Website: http://storymojahayfestival.com/
Festival Head liner: Teju Cole
The Storymoja Hay Festival 2012 Highlights
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Download the 2013 Programme Storymoja Hay Festival Programme 2013
For more info visit their Facebook event page
Opening Date: September 17, 2013
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Time: 6-9 pm
Exhibition Dates: September 18-29, 2013
Plasto-Yarnings: A conversation with sculptures, installations & performances by GoDown Centre residence artists Ifeoma Anyaeji
Curated by Iroko Arts Consultants in conjunction with GoDown Centre
Date: September 14, 2013
Venue: Scann Center, Nakuru
Time: 2 pm
Date: September 22, 2013
Venue: Sarakasi Dome, Nairobi
Time: 7 pm
Entry is free in all venues
Nairobi Now has 3 pairs of tickets for the Earthdance Nairobi to give away this week.
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Date: 14 September, 2013 – 15 September, 2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 9:00 AM
Location: Ngong Racecourse Nairobi
Tickets: 2500/- advance and 3500/- at the door.
Line up will include:
PROFESSOR (SA, LIVE ACT feat DJ Mngane and Character)
L.A. DAVE
AOK
Raj el Rey
Chucky
Electrique DJs
Mikhail Kuzi
DJ Gichboy
Jack Rooster
DJ Drazen
DJ K
Factory Djs
Dj barney barrow
Dj Donnaccia (Eugenio)
Broken Switch (SA)
for more info: Earthdance Nairobi facebook page
Dates: August 26 – September 9, 2013
Venue: Kibera & Mathare
SFF 3rd Edition Trailer from Slum Film Festival on Vimeo.
For the programme and more info. visit the festival’s website: http://slumfilmfestival.net/
Dates: September 20-22, 2013
Venue: Impala Grounds
Tickets: Kshs 2000 Season Pass and Kshs 1000 daily pass
Artists Performing: A great line up which includes Peter Miles, Eric Wainaina, Kidum, DJ Spin Easy, DJ Crème de la crème, DJ Protégé among many other prominent acts
Beers: 9 brews on tap, including the Hefewizen, Krystal wizen, Oktoberfest and Marzen brews, brewed by Big Five Breweries.
For more info visit http://oktoberfest.co.ke/
OctoberFest kenya. Giving the Germans a run on their tradition!
Six and the City is a theatre project dedicated to the city we live in: Nairobi. A vibrant, eccentric, extreme city made of different and contradictory worlds. Goehte Institut asked six writers to portray this elusive city in form of a short theatre piece. All plays are staged for a theatre evening in front of Nairobi’s skyline, on PAWA254’s terrace.
Dates: September 13-15, 2013
Venue: PAWA 254, Africa Alliance of YMCA Building, State House Crescent
Time: 6 pm
Tickets: KShs 500
Six and the City was originally developed by Stephan Bruckmeier and Petra Weimer for the television tower Stuttgart. Together with Bruckmeier, Goethe Institut enhanced the idea for Nairobi and have commissioned six writers with the six pieces: Billy Kahora, Parseleo Kantai, Andia Kisia, Tony Mochama, Kevin Mwachiro, and Valentine Njoroge.
The dating issues of a modern Kenyan woman, politicians who can’t sing the national anthem, sugardaddys and university girls, the true story of a beggar, mistaken gender identities, several thugs, freaks, and a vibrator are just some ingredients of this unconventional theatre evening.
Coordinated by Hope Theatre Nairobi, in cooperation with Mwajuma Bahati, it stages Pauline Akinyi, Terry Awiti, Dansoye Denge, Mwajuma Bahati, Constant Hore, Hana Kefela, Joe Kinyua, David Nawieri, Marrianne Nungo, and Telley Savalas Otieno.
The directors are Hawa Essuman, Anthony Ndungu and Carol Odongo.
Date: September 12, 2013
Venue: Tree House
Time: 8.30-11 pm
Entry: Free
Bio
Maia represents another amazing side to Kenya’s dynamic musical scene. Her voice and style has an affinity with female jazz vocalists of the 1930s and soul and folk music of the 1960s. In all her compositions, Maia is blazing new trails in Kenya; experimenting with different styles, and creating a hybrid sound that is her very own.
Whether busking on street corners while backpacking around the world, or jamming with friends at university in Melbourne, Maia’s sound has developed from playing with musical talents from around the world, injecting her own personality, background and culture into her sound.
Her first single, Altered Light, was the result of collaboration with a funk bass player in Melbourne. Since then, Maia traveled to Berlin and continued writing, singing and collaborating before coming home to Kenya and continuing her work with artists, friends and producers. Drift, Maia’s first album, is a culmination of her travels, her meetings, her collaborations and her experiences; a global cross-pollinated vibe. Maia weaves her adventures, stories and memories with the help of young guitarist Kato Change, producing jazzy riffs with folk licks to soulful percussive dub, to produce a unique addition to Kenya’s music scene.
In Kenya, Maia has performed for numerous awareness campaigns including the Korogocho Slum Campaign and a UN (youth) campaign on awareness in Mathare and Kibera slums, raising money for various schools in those areas. Maia has also composed jingles for various advertisements in Kenya and Berlin and music composition for a South African/Canadian theatre production, Crossroads, that raises awareness in Africa on issues of rape, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS (www.cmfd.org).
Her latest composition “Uko Wapi?” was featured in the much-acclaimed Kenyan production, “From a Whisper”, depicting events of the 1998 bombing in Kenya.
Dates: Every Friday
Venue: PAWA 254, Africa Alliance of YMCA Building, State House Crescent
Time: 4-7 pm
Tickets: KShs 100
Contacts: 0722 535 035
Website: http://fatumasvoice.org/
