Fambul, Una Kushe oo and Happy New Year!. After what feels like forever since we last published a blog, The Young Sierra Leonean CIC is proud to present our round-up of 2024. Although it was a relatively quiet year for us as an organization, 2024 has been an amazing year […]
The Young Sierra Leonean CIC (Young Salone), an organisation founded by British-Sierra Leonean creatives to connect and showcase unsung talent from underrepresented communities in South and East London, has been awarded a £9,500 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund. This grant will be utilised for the 2023 Sierra Leone […]
After three years of celebrating Sierra Leone Arts & Culture, the Young Sierra Leonean is proud to present a brand-new programming for 2020… Sierra Leone Week – #SaloneWeek. Wetin na Sierra Leone Week? Sierra Leone Week is a series of events during the week of Sierra Leone’s Independence, to celebrating […]
Hello, Hi, Fambul dɛm una kushɛ, Thank you for choosing to attend the Sierra Leone Arts & Culture festival 2019 on Saturday. We are very excited to host you and below you’ll find our program to #SLACfest 2019. If you’re a ticket holder, you should’ve also received an email outlining […]
Tickets for #SLACfest can be purchased by clicking here The annual Sierra Leone Arts & Culture festival (#SLACfest) is a renowned showcase, exhibition and cultural exchange, which attracted the attention of over 200 people last year. Now in its third edition, #SLACfest 2019 will be bigger and better than ever […]
In less than 3 months time, the highly anticipated Sierra Leone Arts & Culture festival returns once again to showcase the best in everything Sierra Leone has to offer both at home and in the diaspora. We’ve got a date set, Saturday 26th October 2019, and a venue (to be […]
Fambul dɛm, una dɔn yɛri? Di Salon at ɛn kɔlchɔ fɛstival nain dɔn kam bak so! “Na wetin dat?” a yɛri una de aks? Wɛl dis na di nɔmba wan sɛlibreshɔn ɔf wi yɔng pipul dɛm frɔm ɔl ova di wɔl. Dis nɔto jɔs ingland ɔ salon tiŋ o… dis […]
Having just returned from Sierra Leone two days prior, I was still in the Salone frame of mind, and walking into SLACfest immediately transported me back home. I bought some homemade ginger beer from one of the stalls and made my way around the room. The temperature was above 25 […]
Wɛl wɛl wɛl… wetin dɔn kam so ba?! The Sierra Leone Arts & Culture festival returns for a second year to a bigger, brighter and better venue on Saturday October 20th. Tickets on sale from 31st August via eventbrite. Click yaso to buy tickets. For family discounts, you can reach us […]
We are the Young Sierra Leonean, and our mission is to change the narrative and perception of Sierra Leone, beyond Freetown. To cut a long story short, we were brought together by the tragedy of August 2017, the devastating mudslides which displaced many. Of the back of the tragedy, a […]