Film Screening: La Bellezza del Somaro (Love & Slaps), Jul. 4 2012 @ Italian Institute of Culture

Directed by: Sergio Castilitto
Starring: Sergio Castellitto, Laura Morante and Enzo Jannacci
Year of production: 2010
Genre: Comedy
Running time: 107 minutes
Language: Italian with English subtitles

It was to be a relaxed weekend in the country for Marcello and Marina – he an architect, she a psychologist, two modern, enlightened fifty-year-olds – if their daughter Rosa, 16, rebellious and spoiled, hadn’t decided to bring her new boyfriend home.
Marcello and Marina prepare to meet their daughter’s new love, but they’re unaware of what (and who) awaits them…
In a weekend of extraordinary madness, besieged by a hoard of friends on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Marcello and Marina see their non-conformist convictions suddenly topple.
A hilarious, modern-day comedy centred on the generation gap between two parents who don’t want to grow old and a seventeen-year-old daughter who wants to become an adult.

Italian Institute of Culture
Wednesday, 4th July 2012

Film starts at 6.30pm

Party: Fashion Lounge, Jul. 19 2012 @ Cockpit Lounge

Fashion lounge brings together diverse talents in The Kenyan fashion design industry in an unparalleled show.

showcasing the best in urban, couture and glamor fashion purely brought to you by Kenyan designers and industry players.

The Fashion lounge provides a unique shopping experience and a networking chance with both aspirants and veterans in the vast Kenyan fashion field from re known Designers, supermodels, Fashion bloggers, stylists,to Hair and make up artists and the fashion forward Kenyans.

advance Ticket : 300 Kshs
Gate Charges : 500 Kshs

advance tickets out on 9th July 2012 at selected outlets across Nairobi

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2nd Edition of Slum Film Festival, Aug. 6-13 2012 @ Kibera & Mathare


Dates: August 6-13, 2012
Venue: Kibera & Mathare
Locations/Directions
Kibera Slum Location-Kamukunji Grounds, near Olympic Stage, Kibera Drive. [From downtown Nairobi: bus 32 from Kencom, or 8 from Railways]

Mathare Slum Location-Mabatini Grounds. near Mathare Road. [From downtown Nairobi: bus 46, from Tom Mboya street]

For more information visit the SFF Web-blog: www.slumfilmfestival.org

About SFF
The Slum Film Festival (SFF) is an innovative community-based film event, featuring stories from, by, and about people living in urban slums everywhere.

This edition of the festival will also incorporates film training workshops and art classes.

Creativez Meetup: Connected Creatives, Jul. 8 2012 @ GoDown Arts Centre


Venue: The GoDown Arts Centre
Location: Intersection of Lusaka rd & Dunga Rd, Industrial Area. Google Map
Time: 2-5pm
Entry: Free

Speakers: Buddha Blaze, Ngwatilo , Wamathai & Simon Gachui

About
For the first time ever – at the GoDown Arts Centre is the Creativez Meetup on “Connected Creatives” – a 2 part series boasting a panel of connected game-changers from various industries- all whose brand, exploits and social capital is due to their social connectivity (offline and online).
You will hear how a small network-if harnessed can help grow your business and sustain it for years to come.
You will learn how online connectivity is changing the shape and way we do business and that in this day and age, traditional values like “trust, work-are key in building these bridges. We also will explore the wealth and possiblies as well as open you to the potential channels you can use to advance yourself further.

Why attend?
If you’re curious about buzzwords like “Social media”, “networking”, “influence” and “Social Wealth”.

This is also valuable for professionals looking at newer ways and frontiers of doing business, gaining global recognition, sharing ideas and creating wealth.
Plus, the venue [for those who have NOT been at the GoDown this is a unique chance of seeing one of Nairobi’s Premier Art centres]

Seminar: Mungiki Workshop, Jul. 9 2012 @ BIEA


Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa
Location: Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 8.30am – 12.15pm
Entry: RSVP with seminars@biea.ac.uk

SYNOPSIS
Even after disbanding itself in 2010, the proscribed Mungiki group seemingly remains an important factor in Kenyan society and politics. With regular appearances in the media, with the ICC trials going ahead and the Kenyan elections close on the horizon, this half-day workshop interrogates the role which the Mungiki plays in contemporary Kenya. Building on earlier and on-going research, the workshop assembles prominent Kenyan and international researchers who work on various aspects of the Mungiki.

The workshop is jointly convened by
The British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi
Mutuma Rutere (The Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies, Nairobi) and
André Sonnichsen (The Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen)

* Cartoon by Gado