By John Kariuki
Worth Noting:
- “Creative industry is wide that Will involve things like film making, we will have fashion designers, actors, among others. This is a national centre, it’s not a domestic and a personal centre so we are developing some partnerships with both the Government and the private sector to establish this centre for creative arts.”
- The VC spoke on Thursday when KCA University hosted Hon. Ababu Namwamba, Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, the Arts and Sports for a panel discussion on “Creative Economy as an exciting frontier for national development.”
KCA University is positioning itself to establish a globally competitive creative arts centre to match and feed the budding creative economy in the country and across the borders.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Isaiah Wakindiki shares with us this ambitious plan.
“The whole focus is not just on the centre but this University has a very vibrant department that deals with film and creative industry in general. And now we want to empower our learners further by linking them directly with the industry and that’s why we are talking about the creative industry centre established at KCA where our creative artists right from graduation can enter in the centre and link with the industry while they are learners here.
So, we are at the beginning of setting up a creative centre but the department is up and learning and has already graduated quite a number of students and currently we have about 500 students who are registered in various degrees around the creative industry.”
VC added that the Creative Centre will be a one stop shop:
“Creative industry is wide that Will involve things like film making, we will have fashion designers, actors, among others. This is a national centre, it’s not a domestic and a personal centre so we are developing some partnerships with both the Government and the private sector to establish this centre for creative arts.”
The VC spoke on Thursday when KCA University hosted Hon. Ababu Namwamba, Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, the Arts and Sports for a panel discussion on “Creative Economy as an exciting frontier for national development.”
On his part, the Chief Executive Officer of Kenya Film Commission Mr. Timothy Owase noted:
“We have discussed various aspects relating to the growing of the creative economy in this country. Kenya Film Commission is a critical player to see to it that we have a properly working creative industry that is able to actually create wealth for our nation.
We are already partnering with the University in areas of capacity Building because we believe the University is a centre of excellence when it comes to releasing practical skills that will be applicable in the film industry, so we partner with the university in terms of identifying and nurturing talents and I wish to reiterate the fact that as the University plans to set up a centre for creative arts basically the Commission is willing to work with the University to see to it that the centre will be able to offer an array of products and services that will be able to help this country move to the next level as far as the skills within the industry, services in the creative sector as well as nurturing talent that is world class.”
