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20 November 2016 19:00SERENA HOTEL

This is a headline Saint Cecilia is the patroness of musicians, her feast day is celebrated in the Latin Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox churches - Learn more about the St Cecillia historical tales here: http://www.saintcecilia.us/ 

During her catholic upbringing, the young Cecile Kayirebwa’s birthday celebration took place on 22 November. Each year throughout her long career, Cecile Kayirebwa favourite day of the year always been the St Cecillia as it the opportunity for her to host a typical and traditional IGITARAMO to celebrate these two milestones at the same time. St Ceciilia represents her passionate love and respect for music while her birthday  has always been celebrated amongst family, friends, fellow musicians and fans. The guidelines for this tradition is for each invited guests to contribute a song and a *bubbly* to the evening.  

This year Cecile Kayirebwa turns 70 and for the 1st time, the beloved artist is inviting her fans to join the party where audiences will be immersed in an interactive and generous experience containing performances, shared memories, spontaneous and unique encounters, songs and stories-telling.


We proposing an event produced and promoted to mark the launch of a crowd-funding campaign to support Cecile Kayirebwa's lifetime project of safeguarding and perpetuating Rwandan Traditional culture via her not-for-profit organisation CEKA I RWANDA. 

Proceeds of the entrance fee will be directed to fund the research and development program to collect, preserve, digitisation and the transmission of the Rwandan traditional culture. 


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CEKA I RWANDA not-for-profit

CEKA I RWANDA@KAYIREBWAcekairwanda@gmail.com

The project aim to create an institution designed to collect, preserve and perpetuate the country's cultural and artistic traditions, notably through a youth education program.

  • UNESCO's DEFINITION OF TRADITIONAL CULTURAL EXPRESSION: The oral traditions and expressions domain encompasses an enormous variety of spoken forms including proverbs, riddles, tales, nursery rhymes, legends, myths, epic songs and poems, charms, prayers, chants, songs, dramatic performances and more. Oral traditions and expressions are used to pass on knowledge, cultural and social values and collective memory. They play a crucial part in keeping cultures alive.

CEKA I RWANDA organises activities of collection, digitisation and archiving of songs, poetry and traditional music. It will also be organising educative and training and open space for expression and platform for cultural encounters through the organisation of shows and conferences.