Date: September 7, 2017
Venue: BIEA Seminar Room, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Panelists: Hon. Dr. Nancy Baraza (University of Nairobi), Dr. Agnes Meroka (University of Nairobi), Job Akuno (KEMEA) and Brenda Wambui (FRIDA).
http://www.biea.ac.uk/event/the-f-word-what-is-the-place-of-feminism-in-contemporary-kenya/
Dates: September 3-8, 2017
Venue: Kuona Trust Studio 12
Time: 10:00am – 5:00pm daily
Entry: Free
About
Lionel Garang is having a weeklong of art sale of his art works, from 3rd – 8th September 2017 in his Studio at Kuona Trust.This is an opportunity for you to own one or two of his art pieces at an incredible pocket friendly price.
The studio is open and the artist on standby, daily, between 10:00am – 5:00pm.
Dates: On until September 17, 2017
Venue: Polka Dot Art Gallery
Dates: August 19-25, 2017
Venue: Village Market
Exhibition by Peter Elung’at, Patrick Kinuthia and Clavers Odhiambo
Meet the artists on: Saturday September 25, 2017
About
The Exhibition features 2 Artists in their prime, Peter Elung’at and Patrick Kinuthia and a fast rising star, Clavers Odhiambo. All share a passion for the human form study. Elung’at is the Dreamer, Kinuthia an Observer and Clavers the strenuous Realist. In this exhibition, they show their recent artworks that accentuate their respective styles – and how their works are derived.(These 3 styles that the artists use to compose their works will be the anchors for the show.)
Date: September 5, 2017
Venue: BIEA Seminar Room, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
About
In this discussion, we wish to present our research project about a comprehensive narrative of the mwomboko dance, song and poetry from the late 1930s until present day. Mwomboko is a Gikuyu performance genre that emerged between the late 1930s and the early 1940s in the southern districts of Central Kenya as a traditional cum modern dance performed by young people and newly married couples. In postcolonial Kenya, the style evolved as a living Gikuyu tradition, various groups reviving its choreographic, musical and aesthetic composition as part of regional and national cultural festivals, agricultural shows, and national celebrations such as Madaraka Day and Jamhuri Day. From embodied oral stories to transmit to younger generations to rural associations providing their members with financial support, we inquire about the developmental features of mwomboko in Gikuyu everyday life. We also seek to draw attention to the performance repertoire within which mwomboko is embedded, inscribing performers within local and national narratives that sustain debates about Gikuyu popular imagineries, ethnicity and nationalism.
http://www.biea.ac.uk/event/mwomboko-history-performance-and-beyond/
Date: September 9, 2017
Venue: Goethe Institut
Time: 7 pm
Tickets: KES 500/-
Music performances by Wanja Wohoro, Mumala Maloba and South Africa’s Tribute Mboweni.
About
WANJA WOHORO
Wanja is a soulful Singer/Songwriter from Nairobi, Kenya and Sydney, Australia. She began songwriting from the age of 13; teaching herself the guitar and the piano and practicing accompaniment and composition. Her influences include the mellow sultry sounds of Amy Winehouse, Lianne La Havas, Ella Fitzgerald, Nai Palm and Corinne Bailey-Rae alongside an extensive exposure to Indie/Folk and jazz music. In 2014 she released her first EP ‘High Tide’ which includes 5 songs of varying genres, all exploring the different sides of her unique musicianship, cultural influences and vocals.
MUMALA MALOBA
Mumala Maloba is Singer, Songwriter from Nairobi Kenya. Having come from a musical background, she started her musical journey very young. Mumala released her first single ‘Where di the love go’ in 2013 then followed with the release of her secong singe ‘Paper Chasing’ ft. rapper Octopizzo produced by Polycarp ‘Fancy Fingers’ Otieno of Sauti Sol. Mumala has perfomed at various events such as The Kinanda Arts Festival, Nairobi Fashion Market, Story Moja Hay Festival, Rift Valley Festival among others. Mumala recently graduated from Middlesex University with a First Class Honors in Law and is definitely one of the female vocalists to look out for in the coming months.
TRIBUTE ‘BIRDIE’ MBOWENI
South Africa’s Tribute ‘Birdie’ Mboweni has joined a new breed of soul musicians that are putting their own modern take on the classic sound and doing it justice. The petite singer has worked diligently to carve a path that ensure that she too has a place in the music industry. Besides her album titled ‘Birdie’ being her debut offering, Tribute has long carved her niche as a performing artist having serenaded audiences in the Middle East (Qatar and Dubai) where she took up artist residencies playing with a jazz band featuring some of South Africa’s great musicians. No stranger to the stage, she has performed at international events such as COP17, the Grahamstown National Arts Festival, where she gave a stellar performance and receiving great reviews for her soulful offering, Her music expressed deep feelings and is profoundly emotional, jazzy, ethno and yet so soulful.
