The Festival’s programme is built around six signature experiences. Between them they account for most of what a visitor will see, eat, hear and carry home across the two days at Kololo.
The Akurut Culinary Village
A quarter given over to Teso food, cooked in front of you: asis, sweet potato bread; atapa, millet bread; ebeele, smoked beef in groundnut paste — with live demonstrations of the traditional methods that make them.
The Ajosi & Akogo Dance Off
A competition, not a display. Troupes come from different districts with their own Ajosi, and the akogo — the thumb piano — carries the sound. The format is deliberate: it pulls the grassroots in rather than staging one polished ensemble.
The Emaali Innovation Hub
Exhibition space for local artisans — pottery, basketry, blacksmithing — and masterclasses where visitors sit down and learn basic weaving or beadwork instead of only watching it.
The Teso Heritage Trail
A walk-through gallery, physical and digital, telling the story of the Iteso from migration to the present day through photography and artefacts.
The Emorimor Gala Dinner
The Festival’s high-level fundraising segment, with a silent auction of Teso-inspired contemporary art and craft.
“Eipone Loka Iteso” Fashion Show
A runway that puts bark cloth and animal-print traditions next to contemporary design, and asks what Teso dress looks like now.
The hour-by-hour programme for each day will be published closer to the Festival. What is already fixed: Saturday and Sunday, 24–25 October 2026, 7am till late, at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds. See The Festival for the fuller picture, and Attend for how to be there.
