Nairobi Live: Kombo & Afro Simba Band, Jul. 11 2013 @ Tree House
Nairobi Live at Tree House Club Nairobi presents Kombo & Afro Simba Band
Date: July 11, 2013
Venue: Tree House, Museum Hill
Time: 8.30 – onwards
Entry: Free
Play: Attack of The Shidas, Jul. 21 2013 @ Michael Joseph Centre
The Theatre Company of Kenya, in collaboration with Story Moja, has created a live performance of the book ‘The Attack of the Shidas-AKAS Save Planet Earth’ by Muthoni Muchemi.
Date: July 21, 2013
Venue: Michael Joseph Centre, Safaricom House, Waiyaki Way.
Time: 2 pm and 4 pm
Tickets: 400 Ksh in advance. At the gate the tickets all cost 500 Ksh. Tickets can be booked via MPesa on 0722554372.
Attack Of The Shidas is about children from different communities in Kenya who realize that the only way to save their community, that is being threatened by a disastrous water shortage, is by overcoming their differences. The play is a great mixture of music, dance and theatre. As Kenyans from all ages will recognise the theme of the play, it is also a real family performance; so bring your children! Language used is a mixture of English and Swahili.
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/67944498 w=500&h=281]Attack of The Shidas from Kashuo Bennett on Vimeo.
The Theatre Company brings you Kenyan talent, professionally trained at facilities around the country in performances created by Kenyan writers. Come and be inspired by this lively play.
Comedy: Birthday Suite, Jul. 19-21 2013 @ Alliance
Dates: July 19-21, 2013
Venue: Alliance Francaise Auditorium
Tickets: Kshs 500
Synopsis
The potential for comic mayhem: Take two adjoining hotel suites, add two couples, both on extremely nervous blind dates, contrive that they each somehow meet the wrong partner, and complicate matters with an excitable room waiter whose mission in life is to encourage romance wherever it might spark, and you have the recipe for an evening of chaotic entanglements and unlikely liaisons which constantly teeters on the edge of disaster.
For bookings/Mpesa-0726524124/0728130134 zap: 0734524124 or call 0202025811 fcakenya@gmail.com
Concert: Queen Mashie at Tamambo, Jul. 13 2013 @ Tamambo Village Market
Queen Mashie at Tamambo Village Market
Date & Time: Saturday 13th July from 8.30 pm
Free entry
Exhibition: Sudanese Vision by Yassir Ali & Fawaz Elsaid, Jul. 13-31 2013 @ National Museum
Venue: National Museum
Time: 11 am – 4 pm
Entry: Free
Yassir Ali is a Sudanese artist who is currently living in Nairobi, Kenya. A graduate of Fine Art from Sudan University for Science and Technology, Yassir is a member of the Almada Art Group, Union for Sudanese Artists and Kuona Trust. He is also involved in many projects for Sudanese children. Yassir is inspired by Nubian culture and motifs and his art is easily identified by eye-catching forms and colour. He has been exhibiting actively internationally.
Fawaz Elsaid was born in Sudan, and graduated from the College of Fine Art at Sudan University in 2004. He too is currently at Kuona Trust. He has participated in art workshops at the French Cultural Center in Khartoum and exhibits his work in Sudan as well as abroad.
Naipolitans: The Day We Catch the Train, Jul. 12 2013, @ Nairobi Railways Museum & Station
This month, Naipolitans forum will be about experiencing firsthand one of Nairobi’s newer urban developments – the Nairobi-Syokimau commuter rail service.
Date: Friday July 12, 2013
Time: 3.30-7.30 pm
RSVP: naipolitans@gmail.com
Schedule
3.30-5 pm: Visit Nairobi Railway Museum
5.30-7.30 pm: Ride the Nairobi-Syokimau train
Launched in November 2012, the Kenya Railways Corporation is extremely proud of this “jam rescue” service as it saves commuters hours sitting in the traffic along the infamous Mombasa Road, especially during rush hour. In Nairobi, where traffic is the stuff war stories are made of, a two-hour plus commute has been reduced to a comfortable 30 mins.
Not only does public transportation benefit the people who use it, it also benefits society as a whole by fostering more livable communities. It encourages economic and social activities and helps create strong neighbourhood centres that are economically stable, safe, and productive. When commuters ride public transportation or walk, contact with neighbours tends to increase, ultimately helping to bring a community together.
Come join in the experience of riding the first of many projects aimed at improving the city’s public transportation system, and by extension, Nairobi’s communities.
Restricted by the train schedule, the evening activity will be structured as follows:
4:00-5:00pm – Meet at the Nairobi Railway Museum and learn about the railway that was the catalyst to the evolution of Nairobi City.
5:30pm – Meet at the Nairobi Railway Station to buy return tickets (130/=) and prepare for trip. Look out for the group on the train platform with a Naipolitans sign. Call Sheila (0726-177767) or Njeri (0737-791113) if you cannot find the group.
5:50-6:20pm – Train ride to Syokimau
6:45-7:15pm – Train ride back to Nairobi
7:15-7:30pm – Conclusion of forum
As participation is voluntary, please note that you are taking part at your own risk. Naipolitans cannot take responsibility should there be any mishaps during the trip.
Play: Run for your Wife! Jul. 12-14 2013 @ Alliance
Dates: July 12-14, 2013
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Tickets: Kshs 500
Synopsis
A Nairobi based cab driver, literally has two lives, complete with two different homes and two different wives, Mary and Barbara. Somehow, he manages to juggle them both without arousing suspicion.
Sadly, he gets caught up in a mugging, and he wakes up in a hospital. He ends up with Mary instead of with Barbara, whom he should be with at the moment, and he now has to come up will all sorts stories to cover his alter lives from everyone who, upon every deed, seem to suspect his queerness. The hardest part is explaining his ways to both his wives and the police, ALL AT ONCE. This is one story you just have to hear!
Strictly for Adults
Exhibition: Uirapuru by Iván Navarro & Courtney Smith, Jul. 12-26 2013 @ Goethe-Institut
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Exhibition Dates: July 15–26, 2013 [Monday-Friday]
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Entry: Free
The well-known Chilenian artist Iván Navarro and his wife, the French born artist Courtney Smith exhibit for the first time in Nairobi.
Though both artists work primarily in sculpture they also use video as a way of tracing the trajectories that are implied in the objects that they create. Uirapuru presents a series of short videos on a continuous loop that represent their collaborative work.
About
For the exhibition Uirapuru Iván Navarro and Courtney Smith will be presenting a series of short videos on a continuous loop. Both artists work primarily in sculpture but also use video as a way of tracing the trajectories that are implied in the objects that they create. Though the two artists work mainly independently, they periodically come together. Their collaborations are ongoing, ranging from pointed interventions in each other’s work to explicit hybrids, with their two languages intertwined and their two bodies of work physically imposed on one another.
For Uirapuru they will present five short videos that refer to the trajectories and circuits of anonymous characters moving through urban space.
Courtney Smith is known for her furniture-based sculpture and her investigation into the physical and psychological construction of interior spaces through the deconstruction of the elements that inhabit them.
Iván Navarro is widely recognized for his innovative work addressing the complex implications of transformation and transference of electrical energy through his ingeniously crafted luminous sculpture. Both artists are based in Brooklyn.