Creatives Garage: Portfolio Review Hangout, Jul. 20 2012 @Pawa254


The Creatives Garage is a platform meant for Creatives in Kenya to share ideas, meet and network.

On the 20th of July the Creatives Garage will have a Portfolio Review Hangout at Pawa254 hub from 5-7pm.

The six creatives sharing their portfolios are:

1. James Wamathai, a poet, creative connector and online publisher
2. Daphine Okonji, Interior Designer at Elle Interior Designs
3. Cynthia Ogona, poet and radio presenter
4. Macrine Kajuma, Graphics Designer at Ciala Design House
5. Mercy Ngumi of Zawaditele and
6. Connie Aluoch, fashion stylist

The MC for the evening: Muthoni Gathecha

Contacts: twitter @thecreativesg or join/like them on Facebook for more details.

About portfolio Reviews
These are events to whose main mission is to empower Creative Professionals around the world, it is an in-person critique event where six local Creatives present original work and receive feedback from an audience of peers.
The events main purpose is to engage in career boosting conversations, gather creative insights and discover inspiring works.

Mario Macilau photography presentation, Jul. 12 2012 @Pawa254


Kuona Trust invites you to a presentation by one of Africa’s leading photographers. Mario Macilau winner of the KL and 2011 Protection Project award at Pawa254 Hub.

Date: July 12, 2012
Time: 4:30-7:00pm
Venue: Pawa 254, YMCA building.
Location: State House Crescent

About
Mário Macilau was born in the newly independent Mozambique, in the midst of the most critical phase of its civil war in 1984. His family struggled financially and moved from the Inhambane province to the capital, Maputo, in search of a better life. When he was 10 years old he began to work in a small market frequented by the middle / upper class, washing cars in the car park and helping to carry the groceries in an effort to support his family.

Macilau started his journey as photographer in 2003 and engaged to professional level when he traded his mother’s cell phone for his first camera in 2007. He specializes in long-term projects focus on living and environmental condition over the time and in his home country he use to confronting the realism of power, environment and cultural heritage that affect the socially isolated groups and issues that define our times.

Download Mario Macilau Profile

Theater & Performances: Three Fold Cord, Jul. 6-21 2012 @ Phoenix Players


Phoenix Players Present 3 Fold Cord.
Directed by Millicent Ogutu

Dates: Runs until 21st July 2012.

Tickets: Ksh. 650. Student nights Every Thursday. Buy 1 ticket @ Ksh. 400 and get 1 Free.

SYNOPSIS
Marcus Pennington appears to have it all: a beautiful actress wife, Victoria, two loving daughters and a successful career as a respected senior lawyer. But behind the façade he is leading a triple life, romancing two other women: Dexie, a prostitute, and Millicent, the widow of his best friend, now his PA. In a series of highly engaging monologues, Victoria Dexie and Millicent tell Marcus’ story from three very different perspectives.

Preoccupied and detached, Victoria is seemingly oblivious to his indiscretions – and guilty of her own, but regards him with fond indulgence. Shy, Self deprecating Millicent can’t help but be taken in by the promise of romance and passion that was lacking in her marriage. Dexie hopes that Marcus will provide a route out of poverty – all the more necessary after she gives birth to his illegitimate son.

Exhibition: Works by Omosh Kindeh, Wilson Mwangi & John Silver, Jul. 7-Aug. 5 2012 @ Le Rustique


Dates: July 7- August 5, 2012
Venue: Le Rustique

Works by: Omosh Kindeh, Wilson Mwangi and John Silver

About
Omosh Kindeh is 31 years old. He lives in Nairobi and works as a sculptor and painter. The work on view at Le Rustique is part of his most recent paintings.His source of inspiration purely comes from the society, his habitat and Nairobi, depicting human variations, their nature and behaviors. He particularly like the sense of aesthetics that comes from particular buildings, their lines and angles which are very often broken by the curves of human bodies in an attempt to express the thin line between our habitat and our identity

Wilson Mwangi was born in Nairobi in 1976 and attended Muhoro Sec School for the Deaf (NYERI) in which he passed his national examination. His sense of composition made of clear cut lines combined with contrasted colors make each of Wilson’s painting look like a jigsaw puzzle where the imbrications of animals, landscapes, symbols play a special role to make each work coherent despite the number of elements.

John Silver is a self taught artist. His woodcuts prints have found their way to several institutions, among others the Victoria and Albert Collection in London. John’s prints have a dream-like quality, full of colour, texture and fantasy.

Play: Trap For A Lonely Man, until Jul 15 2012 @ Alliance Francaise

TRAP FOR A LONELY MAN! 6-15 July at Alliance Francaise: A distraught man is explaining the circumstances of the disappearance of his wife, only three months after their marriage, to a police inspector. The couple had a row, he wants her found. When a priest turns up bringing the wife with him, the story takes another turn and then twists again for the husband says this woman is a stranger and not his wife at all. The husband calls the police and the inspector returns. What is he to believe? Is this a man with some psychological problem or is she an impostor posing as his wife with the connivance of the priest?

As the plot develops, through one twist after another into murder and corruption, the situation escalates with the husband grasping at new hopes of proving he’s the victim of a criminal plot and not mad…so who is the killer? Packed full of suspense and intrigue, with a killer final twist, TRAP FOR A LONELY MAN is a really gripping psychological thriller and the audience stays riveted to the very end when the astonishing denouement is revealed. A real treat for any evening!! Directed by Mbeki Mwalimu and produced by Abuto Eliud, Trap for a Lonely Man stars Andrew Muthure, Derrick Amunga, Liz Ngugi, Nice Githinji, Joe Kinyua and Davis Nato

Adults @500 Bob! Students @400 Bob

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