Event: DXD 2014 – Disruption by Design, Nov. 27 2014 @ Delta Towers – Lower Basement
UP Magazine Invites You To Disruption By Design DxD 2014
Date: November 27, 2014
Venue: Lower Basement Parking Garage of Delta Corner Building, Westlands
About
UP Magazine’s latest foray into the world of Nairobi design is our November issue – Disruption by Design DxD 2014. To celebrate and recognize the disruptors and change makers in urban Nairobi, we are holding a recognition and rewards event on November 27th 2014 in the Lower Basement Parking Garage of Delta Corner Building.We would love for you to attend this gala evening in honour of the people who are Nairobi’s design elite. True to our events style, it promises to push the boundaries with A/V installations, great food, drinks, music and people.
Photo Exhibition: Mexico in One Image, Until Nov. 30 2014 @ Temporary Gallery – National Museum
Dates: Until 30th November 2014.
Venue: Temporary Gallery, Nairobi National Museum
Entry: Museum Rates Apply
About
“Mexico en Una Imagen” -Mexico in One Image- presents photos of moments, places and people that shape the multicultural wealth of Mexico.
Safaricom International Jazz Festival 2014: Exclusive Evening with Jimmy Dludlu, Dec. 5 2014 @ Kasarani Indoor Arena
Date: December 5, 2014
Venue: Kasarani Indoor Arena
Time: 6.30 for 7.30 pm
Tickets: KES 1000 advance and KES 1500 at the Gate
Curtain Raisers: Swahili Jazz Band
Main Act: Mozambique Afro Jazz Maestro – Jimmy Dludlu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9y0qLsbWPY
All the proceeds generated will go to the Ghetto Classics.
Japan Cinema: About Her Brother, Nov. 29 2014 @ Japan Information & Culture Centre
The Japan Information & Culture Centre invites you to the screening of the movie “About Her Brother” which will be shown on Saturday, November 29, 2014.
Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans.
Next Screening: About Her Brother
Date: Saturday, 29th November 2014
Time: 2:00p.m.
Gates Open: 1:30pm
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill
Synopsis: This film presents a heartwarming depiction of the bond between a hard-working older sister and her younger brother, a failed performer. Widowed young, Ginko (Yoshinaga Sayuri) runs a pharmacy and lives with her daughter, Koharu (Aoi Yu), and her mother-in-law, Kinuyo (Kato Haruko). Koharu has plans to marry a distinguished doctor, but out of the blue, Ginko’s long lost brother, Tetsuro (Shofukutei Tsurube), shows up drunk at the wedding, ruining the occasion..
Theatre: Getting Married by George Bernard Shawa, Nov. 28-30 2014 @ Alliance Française auditorium
GETTING MARRIED by George Bernard Shawa
Dates: November 28-30, 2014
Venue: Alliance Française auditorium
Tickets: KES 500
Time: Fri. @ 6pm and Week-end @ 3 & 6pm
On the morning of the Bishop’s daughter’s wedding to a town commoner, events unfold that will change the views about marriage in this society forever.
A STRATHMORE DRAMA SOCIETY production
Concert: Raskin & Fleischmann from Austria, Nov. 26 2014 @ Alliance Française
Austrian Embassy presents Raskin & Fleischmann at Alliance Française on November 26, 2014
Date: Wednesday, November 26 2014
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 7pm
Free Entry
‘RASKIN & FLEISCHMANN’ – Piano & Violin
The Embassy of Austria presents the Austrian-Belgian duo Raskin & Fleischmann, Ambassadors for the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ programme ‘New Austrian Sound of Music’ 2014-2015. Pianist Philippe Raskin is winner of several international piano competitions and performs regularly as part of chamber groups and as a soloist with orchestras in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States. Johannes Fleischmann made his solo debut of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Austrian-Slovakian Philharmonic Orchestra at the Wiener Konzerthause (Vienna Concert Hall). He continues to perform as soloist and chamber musician in Festivals and with celebrated orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphonic.
Programme
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24, – “Springsonata”
Leoš Leoš Janá?ek – – Sonata for violin and piano
Richard Strauss – Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op.18
Exhibition: Silent Conversation By Longinos Nagila, Nov. 25-28 2014 @ Italian Institute of Culture – Westlands
Opening: November 25, 2014 at 7:00pm
Venue: Italian Institute of Culture, Westlands
ABOUT: SILENT CONVERSATION
My work embodies my interest in socio-economic situations in life, while at the same time trying to provoke thoughts that are driven towards the judgment of these situations. I consider my paintings as a platform for conversation from within an individual or between two or more people. My main subject is human, with a kin interest in their emotions as expressed in their eyes.My sources of Inspiration are endless. I am deeply interested in children and women as I see them both as vessels and sources of life. I have a keen interest on world religions and arts. I take my time to look and try to understand the different visual languages employed by artists from different parts of the world
SILENT CONVERSATION is a collection of portrait paintings of women trying to create a dialogue between the viewer and the ‘paintings’, the paintings, I consider them thought provoking and commands attention.
Though not quite detailed, the portraits silently holds the attention of the viewer. It is said that eyes are the windows to the soul, the main outstanding feature of the portraits is the eyes, they are dark and looks directly to the eyes of the viewer, this creates an emotional disturbance.
The exhibition interrogates the relationship between the artist, the art and the viewer, between what the society considers as beauty and ugly, sad and happy, stereotypes and judgment.
The exhibition will feature 25 portraits of different sizes all produced in 2014.