Kuona Trust’s Annual Open Day – Celebrating 50 years of Kenyan Art.
Dates: December 13 & 14, 2013
Venue: Kuona Trust
Activities for all ages. Conversations with some of Kenya’s well known pioneer artists, exciting art workshops with master artists,live performances, an art exhibition, art sale,an opportunity to win prizes from the raffle,treasure hunt, wire toy car race, and much more.
Prof. Elizabeth Orchardson-Mazrui and the Director of Paa ya Paa Arts Centre cordially invite you to a rare opportunity to view Artworks by the Late Prof. Louis Mwaniki, renowned master of painting, sculpting, printmaking, and drawing.
Mwaniki trained at Makerere School of Fine Art from 1957-1961
DATE: Saturday 7th December 2013 TIME: from 3 – 6pm.
VENUE: The Paa ya Paa Arts Centre, Ridgeways, off Kiambu Road (from Muthaiga: take Kiambu Rd and take 1st right turn after Nakumatt Ridgeways, and proceed to Paa ya Paa Lane)
GUEST OF HONOUR: Mr. Tony Wainaina (Art lover and Collector)
Kuona Trust presents the first major exhibition from artist Jemima Robinson in collaboration with Claire O’Callaghan.
Opening: Friday December 6, 2013
Venue: Kuona Trust
Until: December 30, 2013
327 Unreported is a monochromatic show of works on paper and installations depicting the stories of rape victims, male and female. With this exhibition, Robinson and O’Callaghan aim at raising awareness of this much ignored but huge problem in Kenya, the dates of the exhibition fall within the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, an international campaign that puts the spotlight on gender-based violence as a human rights issue at local national, regional and international level.
Dates: December 8, 2013 – January 31, 2014
Venue: Ecology Gallery, Nairobi National Museum
Time: Daily 8.30am to 5.30pm
Normal rates apply
Exhibiting Artists: El Tayeb Dawelbait, Camille Wekesa, Sane Wadu, Justus Kyalo, Chelenge Van Rampelberg, Peterson Kamwathi
Freedom
In celebration of Kenya at 50 years, six artists explore what freedom means to them both as artists as well as Kenyans in an economically emerging continent. The artists express the concept of freedom using a multitude of media with minimal constraints or parameters producing a body of work that provokes us to think of what freedom means to us as Kenyans 50 years after Independence.
Embers Of Empire: Towards A World History Of End Of Britain
Date: Friday, 6 December 2013
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 10.30 am
Entry; prior Reservation
Abstract
Since the 1970s, writers, historians and journalists have reflected widely on the impending “Break-up of Britain“, a theme that has acquired new momentum in the light of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Equally, there has been a tendency to link the crisis of Britishness with the decolonization of the British Empire, as though these two processes were somehow intrinsically linked. But rarely, if ever, is this link established in any coherent or convincing way. These papers offers new perspectives on an old problem by looking at Britishness as the world’s first global civic idea, which ran into increasing difficulties after WWII as the credibility of its transnational reach was increasingly called into question by the pressures for global decolonization. By studying the fate of British civic culture around the world, from Africa to Australasia, the Caribbean, South Asia and Canada since the 1950s, we can gain a new purchase on the problems of national cohesion and civic purpose that have erupted periodically in Britain and elsewhere since that time.
This seminar focuses on two talks by Prof. Stuart Ward and Christian Damm Pedersen, both historians from Copenhagen University, Denmark. Both speakers are part of a collaborative research project at Copenhagen University on ‘Embers of empire: The receding frontiers of post-imperial Britain’, funded by the Velux Foundation.
For more information on this project please visit: embersofempire.ku.dk
Seminar by: Professor Stuart Ward & Christian Damm Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
Chair: Professor Ambreena Manji, British Institute in Eastern Africa
Christmas concert Nairobi Music Society choir Nairobi Orchestra. Conducted by Ken Wakia and Levi Wataka
Dates & Time: Saturday 7th December 7.30 pm and Sunday 8th December 3.00 pm
Venue: All Saints’ Cathedral, Kenyatta Avenue
All tickets at the door: Adults 700/- NMS Members and students 500/
Festive seasonal music for choir, orchestra and organ
Britten~ Ceremony of Carols – With harpist Sarah Vohya and soloists
Carter ~ Benedicite – Joined by Cavina School children’s choir
Pieces for brass and choir
Christmas songs and traditional carols
And some favourite choruses from
Handel’s Messiah
Enquiries to the email address used to send this. NMS usually offers special rates for school and similar groups.
50% Kenyan presented by Heartstrings Entertainment directed by Sammy Mwangi
Date: December 5-20, 2013 – Except December 9 & 16
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: Weekdays – 6.30pm & Weekends – 3 & 6.30pm
Tickets: 500
Each Kenyan has a way they define their ‘Kenyaness’. One would think that that is not a problem. But it is. We have come to believe that our view about Kenya is the best and more supreme than others. This has made Kenyans tear into each other at the smallest difference.
As we mark 50 years, each Kenyan has his thought on how Kenya should mark 50 years of independence.
The big question is “Are You Half a Kenyan or A Full Non-Kenyan?
