Below, get a taste of our Work-in-Progress Performances that are presented to a local audience after the train journey at a beautiful location at the shores of the Indian Ocean - and of some of our creative moments on the train and on the platform before leaving. For more videos see our Facebook or Instagram.

The idea for EAST was born many years ago, when Geraldine Hepp studied music at the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles imagining a Drum-n-bass inspired musical journey on the Trans-Sibirian train, crossing eight time zones.

The vision evolved and manifested, when she met creative producer and EAST co-founder Poppy Spowage in Kenya in 2016, as a DIY two-day journey created with a collective of creatives from East, West and South Africa, supported by What’s Good Live Studios and ticket sales.

Following its success, it developed into a five-day pop-up residency in 2017, supported by Africalia and the British Council with participants from East Africa, South, West and Northern Africa, the US and Europe and was piloted 2019 in Tanzania with support from individual patrons, Burning Man Global Arts Grant and Techne from the Arts and Humanity Council in the UK, featuring artists from East Africa, India, the US and Europe.

Kilifi

Kilifi

A collaboration between EAST16 artists JINKU, Mo Pearson, Teto Tutuma, Michel Ongaro (and Joseph Kiwango)