At Creatives Garage, we believe that queer stories deserve to be seen, heard, and celebrated not censored or sidelined. Our LGBTQ+ programme creates safe, collaborative spaces for queer creatives to express, connect, and challenge oppression through film, theatre, poetry, gaming, XR, and immersive storytelling.
Whether it's on stage, on screen, in a zine, or in the streets, we are committed to art as resistance and creativity as healing.
Our Approach
Storytelling for Change
From Blooms in the Dark to queer-led short films and podcast anthologies, we tell bold, human stories that reflect the joy, struggle, love, and defiance of LGBTQ+ lives in Kenya and beyond.
Workshops & Labs
We run safe, queer-affirming creative labs on scriptwriting, digital art, podcasting, performance, through co-creating with queer voices, not just talking about them.
Advocacy Through Art
We challenge stigma and push back against censorship through public art interventions and experimental formats that reclaim visibility and promote queer rights.
Mental Health & Expression Spaces
Through collaborative healing spaces, journaling sessions, and art therapy tools, we address mental health in the queer community because surviving is radical, and thriving is revolutionary.
Some of Our work includes:
Love, Sex and Choices
An LGBTQ+ Survival Kit
Queer-Tendo
A vibrant, side-scrolling adventure bursting with queer joy, resistance, and play.
Blooms in the Dark
A multi-media presentation of queerness blooming defiantly
Songs to Heal a Broken Heart
Celebrating the unyielding spirit of love, loss, and renewal.
Saidia
An interactive exploration of the diversity and inclusion
This Life
A narrative on the power of reclaiming your story.
The Category Is
Embodying existence, resilience, and unapologetic joy.
Soma Sanaa
A 3-Month Skills Training Programme
Opening Act
A story in three parts
Stories of Pride
An anthology of queerness, pride, and everything in between.
Staff Meeting
A satirical short film that mocks the corporate performativity
Blue Party
A reflection of how conversations around identity, power, and queerness are often hijacked by those unwilling to confront their own biases.