Openjuru, MaxwellOpenjuru, George L.Sanford, Kathyde Oliveira Jayme, BrunoMonk, David2022-12-072022-12-072022Ladaah, M. G. O., Openjuru, G. L., Sanford, K., de Oliveira Jayme, B., & Monk, D. (2022). Learning Informally: A Case for Arts Learning in Vocational Education and Training in Uganda. ENGAGE!, 4(1), 17-29.https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/ENGAGE/article/view/26078https://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6035This paper advocates for the inclusion of the arts in vocational learning programs in Uganda as an integrated form of holistic learning oriented towards empowerment and entrepreneurship. Using community-based research in the context of vocational education and training, our data emerged from open-ended interviews, focus groups and youth-led radio talk shows with stakeholders from public and private sectors, instructors, artists, and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Three significant themes arose from the data collected. First, pathways available to learners to become artists are limited by increasing neoliberal orientations towards education. Second, there is a thriving informal youth-led arts community in northern Uganda empowering young artists to pursue the arts as aenarts educationvocational trainingIndigenousArticle