This coming Thursday, 7pm at the Louis Leakey Auditorium, Classical Evenings Club will host performers from the Kenya Conservatoire Orchestra with visiting musicians from San Francisco.
They will be performing excerpts from Beethoven, Poulenc and Bruch amongst other works.
Entrance is Free.
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Spotlight on Kenyan Music is back!
Date: July 29, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française gardens
Time : 7pm
Entrance: Free
Theme: Traditional meets contemporary
Spotlight 2011 will draw attention to the lesser known musical traditions of Northern Kenyan communities under the programme ‘Vital Voices and Culture’: Increasing People Participation in Good Governance and Development’ – Arts and Cultural Synergies for the Empowerment of Communities, a programme being implemented by the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs with funding from the European Union.
July concert will feature artists from Loiyangalani, Isiolo and Marsabit showcasing modern pastoralist music as well as introduce to the younger generation the legendary, John Nzenze, whose ‘twist’ musical style is part of the living memory of Kenyan music.
Date: July 30, 2011
Venue: Hilton Nairobi
Location: Mama Ngina Street
Time: 3-7pm
Tickets: Kshs 200
Theme: Where Truth Lies
Performances by: Rappers, Poets, Live Bands and Sketch Artists
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Have you ever wondered what happens after you die? Take a trip through this ‘waiting room’ and find out in this humorous story of the living and the dead.
Dates: July 22-24, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: Friday 6 & 8.30pm, Weekend 3, 6 & 8.30pm
Tickets: Kshs 500
Tickets Info: 0787 399 617, 0715 695 452 and Tickets Kenya
Dead Talk is a play by Cajetan Boy, directed by Caroline Odongo and presented by Etcetera Productions
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When? Saturday 16th July 2011, 10am (for 10:30) to 12:00pm
Where? Austin Theater, Braeburn School, Gitanga Road, Lavington
Theme: Mind power
TED Talks presented:
– Executive, educator, writer and life coach Srikumar S. Rao asks, “Are you ready to succeed?” — and in his famous course “Creativity and Personal Mastery,” he teaches his students how to do so. Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for happiness. At Arbejdsglaede Live! 2009, he teaches us how to break free of the “I’d be happy if …” mental model, and embrace our hard-wired happiness.
– Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking. Ehrenreich studied chemistry at Reed College, graduating in 1963. Her senior thesis was entitled Electrochemical oscillations of the silicon anode. In 1968, she received a Ph.D in cellular biology from Rockefeller University.
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Osei G. Kofi, the Ghanaian born, art lover, is the current Managing Director of Gallery Watatu. Gallery Watatu is the oldest privately owned art gallery of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa. Kofi started off by writing about art and with time, grew from this this to collecting contemporary Africa art, to consulting and setting up an art dealing company.
Topic: The challenge for African contemporary art in the international market
Date & Time: Monday 18th July, 2-4pm
Jak Katarikawe, who for many years was described as the Chagall of Africa, received early stimulus from his mother, who painted the walls of houses. Discovered by Prof. Cook from Makerere University, he had his first exhibition at the Nommo Gallery, Kampala (1973), and also in Denmark, Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Kingdom and USA. “When I remember or listen to a good story, I laugh at it and then later, translate it into a painting”, he says and does the same thing with dreams.
Topic: Down memory lane – development of East African contemporary art
Date & Time: Monday 18th July, 2-5pm
Joseph Bertiers who began his illustrious career as a sign writer, is now one of Kenya’s most famous artists. His paintings feature heavily populated imagined urban scenes of bars, market places and towns. They usually include recognizable Kenyan and international politicians and celebrities in ludicrous settings and are political commentaries of contemporary Kenya. The paintings themselves feature hand painted signs and messages above the bars and shops and there is a clear evidence of his sign writing background.
Topic: Life and works
Date & Time: Wednesday 20th July, 2-5pm
Every Sunday, watch a classic movie on a large air screen @ Capri 7.
This week, we get fresh with Captain Harris and the rest of the Team, on their “Assignment in Miami Beach”; the 5th installment of the comedy parody “POLICE ACADEMY”
Come with a friend and A Duvet – Beers@150
Dates: July 18-20, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 6pm
Entry: Free
July 18, 2011
Son of Babylon by Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq (2010 – 1h30)
In the days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, a young Kurdish boy and his grandmother venture through Iraq on a quest to find their missing father/son.
July 19, 2011
Winter’s Bone by Debra Granik, United States (2010 – 1h40)
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her missing father while trying to keep her family intact.
July 20, 2011
Amreeka by Cherien Dabis, United States (2009 – 1h36)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois, they find their new lives replete with challenges.
The films are presented by Film Aid International & Film Forward in partnership with the Sundance Institute with the aim of advancing cultural dialogue.
All films will be preceded by a short film produced by refugees in Kenya.
For more information visit: www.filmaid.org/festival
Date: July 16, 2011
Venue: Dass Restaurant
Time: Kshs 9.30-11 pm
Tickets: Kshs 300
The sensational Aziza will be performing some soothing and inspirational afro jazz music
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