Who is Mugabi Byenkya? Why come to his hangout?

Mugabi Byenka is a writer, musician, and thinker who moves between worlds. Between fiction and non-fiction, poetry and hip-hop, pain and power. His work asks hard questions about what it means to live with disability, to carry history in your body, and to make beauty from it anyway.

Through projects like Dear Philomena (2017) and Songs for Women 2 (2022), Mugabi explores: how chronic pain, friendship, and survival become acts of art and resistance. His latest work, Songs for Women (2024), merges theatre, poetry, and prose into a living conversation about self-love, toxic masculinity, catcalling culture, belonging and creative honesty.

His art insists on accessibility not just physical, but emotional and intellectual; demanding that everyone, regardless of ability, can belong in the story.

At this hangout, Mugabi invites writers, musicians, directors, comics creators and anyone who believes in art as dialogue to join him in conversation. Expect readings, stories, comics and music that stretch across genres: fiction, essays, spoken word, hip-hop and remind us that vulnerability is not weakness; it’s power.

Welcome to his Artist Hangout is Thursday 16th October 4pm to 6pm.

Workshop will be on the 24th 2pm to 6pm