Opera: The Marriage of Figaro, Oct 24-30 2012 @ multiple venues in Nairobi

 

An all Kenyan production of Mozart’s fun, delightful and rather naughty opera ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ set to be performed from the 24th to the 30th of October. The performance will be sung in English and the cast includes among others Philip Tuju as Figaro, Julia Njoroge as Susanna and Ian Mbugua as the philandering Count! It really will be a wonderful event that you shouldn’t miss. 
 
Choose your date and venue from the various venues below. There is something for all pockets. All bookings need to be made through Edita Camm on editacamm@gmail.com. More details in the flyer.

Wednesday October 24th
Muthaiga Country Club matinee at 2.30 p.m.Ksh 1,800 and 2,200 only for Members and their guest

Thursday October 25th 
Muthiaga Country Club evening at 6.30 p.m. Ksh 2,400 and 2,600 only for Members and their guests
Saturday October 27th
Kenya National Theatre, evening at 6.00 p.m. Ksh 700 for adults and Ksh 400  for students
 
Sunday October 28th 
Kenya National Theatre, matinee at 2.00 p.m. Ksh 700 for adults and Ksh 400 for students
Tuesday October 30th 
Brookhouse Theatre in Langata, at 7.00 p.m. Ksh 1,500 for adults and Ksh 500 for students

Concert: Mathewmatix House of Jazz, Oct 30 2012 @ Goethe-Institut


Tuesday, 30.10.2012, 6.30 pm @Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Entrance: 200 KSh

Mathewmatix House of Jazz is a unique event that features live performances by independent music artists. By providing a platform as well as offering opportunities for the advancement of independent music, it also presents an exceptional intimate acoustic and interactive atmosphere. Besides, bands and artists from different parts of Nairobi’s diverse Jazz scene will be brought together, hence creating a unique mixture never seen before.
The evening showcases a mixture of rich musical content, staging Stan and Band 254. The individual artists will be highlighted, thus giving the audience an opportunity to focus on the individual strengths and skills.

Organised by Mathew Rabala

Funded Training in Digital Creative Media – apply by Oct 25

Training opportunity: digital creative media. Fully funded training opportunity for youth interested in digital creative media!

GESCI is launching an innovative training program focused on the development of digital creative media skills, together with a team of tutors from Nairobi and the Irish School of Animation at Ballyfermot College of Further Education. The training program runs for three months and covers four areas of digital media production: * Animation * Graphical design * Development of games and mobile apps * Creative sound production

More information: http://gesci.org/fully-funded-digital-media-training-opportunity-for-kenyan-youth.html

Course dates: 1st of November 2012 – 8th of February 2013 Deadline for applications: 25th of October 2012

Pamoja Dance Group Presents Elephant Stories, Oct 23 2012 @ Alliance Francaise

23rd October at 7pm @ Alliance Francaise
charges: 1000 adults, children and students with id 500

The main characters of the dance piece,Elephant stories, are in fact not elephants at all but rather village story tellers. The dancers tell the story of the present day situation of elephants in Kenya and many other places in Africa and like the traditional story teller who plays many roles in order to tell his tale, the Pamoja dancers, while dancing the part of the story teller, at times physically transform themselves into elephants, at other times poachers or park rangers.
Elephants are in danger and their story needs to be told. To see Pamoja, an integrated dance company, tell this tale through dance and movement is an experience like no other. It is beautiful, disturbing and most important here and now.

Pawa Salon by: Pro-photographer Riccardo Gangale, Oct. 24 2012 @ Pawa254 Hub


Date: October 24, 2012
Venue: Pawa254 Hub
Time: 4.30 – 7.30pm
Entry: Free

Biography
After scientific studies and two years of political sciences, Riccardo attended a three year masters program in professional photography in Rome. In 2002, while still studying for the FAO program, Riccardo came to Africa for two weeks in Ethiopia. Since then he has worked as a freelancer in South Africa – covering the Landless People Struggle, in Rwanda and Congo, covering the withdrawal of Rwandan troops and Gacaca process, Algeria, reporting the conditions of the Casbah in Algiers and daily life in Sahara desert.

In 2003 he started working as a Freelancer for Associated Press as a correspondent from the Great Lakes region based I Kigali but covered Congo, Burundi, Uganda and Kenya. He has worked on assignments for UNICEF, WFP, WHO Global Fund, UNHCR and his work has been published by New York Times, Times Magazine, The Times, The Guardian, Liberation, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, The Washington Post and many others.

He has done commercial work for Hotel Milles Collines – Kigali, The Memling – Congo, The Volcanoes Safari Lodge – Rwanda and Uganda, Golden Tulip – Accra & Kumasi and in Campanile Hotels and Tulip Inn in Spain and Italy.

To sample some of his work, be sure to check out his web portfolio: http://www.riccardogangale.com/