Workshop and Concert: Nairobi Jam with Lulu Abdallah and Just Imagine Africa, Mar. 30 2019 @ Goethe-Institut Auditorium


Catch Lulu Abdallah and Just Imagine Africa live on stage at the next #Nairobi Jam concert series at the Goethe-Institut Auditorium.

Date: March 30, 2019
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: Workshop // 4PM to 6PM and Concert // 6PM till late
Admission is free!

Pre-concert workshop will be facilitated by Mwalimu Gregg Tendwa of Bengatronics who is also a DJ and Producer.

Film Screening: “Sacred Places”, by Jean-Marie Teno, Mar. 30 2019 @ Kenyatta Market – Ngumo


Film screening of Sacred Places this Saturday 30, March 2019, 4 pm at Room #5 2nd Floor Fairlane House, Kenyatta Market – Ngumo

Sacred Places: 2009, Documentary, Color, Cameroon/France, 70 minutes
French with English subtitles.

A Film by Jean-Marie Teno
Set in St-Leon, a modest neighborhood tucked between a cathedral and two mosques in the city of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, where 40 years, the world’s most famous FESPACO(Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou) showcases the best achievements of African film making. Sacred Places, is a film about fight to survive and maintain one’s dignity in a hostile environment.

Through the lives of three characters: Jules Cesar, the djembe maker and player, Bouba the village club manager of a neighborhood movie salon that also serves as a praying place, and Abbo a fifty year old senior technician who decided to be a public letter writer. Jean-Marie Teno lays out his rich very complex and profound observations on many paradoxes of today’s Africa. One of the many contradictions the director displays is the absence of African films in African distribution at a time of remarkable technological advances.

Jean-Marie Teno
Born in Cameroon, Jean-Marie Teno arrived in France in 1978 and has been producing and directing social issue films on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty five years for international television broadcast and theatrical release. His films are noted for their personal and original approach to issues of race, cultural identity, African history and contemporary politics.

Teno’s films have been honored at festivals worldwide: Berlin, Toronto, Yamagata, Cinéma du Réel, Visions du Réel, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Liepzig, San Francisco, and London. Many have been broadcast in Europe and featured in festivals across the United States. Teno has been a guest of the Flaherty Seminar, an artist in residence at the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California,Berkeley, a Copeland Fellow in Amherst College, and has lectured at numerous universities.

More about Jean-Marie Teno: https://vimeo.com/user5688138/about

Hakuna Dawa Tamu//A Bitter Pill by Biko Wesa & Olivia Howland, Mar. 23-30 2019 @ National Museum


Dates: March 23-30, 2019
Venue: National Museum of Kenya
Entry: Museum Rates Apply

About
A visual exploration of indigenous medicines and healers in contemporary Kenya.

Hakuna Dawa Tamu//A Bitter Pill uses images and narratives from healers in contemporary rural Kenya to explore what we consider to be legitimate forms of healing and health seeking behaviour. The exhibition encourages us to think critically about assumed healthcare norms and clinical hegemony in our society. When we confront these images and narratives, we are forced to confront our own assumptions and perceptions of normative decision making. Personal narratives from the healers themselves allow us a window into an often invisible world, where individual actors are criticised and demonised by wider society. We ask that you open your minds to understand the broader, structural level issues at play in health decision making, and think critically about what we perceive to be legitimate and effective medicine in contemporary Kenya.

To read more about the artists follow these links:
Biko Wesa:
Instagram: @bikowesa
http://www.bikowesa.co.ke

Olivia Howland:
http://www.oliviahowland.wix.com/oliviahowland