Welcome to the Conservatoire’s End of Term Concert. It features this term’s best students on piano, guitar, violin, voice and also features the Conservatoire Orchestra.
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Time: 3pm
Adults and children above 12 : Kes 300
Children below 12: Kes 200
Enquiries: 0720 96 22 88, 0726 03 08 36
programmes@conservatoire.co.ke
ENO announces Mini Operas, a world-wide, online search for composers, writers and film makers that will seek out emerging opera talent of the future from across the world. Three competitions to find future stars of all the components of creating an opera will be launched online allowing everyone to submit entries for one or more categories.
Live from 26 March 2012, this groundbreaking and innovative worldwide search for new talent will seek to create the future of opera. The hunt for exciting visionaries will take place entirely online in conjunction with Mini Operas partners: Vimeo, Soundcloud, BFI, British Council, Classic FM, Sound and Music and The London Film School.
The competition will run in three rounds dedicated to each discipline with renowned talent judging the entries. Artists with strong connections to ENO; Will Self, Terry Gilliam and Nico Muhly, will judge submissions for each relevant category. One participant will provide inspiration for the next as each round will be activated by ten final entries from the previous stage.
Existing and budding writers will be invited to create a script based on three example story lines, provided by Will Self, AL Kennedy and Neil Gaiman. Later in the year, the ten scriptwriter finalists will be put forward and composers will have the opportunity to compose an original score to these unique stories. From here, ten composer finalists will be picked by composer Nico Muhly and ENO Music Director Edward Gardner. The competition will then open up for film makers to construct their vision for the complete Mini Opera. The film section will be judged by film legend and director of ENO’s The Damnation of Faust, Terry Gilliam.
Terry Gilliam said, ‘Opera is really, really hard to do well. I know. I want people to find it out for themselves. I’ll be judging, and I want to find future stars who can work with this ridiculous, stupefying, insane, wonderful artform. Good on ENO for trying to find anyone mad enough to have a go.’
The finale to the contest will take place at the BFI, in autumn 2012. Terry Gilliam will pick one winner from each category. Selected films, scripts and soundtracks will be showcased at the event, and one person from each category will be chosen to be mentored by leaders in their field: BAFTA Award winning composer, writer and director Jeremy Sams, who has worked extensively in theatre both in the UK and New York and whose credits include Chitty The Musical, Amour, and The Water Babies; Composer Nico Muhly, whose opera Two Boys was premiered at ENO last year; and Leo Warner, whose productions include Waves and War Horse at the National Theatre and who has also produced work for the National Theatre of Scotland and the Metropolitan Opera.
For further information please contact: Liz Barrett, Head of Press on 02078459261 or ebarrett@eno.org
Fern Poetry and the Africa Sanaelimu art Ensemble in collaboration with Consolation East Africa have come together under the Kenya Blue Heart Grassroots Initiative (KBHGI) and developed a play titled ‘A Blue Heart; Joy’s story’, to create awareness on human trafficking. The play is about Joy, a young girl who goes to live with her aunt after her parent’s unfortunate demise, giving birth to a gripping saga. A Blue Heart; Joy’s story brings together narration, poetry, music and dance. Bernard Muhia from Fern Poetry has written the poems in the play while Mike Kasongo from Africa Sanaelimu Art Ensemble has choreographed the dances and the music. The music is from traditional African drums beaten to a perfect rhythm to reflect the various moods of the play.This play has already been featured on the United Nations (UN) website http://www.ungift.org/knowledgehub/stories/february2012/blue-heart-campaign-inspiring-artists-in-kenya.html.
Charges are Kshs. 200 for high school students with a school ID and Kshs. 500 for adults. For tickets kindly call Noella on 0751198280 or El Poet/Akil on 0700393931. 5% of proceeds from this play will go to the Kenya Red Cross and another 5% will go towards creating more awareness in informal schools.
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/330143027022068/
Twitter: @ABlueHeart_Joy – hashtag: #BlueHeartKe.
For more info: http://www.bernardmuhia.com and http://sanalimu.org
The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) announces The BAKE Blog Awards, in a bid to reward exceptional bloggers and to also promote content creation in Kenya. The idea is to recognize bloggers that post consistently, have great and useful content, and are creative and innovative.
There will be a submission phase starting March 15th where blogs will be nominated in 14 categories below.
Though there is no specific arts & entertainment section, feel free to nominate Nairobi Now – maybe under Best General Blog! 🙂
1. Best Technology Blog
Blogs that cover tech matters like social media, internet usage, consumer electronics, mobile phones, tech startups etc.
2. Best Photography Blog
Blogs that showcase original photos or have photography related content.
3. Best Creative Writing Blog
Blogs that feature original creative writing in the form of poetry, fiction and essays.
4. Best Business Blog
Blogs that feature business content like business development, entrepreneurship, startups, stocks, investments, banking etc
5. Best Food Blog
Blogs that focus on food, cooking tips, restaurants, wines and recipes
6. Best Agriculture Blog
Blogs that focus on Farming, marketing of agricultural produce, and environmental impact of climate change
7. Best Fashion Blog
Blogs that highlight current trends in Fashion as well as personal grooming, fashion shows
8. Best Politics Blog
Blogs that cover political issues in Kenya.
9. Best New Blog
Outstanding Blogs that were set up from March 24th 2011 onwards.
10. Best Corporate Blog
Blogs run by companies.
11. Best General Blog
Blogs that features content that is exceptional but doesn’t don’t fit into any of the other 13 categories.
12. Best Sports Blog
Blogs that feature sports content.
13. Tweep of the Year – Individual
The best individual twitter user in Kenya.
14. Tweep of the Year – Corporate
The best corporate twitter user in Kenya.
The submission phase will run until March 29th and then judges will choose their best 5 in each category. The judges will be drawn from the media and the blogging community. After the judges pick their best 5 in each category, they will then be voted for by the public from April 10th. The winners in each category will be announced at a gala event on April 28th.
For more details about the BAKE Blog Awards visit http://bloggers.or.ke , the awards website, or email awards@bloggers.or.ke.
TEDx – A Gathering for Curious Minds
When? Every Saturday, 10am (for 10:30) to 12:00pm.
Where? Austin Room, Braeburn School, Gitanga Road, Lavington
Why? This TEDx event gives parents, teachers, students and the larger community a glimpse into our collective future and a space to engage in open, exploratory dialogue, to understand the world our children will live in and to explore creative ways to adapt to it.
This Week’s Theme: The Character of Innovations
Talks 1: http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell.html
Talk 2: http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation.html
Hosted by: Handerson Mwandembo
Celebrated painter Eric Salisbury is making his Kenyan debut in an exhibition dubbed ‘Pure’. The special benefit art event/ reception featuring about 100 of Eric’s splendid art works will be held at the Paa ya Paa Arts Centre on Sunday, March the 18th starting 2pm.
Eric’s art is a celebration of life and living– vibrant, energetic, rich, moving, colorful, eclectic, spirited and sometimes whimsical but always inspirational. The exhibition is a ‘Pure’ inspiration from his passion for teaching children, as well as adults the joy of creating their own freedom of expression through art.
His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world. He’s also created posters and murals in Ghana, Uganda and at Seattle International Children’s Festival among others like the Rainier Valley Heritage, Sundiata Eastside Community Street Fair, and Jazz in the Park series –Seattle. He will also be creating a community mural for the 2012 Olympics in the UK.
Art work on display will also be available for sale at modest prices starting from at least $18.00 USD. 50% of all the proceeds will go into supporting kids from Nyumbani children’s home. Join us in putting a smile on the faces of orphaned children/ those affected by HIV.
The reception will also see Eric give a special talk/ lead a Q&A session themed after his slogan ‘Positive Art Does Wonders for the Heart’. Feel free to provide coverage.
Contact Anyiko Owoko +25471368983/ Philda Njau +25433270109
Also visit www.ericsalisbury.com/ www.nyumbani.org
Paa Ya Paa Arts Centre
Paa Ya Paa Lane
Ridgeways road, off Kiambu road
Nairobi, Kenya.
