Earth Dance NRB

Party/Charity: Earth Dance, Oct. 3 2015 @ Ngong Racecourse

Earth Dance NRB
Date: October 3, 2015
Venue: Ngong Racecourse
Time: 5 pm to October 4, 2015 at 9 am
Tickets: Advance Tickets: 2,500 KES per ticket and Gate Tickets: 3,000 KES

MPESA TICKETS (SMS Ticket): Send 2,500 per ticket to: Paybill No: 578888, Acc No: 5005

Also, Earth Dance Nairobi is introducing a BYOB (Bring Your Own Bottle) bar system for the best festival experience this year. Find more information on their Facebook Page

BYOB
PS: The event has a NO GLASS policy. Which means you must decant any drinks in glass bottles into plastic bottles.

Kariobangi

Concert: Kariobangi Fashion Fiesta & Girls Voices, Oct. 10 2015 @ Safaricom House, Michael Joseph Center

Kariobangi

“KARIOBANGI FASHION FIESTA & GIRLS VOICES CONCERT” Celebrating the Girls International Day!!
Hope,Power & Beauty

Featuring on the Cat Walk:
Manciny Male Fashion Designer
Kariobangi Fashion Frida Collection
Ponchos Wanayran Fashion

“Girls Voices Concert” featuring: Anahita Vasudev, Joelle Abdala, Clara Satzke, Elisa Angerer, Wandia Musyimi, Magoso School Poetry Choir & Anthem Girls Choir.

Date: Saturday October 10,2015
Time: 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Venue: Safaricom House, Michael Joseph Center
Donation: Advance Tickets 3,000 Ks. at the door 3,500 Ks.

Dress Code: Fridah Kahlo style
Reservations :Kwpti Kenya kariobangiwomen@yahoo.com
Lucrecia: 0788711028 – 0725291085

Cash bitings & Bar by Leah & Gibson

All event profits are destined to Kariobangi Women Promotion Training Institute.
Art Design by Elísabet Cárdenas

Justice for Elephants and Rhinos March

Global March for Elephants and Rhino, Oct. 3 2015 @ From National Museums to KWS

Justice for Elephants and Rhinos March
WildlifeDirect, Kenya Wildlife Service and Stand Up Shout Out are delighted to invite you to the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos on Saturday, the 3rd October 2015. This 10km walk will start at 8 am from the National Museums of Kenya to the Kenya Wildlife Service via Uhuru Highway and Langata road.

This march will end at 1pm and there will be some entertainment to cap it all.

Karaoke RCNC

Annual Karaoke: Sing Your Age, Oct. 3 2015 @ 24/7 Lounge – Former Secrets Lounge

Karaoke RCNC
Date: October 3, 2015
Venue: 24/7 Lounge (former Secrets)
Time: 2-5 pm
Tickets: KES 300

About
The Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central hosts an annual Karaoke to fund raise for community service projects. This year’s event is dubbed #SingYourAge, and will be hosted at 24/7 Lounge (former Secrets) on the 3rd of October from 2-5 pm.

The proceeds for the event will go towards the clubs signature project, “A Girl A K A Year”, which purchases and distributes sanitary towels to girls school. The project is in its 5th year,and has enabled 3,125 less privileged girls in Kenya and recently in Uganda and Tanzania access sanitary towels, enabling them pursue education and other opportunities uninterrupted.

Come and be a gift to the world. Tickets cost Kes 300. For more information, interested participants can please contact the Club Service Director, Dennis Munene on 0726054043

Silent Conversation by Maggie Otieno

Exhibition: Silent Conversations by Maggie Otieno, Sept. 25 – Nov. 20 2015 @ Nandi Road – Karen

Silent Conversation by Maggie Otieno
Opening: September 26, 2015
Time: 2-4 pm

Exhibition Dates: September 25 – November 20, 2015

SILENT CONVERSATIONS
This body of work is a continuation of the ‘Conversation’ that has dominated Maggie Otieno’s work for the last 7 years. She is engaging her audience to converse with the Elders and others: the sculptures created from a 100 year old red Indian teak wood (Railway Sleepers) and new and recycled metal. She uses this mix of complementary, seasoned, old and the new materials to symbolize societal inter-intra age synergies, dialogues and linkages as well as to arouse conversations within her audience.

To produce this body of works, Maggie has been inspired by looking at people having conversations, whether she is part of these conversations or not. ‘I get caught up in the expressions, and gestures that I see. I have translated these distant conversations into my work and they therefore form a part of a continuous conversation within the audience that interacts with the works … The works on Block Board are ‘ALL MY THOUGHTS’ – A series of new works embodying the conversations that go through my mind as I interact with my materials, eliminating and adding onto elements at my discretion. It is about what I choose to remember and that which I choose to forget, and these too, are my Silent Conversations’

Maggie has taken part in numerous exhibitions, workshops and residencies both in Kenya, East African region, Algeria, Nigeria, Netherlands, USA and UK.

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A Single Lane

A Single Line: Conversation with Mamaza & James Mweu, Sept. 26 2015 @ Kenya National Theatre

A Single Lane
Date: September 26, 2015
Venue: Kenya National Theatre
Time: 7 pm
Entry: Free Admission

About
The immediate association one has in relation to a red line is a line whose function is to divide, to mark territories, to separate. ASINGLELINE wants to look at this basic, generic entity of a line and look at it simply from another point of view: a line’s function is also to connect, to link, to bring things which are far from each other geographically and mentally closer together. ASINGLELINE is a straight line drawn from one point which is the city centre all the way to a second point which is a cultural centre building: a theater, a museum or other.

The line is neither a performance, nor an installation, it is a thought put into action, meant to connect, almost literally, the public – society, and their art – choreography and performance, driving MAMAZA and the local team who collaborates with them on the project, to cross the city through its public spaces – squares, streets, parks – and its private ones – domestic houses, shops, restaurants – in order to accomplish the drawing the line. The action of drawing the line is based on the collaboration with the local team as well as with the different people who come across the line. It is therefore a process which occurs through negotiation and the constant search for possible communication.

After its initial realisation of ASINGELINE in Antwerp/Belgium in 2011, MAMAZA has been invited to realise the project in Burkina Faso, South Africa and Nigeria (by the Goethe-Institut), as well as in Lausanne, Switzerland, Jerusalem, Petach Tikva and Haifa in Israel, Maputo in Mozambique and in Venice, Italy. MAMAZA is now continuing their tour through Africa by visiting Cote d`Ivoire, Uganda and Kenya. ASINGLELINE in Nairobi is realised together with Kenyan dancer and choreographer James Mweu.

Admission is Absolutely Free!

More information available on the GI’s Facebook Page