Date: December 10, 2015
Venue: Choices, Baricho Road
Time: 8-11 pm
No Cover Charge
Exhibition & Expo: Crafting Kenya, Dec. 2-20 2015 @ Alliance Française
CRAFTING KENYA a photographic journey of Kenya’s crafts
A project by designer, Wanja Laiboni with the photographer, Athony Bourrasseau
Opening: Wednesday, 2 December at 6.30pm.
Venue: Alliance Française de Nairobi
About
Crafting Kenya documents Kenya’s traditional and contemporary crafts via photography, seeking to create a visual crafts resource as well as celebrate the wealth of Kenya’s crafts and talent of its artisans.
http://www.craftingkenya.com/
Exhibition runs until 18 December.
Kwani? Litfest: Panel Conversation W/ Boris Boubacar Diop, Dec. 4 2015 @ Alliance Française
Date: December 4, 2015
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 2-5pm
About
Senegalese novelist, journalist and essayist, Boris Boubacar Diop, has established himself as one of the most prominent contemporary Francophone writers. In his first appearance in Kenya to participate in the5th edition of the Kwani? Litfest, Boris Boubacar will discuss the impasses and weaknesses of African literature.
His presentation will be followed by a short panel conversation with him and the Congolese writer, Patrick Mudekereza.
Abstract from Boris Boubacar Diop’s presentation:
‘Some of the most important names in African literature are authors like Chinua Achebe from Nigeria, Pepetela from Angola or Mongo Beti from Cameroon. What they have in common is that they write in the languages of their former colonial powers – England, Portugal and France –
rather than in any existing African language.
So, it can be said in reference to the partition of Africa in 1885, that a Triple Berlin Wall still divides Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone writers. Many of us still think that this situation, far from being problematic, is the best opportunity to reach international audiences. This choice is understandable but it may also be too simplistic. Is it time to remember the poet Birago Diop’s famous words:
‘The baobab can’t conquer the stars unless it is deeply rooted in the soil’ ?
I would like to to show that the linguistic debate raised in the sixties by Cheikh Anta Diop and Ngugi Wa Thiong’O has never been more topical or more vital.’
Exhibition: Visceral 2 – M THEORY, Until Dec. 20 2015 @ The Little Art Gallery – Karen
Dates: Until 20th December 2015
Venue: The Little Art Gallery, Karen, Nairobi.
About
Mwini Mutuku, Curator Ross Van Horn and The Little Art Gallery Project Coordinator, William Ndwiga invite you to Visceral 2| M THEORY at The Little Art Gallery, Karen.
Mwini’s work exists at the intersection of graphic design and fine art.In ‘Visceral 2 | M THEORY’, he explores particle physics and the mind in an attempt to investigate ideas around existence.
The exhibition is set as a conversation between two bodies of work, one with Mirrors and the other with Scorched Paper pieces that attempt to visualise string theory – often called the “theory of everything”.
Concert: The East African Wave 01, Dec. 3 2015 @ Soulfood Café – Liaison House
Date: December 3, 2015
Venue: Soulfood cafe, Liaison house
Time: 7 pm – 2 am
Tickets: ksh 500
About
EA Wave is a movement/ group term of the different sounds emanating from the region. Similar to the blanket term ‘EDM’ (Electronic Dance Music). EA Wave consists of Sub Genres that different individuals are pushing UKWELI with Swahili Trap, Nu Fvnk with Swahili Bass and Jinku with Tribal Downtempo.
Visit Facebook Event Page for more details.
Marie Pierre Wine Club, Dec. 5 2015 @ Nairobi Serena Hotel
Date: December 5, 2015
Venue: Nairobi Serena Hotel
Time: 2-6 pm
Tickets: 3,500
About
Join our Sommelier Juan Cambil on Saturday, 5th Dec 2015 from 2 PM till 6 PM at the Nairobi Serena for our last wine tasting edition this year. Kindly note that first tasting kicks off at 2:20 PM.Taste over 15 wines from South Africa, Italy and Spain perfectly paired with canapés and cheese. Enjoy great discounts on any bottle of wine and cheese bought at the event. Prices start at Kshs. 900 per bottle of wine and Ksh.300 per 250gms of cheese.
Concert: Xperience W/ Wakake, Michel Ongaro & Sali Oyugi, Dec. 5 2015 @ Tamambo Village Market
XPERIENCE with Wakake, Michel Ongaro and Sali Oyugi
Date: Saturday 5th December, 2015
Venue: Tamambo Village Market
Time: from 8.30 pm
Tickets: Shs. 500/- pp
Out of Town: Swahili Fashion Week, Dec. 4-6 2015 @ Hotel Sea Cliff – Dar es Salaam – Tanzania
Dates: December 4-6, 2015
Venue: Hotel Sea Cliff, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
For more information, visit http://www.swahilifashionweek.com/
Exhibition: Self Portrayals by Samuel Githingi Ashanti, Until Jan. 17 2016 @ Red Hill Art Gallery
About
Samuel Githingi Ashanti graduated at Buruburu Institute of Fine Art in 2008 with a Certificate in Fine Art and in 2012 with a Diploma in Fine Art.
Red Hill Art Gallery shows a selection of his latest artworks created in 2015, large scale oil-acrylic-mixed-media canvases and pastel-mixed-media works on large paper sizes.
‘Self-Portrayals’ is a very personal contemplation of a young artist’s search of himself; influenced by African mythology and spirituality and inspired by his Rastafarian credence, a reflection about death and life, desperation and hope.……it’s just too hard a day to move on not thinking deep of life and death, this has changed my view aboutl life and spirituality, through this it has made me able to create a series of work – spirits in trial,time in trial which reflect much on me in relation with nature or life…..
Samuel Githingi Ashanti is an inspirational and promising emerging artist who responds to his environment with his very own personal voice.
He was born in 1989 in Gatundu, Central Kenya
His artworks were shown in the ‘Affordable Art Exhibition’ of the National Museum, in the ‘Manjano Art Exhibition’ and in the ‘Kenya Art Fair’.
The exhibition continues until 17 January 2016.
2015 French Film Festival, Dec. 1-5 2015 @ Alliance Française
Dates: December 1-5, 2015
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 6.30 pm
Entry: Free