Date: March 27, 2016
Venue: the Alchemist – Westlands
Time: from 2 pm
About
Mchuzi mix is a monthly day party hosted by YKNL set for the last Sunday of every month. Mchuzi mix is about the great flavour you get when you have incredible people x music x food x drinks x daytime.The Easter week-end edition has been extended! 2 pm to 2 am.
Date: March 25, 2016
Venue: Eastland Hotel
Time: From 6 pm
Tickets: KES 2,500 (Inclusive of Special Easter Meal)
Contact is: 020-3861001/2/5 and/or monica@eastandhotel.co.ke
Date: March 24, 2016
Venue: Choices, Baricho Road
Time: 8-11 pm
No Cover Charge
Launch of Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011-12
Date: March 22, 2016
Venue: Rift Valley Institute Office, Seminar Room
Time: 2-4 pm
Entry: Prior Reservation, RSVP here
About
In 2011, the scale of famine taking grip in Somalia was just beginning to receive international attention. Although famine had been predicted almost a year earlier, it was not until July that famine was formally declared. Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia in the famine, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of others, many of whom sought refuge in Kenya.On Tuesday 22 March 2016, the Rift Valley Forum will host the Nairobi launch of Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011-12. This new book by Dan Maxwell and Nisar Majid is based on extensive research in Somalia and the region. It examines the causes of the famine, the trade-offs between competing policy priorities that led to it, the collective failure in response, and how those affected by it attempted to protect themselves and their livelihoods. Its analysis of the humanitarian response, includes the role played by Turkey, the Middle East, and Islamic charities worldwide — actors that had not previously been particularly visible in Somalia.
Copies of the book will be on sale during the Forum.
More information on the book can be found here.
Date: March 23, 2016
Venue: the Juniper Social
Location: Corner of Munthangari Drive & Waiyaki Way
Time: 7 pm
Entrance: Free
Dates: March 23 to April 18, 2016
Venue: the Elephant.
Location: No. 3, Kanjata Road, next to Loreto Msongari Off James Gichuru Road.
Tickets available at Ticket sasa and all Toy world outlets.
About Tinga Tinga Tales – the Musical
Based on Tinga Tinga Tales the animated series, the MusicalIs a gloriously interactive and raucus live show designed to entertain the whole family. Written and directed by original creators of the TV show Claudia Lloyd and composed by Eric Wainaina, the musical will take its audience on a wonderful theatrical journey where they will sing with the Dawn Chorus, interact with their favourite characters from the TV series, help Giraffe get out of sticky situation and delight in seeing how Chameleon transforms from the greyest of grey things into an explosive Afrofusion Master of Colour. Everyone will sing, dance, laugh and cry… but most of all they will all have a TingaTingaTastic Time.
Written by Claudia Lloyd I produced by Sheba Hirst I music by Eric Wainaina I choreographed by Mkamzee Mwatela.
Friday 25th march: UK DJ’s Relic and Skaface and Nairobi’s DJ Heartical present Green Yard Reggae powered by Rebel Bass Sounds.
This monthly event brings original Jamaican Sound system style culture to Nairobi last Friday of every month in a big lush green garden. A heavy sound system, original vinyl being spun, serious mixes and good vibes. Rum punch cocktails on sale.
From 7pm to 6am.
Entrance only 400 bob
Map: http://tinyurl.com/gpwq325
Dates: March 25-28, 2016
Venue: Punda Milias Nakuru Camp
On Wednesday, March 16, 2016, come join us The Alchemist Bar for our third #DinnerAndAMovie Night!
Come enjoy two fantastic films under the stars, specially curated by the lovely and talented duo of Azza Satti and Pedro Matos
Short Film
Alambamento, Mario Bastos (Angola, 2011, 15 min)
Set in the city of Luanda, the story of Matias that while going to deliver his dowry to his fiance’s father, an unexpected accident makes him realize how much he is willing to fight for her love. In this town where chaos and peace, beauty and ugliness, corruption and honor meet, Matias will have to do whatever it takes to get what he wants.
Feature Film
Viva Riva!, Djo Munga (Congo, 2010)
Viva Riva! is a Congolese crime thriller film written & directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga and starring Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Fabrice Kwizera, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Longage, Alex Herabo & Diplôme Amekindra. The film received 12 nominations and won 6 awards at the 7th Africa Movie Academy Awards, including the awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography & Best Production Design, a feat that made it the highest winning film in the history of the AMAA’s till date
You can get also get yourself some delicous burgers courtesty of Mama Rocks or come try out our newest culinary addition,Upendo Pizza, for some oven-baked Italian pizzas! Sundowner music will be provided by Monroe Marcus!
Richard Onyango’s Official Exhibition Launch;
Date: March 13, 2016
Venue: Nairobi Gallery
Entry: Free
Exhibition Runs Until: September 13, 2016
Entry: Normal Rates Apply
The gallery will also pay homage to the Late Expedito Mwebe Kibbula who passed away on 18 February 2016 at 64 years of age.
A special selection of works by this exceptionally talented and innovative multi-media artist will be on display in the main entrance.
About – Richard Onyango
Born in 1960, RICHARD ONYANGO – one of Kenya’s most prominent artists – is younger than the other pioneer artists whose works have been shown at the Nairobi Gallery. However, Onyango is noted for his “retrospective works”, i.e. painting scenes from Mombasa Old Town as he imagines it was in 1963 or the bus that took him to school in 1968.In fact, Onyango has had a fascination for buses and the brave new world of machines and vehicles of all kinds ever since he moved with his mechanic father from the Western highlands near Lake Victoria to the developing coastal region of Malindi. Using trash and scraps collected by street children, he even creates replicas of ferries, tractors and life-sized airplanes. Onyango confesses he always wanted to be a pilot, and the photo above shows him in the cockpit of one of his artistic creations.
As a young man in dusty cowboy boots, Onyango had many careers including driving, farming, carpentry, fashion designer, wood carver, sign painter, jazz musician and animal trainer, before he started painting at the age of twenty encouraged by some of the Italian supporters of the arts at Malindi and a local businessman and art collector, named Feisal Osman.
Having studied painting at the age of 16 he developed a vocabulary of “photo pictures” in his mind to which he still refers in his recent paintings. Later, as a young artist he met his European girl friend, a voluptuous Italian girl named Drosie and produced his most famous series of works on their brief love affair, which are like snapshots, or a slice of life during his more flamboyant days.
Onyango has a remarkable following from abroad. He had his first exhibition in the West in l992 which had generally good reviews. His paintings have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2003, Africa Remix in 2005, in galleries and museums in the USA and UK, and in the contemporary African art collection (CAAC) In Geneva.
He still continues to live in Malindi.
