womens-march-on-nairobi-flier

Women’s March on Nairobi in Solidarity with Women’s March on Washington, Jan. 21 2017 @ Karura Forest

womens-march-on-nairobi-flier
Date: January 21, 2017
Venue: Karura Forest’s KFEET Centre
Time: 10 am

PS: this march is inclusive and all are welcome.

About
On 21 January 2017 Nairobi will march in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Washington D.C. and across the world.

The recent elections in the United States have shown how real the threat is to our collective rights and liberties. We march together for the protection of our rights, our safety, our families, our health and the health of our planet – recognising that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our society.

We stand together as one, for the rights of women, black, minority, ethnic and refugee groups, immigrants of all statuses, those with diverse religious faiths, people who identify as LGBTQIA, people with disabilities, the economically impoverished, and survivors of sexual assault, recognising that an attack on one, is an attack on us all.

This march is the first step of a progressive alliance across the world, built by individuals, groups and communities who together will be the voice of a new global consciousness.

Please RSVP for the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1188071894612345/

Imprints by Gor | Image via the Gallery

Meet the Artist – Gor Soudan, Jan. 15 2017 @ Red Hill Art Gallery

Imprints by Gor | Image via the Gallery
Imprints by Gor | Image via the Gallery
Date & time: Sunday, January 15, 2017 from 2.00 to 5.00 pm
Venue: Red Hill Art Gallery

The exhibition closes on 22nd January 2017

Directions to the Gallery
From Village Market join Limuru Road. After 13km turn lefdown a dirt road, signposted “The Retreat”, continue for 200m, keep left (ignore the road climbing sharply right), after 50m take the right smaller track.

Red Hill Art Gallery is located at the end of the track on the left side (red metal gate) Karibu!

From City Centre Matatu No 114. Stop ‘Posta’

Imprints by Gor Soudan | Image via the Gallery

Exhibition: Imprints by Gor Soudan, Until Jan. 25 2017 @ Red Hill Art Gallery

Imprints by Gor Soudan | Image via the Gallery
Imprints by Gor Soudan | Image via the Gallery

Dates: Until January 25, 2017
Venue: Red Hill Art Gallery
Time: 11 am – 5 pm, including the weekends.
Contacts: info@redhillartgallery.com | 0700 108989 / 0700 108626

About
Imprints the current body of Gor Soudan’s work engages with surfaces that surround us, architectural and natural. Through a process of rubbing with charcoal and graphite the revealed patterns are mapped out on rice paper using a dip pen and Japanese ink. He explores the materiality, the history and practice of contemporary design language in Kenyan culture, craft and architecture.

http://www.redhillartgallery.com

the-bike-gang

Exhibition: The Bike Gang by Sam Hopkins & John Kamicha, Jan. 15 – 29 2017 @ Goethe Institut – Auditorium

the-bike-gang
Opening: January 15, 2017
Venue: Goethe Institut, Auditorium
Time: 3 pm

Exhibition Dates: January 17-29, 2017

About
Perhaps one of the unforeseen consequences of Nairobi’s recent urban transformations has been the emergence of a bicycle subculture. To choose be a biker, as with any subculture, means to adopt an identity, a sense of belonging that runs counter to traditional, inherited identities such as gender or ethnicity. Nevertheless, whilst biking, and other subcultures, seem autonomous from traditional institutions of power, as a means of self-expression they are closely wedded to global capitalism, for which subcultures are simply another form of profit.

Over the last two years Sam Hopkins and John Kamicha worked with strategies of collective filmmaking and collaborative re-enactment to explore what biking means for a group of bikers from Githurai. Here, cycling is less about keeping healthy or about getting from A to B and more about excess, a tendency distilled in the practice of hanging: cycling in the slipstream of trucks on the highway. The Bike Gang is a video installation that situates these moments of extreme athletic prowess within the deeper existential project of this subculture.

For the opening of the exhibition we will embark on a short group ride within Nairobi, so come with your bike.

Admission is free. #BikeGang