Drop by any day — meet the team, connect with other artists, and start creating today.
At The Wild Ones, we’re building more than a venue — we’re creating a creative ecosystem.
A place where ideas are born, developed, and showcased, and where creativity fuels community, and community fuels sustainability.
Our mission is simple: to cultivate creativity and inspire change.
Every project — whether it’s a film screening, art exhibition, fashion show, or live music night — begins with a spark, grows through collaboration, and ends with a showcase that brings people together.
🎨 The Open Studio — Where Ideas Begin
Our Open Studio is free and open every day for creatives across all disciplines — Fashion, film, photography, art, dance, music, and more.
It’s a space to drop in, meet the team, use the facilities, or simply spend time around other creative minds. There’s no form to fill in and no approval needed — just come as you are!
Once you’ve performed, exhibited, or hosted something with us, you’ll be invited to become a Creative Member — joining a growing network that meets every Wednesday evening to connect, share ideas, and collaborate. These evenings are relaxed and inspiring, with discounted drinks and food, introductions to new members, with industry professionals often in attendance too, and plenty of space for spontaneous conversation and sharing ideas. Also as a creative member, you get on free guestlists, special offers, and discounted tickets and food and drinks offeres throughout the week (full package coming soon, to include discounted lunches too!)
The feature image for this blog was taken at one of our recent Wednesday Meetups, and afterwards we all stayed to test out a new Wild quizz concept called “Quizzy Quizzy, Dancy Dancy“… it very very silly, and lots of fun – want to come next Wednesday and meet us? Message Marcus, details below…
🌿 The Residency — From Idea to Showcase
Residencies are where ideas take flight.
They usually run for around two weeks, giving creatives time and space to develop a project — with support from The Wild Ones team and the wider community.
Sometimes a residency simply provides free space, facilities and venue for you to produce and showcase your work. But often, it can also be more supportive and collaborative. We might:
- Sit with you to develop and shape your idea.
- Bring in others from the creative community to help or collaborate.
- Assist with promotion and audience-building through our social channels.
- Provide access to our plug-and-play sound systems, projectors, smoke machines, lights, and sound engineer.
- Offer catering or themed menus from our kitchen and bar team.
- Occasionally even support your project financially
- Develop ideas with you on how you can also raise your profile and make money from the event too
At The Wild Ones, we try to find arrangements that favour the artist or creative. Our goal is to help you grow, showcase your work, and build momentum — not to take a big cut of your success.
For example, a typical art gallery might take 30–40% commission when you sell your work. However, here, it’s different. The Wild Ones is a breeding ground — a stepping-stone space for emerging creatives. We might charge nothing, or a small amount to help us recoup some costs, if we helped to fund the exhibition for example (Printing and framing you work etc.)
Every collaboration is flexible and built on fairness — designed to help your creative journey move forward.
That’s what makes this ecosystem work:
We support creatives → creatives create and inspire → events bring people → the community sustains itself and grows.
🎤 A Breeding Ground for Creativity
As a social enterprise, our sustainability comes mainly from food and drink sales — which means some nights are programmed with established events and organisers who can draw a strong crowd.
But The Wild Ones is also a breeding ground — a space where new and experimental ideas can take root.
During weekdays and weekday evenings, we give emerging artists and creatives the freedom to experiment, test ideas, and showcase early work in an encouraging setting.
And even on our biggest nights — live music events, DJ sessions, or rooftop parties — we build in support slots, pre-shows, and creative collaborations so that newer artists can perform before or alongside more established acts.
That way, the ecosystem stays balanced — supporting both the big and the small, the seasoned and the emerging, all feeding into one another.
🏗️ The Spaces — Our Mini-Festival World
The Wild Ones is a multi-stage creative hub made up of four connected spaces — The Courtyard, The Rooftop, The Upper Café, and The Loft.
Each space has its own energy and can be reimagined for different types of events — from intimate performances and art shows to larger gatherings and feasts.
Think of The Wild Ones as a mini-festival all happening in one place.
Just like at a festival, people drift between spaces, discovering new music, art, and experiences they didn’t even know they loved. That sense of discovery — of finding inspiration where you least expect it — is what we aim to create every single day.
🎪 Coming Soon — The Wild Ones 24-Hour Urban Festival
We’re currently developing an exciting new project — a 24-hour urban festival that will bring together music, art, film, dance, fashion, and performance across all Wild Ones spaces.
This will be a showcase of Kampala’s creative energy — and we’re looking for artists and creatives to get involved in developing, performing, and exhibiting as part of it.
Also, everyone involved will share in the ticket income, because we believe collaboration should benefit everyone.
If you’d like to be part of shaping this festival, now’s the time to reach out (contact info below)
Could this be the first co-operative festival that’s conceived, developed, promoted and launched all under one roof?
🎥 LAUNCHING NOW — Fly on the Wall
As part of our mission to elevate Kampala’s creative scene beyond the venue and onto the world stage, we’re launching Fly on the Wall — our digital broadcast and storytelling platform.
Through live streams, interviews, behind-the-scenes features, and creative showcases, Fly on the Wall will share the stories, sounds, and energy of The Wild Ones community with audiences everywhere. It’s also a way to open up new income streams and expand market access for Ugandan creatives — connecting local talent with the wider global creative economy.
Your idea might even be the perfect fit for a feature, performance, or broadcast — giving your work exposure to audiences far beyond Kampala.
At The Wild Ones, we’re not just hosting creativity — we’re amplifying it.
💡 Beyond Art — A Platform for All Ideas
Not every project needs to fit neatly into a creative box.
Your idea might be a mental health workshop, a debate, a charity quiz, a dinner party, or even a startup showcase where you share your social-impact idea with the community.
If it’s about creativity, connection, or positive change, it belongs at The Wild Ones.
✨ Join the Movement — The Wild Ones Open Studio
At the heart of all this is the Open Studio — open every day for anyone who wants to create, connect, or collaborate.
You don’t need to book or apply; just drop in any day to meet the team, chat with other creatives, and get a feel for the space – and start creating!
Daytimes are when the studio is most alive with creative energy — artists, designers, filmmakers, and musicians working on ideas, rehearsing, and experimenting.
Evenings often shift into showcase mode — with performances, screenings, and events that bring the community together to celebrate what’s been created.
The bottom line: it starts today.
Come by, introduce yourself, and become part of Kampala’s growing creative movement.
Because here at The Wild Ones, every great idea deserves a stage — and every creative deserves a home.
Follow us and get in touch here:
Follow us on Instagram: @thewildones.club
Or email Marcus: marcus@thewildones.club
