Class: Classical Still Life Painting, Mar 16/23/30 2011 @ Spring Valley

If you are an occasional painter, or an artist longing to return to painting, or have never painted but would really like to try, join artist Elaine Kehew (www.enainekehew.com) for a three-session workshop on Classical Still Life (Nature Morte).
You can paint in acrylics or oils. The canvas and easel will be supplied. Participants will paint with a limited palette and a supply list will be provided before the first meeting. At the end of the three sessions you will have a finished, frame-able canvas that you can keep or give as a gift.
The still life is a basic building block for painters. The course will cover composition, notan, block-in, color and finishing. The workshop will be held at the artist’s spacious home studio, off Lower Kabete Road in Spring Valley.
The fee for the full workshop instruction is KSh 5,500 including paint and canvas. You will provide your own brushes and palette. Space is limited; call 0717 917 972 to reserve a seat today. For more information, email mail@elainekehew.com
Session Dates
Session 1- Wednesday March 16 2pm -4pm
Session 2- Wednesday March 23 2pm-4pm
Session 3- Wednesday March 30 2pm-4pm

Out of Town /Training: Creative Enterprise-Mombasa, Apr 4-15 2011


The British Council and the Creative Enterprise Centre are conducting training for Creative’s who reside in Mombasa.

Dates: April 4-15, 2011 (10 days training Mon-Fri)
Time: 8.30am-4.30pm
Training: Business Skills for Creative’s
Deadline for applying: March 18, 2011

Looking for: A creative entrepreneur or an aspiring entrepreneur in the following sectors:
Advertising, architecture, Art & Antique markets, Broadcasting, Crafts, Design/Fashion, Film/Video & photography, Software/Computer games & Electronic Publishing, Music & the Visual Performing Arts/Theatres, Publishing

To apply contact: emanuel.maitha@britishcouncil.or.ke, Tel 0723 410 925 or Charity.wali@britishcouncil.or.ke, Tel 0720 594 433

Or visit British Council Mombasa offices
Location: Jubilee House, Moi Avenue
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Dramatised Poetry: Homecoming. Mar. 4 2011 @ Braeburn Theatre


HOMECOMING
A show of dramatised poetry

Written and Directed by Sitawa Namwalie, the author celebrated ‘Cut Off My Tongue’

Date: Friday 4th March 2011
Venue: Braeburn Theatre, Gitanga Rd.
Time: 7pm
Tickets: Ksh.1,000
Contact Tel./M-Pesa no.: 0722 531 277

‘Homecoming’ is a dramatization of 14 poems infused with music and movement. It talks to themes that range from the tragedy of a colonial post, a nation gripped in cycle of violence and forgetting, identity and self deception.

Event: Organic Farmers Market, Every Saturday @ The Rusty Nail

Dates: Every Saturday (Starting March 5, 2011)
Venue: The Rusty Nail
Location: Dagoreti Road, Karen (400m from Karen roundabout)
Time: 10am-3pm

Expect: Premium quality organic produce and products direct from local firms at affordable prices

For more info: call 020-4349157 or contact karenorganicmarket@gmail.com

Opera: L’Opera, Unità d’Italia (The Opera, Unification of Italy), Mar. 17-18, 2011 @ IIC & White Elephant Sea Lodge

To mark 150 years of Italian unification (1861-2011)

The Embassy of Italy and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with the Committee for Italians abroad (COMITES) Kenya request the pleasure of your company at the eighteenth concert in the ‘Pianoforte & Friends’ series

L’Opera, Unità d’Italia (The Opera, Unification of Italy)
By Angela Papale (Soprano) & Fabio Marra (Piano)
at the following two venues:

Nairobi
Venue: Italian Institute of Culture – Michelangelo Hall
Date: March 17, 2011
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm
More info tel.: (020) 4451268 / 0733 624834

Malindi
Venue: White Elephant Sea Lodge & Centre of Creativity – Indian Ocean Hall (by the pool)
Date: March 18, 2011
Time: 6.30 for 7pm
More info tel.: 0720 712028 (Armando Tanzini)

Entrance: Free (both events)

PRESENTATION
“Viva V.E.R.D.I.”, the slogan of the unification movement of which initials stand for Vittorio Emanuele Re d’Italia (Vittorio Emanuele King of Italy) is certainly the most authentic, emblematic and vital expression of the Italian Risorgimento and a confirmation of how much the Opera has contributed to exalt, like a vibrant soundtrack, the popular and patriotic reawakening that led to the Unification of Italy in 1861.
As already wished for by Mazzini in “La filosofia della musica” (1836), the historical moment demanded great effort and political commitment, but also and above all it necessitated a new moral and spiritual conscience towards the affirmation of the ideals of freedom that the evocative power of music could really sublimate and propagate.
Giuseppe Verdi was the most sensible and attentive exponent, fully capturing the essential need for unanimous popular solidarity and who, launching his personal challenge without hesitation on the battlefield, contributed decisively to the definition of our cultural identity.

Event: Women Action and Media (WAM) Nairobi, Mar. 20-23 @ various


Women Action and the Media (WAM) Nairobi is calling all creative women to join them on

Dates: March 20-23, 2011
Venues: various in Nairobi
Entry Requirements:RSVP, email [wamnairobi [at] gmail dot com]

WAM Nairobi will be discussing some of the big questions facing women and girls in media: What are the barriers for the full participation of female journalists in East African media?
How are stories of women and girls in Kenya told (or not told) in the international press? Whose voices “matter”?

March 20, 2011
Venue: Downtown pub
Time 6pm
Entry: RSVP

Date: March 21, 2011

Venue: Nairobi Java House
Time: 1-4pm
Topic: Getting Women and Girls on the Front Page
A drop-in workshop for activists, advocates and other movers and shakers to learn strategies for winning the interest of local and international journalists — and helping them focus on the information that matters.
We’ll be at Nairobi Java House (Mama Ngina Street) from 1-4 p.m. Stop on by! (We’d appreciate a heads up to let us know your coming by [wamnairobi@gmail.com], but it’s not required.

Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: My Africa, Your Africa
A dialogue between local and foreign journalists about the differences in their coverage

Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: At the Source
Raising local voices across media, where citizen journalists, literary artists, and social media experts describe breaking new ground for news in Kenya

Date: March 22, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: Women’s Voices in a Man’s World
Journalists and other media-makers will discuss dealing with gender gaps, glass ceilings and other perils of being female in the media world.
Topic: The Spot Pitch
Winning coverage for women and girls in 120 seconds. Ten advocates and activists will get 2 minutes each to sell the audience on their most irresistible story about the issues facing women and girls.

For more info: WAM Nairobi blog