The KaraSpace garden set for a celebration A full audience at a poetry evening in the garden A poet speaking into the microphone Two friends embracing at a gathering A lively table of guests at a KaraSpace event A group gathered by the event banner The kindness corner mural in the garden Two guests with gift boxes in the garden Hanging lights over the garden at dusk A pink dessert served at a garden gathering A guest filming the poetry session on a phone

Our Spaces · Events & Garden

A garden made for gathering.

Corporate retreats. Board meetings. Birthday celebrations. Baby showers. Creative workshops. Community gatherings. KaraSpace adapts to every occasion while maintaining the warmth of a garden.

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The Atmosphere

A garden that adapts to the occasion.

Birthday lunches, book clubs, poetry nights, corporate retreats, science camps — the garden has hosted them all. Tables are dressed in African print, lights go up in the trees, and the In Her Element mural watches over everything. For events that need more than a venue, ask about our Curated Experiences — where we design the whole day with you.

Aerial view of the KaraSpace play garden — slides, climbing frames and sandpits ringed by trees
The 'for children only' A-frame reading hut with African print cushions, set among the garden greenery
Banana trees, lawn and a water tank in the KaraSpace garden
The tree-shaded driveway and cushioned garden seating at the entrance
Tables and chairs set out across the lawn under the trees at dusk
Hanging lights strung through the trees over the KaraSpace garden
Aerial view of the shaded play area beside the ochre studio building
Aerial view of the trampoline and climbing frame tucked among the trees

Curated Experiences

Your event is not just hosted here — it is thoughtfully designed here.

For corporates, NGOs, retreat planners and teams who want their people to leave different than they arrived, we don't just hand you a room and a projector. We sit with you from the beginning and ask one question: what do you want people to feel, learn or achieve?

01

We listen

A conversation about your people, your purpose, and what a great day would actually change for you.

02

We design

The setup, the menu, the flow of the day, the creative exercises, the facilitation — composed together as one experience, not booked as separate line items.

03

We host

On the day, you're a guest too. We hold the details so you can be present with your people.

The Space

Garden, boardroom and creative corner — arranged around your day's rhythm, not the other way round.

Food & Café

Menus from our kitchen that match the mood — working lunches, garden feasts, long coffee breaks.

Creative Activities

Making something together changes a group. Ceramics, painting and craft woven into the agenda.

Facilitation Thinking

Structure, prompts and pacing drawn from 25+ years of facilitation across Africa.

"Six months later, the boards are still on their office wall." — a Kampala NGO, after a strategy day we redesigned around garden conversations and paint instead of slides.

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The garden, full of people

Poetry nights, wellness circles, team days, community gatherings — the garden fills with people, and every face here is part of the story. This is what the space is really for.

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A full audience gathered in the KaraSpace garden for a poetry evening
Two friends embracing and smiling at a KaraSpace gathering

Need a roof and a screen too? Our flexible meeting room comfortably seats six and transforms between a boardroom, workshop room and creative meeting space, with AV and catering from the café — ask about indoor hire.

Gallery

Past gatherings

A large group gathered in the garden behind a Muno Journey banner, holding their journals A speaker in an Embozzi Tebankadenya poetry shirt addressing the garden with a microphone A group seated together along a long African print–dressed table at a garden gathering

Private Hire

Tell us about your gathering.

Garden celebrations, off-sites, launches, family days. Share a few details and we'll come back within a working day.