Dates: February 14, 2018
Venue: Alliance Française
Time: from 7 p.m.
Entry: Free
About
Simbin Project is an initiative of the Swiss multi-instrumentalist and producer Fred Hirschy. The strength of the project consists in bringing together the kora virtuoso, Noumoucounda, with experimental musicians, thus creating a unique mix between traditional and ultra-modern music.
This one of a kind concert in Nairobi follows on from the group’s performance at the Sauti za Busara Festival in Zanzibar.
The concert will also feature Kenya’s very own Kasiva Mutua on percussions and Judith Bwire on the nyatiti.
Dates: February 10-11, 2018
Venue: BIEA Seminar Room and Compound
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
About
Kikulacho, Nairobi brings together a diversity of thinkers, artists and cultural producers in an artistic process which seeks to absorb, engage with and reflect upon people’s complex relationships with, and experiences of, food and the ‘stuff’ of food. This project follows on from the success of Remains, Waste and Metonymy I in 2015/16, and Remains, Waste and Metonymy II: Sensing Nairobi in 2017.
Food, and the nourishment it provides is vital in multiple and diverse ways; and it becomes central to people’s everyday experiences. Our relationship with and experience of food, its associated practices and the ‘stuff’ of food, is intriguingly complex, diverse, and ephemeral.
Kikulacho, Nairobi explores the ways that food – in all its diversity of material forms, practices, meanings, symbolic association and values – has, and continues, to form, and give shape to multiple, contradictory, sensorial experiences of and insights into urban living.
Using this as our central unifying theme, Remains Waste and Metonymy III: Kikulacho, Nairobiconsiders the ephemeral and material significance of food; the multiple functions and interplay between food, performance, ritual and identity; the spaces for food’s production, distribution and consumption; and the multiplicity of physical, social and political networks and relations in which food is embedded.
Dates: February 8 – 11, 2018
Venue: Alliance Française
Time(s): 7 pm (on 9 and 10th, Feb) and 3 and 6 pm (on 11th Feb.)
Tickets: Couples KES 2,000/- and regular KES 1,500/-
OneBeat, an international music residency and exchange sponsored by the U.S. State Department, is now accepting applications.
They are currently looking for talented musicians (ages 19-35) from Madagascar and 44 other countries (Kenya, included) to apply to their 2018 program!
Application Dates: Jan. 8 – Feb. 9, 2018
About OneBeat
Now in its seventh year, OneBeat brings musicians (ages 19-35) from around the world to the U.S. for one month each fall to collaboratively write, produce, and perform original music, and develop strategies for arts-based social engagement. OneBeat begins with an opening residency, when Fellows collaborate to create original material, record new musical ideas, and incubate their projects. OneBeat fellows then go on tour, performing for a wide array of American audiences, collaborating with local musicians, and leading workshops with youth.
During the month, each OneBeat musician also sets out their plans for the future, developing projects in their home countries linked to a mutually-reinforcing network of music-driven social enterprises.
OneBeat is a musical journey like no other. It is a chance for adventurous musicians from an incredible diversity of traditions to seek common ground, create new musical combinations, push the boundaries of music technology, and find ways to involve all members of society in the process of musical creativity.
OneBeat endeavors to be the nexus of a new way of thinking about how music can help us collectively build healthy communities, prosperous societies, and a more peaceful world. An initiative of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the groundbreaking New York-based music organization Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation, OneBeat employs collaborative original music as a potent new form of cultural diplomacy.
Submission Dates: March 9, 2018
Submission Venue: the GoDown Arts Centre
About
The submitted work should aim to present creative expression that explores the human interests, aspect of the city of Nairobi – Nairobians in their diverse settings, neighborhoods and lifestyles, at work, at play, etc.
Opening: February 7, 2018
Venue: Sankara, Nairobi
Time: from 6.30 pm
Entry: RSVP (linet.shavisa@sankara.com)
On Until: May 1, 2018
About
Once again One Off is delighted to partner with Sankara to host three talented artists in a group show titled ‘Reflections’; David Roberts with his sensitively rendered flowers and landscape portrayals of some of the remoter areas of Kenya; Linda Furniss with her refreshingly competent use of oil pastel in drawing some of Kenya’s best loved street scenes and finally, Olivia Pendergast’s oil paintings, which are proving to be one of the hottest ‘must haves’ on the art buyers wish list.
Please RSVP to linet.shavisa@sankara.com if you would like to attend the opening at Sankara on Wednesday 7 February.
