Out of Town: Volcano Explosion Dance Hike, Oct 2 2011 @ Mount Longonot

The Volcano Explosion Dance Hike is a Social Event organized to encourage the continuation of a healthy lifestyle and providing a magnificent set up for an original dance excursion.

Magic Mike is organizing this event so you can all have a chance to meet and mingle while enjoying spectacular landscapes, exercising, and of course, to top it all, enjoying our love for dancing!  Magic Mike is introducing a new coreography, “the Volcano Explosion”

WHAT: Volcano Dance Explosion Hike.
WHY: To meet nice people, exercise, healthy entertainment, dance.
WHERE: Mount Longonot

THE PLAN:
DATE: 2 October 2011,
We meet in Nairobi and carpool or at Mount Longonot base at the following times:
NAIROBI:  7.00am
MT LONGONOT: 8.30 am

We hike to the top, where we enjoy the scenery, have a picnic/snack. We learn the volcanic dance.

WHAT TO BRING: Good hiking or sport shoes. Plenty of water. Your own picnic basket.  Sunscreen. Lots of energy for hiking and dance!!

Please note:
KWS/Mount Longonot Park Fees:
Adults Kenyan Citizen: 200 KSH, East African Resident (present passport or alien card) 500 KSH, Foreigners (non-residents) 20 USD.
Children Kenyan 100 KSH, Resident 250 KSH, Foreigner 10 USD.

Please do not forget your ID/Passport, or KWS will charge you the foreigner fees!

If you are interested to attend, please CONFIRM by SATURDAY the 24th. Let us know if you are coming on your own vehicle or you will be willing to give a ride to someone else.

Please RSVP to 0732339858/0721339858
Before 24th Sept 2011.

Magic Mike
www.magicmikesalsa.com

Exhibit: On Red Ground – by Roy Pickering, Oct 1 – 30 2011 @ National Museum

“On Red Ground’ 1st – 30th October
Roy Pickering is based in the English midlands and has been a frequent visitor to Kenya for over twenty five years. His paintings of his native Nottinghamshire emerge out of a close connection with the landscape and how it has been shaped by human intervention. In 2010 Roy Pickering spent several weeks in Kenya creating this exciting new series of mixed media paintings on aluminium and paper. Using rags and sticks to paint with as well as paint brushes these works also incorporate the red oxide soil of the land being depicted. The layered accumulation of marks simultaneously reveal and conceal in an archaeology of time and place. Often the resulting works capture a sense of moving through the landscape; a succession of passing glimpses and differing viewpoints.
Roy Pickering has exhibited widely, most recently at the ‘Gallery in Cork Street’, London in 2010, and as a contributor to the innovative mixed exhibition ‘Earth Critical’ at Alba la Romaine’ in France earlier this year.
This is his first exhibition in Kenya.
For more information contact : Nairobi National  Museum. www.museums.or.ke
Gallery opening times : 8.30am to 5.30pm

ROCKTOBER Battle of the Bands, Oct 2 2011 @ Carnivore

Rock bands go head to head. Featuring opening acts by Murfys FlaW, M2O
& Simply Tomas

ONLY 1 REQUIREMENT: ” Market – Friendly sound” whatever that means…
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ENTRANCE:
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KSHS 300 / – ADVANCE (LIMITED TICKETS!!)
KSHS 500 / – AT THE GATE

Get ADVANCE Tickets at: CARNIVORE SIMBA SALOON, TAMAMBO – THE MALL WESTLANDS, Your FAV BAND or Call: 0723 243 983

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PRIZE: SHARE THE LOOT [ RATIO 3:2:1 ] ——-

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CONFIRMED BANDS: so far
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1. Crystal Axis
2. PLG – Parking Lot Grass
3. M2O – Music To Overdrive
4. Lust of a dying breed.
5. Simply Tomas
6. Seismic
7. Perfect Dysfunctionality
8. In oath
9. ROA – Rock of Ages
10. Dove Slimme
11. Murfys Flaw – Featuring
12. LYT – Last Years Tragedy
13. City of angels

Do you have a band? Let us know… Spread the word.

::New Bands are encouraged to register & Participate. How? Call or Email the Organizers – Simply Tomas || Amos { tom@m2o.co.ke | 0723 243 983 | 0721 359 017 }. Upcoming bands should also send their contacts & a brief bio to info@rocksocietyofkenya.org

TEDxBraeburnSchools, Sep 24 2011 @ Braeburn School

a Gathering for Curious Minds
When? Saturday 24th September 2011, 10am (for 10:30) to 12:00pm
Where? Austin Room, Braeburn School, Gitanga Road, Lavington

This week’s theme: The Business of Compassion
This Saturday we will show videos featuring:

14min – Google’s “Jolly Good Fellow,” Chade-Meng Tan, talks about how the company practices compassion in its everyday business — and its bold side projects.  Chade-Meng Tan was one of Google’s earliest engineers. Among many other things, Meng helped build Google’s first mobile search service, and headed the team that kept a vigilant eye on Google’s search quality. After an eight-year stint in Engineering, he now serves with GoogleEDU as the Head of Personal Growth. One of his main projects is Search Inside Yourself — a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence course, which he hopes will eventually contribute to world peace in a meaningful way.

16min – In this inspiring talk at the NextGen:Charity conference, Sasha Dichter of the Acumen Fund shares the results of his month-long “Generosity Experiment” where he said “yes” to every request for help.  Sasha Dichter is the Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that invests in enterprises that serve the poor.  In this role, he leads up capital raising globally for Acumen Fund, including executing a successful $100M capital raise, serving as the point person for Acumen Fund’s Partner community, and heading up global partnerships for Acumen Fund including global expansion.  Sasha is a member of Acumen Fund’s leadership team and the author of the Manifesto for Nonprofit CEOs. He blogs about generosity,philanthropy and social change at http://sashadichter.wordpress.com.

Directions to Braeburn: http://www.braeburn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=197&Itemid=695
Website: http://www.ted.com/tedx/groups/2441 ; also http://www.ted.com/tedx/groups/825
Join here to stay informed on TEDx events in Nairobi:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122852434404442
For more information email: Farida_sher@yahoo.co.uk; irfan@whiterose.co.ke; salim_keshavjee@yahoo.com;

Patamango presents Tango classes, Sep 24 2011 @ Italian Institute of Culture

Time: Saturday 24 September – 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Sala Michelangelo, Italian Institute of Culture in Nairobi, Kenya

For total beginners and anyone wishing to strengthen Argentine Tango fundamentals.

A 2 and a 1/2 hour session to solidly introduce and establish the physiological and musical fundamentals of dancing Tango Argentino, and is intended for all prospective beginners as well as everyone else wishing to revisit the all important basics of posture, stepping and cadence. This session is also a requirement to be able to follow any of the other Tango classes we offer.

Cost participation to this is requested only once, meaning you may repeat this fundamentals workshop as many times as you deem is useful for yourself. Plus, for those who need it, we also offer a hardship discount of 60%. This is in the spirit of not excluding anyone with a genuine interest in learning Argentine Tango, and on a solid technical foundation.

www.patamango.com/classes
Email: nairobi.tango@patamango.com

BLNRB – Music Videos Launch, Sep 24 2011 @ Goethe-Institut

A first for Kenya – the launch of a full set of music videos accompanying the songs of the memorable BLNRB album of collaborations between Berlin-based electronic musicians and the emerging Kenyan music scene. You can listen to some of the superb tracks on ReverbNation

The Goethe-Institut commissioned music videos for 11 tracks from the album from 11 different film and music video directors such as Hawa Essuman, Boomba Video, Rich Pictures, Circle & Square, Cultural Video Foundation, DYMK, Sam Hopkins, Just A Band, Dream Awake Pro, Studio Ang and Philippa Herrmann. The videos will be screened for the first time on September 24th, mixed by a VJ.
Here is a preview, other videos will be published on YouTube in the coming weeks

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Conceptual Art Exhibition, Sept. 30 2011 @ National Museum

The Embassy of Spain, in collaboration with the Nairobi National Museum, is happy to invite you to the Conceptual Art Exhibition

“The Proud, the Shy and the Angry: many (Hi)Stories, one Museum”.
This event will exhibit the works of the twelve Kenyan artists who have been taking part in the conceptual art workshop by Spanish artist Irene Izquierdo during the last two weeks. This showcase will present a collection of installation and performances specifically designed for this occasion, as the result of an innovative research on contemporary art, museums, collective memory and national identity, among other ideas.

In this event we will discover the original work of Gilbert Ouma, Susan Ngure, Abdilatif Hussein, Noor Jefwa, Zihan Kassam, Paul Mutuku, Anne Mwiti, William S. Ndwiga, Esther Mukuhi, Aggrey Agwata, Alacoque Ntome and Dennis Ruigu Kabucho.

WHEN: 30th September 2011, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
WHERE: Nairobi National Museum, Museum Hill
Free entrance.