In 2009, TaSUBa started a program of performances to present a variety of art performances, while generating income for the college. The program was initially called Bagamoyo Summer Nights, later renamed into Bagamoyo Kamambe Nights. Kamambe means mastery or excellence in Kiswahili. In addition to performances by local music and dance groups, the program contains more commercial spectacles like the Vodacom Miss Tanzania beauty pageant and Star Light disco on Fridays. In Digital Drama, the program is analyzed in terms of touristic spectacle and cultural commodification. The program has a website of its own, Bagamoyo Kamambe Nights, indicating yet another aspect of liminality at TaSUBa.
Photo 1: Old theater destroyed in a fire on 31 January 2002.
Photo 2: Truck with sound system for announcements around town
Photo 3: Glossy handouts and t-shirts for Bagamoyo Summer Nights
Photo 4: Posters distributed around Bagamoyo
Photo 5: Local music group on TaSUBa Theatre back stage
Photo 6: Local dance group on main TaSUBa Theatre stage
Photo 7: Vitali Maembe performing old and new songs
Video 1: Art and Promotion
Photo 8: Mary Chibwana pitching promotional T-shirts
Video 2: Bongo Flava
Photo 9: Bongo Flava (hip hop) evening with stars from Dar es Salaam
Photo 10: Sales booth for tickets for Bongo Flava spectacle
Photo 11: Loud and rowdy male audience
Photo 12: Bongo star Ray C on stage
Photo 13: Fid Q capturing the audience
Photo 14: Beauty pageant by mobile phone operator
Video 3: Miss Vodacom Tanzania
Photo 15: Cultural commodification
This material is an accompaniment to Digital Drama: Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania.