Family/Outdoor Event: Kid’s Festival, Aug. 11 2012 @ Carnivore


Date: August 11, 2012
Venue: Carnivore
Time: 10am-5pm
Tickets: Kids Kshs 300 and Adults Kshs 200

About
This year, the Kids Festival August Edition, is set to celebrate talents in kids with the bigger focus on their musical talents…established musicians will inspire, guide, encourage, and sing along, dance along, play along these talented kids.

They include the following great Musicians: Billian Music Family, Emmy Kosgei, Jimmy Gait, Mad Traxx, Nameless, Suzanna Owiyo, Wyre, Yunasi and others

Also tagging along will be the great comedians Churchill, Eric Omondi, Ayeiiiyah! Mc Jessy, Chipukeezy, Jalango, amongst others

There will be various fun and learning activities, tented area which has activities such as: Drawing, face painting, essay writing, radio & TV talent search, Interactive games and a huge Kids concert held at the centre stage, with some talented kids singing and dancing along the stars.

For more information check the Facebook event page

Exhibition: In House Talanta, Ends Aug. 31 2012 @ National Museum

Dates: Ends August 31, 2012
Venue: National Museum of Kenya, Creativity Gallery
Entry: Museum Rates Apply

About
This is an exhibition by employees of the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). This is the first time that NMK is showcasing it’s own talented employees who are otherwise known by their regular titles as Doctors, Researchers, Exhibits designers, Scientists, Curators, Technicians, Secretaries and others.

Artistic skills on show range from painting, photography, installation, taxidermy, fashion…

Annual Munene Arts Exhibition, Aug. 6-19 2012 @ National Museum

The NMK is celebrating art in all its diversity through paintings, editorial cartoons and portraits.

Opening Date: August 6, 2012
Venue: National Museum of Kenya, Temporary Gallery
Time: 3pm

Exhibition Dates: August 7-19, 2012
Entry: Museum Rates Apply

Munene is one of Kenya’s leading cartoonists. He currently works with the Standard Newspaper.
This is his first solo exhibition.

Forum: Beyond the Music feat Juliani & Ian Kamau, Aug. 8 2012 @Pawa254 Hub


Date: August 8, 2012
Venue: Pawa254 Hub
Time: 4.30-7pm
Entry: Free

Beyond the Music is a special forum where musicians get to share their work and life in and outside music. Its all about inspiritation and intimacy. It is all about meeting the musician and how they engage their passion. The inaugural instalation will feature Juliani and Canadian hip hop sensation Ian Kamau.

For more information visit the event Facebook page

Watch Juliani’s documentary
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Talk: Violence, Stress & Mortality in Northern Kenya, Aug. 8, 2012 @ BIEA


Date: August 8, 2012
Venue: British Institute of East Africa
Time: 11am-12.30pm
Entry: RSVP seminars@biea.ac.uk

Abstract
The paper reports on a project documenting the embodied impacts of violence in three pastoralist communities chronically at war with one another – the Pokot, Samburu, and Turkana.
Data was collected beginning in November, 2008 and concluding in August, 2011 using a mixed-methods approach that included participant-observation, open-ended interview, survey, health recall, mental health stress screen, and anthropometrics (BMI, skin fold thickness).
The paper will present a portion of the mental health and anthropometric findings in their ethnographic context with discussion focused particularly on the most vulnerable groups by age, gender, and community.
Presenter: Bilinda Straight

Contributors: Bilinda Straight (1) Ivy Pike (2) Charles Hilton (3)

1 Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI
2 University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ
3 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Holiday Drama Camp, Aug 13-17 2012 @ Kenya National Theatre

Helen O’Grady Drama Academy (www.dramaafrica.com) announces its Holiday Drama Camp from August 13-17 at Kenya National Theatre for ages 3-16. Students will produce a musical in a week, taught by the academy’s specialist teachers and will star in a public performance on Friday 17th at Kenya National Theatre. Limited places available. For more information, please contact their office on 0721 955 308 or email harun@dramaafrica.com.