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Anna-Maria Nabirye is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, visual arts, social practice, fashion, theatre, film and television.
Nabirye co-founded Afri-Co-Lab & creative brand AfroRetro with her sister, a creative community dreaming space in St Leonards-on-Sea. They have had partnership projects with Black Cultural Archives, Royal Court, V&A, Southbank Centre, Brighton Museum, Home Live Art, De La Warr Pavilion and awarded Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects Africa residency.
Nabirye has on-going collaborations with Jess Mabel Jones and duo Noorafshan Mirza and Brad Butler. She has devised and performed work with Improbable Theatre and Metis Theatre. As an actor her credits include The National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Almeida, Deafinitely Theatre, The Faction, BBC & Film4. Nabirye is a passionate educator and has directed, taught and created programmes for theatre, music and visual arts institutions.
Her current work Up In Arms, co-created with Annie Saunders has been commissioned by The De La Warr Pavilion and produced by Arts Admin, opening Feb 2023 and running until May 21st and includes a full exhibition, performance (7th May) and publication (spring 2024)
She is currently occupied with creating joy and how that intersects with the experiences and cultural representation of Black women.
Without joy there can be no revolution.
