Event: A Very Crafty Craft Fair, May 5 2012 @Spring Valley
An invitation to a friendly gathering of creative talents and innovative designers in Kenya featuring works by acclaimed artists Kamal Shah, Angie & Jonathan Scott plus an eclectic variation of work by Unbound Ether Silk…s, Kapoeta Designs by Ambica, Healing Crystals by Sea Garden, Leather Works by Zeebaan, Silver Goods and Accessories by Njee & Pauline, Wicked Tees by Chilli Mango plus much more.
FREE ENTRY
Where: 93B Spring Valley Road, Westlands, Nairobi
When: 9.30am – 4pm, Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Contact 0700-040-998 or 0711-760-240 for more information
Art Exhibit: Nature, Nurture and other Visual meditations – by Miriam Rubino, from May 6 2012 @ UN Recreation Centre
Miriam Rubino is an Argentinean visual artist with over 20 years of experience showcasing quality artworks in diverse international locations. Miriam has a background in Fine Arts, Psychology and Dancing, disciplines that she integrates in a colorful, playful, yet thoughtful manner in her paintings. Her works are part of private collections in Kenya, Italy, Germany, Sweden and the USA, amongst other localities. Miriam has been living and working in Africa for the past 10 years.
This new exhibition features a selection of the latest, semi abstract paintings based on Miriam’s inner work, reflecting on nature, culture and life abundance. This new series of work is vibrant yet collected, intimate yet universal, and its highly visually appealing as well as intellectually stimulating.
Theatre and Performances: Right You Are ( if You Think You Are), May 4-19, 2012 @ Phoenix Players
Phoenix Players & The Italian Institute of Culture present;
Right You Are( if You Think You Are). A situational comedy by Luigi Pirandello directed by Millicent Ogutu
Opening Night: May 4, 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: Phoenix Players, Professional Centre
Dates: May 5-19, 2012
Times: Wed-Fri 7pm, Sat 6pm and Sat 19 (3 & 6pm)
Tickets: Kshs. 650.
Student nights: Every Thursday. Buy 1 ticket @ Ksh. 400 and get 1 Free.
SYNOPSIS
A government official is deployed to a small town where everyone knows everything about everybody! He has, in tow, a wife and his mother-in-law. Peculiarly he houses both women separately and nobody gets to see his wife who is permanently ensconced in a fifth floor apartment. The tongues begin to wag as Pirandello plays on the fickleness of the human being when faced with a situation they do not understand!
Play: The History Box, May 5-20 2012 @ National Museum
Your Broke Husband has no idea you had a secret stash running into the millions. And he stumbles upon your bank statement- You?…#HistoryBox
Wife’s phone is out of charge and so she asks to use your phone to send an urgent text. Just as you give her the phone you receive a text message and she opens it and it reads “Morning Handsome, I got the money. Thanks dear.” You…#HistoryBox
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IskTZpvJrhU]THE HISTORY BOX
Dates: 3 consecutive weekends in May 2012
May 5th & 6th, 12th & 13th, 19th & 20th
Times: (two shows) 3pm and 6 pm
Venue: National museum of Kenya -Louis Leakey hall
Tickets are 500ksh, and they’re available at the National museum of Kenya or at Wakestar bookshop, Koinange Street – next to Bata.
Call 0725 040 951
Written by Seth Busolo
Directed by Sarah Rimbui
Produced by Daisy Busolo
Art Exhibit: African Tales by Paulo Akiiki, May 5-17 2012 @ Banana Hill Art Gallery
Paulo Akiiki is a contemporary African artist-painter, and is widely exhibited both locally and internationally.
Paulo spent most of his youth in his native countryside, a vast area marked by varying bright, dry or lush green plains with dazzling sunlight and spectacular views on huge, shining lakes, light purplish blue skies, hazy hills and dark mountain ranges in the far distance. As a four-year old boy he already started scribbling and drawing on everything he saw.
Later, Paulo pursued Painting, Sculpture and Graphics at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts of the prestigious Makerere University Kampala. He successfully, and with honors, emerged with a Bachelors Degree in Industrial and Fine Arts, in 1998.
Soon after his studies, Akiiki became a productive member of the Uganda Artists Association. He registered his own business, the Ujuzi Art Studios, in his country’s capital Kampala, and has since been practicing from there.
This will be his second exhibition in Kenya, always at Banana Hill.
Art Exhibit: KANGAERU by Yoshinari Nishio & Nishio Workshop Nairobi, May 4-27 2012 @ Le Rustique
Opening Reception in the presence of the artist
4th(Fri), May, 2012. From 6:00pm to 9:00pm.
Dates: From 4th(Fri) to 27th(Sun), May, 2012
Venue: Le Rustique Restaurant, General Mathenge Drive, Westlands, Nairobi
Solo exhibition by contemporary artist Yoshinari Nishio and his artists collective, Nishio Workshop Nairobi.
The exhibition will feature a series of new works titled KANGAERU that were produced through clipping and re-composing different patterns of Kanga during a workshop that took place in Korogocho (Nairobi).
The patterns in different colors were set free from traditional arrangements and rules, thus seeking a new type of order and story by hands of the artist, or by hands of participants of the workshop.
Later on a street intervention was publicly held on Langata road(Nairobi) with street vendors referring to the catwalk of a fashion show.
The documenting photos -taken by James Muriuki – of this performance will be exhibited as well.
Concert: All That Jazz VI With Aaron Rimbui, May 4 2012 @ National Museum
Dates: May 3-4, 2012
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium- National Museums
Time: 8-10pm
Tickets: 1000
Advance Tickets: Ticket Sasa
All That Jazz is bigger and more glamorous than before with a double billing show on Thursday & Friday May 3-4, 2012 at the Louis Leakey auditorium.