Urban Mirror is a public-art project which started in 2009 and aims to give a voice to the urban scene of Nairobi. After successful shows and events like Love Zone and Theatre Zone where collectives, groups and centres were featured that mostly work away from the official art world, Urban Mirror presents a new project: the documentary Twende Berlin.
This documentary is a film about urban spaces and the relationship to them as told through the eyes of a troupe of African Hip Hop artists in the streets of Berlin.
In 2010 the Hip Hop group Ukoo Flani went to Berlin in the framework of Goethe-Institut Nairobi’s project BLNRB. This gave them the chance to not only perform in one of Berlin’s most iconic venues, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, but also to meet different underground artists living and working there.
This documentary is not only a trip into the public space and public art scene of Berlin, but also a comparative study about the possible positive or negative impact of this emerging “creative class” in both Western and African metropolises. A film documentary about Berlin public space activism from an African perspective
when: Saturday, June 18 , 7 pm
where: Goethe-Institut Auditorium, Corner Loita/Monrovia-Street Maendeleo House Nairobi, Kenya
free entry
– Twende Berlin Documentary Screening
– Ukoo Flani Performance
– Dj Sets
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