Sarakasi has several audience building activities. One of these is the annual Sawa Sawa Festival, held during the Madaraka week-end in the beginning of June, drawing audiences (mostly youth) of over 100,000 people each year. Important objectives for facilitating this event are to develop audiences, bring profile and exposure to Kenyan artists and to build capacity in the area of cultural entrepreneurship and festival production, by organizing workshops between visiting artists/suppliers and local artists/suppliers.

The Sarakasi Dome is the Trust’s office, training and rehearsal space.  The Dome is a reasonably well equipped venue with different performance areas. It is equipped with sound and light and consists of an indoor auditorium/hall, a smaller stage at the Sawa Sawa bar, a (dance) studio, a roof top, a foyer and an outdoor venue. Regular clients book the Dome on a weekly, monthly or case to case basis, thus providing income. Apart from the client’s events, Sarakasi’s event manager is in charge of planning and executing the organization’s own cultural agenda. A permanent fixture on this agenda is the WAPI stage. WAPI is a monthly urban youth platform that concentrates on activities like open mike, graffiti, hip-hop and capacity building workshops. Other Sarakasi events include Dome unplugged and staging of own acrobatic and dance performance work. Other activities are live concerts, dance competitions, acrobatic shows, seminars, workshops, exhibitions and so on.