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Out of Town/Concert: Progressive Strings of Vienna, Apr. 30 2016 @ Tamarind Mombasa

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The Austrian Embassy Presents Bartolomey Bittmann in Progressive Strings of Vienna during the occasion to celebrate the reopening of its Honorary Consulate in Mombasa.

Date: April 30, 2016
Venue: Tamarind Mombasa
Time: 7.30 pm
Tickets (Concert and Dinner): KES3,500/-
Reservations: reservations.mombasa@tamarind.co.ke /0733 565 711 or 0722 205 160

The Honorary Consulate is reopening after it had to close in late 2012 because of the ill health of the previous Honorary Consul.

Find more information, about the Bartolomey Bittmann, here and about the concert on the Austrian Embassy Nairobi’s Facebook Page.

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Out of Town: Kilifi 4X4 Challenge, Apr. 30 2016 @ Kilifi Plantation

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Kilifi 4×4 Challenge
Date: April 30, 2016
Spectator Entry Fee: KES 500

Competitors Entry Fee: Expert team: KES 15,000, Intermediate team: KES 10,000, Quad Team: KES 7,000
Location: Kilifi Plantation
Time: 10 am till Dawn

About
The 1st edition of The Kilifi 4 x 4 Challenge is organised by Biz Baz Events and the Bundu Rovers Club.

The Kilifi 4 x 4 Challenge is the first challenge-type, extreme 4 x 4 event to be held in Kilifi and will be an exciting spectacle that captures the competitive spirit of off-road motor sport at the Kenyan Coast.
The challenge track will meander through scenic bush tracks in Kilifi Plantation with competitors taking on a variety of off-road terrain and challenges along the course in the hunt for glory!

The Kilifi 4 x 4 Challenge will donate a portion of proceeds towards supporting the Flying Doctors Obstetric Fistula Camp Project which is said to launch at Kilifi Level 5 hospital on May 23rd- International Day to End Obstetric Fistula. The aim of the camp is to provide funding for 50 surgeries.

http://www.bizbazevents.com/

Music Performance & Workshop

Critical Conversations: Theatre and Music Performance by Octopizzo, Apr. 29 2016 @ Alliance Francaise

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Music Performance & Workshop
Workshop and Performance
Date and time: Friday, 29th April 2016, 6.30 pm
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Admission: free

About
As part of the project, a theatre workshop will be featured with refugees who live in Nairobi. The workshop will be directed by the Italian artist Olivier Marcal. At the end of this workshop a short performance will be presented that shows its results. Moreover the Kenyan Hip Hop great Octopizzo will perform together with refugees from Kakuma and Dadaab, as well as Nairobi, who are working in the field of music.

Displacement and Refuge

Discussion: Displacement and Refuge – Refugees in Kenya, Apr. 28 2016 @ Goethe Institut

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Displacement and Refuge
Date: April 28,2016
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Time: 6 pm
Admission: free

About
The second edition of Displacement and Refuge focuses on Somali Refugees in Kenya.

The panel will include Abdullahi Mire, a staff member from World Food Programme and will be moderated by Rasna Warah. Abdullahi Mire, who lived in Daadab for the better part of his life, started activism for the rights of refugees and continues to fight for the rights of refugees from Nairobi. He has written for Al Jazeera, CBC and UNHCR on refugee rights. Warah is a journalist and author and her research interests include the politics of aid, cities and urbanization, Somalia and questions surrounding identity in Kenya.

Of Ships Passing in the Night

Exhibition: Of Ships Passing in the Night, Apr. 27 – May 27 2016 @ Goethe Institut & Alliance Française

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Of Ships Passing in the Night
“Of Ships Passing in the Night” is an art and photo exhibition which addresses the topic of migration and refuge.

Opening: Wednesday 27th April 2016, 6.30 pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday 28th April to Friday 27th May 2016
Venue: Alliance Française and Goethe Institut
Admission: Free

About
Voluntary and forced mass movements have been some of the major phenomena of the last 100 years. Difficult realities and the aspiration towards a better future have compelled human beings to make the dicult decision to move elsewhere. Artists in most societies have created works that address not only the physicality of displacement but also the changes that emerge as a result of migration. Some of these changes are the trauma of forced displacement, the adjustment to new
influences and cultures, the plight of those left behind and the universal desire for holistic progress.

A number of Kenyan artists have interrogated the displacement of mankind in their work. Their approaches to this issue are diverse, ranging from personal and institutional rituals of travel to the anatomy of those trapped in a form of no-man’s land.

This exhibition provides a tiny snippet into some of the artistic engagements around the issue of ‘Migrations and Refugees’ taking place within Kenya. A number of additional practitioners who enrich this exhibition are currently classi ed as refugees. The exhibition has been developed by Peterson Kamwathi, assisted by Thom Ogonga.

Exhibiting Artists: Mugisho Abija, Hassan Abdirahman Barre, Muktar Bashir, Mahet Ecubay, Jackie Karuti, Kivuthi Mbuno, Noor Ali Mudey, Patrick Mukabi, Alpha Mukange Mukangala, Shabu Mwangi, Longinos Nagila, Martin Onyis, Ray Piwi, Michael Soi, Koang Thakiy Stephena, Feleke Gebryes Tariku, Hamwenayo Vivier Tresor and Willy Wambugu.

Photo exhibition
The exhibition uses images from Agence France Presse (AFP), Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) and Kenyan photographers to show the varying experiences of refugees in France, Germany and Kenya. The images show differing attitudes in and approaches by these countries in their eorts to control, embrace and facilitate the lives of refugees. The exhibition has been curated by Carl de Souza (AFP Chief Photographer, East Africa), Kirsten Milhan (Freelance Africa Correspondent, FOCUS-Magazine) and Thomas Mukoya (Kenya Reuters Photographer).

One Image, Three Perspectives

Critical Conversations: Reporting the plight of refugees in France, Germany & Kenya, Apr. 26 2016 @ Goethe-Institut Auditorium

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One Image, Three Perspectives
Date and time: Tuesday 26th April 2016, 6.30 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Admission: free

About
Journalists from France, Germany and Kenya will discuss the following questions. How is the refugee crisis presented by the media in France, Germany and Kenya? Who reports on which aspects and topics of the refugee crisis? Whose stories are told? What is the difference between the journalistic coverage in the three countries? Why is migration in many reports connected to questions of internal security and national defense?

The panel will be moderated by the Kenyan journalist and actor John Sibi-Okumu. The Kenyan participant will be Mohamed Adow, a Kenyan-Somalian journalist who is writing for Al Jazeera. The German contribution will be Katrin Lindner who is working for the German public-service television broadcaster ZDF. The French participant will be Andrea Palasciano who works for the French news agency AFP including the sector AFP Africa.