Date: Friday, June 27 2014
Venue: Alliance Francaise Gardens
Time: 7 pm
Tickets: Kshs 500 at the Gate
Screening & Discussion: Tsofa Documentary by Congolese Director Rufin Mbou Mikima, Jun. 25 2014 @ Mageuzi Space – Pawa254 Hub
Pawa254 Hub will be screening the documentary Tsofa by Congolese Director Rufin Mbou Mikima
Tsofa tells the story of a group of Congolese men, many of them highly qualified university graduates who were offered a 600 euro/month job by a Romanian company to go and work as taxi drivers in Bucharest, the European country’s capital.
“To Romanians, black people living in their country must be either football players or students,” Mbou Mikima notes in one of the film’s opening scenes.
He first met the group back in 2008 while working in Bucharest himself. Through the use of the men’s own photos, mobile phone images and other video material, he retraces their initial steps, hopes and expectations, where it went wrong (it did), and what happened after the return of some of them to Congo (Brazza).
Date & Time: June 25, 2014
Venue: Mageuzi Space, Pawa254
Time: from 5:30 – 8 pm
More info here
Nairobi Forum: Our Collective Security – Writers in Conversation, Jun. 28 2014 @ National Museum
Date: Saturday, 28 June 2014
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium, Nairobi National Museum
Time: 5pm – 9pm
Entry: Prior Reservation.
RSVP here
The killings in Mpeketoni on 15 and 16 June are the latest in a series of violent events that are challenging the security of Kenya and the East Africa region more broadly. The words ‘terrorism’, ‘assassinations’, ‘tribal clashes’, ‘violent crime’, ‘domestic violence’ regularly appear in mainstream and social media headlines. Traumatic pictures of the aftermath fill the newspapers and TV screens. Kenya is no stranger to violent conflict, as the 2008 post-election violence attests to, but some analysts see the current resurgence as something new. There is no shortage of views on the causes of the current insecurity. Some blame external threats, religious ideology, identity, resource competition, youth unemployment, marginalisation, political intrigue, corruption and inefficiency of the security services. Others point to a failure of collective responsibility.
In the latest in a series of conversations with well-known writers, Kwani Trust, in partnership with the Rift Valley Institute’s Nairobi Forum, have invited a panel of writers to discuss these pressing matters. The writers include:
NoViolet Bulawayo, Writer
Parselelo Kantai, Writer
Rashid Abdi, Journalist
Billy Kahora, Writer and Kwani? managing editor
This conversation follows a session at 5pm at the same venue titled, Meet the Writers, featuring the three shortlisted writers of the Etisalat Prize for Literature, Africa’s most prestigious literary prize: NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), Yewande Omotoso (Nigeria/South Africa) and Karen Jennings (South Africa).
Screening: The Act of Killing – to mark the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Jun. 25 2014 @ Alliance
Date: June 25, 2014
Venue: Alliance Française
Time: 7 pm
Entry: Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQhIRBxbchU
Exhibition: UN.Known Spaces by Janina Janke & Maurice de Martin, Jun. 26 – Jul. 17 2014 @ Goethe Institut
Exhibition Opening/Lecture Performance: Thursday, June 26 2014 at 7.00pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Admission: free
Exhibition Runs Until July 17, 2014
The art project UN.KNOWN SPACES has been developed as an integral part of the large scale scientific research project “Knowledge through Art”, funded by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund). Inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and the phenomenon “Worlds inside the World”, the two German artists, Janina Janke and Maurice de Martin, focused on the United Nations headquarters in Vienna, New York, and Nairobi as these “worlds”.
From 2011 onwards, they collected a total of 66 interviews from the three headquarters conducted with a wide spectrum of UN staff and people from the “outside”, in which they are telling their personal life story.
After having exhibited the work in Vienna, the exhibition now travels to Nairobi.
The videos will be presented in form of a large scale projection, combined with an ambient sound installation played on a Marimba.
Visit Goethe Institut Nairobi website and/or www.unknownspaces.org for more information
The GoDown Gig and Nai Ni Who II Kick Off feat. Rabbit Kaka Sungura, Jun. 28 2014 @ the GoDown Arts Centre
The GoDown Gig also marking the Nai Ni Who II kick off
Date: Saturday, June 28 2014
Venue: The GoDOwn Arts Centre, Industrial Area
Time: 2-8 pm
Performing Artists: Ythera, Octave Band and Rabbit Kaka Sungura
Sauti za Busara Festival Zanzibar – Call for Artists, by Jul. 31 2014
• a completed form including short biography (max 1000 words)
• one or two recent recordings (CD or DVD)
• one or two photographs (JPGs sent to journey@busara.or.tz)
DEADLINE for applications – 31 July 2014
Find more information here
Sunday Salon New York City – Nairobi – Chicago, Jun. 29 2014 @ Louis Leakey Auditorium
Date: Sunday, June 29 2014
Venue: Kwani Trust Office – Chiromo
Time: 3 pm
Entry: Free
Join Kwani? Trust for a special edition of Sunday Salon featuring writers from Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Is it prize season, you ask? Yes it is!
Winner of Kwani Trust’s Manuscript Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Jennifer Makumbi, reads from her just-launched novel, Kintu, published by Kwani?
The Shortlisted Writers of the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature – Yewande Omotoso, author of Bom Boy, Karen Jennings, author of Finding Soutbek and the overall winner, NoViolet Bulawayo, author of We Need New Names, read from their work.
Kwani? Trust sends off the two Kenyan writers shortlisted for The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014; Billy Kahora and Okwiri Oduor, with readings from their nominated stories ahead of the announcement of the overall winner in Oxford in July.
Live music by KIU
Find more info here
Discussion: with Shortlisted Writers of the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature, Jun. 28 2014 @ Louis Leakey Auditorium
Date: Saturday, June 28 2014
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium, National Museums
Time: 5 pm
Meet the Writers event with the three writers shortlisted for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature – NoViolet Bulawayo, Yewande Omotoso and Karen Jennings, with special guest and Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (OBE).
This will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature writers tour Nairobi, hosted by Kwani Trust
Africa’s most prestigious literary prize, the Etisalat Prize for Literature has collaborated with Kwani Trust for a weekend of literary events in Nairobi on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June 2014 as part of a three city African tour for shortlisted writers of the Etisalat Prize for Literature.The Meet the Writers event includes a panel discussion hosted by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (OBE) with the three shortlisted writers of the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature, NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), author of We Need New Names and winner of the 2013 edition, Yewande Omotoso (Nigeria/South Africa), author of Bom Boy, and Karen Jennings (South Africa), author of Finding Soutbek.
NoViolet Bulawayo, Yewande Omotoso and Karen Jennings will also feature at the Kwani?
Album Launch: The Love and Hymns Project, Jun. 29 2014 @ Brookhouse Schools – Magadi Road
Come witness the launch of the double disc Love and Hymn Jazz, r ‘n’b and neosoul Album by the Intricate Fusion Band on Sunday the 29th of June 2014 from 2pm at the Brook House Schools.
The album has been Directed by Daniel Akoyi and mixed and mastered by Majic Mike of Red Republic Studios and the event has been sponsored by Brook House Schools.
Date: 29th June, 2014
Venue: Brookhouse Schools, Magadi Road, Karen.
Time: 2-5 pm
Charges:
Option 1: SINGLE ENTRANT- Ksh. 800 per person (inclusive of free compilation disc)
Option 2: FAMILY PACKAGE- Ksh. 1200 for one ticket to attend the launch, both the love disc and the hymn disc (inclusive of free compilation disc)
Option 3: COUPLES PACKAGE- Ksh. 2000 for two tickets to attend the Launch, both the love disc and the hymn disc and the free compilation disc.
Featuring – Ian Mbugua, Arona, Brook house BTEC Sessions Band, Amani Baya and Music Director Paul Mbithi. It is going to single handedly be one of the biggest jazz concerts, and album launches of the year.
*** Tickets available emmanuel.mulandi@intricatefusionmusic.com // 0725 375433