Dates: June 2-12 2011
Venue: Alliance Française de Mombasa Terrace
Location: Freed Building, Moi Avenue/Kwa Shibu Road
Time: 6.30pm daily
Entrance: Free
Contacts: (041) 222 50 48 | infoafmba@africaonline.co.ke
Participating Countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey
On the occasion of the World Environment Day 2011, Alliance Française de Nairobi will be presenting a photographic exhibition on;
The Tana River Delta: a wetland in the balance
Dates: June 8-30, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Ground Floor Gallery
Entrance: Free
The Tana Delta is one of Kenya’s most important wetland systems. The exhibition has been produced by a multidisciplinary French-Kenyan research team of scientists from the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD, UMR PALOC) and the KENWEB (Kenyan Wetlands Biodiversity) Research Team, working together in the Tana Delta. This photographic exhibition will present the diversity and the richness of the natural and cultural heritage of the Tana Delta, the issues related to water and land and the work of the research team.
It will be accompanied by informative text in English and French and by a 25 minutes documentary.
The Kenyan Boys Choir will be in concert on
Date: June 18, 2011
Venue: Braeburn, Garden Estate
Time: 7-9 pm
Tickets: Adults Kshs 500, Students Kshs 300
An evening of great music by one of Kenya’s best choirs
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Date: June 10, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 7 – 10 pm
Entry: Free
The project Poetrical is an interdisciplinary and multimedia performance which incorporates African contemporary dance, Hip Hop dance and contemporary dance improvisation, spoken word and visual art. Poetrical was developed by Evanson Ng’ang’a on the basis of his solo contemporary dance piece The Poem which includes spoken words in between the movements. For Poetrical it was enriched by three recitals from different settings, which will be projected during the live performance.
The concept in the poetry is based on personal, local and regional issues, both political and social. The poems deal with their direct influences on humanity at the social level and try to find different perspectives and responses.
Since the evening is centered on poetry, there will be an open Mic for interested poets and also a Hip Hop dance improvisation before the première of Poetrical.
Kenya Cultural Centre under Ngoma Kikwetu concert platform presents Kenge Kenge Orutu System (KKOS)
This group has wowed the world with their un-resistible music.
Date: June 4, 2011
Venue: Kenya Cultural Centre/ Kenya National Theatre Auditorium
Location: Harry Thuku Road (Opp. Norfolk Hotel)
Time: 3pm
Tickets: Concessionary charge of Ksh.200
Message: Kwani Trust is inviting you to Kwani? Open Mic on Tuesday 7th June 2011 7pm at Club Soundd, Hamilton House Kaunda Street Entry ksh 100/- only.
Featured Poet will be Sitawa Wafula
Featured Artists will be . Tamasha Beats
Sitawa is a Feather Awards Kenya nominee, 2010, an Actuarial Science drop-out and poetess who writes, performs and hosts poetry forums and workshops in Nairobi. She started writing in 2003 after a rape ordeal and began open mic performances in Nov 2008 when she was fired from her last job after getting a seizure attack and falling on a client. Being a rape-survivor, most of her pieces centre round the girl-child and socio-political issues and is involved in advocacy work, leading a sanitary-towel campaign in partnership with Sanibank Consortium for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds. She is also an Ambassador for Mental Health in Kenya under BasicNeeds UK in Kenya given her own illness. She also blogs for Southern Sudan’s widows and orphans charity, Hope Ofiriha and loves eating and reading during her free time.
Check out her blog for more about this wonderful poet.
http://sitawa.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html
Red Soil and Roasted Maize is a selection of Kenyan writer Rasna Warah’s most poignant, introspective and satirical articles, columns and essays that provide snapshots and analyses of events that have shaped Kenyans’ lives and dreams in the last decade, from the turbulent transition to democracy in 2002 to a flawed election in 2007 that had a deep impact on Kenya’s political, economic and social landscape. She candidly deciphers and describes the perils of growing ethnic chauvinism and corruption in an increasingly polarised nation and examines her own life as a writer in one of Africa’s most diverse and unequal societies.
Red Soil and Roasted Maize is now out and available at Bookstop in Yaya Centre and online. It will also be available as an e-book and on Amazon in about a month. Hope you will order copies and pass the word around.
*Kudishnyao! Finissage with DJ-Set
Date: June 4, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 8-11 pm
Entry: Free
*Kudishnyao! – Describes the onomatopoetic sound used by kids – when playing games like police and robbers, or any game requiring weaponry – to denote a gunshot (the less palatable “Dinyao!” stands for a gun with a silencer).
Goethe Institut is having an Open Day
Date: June 4, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut
Time: 9 am – 4 pm
For more information contact: 2224640/2211381/0719455215 | spr@nairobi.goethe.org
Attend to experience Germany in Kenya. Also, get a chance to explore the Language, Culture & Information departments of Goethe-Institut Nairobi.
Get up-to-date information on education opportunities, sample German language classes, information on cultural events and library.
DAAD and the German language sub-departments of the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University will be in attendance.
