Date: February 6, 2016
Venue: Paa ya Paa and Culture Centre
Time: 2-5 pm
Tickets: KES 500 at the Gate
Play for Change, Feb. 2 2016 @ Alliance
“Play for Change” is not the the classic theatre performance: the public is part of it!
It’s indeed a “Theatre of the Oppressed” performance, a technique of the Participatory Educational Theatre:
IF they wish, the audience can intervene, try solutions and propose new policies about life and challenges on human rights promotion in Kenya, that will be the focus of the proposed plays.
CHANGE THE PLAY, PLAY FOR CHANGE!
(or just sit down and enjoy what happens, you get involved only if you want to!)
FREE ENTRANCE, just book your place: nbicefa@cefakenya.com
Did you know that this technique has been used even to create new laws in some countries?
For more information about the Theatre of the Oppressed, click here:http://www.parteciparte.com/eng/forum-theatre
The performance will be directed by Olivier Malcor, from Participarte (http://www.parteciparte.com/eng/who-we-are#1)
Follow CEFA – Kenya for more update, and invite your friends, everyone is welcome!
Chinese New Year Celebration, Feb. 7 2016 @ Eastland Hotel – Ring Road
Date: February 7, 2016
Venue: Eastland Hotel, Ring Road, Kilimani
Time: 11am – 4pm
Tickets: 1850Kshs
Contacts: 020-3861005 | monica@eastandhotel.co.ke
This event will includeChinese Buffet, Chinese Folk dance, paper cut art, Chinese calligraphy art and Peking opera mask colouring.
Organised in co-operation of some local Chinese associations.
Website: http://www.eastlandhotel.co.ke/
The Red Exhibition by Clavers Odiambo and Richard Njogu, Feb. 13-28 2016 @ Alliance Française
Dates: February 13- 28 2016
Venue: Alliance Française, Loita / Monrovia Streets (City Center)
Curated by: Lydia Galavu, Curator at the National Museums of Kenya (NMK)
About
Richard Njogu and Clavers Odhiambo, are showcasing more than 40 artworks, where drawings, paintings and mixed media artworks will basically glorify the color RED, using it as a figurative, thematic and aesthetic component in our artworks. We chose the color Red, due to its range of applications. We will be interpreting various subjects which are enhanced by the color, whether it is a single dot or completely red images.
The red color can be used to imply many emotions, power, heart, love, sexuality, anger, joy, war, etc.… it can also be used to emphasize or be a focal point in an artwork. Also it being a Valentine’s Day month, the exhibition will go hand in hand with the Red theme color.
This exhibition is being curated by Lydia Galavu, Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Museums of Kenya.
Thursday Nite Live February Line-up, Every Thursday @ Choices – Baricho Road
Date: Every Thursday
Venue: Choices, Baricho Road
Time: 8-11 pm
No Cover Charge
Technicians of the Sacred by Longinos Nagila, Feb. 4-18 2016 @ the Art Space
Exhibition Opening ” Technicians of the Sacred” by Longinos Nagila
Date: Thursday 4th February 2016
Venue: The Art Space off Riverside Drive
Time: 6 pm
Exhibition Runs Until: February 18, 2016
About
The technician is a dreamer and architect. Sacred can be taken to be something that is beyond human understanding. In today’s world we have human technicians trying to create something that is sacred. The technician represents himself, therefore, as a demi-god or God.
In looking at fashion and faith, Longinos exposes the irony of what the converted are called to hold as sacred.
The two live side by side, and it is the irony of their co-existence that Longinos tackles. His is an exploration of the irony of society, identity and religion. “Technicians of the Sacred” talks about the cultism found in material items and in the immaterial. By juxtaposing fashion and religion, the show raises questions about what is sacred and by extension what is traditionally or authentically African.
It also examines the role of Africa, its products and where these fit into the global conversation of Africa not as a receiver but also as a producer. This is evidenced more widely in the way in which there is growing African influence in fashion, products in technology and contributions through art and entertainment.
The artist
Longinos Nagila is a visual artist. He was born in 1986 in Kenya.
Longinos held his first solo exhibition in Lecce, Italy in 2009-2010 and since then he has continued to exhibit in Italy. In 2012-2013 he was one of the artists who exhibited at the Museo Africano in Verona, Italy.
In Kenya, he held his first solo exhibition at Shift – Eye Gallery in Nairobi.
He works with different mediums ranging from coffee, charcoal and acrylics. He is inspired by different artists from whom he has developed his own visual language. These artists include Andy Warhol, John Baldessari, and Egon Schiele, just to name a few.
His currently lives and work in Nairobi, Kenya where he has a studio at Kuona Trust Art Center.