FilmAid Film Festival, Jun 21 2012 @ Goethe-Institut

FilmAid Film Festival on Thursday, 21st June 2012

Screening 1 – 4pm: Two short refugee films and feature film Welcome to Shelbyville
Screening 2 – 7pm: Two short refugee films and feature film Africa United

Goethe-Institute Auditorium
No. 3, Monrovia Street
Maendeleo House, Nairobi
Free Entry

For more information on FilmAid: www.FilmAid.org

FilmAid has been screening films in Kenya’s refugee camps since 2001, and producing local content in Kakuma and Dadaab for almost as long. Through a filmmaker training program FilmAid provides young refugees with the resources to tell their own stories in their own voices.

The FilmAid Film Festival showcases films produced in the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps by refugee filmmakers. These short documentaries and dramas offer a powerful insight into life in the camps, which are collectively home to well over half a million individuals.

In 2012 the FilmAid Film Festival screens local and international films in Kakuma, Dadaab and Nairobi, bringing the world of cinema to the refugee community, and refugee stories to a wider Kenyan audience. Founded in 1999 during the Balkan crisis by award-winning producer Caroline Baron (Capote, Monsoon Wedding), FilmAid uses the power of film and media to transcend language and literacy, bringing life-saving information, psychological relief and much-needed hope to refugees and other communities in need around the globe.

Exhibition: Tranquil Waters, May 6-Jun. 30 2012 @ National Museum Creative Gallery


Tranquil Waters is a painting exhibition by Lake Basin Art Group (LBAG). This exhibition is currently running at the Nairobi National Museums’ Creative Gallery till June 30, 2012.
Entry: Museum rates apply

About
The Lake Basin Art Group (LBAG), is a unique group of artists who come from the lake region, Western part of Kenya.
The group has an amazing blend of numerous talent, from painting, sculptures, installations, jewelry, dancing, photography, interior designing, graphic designing, printing and basically everything that involves creativity. LBAG is fortunate to have established, emerging students and upcoming artists as members from both genders.

The Lake region is known for its rich culture, traditions, folklore, the ever amazing scenery, social and economical activities that influence and inspire most of our works, from the Lake Victoria, Fisherman, Bodaboda, Kit Mikaye, Lwanda Magere, Hyacinth, Ohangla, Kisii Soap stone and the list is endless, hence the never ending variety of our creations.

LBAG have successfully had group exhibitions across the country. They have exhibited in Kisumu at the Kisumu Museum, and in Nairobi at Aga Khan hall, Mwangaza Art school, Nairobi National Museum and the Village Market.