Date: July 6, 2011
Venue: Wasanii Restaurant (Kenya National Theatre)
Time: 8pm
Tickets: Kshs 300
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Due to unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances, Professor John Mack has with deep regret had to cancel his trip to Kenya and therefore his Seminar too (Different Seas, Different Histories?), which was scheduled for
Date: July 6, 2011
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) Seminar Room, Laikippia Road, Kileleshwa
Speaker: Prof. John Mack, President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)
Chair: Dr. Hassan Wario, Director of Museums, Sites & Monuments-National Museum of Kenya (NMK)
Entry: RSVP with Kerry (Kerry.kyaa@biea.ac.uk)
Tel. Contacts: 0735 260 004 or 0724 576 600
This seminar has been rescheduled to a later date and details will be communicated once we get them. Please accept apologies from BIEA.
The seminar discusses some of the arguments in the speaker’s recent book The Sea, A Cultural History. It begins by suggesting that seas have different characteristics which need to be taken into account in assessing the human engagement with them. Interpretations based on the Mediterranean or the North Sea have dominated interpretation of wider histories as have terrestrial understandings of what it means to be at sea. Topics discussed will include navigational practices, conceptions of the sea, trading practices and piracy. The occupation of Madagascar and the Swahili islands is instructive in terms of the implications of moving across the Equator. The mismatch between astrological systems and navigational knowledge, both based on observations of the stars, provides a suggestive conclusion.
Download Different seas, different histories poster and Map and Directions (pdf)
The British Council and the Creative Enterprise Centre are conducting training for Creative’s in Nairobi.
Dates: July 18-29, 2011 (10 days training Mon-Fri)
Time: 8.30am-4.30pm
Training: Business Skills for Creative’s
Deadline for applying: July 2, 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: simon.gachui@britishcouncil.or.ke, Tel 020 283 6228 or martha.njuno@britishcouncil.or.ke, Tel 020 283 6183
Download Poster and Business Skills Training – Brochure 2011
It is an honour and pleasure for Patamango to have David Sasha Tonn and Tatiana Smirnova, professional tango teachers, beautiful tango dancers, and a whole lot more, share an evening with us out of their short visit to Kenya. With the inevitable generosity that results from a passion for tango, they are offering to bring over to our own Sala Michelangelo all their international teaching experience and performing flair, and that at a modest cost participation (and, having graciously accepted almost unchanged the cost-covering participation policy that we use for our Patamango tango activities, this is even lower than what you normally might get locally in Nairobi).
6:30-7:00 WELCOME, REGISTER FOR CLASS, WARM-UP MUSIC
Please give yourself ample time to make sure you will arrive before class starts, after which time you may be refused joining the class.
7:00-8:15 MIXED LEVEL CLASS: “Spiral Movements and Dissociation in Traditional and Nuevo Tango”
A class with plenty to take away from for everyone, while still offering real challenges to even the most advanced dancers. From a basic review of how to move from your true centre to how to get to very “advanced” movements from the core basic movements for those who want to try them or at least get a sense of how to safely (and elegantly) get there.
Cost participation for the class is 1000Ksh (students 400Ksh)–allows you free entrance to the milonga and demo that will follow. Please note no guests to watch the class are allowed.
8:30-11:30 MiILONGA + DEMO by the maestros
The class will be followed by a 3 hour milonga, that will include a tango demo–early on during the milonga–by the maestros! May well be a first demo of its kind in Nairobi, and all tangueros and any non-dancing friends are all welcome! Milonga+demo cost participation for everyone is 500Ksh (students 200Ksh). If you feel so inclined, please remember our usual refreshments table.
Short biographies:
David Sasha Tonn
David has taught and performed tango around the world for more than ten years. He studied under numerous Traditional and Nuevo masters and has performed at festivals with some of the most respected followers. He believes in the seamless integration of Traditional and Nuevo technique coupled with imagination and musicality. He incorporates his expertise as a yoga instructor and martial artist in helping you discover the deep connections possible between a leader and follower through understanding both the individual and shared axes required of tango.
Tatiana Smirnova
Tatiana’s creativity developed from her childhood in Moscow. Enrolled in an Olympic gymnastics program she studied with a master of Russian rhythmic gymnastics and ballet. In parallel, she began her study of piano and musicality. She continues her studies of music, ballet, ballroom and modern dance basics to this day. She furthered her knowledge of the human body with intense study of the art of Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, and yoga. When she arrived to New York to pursue her graduate studies in biomedical research, she discovered her passion for Argentine tango. She has studied with such masters as Mariela Sametband, Moira Castellano, Gaston Torelli, Dana Frigoli, Ezequiel Farfaro, Murat and Michelle Erdemsel.
Here’s a couple samples of their dancing, first a nuevo sample in Tango Fix, NYC in 2010, and then an altogether more traditional clip of David and Tatiana dancing to a Hugo Diaz milonga in La Nacional, NYC, in 2009 (this latter is lower resolution, will download quicker). You may access still more videos of their dancing from the facebook event for the evening. They will be with us on the evening of Wednesday 29 June, and here’s the planned schedule (all at the Sala Michelangelo, Italian Institute of Culture):
There is possibility of private classes around the 8th of July depending on their availability.
Patamango Association for Argentine Tango – bringing Tango to Nairobi !
web: http://www.patamango.com/
email: nairobi.tango@patamango.com
join/leave: request by email
Opening on Saturday 9th July 2011 then 10th July, 15th July, 16th July and 17th july 2011 at the Braeburn Theatre Gitanga Road, we shall be performing the world premier of Ogutu Joshua Muraya’s extraordinary new play, Are We Here Yet? starring Lydiah Gitachu and Joni Githui, with original dance (Oluchendo-A journey in opposite directions) by Ruth Maingi and Jackson Atulo, pl…us the mystic Kijiba Song Cycle from Melissa ‘Asali’ Ommeh. Percussion is provided by Isaac Anyanga and Direction is by Keith Pearson.
About the play.
Are We Here Yet? concerns two Mau Mau Fighters who find themselves still living in the forest, reliving their sad, moving and comic experiences and trying to come to terms with the past and their actions.
Tickets are available in advance for Kshs 500/- via MPESA, 0722 554 372 or on the door at Kshs 800/-
If you would like pictures of the show, or would like to interview the cast, or would just like to chat about The Theatre Company, call or text the number above or go on to our website. It would be great to hear from you!
Time: Saturday, July 9 at 7:00pm – July 17 at 9:00pm
Location: Braeburn Theatre ( Austin Room) Gitanga Road.
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Ngwatilo Mawiyoo is at it again in a whole new exclusive concert at The Michael Joseph Centre in Safaricom House, Westlands on July 8th 2011 at 7pm prompt. The young poet, celebrated at home and abroad in literary and entertainment circles, shall share some of her newest poems and a few favorites in a new collaborative experiment of poetry and music – supported by some of Kenya’s most talented and vibrant singers and musicians.
Ngwatilo In Concert builds on the successes and ambitions of The Puesic Project staged at Alliance Francaise last December to a sold out audience; to allow other art forms to complicate, simplify and amplify the best of contemporary Kenyan poetry.
How to book: tickets.pesapal.com.
Advance Tickets are Ksh500
Gate Tickets- Ksh 800.
Time: Friday, July 8 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Safaricom House, Waiyaki Way, Westlands
Queries?: 0702 845533 or email tickets@ngwatilo.com.
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Maestro Riccardo Muti, one of classical music’s greatest living legends, will be performing with his orchestra at a concert in Nairobi at 2pm on July 9th at Uhuru Park. Muti will be flying in with an ensemble of 200 to perform great works by Verdi and Bellini at this concert that will be broadcast around the world. He will be joined on stage by a number of Kenyan performers. Not only is this concert a great thing for music but also for the country as a whole and it is an event that we are very excited about!
I know many will be concerned about it being at Uhuru Park, but I can assure you that all is being done to make sure it is an enjoyable festival done in a safe environment. I believe that the choice of the park as a venue, marks a step towards us seeing it as a place of joy and friendship – something that should make us proud as Kenyans.
The event is FREE for the audience and all the money raised from the sponsors is going towards education projects within the slums.
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This Saturday, ZELALEM + CORTEGA will bring fire to the spanking new Disco Bar at the Vineyard… So get ready for a powerful mix of dance grooves, from upbeat disco to soulful and deep house, blessed by the mighty hands of my man TEE on percussions…
If you haven’t yet discovered this lil paradise of a venue – The Vineyard is probably Westlands’ best kept secret but not for long – you better not miss this opportunity. The new disco bar has a big dancefloor for you to let loose that fancy footwork, while the patio is a sexy open air intimate space in a tastefully designed tropical garden… Need I say more?
Ah yes…
NOW DANCE, BABY
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DOORS OPEN 9PM TILL LATE
NO COVER
CASH BARS
DRESS TO IMPRESS
The Vineyard Wine Bar and Restaurant
Rhapta Road (700m past the Westlands roundabout)
Nairobi, KENYA
Any questions? Call Ludia at 0721768953
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Patamango: Argentine Tango Initiation Session (2.5hrs)
Price: Sh1000 (cover hall rental) NEW!! student rate at 400 KES
Please note that Patamango is not just another commercial dance studio. Our activities don’t generate profit and our instructors are volunteers!
When: Sunday, 26th June (10:00 – 12:30)
Where: Italian Institute of Culture, Woodvale Groove 100 (opposite Gypsy, in Westlands)
Event description
A 2 and a half hour session to solidly introduce and establish the physiological and musical fundamentals of dancing Tango Argentino, and is intended for all prospective beginners wishing to start learning Argentine Tango, as well as everyone else who wishes to revisit the all-important basics of posture, stepping and cadence. This session is also a requirement to be able to attend any of the other classes offered by the Patamango Association.
Registration (via email to nairobi.tango@patamango.com) is absolutely mandatory, as space is limited – but note that, to favour good learning of the basic principles from each of you, we encourage you all to do the initiation session as many times as you feel you get a benefit out of it, while we only require a cost participation the first time.
This session is offered periodically, subject to demand and to our availability — please make sure to always check the Nairobi Tango Calendar that is online on the www.patamango.com website.
Patamango still offers Milongas on evenings, just for the pleasure of dancing!
This Sunday, 8.00 to 11.00 pm, at the Italian Cultural Center.
Note that a participation is requested (500 KES, and 200 KES for students) for Milongas at the Italian Cultural Center, and that we have a potluck refreshment table!!!
We will be having regular weekly Milongas in other nice venues in Nairobi, ckeck our website for regular updates!!!
For more information contact: nairobi.tango@patamango.com
