearls) performs in different venues with a variety of cultural dances on a corporate call, festivals or/and events organized by Ingeri Arts.

For bookings, please send your enquiry to amasaroyaka@gmail.com  or call +250783040964

 

              Amasaro yaka performing in the National heroes day 2017 in Musanze

 

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Performing Arts Agencies in Rwanda

In this article, we will provide a growing list of performing arts companies/organizations working in Rwanda. If yours or the one you know is not listed, please send the details (company name, URL, a short description and logo) to lakhpin919@gmail.com  We will review it and add to the list:

1. Mashirika Performing Arts is a performing group and a pioneering professional company in Rwanda that was started by students of music, dance and drama at Makerere University Kampala in July 1997, with Hope Azeda as a leading founder member, who later moved to Rwanda in 1998. 
2. Ishyo Arts Centre is a platform for artists, art lovers, cultural professionals, entrepreneurs and anyone who is passionate about art. This successful non-governmental organization operates locally and internationally and brings cultural practitioners together to make traditional and contemporary culture available to all. Ishyo also develops and supports innovative artists, projects and training programs mainly in literature, dance, music, poetry and theatre.
3. Rwanda Arts Initiative is a Platform gathering Rwandan artists and aiming at professionalization of art industry.
4. Amizero Kompagnie a Rwandan dance, theatre and performance company based in Kigali, Rwanda. Amizero originated at the University Centre for Arts and Drama at the University of Rwanda, Butare in 2005 as Rwanda’s first professional contemporary dance company.
5. Rwanda Professional Dreamers (RPD) is a space created to initiate, promote and support innovative, challenging and creative artistic work in Rwanda.
6.  Niyo Cultural Centre teaches traditional Rwandan drumming and dance to impoverished children. They give them the confidence and inspiration to use their skills to earn money for their own education, medical expenses and day-to-day living.
7. Kaami Arts Organization was founded in January 2013, by artists spanned in different fields in Music, Dance, Theater, Painting, cinema and photography, who joined hands to enlighten the skills, the knowledge and the love of art to the people while using it as a channel for social change.
8. Ingeri Arts is an organization founded by Jean-Paul Ingabire and Emmanuel Muhire in 2013 to enhance and promote artistic education, cultural values and the well-being of the community through performing arts, mainly working with children and young audiences.  
9. Leaf International-Rwanda founded in 2006 located in Kigali (also known as Intore Cultural Troupe)
10. Kwanda Art Foundation seeks to establish a solid knowledge-base for all members and interested artists in the field of visual multi-media and performance art. 
11. Lakhtrem founded in 2014, is a creative agency that works at the intersection of creative arts and digital marketing approaches recognizing the value of the arts and makers. 

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