At Osun Arts we are helping school children in the UK to celebrate the 210 Year Anniversary of the act that banned the slave trade in the British Empire being passed in Parliament by working with children all over the UK through our participatory workshops so they can...
The origins of Black History Month can be traced back to 1926 in the United States when it started as Negro History Week. It was first proposed by historian Carter G Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. After the first year, Negro...
One of the main characteristics of the culture of African peoples is the use of masks in rituals and ceremonies. They represent spirits of animals or ancestors, mythological heroes, moral values or a form of honouring of a person in a symbolic way. They can be made...
Batik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique. Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a canting. The applied wax resists dyes and therefore...
Two of the most popular dyeing techniques in Africa are tie and dye and resist dye. In tie and dye, designs are first tied or stitched into the cloth, using cotton or raffia threads. In resist dye, dyers draw on the cloth using an impermeable substance, such as candle...
