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By Meshack Ngangi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The battle for supremacy and retaining victory crown at the Kenya Universities Performing Arts Association (KUPAA) 2023 Drama, Beauty Pageantry, and Film Festivals by The Co-operative University of Kenya\u2019s Metropolitans Drama Club did not end at the Regional level but ensued to the National competitions held at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri between 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0and 10th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2023. This iconic Festival marked the 5th<\/sup>\u00a0series since the organization KUPAA initiated the competitions in the Kenyan Universities and attracted over 3,000 students from 40 Universities in the country.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s KUPAA Festivals were themed \u201cSupporting Economic Transformation through Performing Arts\u201d under the hashtag \u201c.\u201d The theme highlighted the core of the Government\u2019s agenda of empowering Youth in Kenya through leveraging talents and abilities beyond the classroom setting. KUPAA\u2019s mandate, which is to improve the standing of Kenya\u2019s performing and visual arts, music, and film industry through a commitment to developing work of the highest quality and promoting music, theatre, visual arts, and film, was the spearheading spirit behind the resounding success of this event.<\/p>\n The participation of CUK students at the national Festivals organized by KUPAA resonated with the University\u2019s vision of becoming a University of excellence in education, research, innovation, and co-operative training that traverses the classroom confines but seeks to nurture all-rounded graduates, competent enough to suit the contemporary world. The University utterly recognizes the essence and centrality of harnessing learners\u2019 talents for an empowered society in pursuit of socio-economic transformation.<\/p>\n Our University Drama Club undertook and competed on three items in different performing arts genres: a dramatized African play (Mbaitu Nimukuly\u2019a<\/em>), a Kiswahili Play (Hali Tete<\/em>), and a Puppetry. These creative works of art performed differently, with the dramatized African praise poetry, acted by Lucas Kalonzo, scooped the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0runners-up, followed by the Kiswahili play emerging the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0runners-up and puppetry garnering the 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0runners-up position in the stiffly competitive national KUPAA Festivals.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, the University\u2019s Metropolitans Drama Club\u2019s\u00a0Hali Tete<\/em>, under the short film category, won several awards as the short film with the best sound design and edited short film. Also, Abdulaziz Dima, a member of the Drama Club and a first-year student pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Finance at CUK, won the best actor award under the short film category. The University takes pride in the incredible results posted by\u00a0The Metropolitans<\/em>\u00a0at the National Drama Festivals and pledges support to all registered student clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Meshack Ngangi The battle for supremacy and retaining victory crown at the Kenya Universities Performing Arts Association (KUPAA) 2023 Drama, Beauty Pageantry, and Film Festivals by The Co-operative University of Kenya\u2019s Metropolitans Drama Club did not end at the Regional level but ensued to the National competitions held at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri between 3rd\u00a0and 10th\u00a0November 2023. This iconic Festival marked the 5th\u00a0series since the organization KUPAA initiated the competitions in the Kenyan Universities and attracted over 3,000 students from 40 Universities in the country. The Metropolitans Drama Club performs the Kiswahili Play \u201cHali Tete\u201d at KUPAA National Drama, Beauty Pageantry, and Film Festivals at the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri on Thursday, 9th November 2023. This year\u2019s KUPAA Festivals were themed \u201cSupporting Economic Transformation through Performing Arts\u201d under the hashtag \u201c.\u201d The theme highlighted the core of the Government\u2019s agenda of empowering Youth in Kenya through leveraging talents and abilities beyond the classroom setting. KUPAA\u2019s mandate, which is to improve the standing of Kenya\u2019s performing and visual arts, music, and film industry through a commitment to developing work of the highest quality and promoting music, theatre, visual arts, and film, was the spearheading spirit behind the resounding success of this event. The participation of CUK students at the national Festivals organized by KUPAA resonated with the University\u2019s vision of becoming a University of excellence in education, research, innovation, and co-operative training that traverses the classroom confines but seeks to nurture all-rounded graduates, competent enough to suit the contemporary world. The University utterly recognizes the essence and centrality of harnessing learners\u2019 talents for an empowered society in pursuit of socio-economic transformation. The CUK\u2019s Metropolitans Drama Club members in action during the 5th KUPAA National Drama, Beauty Pageantry, and Film Festivals held at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri. Our University Drama Club undertook and competed on three items in different performing arts genres: a dramatized African play (Mbaitu Nimukuly\u2019a), a Kiswahili Play (Hali Tete), and a Puppetry. These creative works of art performed differently, with the dramatized African praise poetry, acted by Lucas Kalonzo, scooped the 1st\u00a0runners-up, followed by the Kiswahili play emerging the 2nd\u00a0runners-up and puppetry garnering the 3rd\u00a0runners-up position in the stiffly competitive national KUPAA Festivals. Nonetheless, the University\u2019s Metropolitans Drama Club\u2019s\u00a0Hali Tete, under the short film category, won several awards as the short film with the best sound design and edited short film. Also, Abdulaziz Dima, a member of the Drama Club and a first-year student pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Finance at CUK, won the best actor award under the short film category. The University takes pride in the incredible results posted by\u00a0The Metropolitans\u00a0at the National Drama Festivals and pledges support to all registered student clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admissions-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/Feautured.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/KUPAA-2.jpg?fit=6888%2C3983&ssl=1\")
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