Date: May 27, 2017
Venue: GoDown Arts Centre
Time: from 3 pm
No Cover Charge
Performances by: Third Hand Music, Amos & Josh and Gogosimo
About
The monthly GoDown Gig is a fun-filled platform designed to showcase local talent at its best, and is open and free for audiences from all over Nairobi.
Date: May 25, 2017
Venue: J’s, Westlands
Time: 8-11 pm
No Cover Charge
Date: May 21, 2017
Venue: 910 James Gichuru
Time: 1-7 pm
Entry: Free
Date: May 20, 2017
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 5.30 pm
Entry: Free
Synopsis
The film “Black Diamonds” uncovers the mechanisms of the lucrative international trade of hundreds of young African players with their heads full of dreams who are ready for tremendous sacrifices to become the new football superstars.
They came to Europe from Africa at the age of 15 year old and the promise of becoming football stars. Amadou and Moussa, childhood friends, are captured in Mali by agents, separated from their families and trained in Madrid to triumph.
A trip through Spain, Portugal and northern Europe, teaches them firsthand the shadows of the so-called king sport, a business that stopped treating them like children to see them as ‘Black Diamonds’.
PS: The new Spanish Ambassador, H.E. Javier García de Viedma, will attend the screening.
Museums and Contested Histories: Saying the unspeakable in Museums
Date & time: Saturday 20 May 2017, from 4 pm
Cost: Adult Ksh 400, Student Ksh 200
Advance payment options: Safaricom: Mpesa Paybill, Business No: 400800, Account No: 6571570019, Airtel Money: 0780 755 231
About
This will be an inaugural talk by Dr. Mordecai Ogada and John Mbaria, based on their recently published book – The big conservation lie!National Museums of Kenya is a leading conservation institution and a platform for intellectual discourse on every issue cultural, heritage conservation.
So what is the lie?
Join us!
Bookings: 0724 255 299, 0780 755 231 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org, Wireless: 020 2339158
Dates: May 17 – June 4, 2017
Venue: the Polka Dot Art Gallery
Dates: May 16-24, 2017
Venues: Alliance Française & National Museum of Kenya
Entry: Free
Programme
Download the EFF Screening Schedule (pdf)
Week 1 – at Alliance Française (junction of Loita and Monrovia Streets, near the University of Nairobi)
15 May 19.30 Victoria (drama/crime), Germany/Austria – by invitation only
16 May 17.30 Young Offenders (comedy), Ireland
16 May 19.30 Teorie Tygra – Tiger Theory (comedy), Czech Republic
17 May 17.30 Hotell – Hotel (drama), Sweden
18 May 17.30 Cahier Africain – African notebook (documentary), Switzerland
18 May 19.30 Takaisin Pintaan – Diving into the Unknown (documentary), Finland
19 May 17.30 Les Chavaliers Blancs – The White Knights (drama), France
19 May 19.30 Notes on Blindness (documentary), United Kingdom
20 May 15.30 Labyrinthus (family), Belgium
20 May 17.30 Diamantes Negros – Black Diamonds (drama), Spain
20 May 19.30 Moje córki krowy – These Daughters of Mine (comedy), Poland
21 May 15.30 Karpuz Kabungundan Gemiler Yapmak – Boats of Watermelon Rinds (family), Turkey
21 May 17.30 S Tebou ma bavi Slovenko – From Slovakia with Love (documentary), Slovakia
21 May 19.30 De Surprise – The Surprise (comedy), NetherlandsWeek 2 – at the National Museum of Kenya (Kipande Road, Westlands)
22 May 17.30 L’Oriana (drama), Italy
23 May 17.30 Tokyo Fianceé – (comedy), Belgium
23 May 19.30 Victoria – (drama/crime), Germany/Austria
24 May 19.30 Gatos não Têm Vertigens – Cats Don’t Have Vertigo (comedy), Portugal
More information, here
Dates: Until May 23, 2017
Venue: Circle Art Gallery, 910 James Gichuru Road
Time: weekdays 10 am – 5 pm and Saturdays 12 pm – 5 pm
Exhibition by 17 artists from Khartoum, namely; Kamala Ishaq, Elamin Osman, Bakri Bilal, Mohamed Otaybi, AbdellaEtayeb, Abdelbasit El Khatim, Rashid Diab, Abushariaa Ahmed, Ashraf Ahmed, Ashraf Mohamed, Salah Elmur, IssamHafiez, Mohammed MordaMiska, Elhassan Elmuontasir, Hazim Mohamed, Laila Mukhtar and Amel Bashier
http://www.circleartagency.com/
“Saying the unspeakable in museums” at the Nairobi Museum during the International Museum Day – May 18 2017
Theme: Museums and Contested Histories – Saying the Unspeakable in Museums
Open to public from Thurs 18th May 11am
Exhibition 1: by Michael Soi, Patrick Mukabi, Joseph Bertiers and others
Venue: Creativity Gallery
On Until May 30, 2017
An exhibition by artists who do not flinch from controversial issues.
Exhibition 2: in text and images by Patrick Abungu and Okoko Ashikoye
Venue: Temporary Gallery
On Until June 30, 2017
An exhibition on the abolition of slavery in East Africa and its legacy on contemporary Kenyan society of slave descent.
Dates: Until May 31, 2017
Venue: Alliance Française
