Date: March 29, 2012
Venue: Michael Joseph Center
Time: 7.30-9.30pm
Tickets: Kshs 400
Ma3 (Maa-Three) is a 6-piece, quirky Afro Pop band from Nairobi. This single Beba Beba is from their debut EP.
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Goethe-Institut Kenya is carrying out a Short Survey regarding the Cultural Events it organizes.
With your participation in this short survey, you’ll assist GI in the improvement of their cultural program to match with your needs regarding future cultural events they undertake.
Dates: March 21-April 4, 2012
Survey link: https://www.soscisurvey.de/goethe-institut-kenya/
NB:There will be a raffle for 5 BLNRB-Welcome to the Madhouse Cds, as well as 10 BLNRB T-shirts among all participants.
Media Focus on Africa invites you to the last Media Roundtable of the fora’s second season that began on August 30, 2011. It will be held on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at Alliance Francaise, Nairobi between 12.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Entrance: Free
TOPIC: Media and Ethnicity: The role of the media in tackling ethnicity during elections?
PANELISTS
-Dr. Mzalendo Kibunjia, Chairperson of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC)
-Ms. Christine Nguku, Chair of Alternative Media Network and GM, Sifa FM stations
-Karambu Ringera (PhD), Founder and President, International Peace initiatives (IPI)
-Mr. Alex Chamwada, Associate Editor, Royal Media Services
Moderator: Kwamchetsi Makokha, a Media Consultant
For more information, visit www.kenyamediaroundtables.org
Slum Drummers are a group of guys coming from Waithaka, Dagoretti. They use music as a mean for raising community awareness on the life in the slums and to involve street children in the programme of psychosocial support run by Italian NGO GRT.
Tickets 500ksh,
Students, children, musicians, disabled people, CBOs members: 250ksh
Music for Passiontide: Thurs 29 March, St Francis Church, Ngong Road (just before the turning onto Karen Road) Karen, 7:30pm
This concert will feature choral music written in the 16th, 17th and 20th centuries to be sung in Holy Week. It will be sung by an amateur chamber group led by Stuart Tibbs. The main work is the setting of the St John Passion by Heinrich Schutz (English translation) written sixty years before the Bach version. Schutz’s Passion is a beautiful, dramatic and moving account of events from Jesus’ arrest in the Garden of Gethsamane up to his Crucifixion. Jamie Munn will sing the Evangelist, Stuart Tibbs will sing the parts of the characters.
The programme will start with Maurice Durufle’s setting of Ubi Caritas et Amor, a hymn for Maundy Thursday and the last supper. Then there will be two settings of psalms associated with Lent: a plainchant version of Psalm 22; and Allegri’s famous version of Psalm 51 – Miserere Mei. After the Schutz, the concert will finish with a short but stunning 8-part setting by Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus.
Tickets (KSh 200) will only be available on the door. The church can seat at least 300 people; seats will be allocated first come first served.
Artist: KEVIN ODUOR
Exhibition Title: ‘Existence’
OPENING: Wednesday, March 28th, 6pm. Kuona Trust Gallery (Beer and Wine available)
Exhibition Dates: March 29th – April 10th
Venue: Kuona Trust, Centre for Visual Arts. Likoni Close, off Denis Pritt, Hurlingham.
For those of you not inclined to artistic practice but still possess a curiosity about art and creativity, this exhibition will send your mind on a tangent of questions that will leave you wanting to know more. Questions about being human; about being alive! What is the thing about a thing that makes it a thing? Is it its form, its material, or our experience of it – our human perception?
Renowned sculptor, Kevin Oduor investigates the form of the everyday object resulting in conceptual installations that will leave you questioning ‘existence.’ His delicate aesthetic tells a story of French rococo elegance, adding a feminine temperance to the flow of drapery caught in time. This process and concept is something never explored by a Nairobi-based sculptor and Oduor stands out as pioneer in the field of three dimensional expression. Having practiced for twenty years now, he has worked primarily on commissions but has had ideas brewing in his mind. Finally they are out and for all to see. This exhibition is site to behold!
Kevin Oduor – the artist behind the statue of Dedan Kimathi in Nairobi’s CBD has over twenty years’ experience as a sculptor. He started off as a painter after high school, his love for art was inflamed when he met the late Ruth Schaffner of Gallery Watatu, who mentored him to the world of art. Twenty years on Kevin has become a mentor of note himself.
Kevin draws inspiration from human nature and from throughout the animal kingdom. He would like to give people the opportunity to see nature as he perceives it. Kevin has done numerous commissions and has had several successful international works; one of the most recent being in Saragossa in Spain. Other pieces as he puts ‘are all over’ he recalls fondly a life size buffalo in the Meru National Park, a commission to commemorate the eradication of a disease epidemic that had been attacking cows and buffalos. He uses fiber glass, metal and found objects having initially started his career working in clay.
