Our projects activate creative practice within communities, bringing artists together to create, share, and reflect through original work. From workshops in Lunsar and Foredugu to public gatherings in Freetown, our programmes strengthen community bonds and open space for dialogue around identity, wellbeing, and lived experience.
Wi Kreative Playgron (WKP) spotlights one featured artist per session — a poet, musician, or storyteller who shares their work and process with the room. Kreative Kommunity (KK) opens the floor to multiple voices through an open mic format. Both run monthly in Freetown.
Each session centres artistic creation and expression, with participants presenting work shaped by their lived realities. Selected sessions are documented to extend their reach beyond the live space.
Rise & Riot is Sierra Leone’s spoken word competition, running qualifying heats from March through October and culminating in a grand finale at the Inkundla Arts Festival.
Taking place at Mango Peak in Freetown, Rise & Riot gives poets a competitive yet supportive platform to explore personal, social, and cultural themes. Winners receive monetary prizes and opportunities to develop their craft through our workshops.
The Open Mic Series has taken creative platforms to communities that rarely see them — Lunsar, Foredugu, Kenema, Bo, Waterloo, and Blama. These grassroots gatherings give poets, musicians, and storytellers a stage in their own communities.
By taking creativity directly to rural and often overlooked areas, the series has amplified diverse voices, strengthened community bonds, and created economic opportunities for local performers.
Wi Art Space is a rotating exhibition series held at Lumley Atlantic Hotel in Freetown. Every few weeks a new visual artist is spotlighted, giving them a platform to showcase their work to diverse, international visitors.
The exhibitions offer artists visibility, networking opportunities, and direct economic benefits through sales and commissions. Since launching, Wi Art Space has connected visual artists to wider audiences and promoted appreciation for Sierra Leone’s vibrant art scene.
Kreative Workshops run in Kenema, Lunsar, Foredugu, and Freetown — bringing structured creative development to artists in communities that don’t always have access to it. We work with young people aged 14 to 18 and emerging adult artists, in weekly partnership with EducAid Sierra Leone.
In 2026, an EU-funded seven-day intensive workshop series will take the programme to Kenema at full scale, through the Culture Moves Salone mobility programme.
The Inkundla Arts Festival has been running every October since 2024 — a three-day gathering of poets, musicians, visual artists, and storytellers in Freetown. The 2025 edition, Mind Matters: Stories That Heal, explored mental health through lived experience and creativity.
The third edition is coming in October 2026, opening the stage to artists from beyond Sierra Leone for the first time.
What We Leave Behind
What We Leave Behind is a multidisciplinary visual art programme led by Isha H.S Kamara. Every piece is made entirely from discarded materials — objects thrown away, overlooked, forgotten. The programme began with an exhibition at Aurora Foundation and has since grown into workshops with young people at EducAid Sierra Leone.
The question running through every space: what does our waste say about who we are, and what beauty can be found in what others discard?
Poetry Korna
Poetry Korna is Inkundla’s monthly literary journal, run by Admire Bonnie. Each edition brings together poets from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Zimbabwe, and beyond — centering South-South literary exchange and amplifying African voices across borders.
A new edition drops every month. Read the latest at inkundlaspaces.com/poetrykorna.
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