Date: February 26, 2016
Venue: Kenya School of Government
Time: from 5 pm
Entry: Registration and for more information
Homage: to Umberto Eco, Feb. 26 2016 @ the Italian Institute of Culture – Westlands
Date: February 26, 2016
Venue: the Italian Institute of Culture – Westlands
Pambazuka Africa! Africa Arise with Our Music, Foods, Crafts & Games, Feb. 20 2016 @ Paa ya Paa
Date: February 20, 2016
Venue: Paa ya Paa Art Centre, Ridgeways – Kiambu Road
Cinema Japan: Happy Flight, Feb. 27 2016 @ Japan Information & Culture Centre
The Japan Information & Culture Centre invites you to the screening of the movie “Happy Flight” which will be shown on Saturday, February 27, 2016.
Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans but prior registration is required.
Date: Saturday, February 27, 2016
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Gates Open: 1:30 p.m.
Synopsis
The story mainly takes place on board the flight No.1980 bound for Honolulu from Japan. For Suzuki Kazuhiro, the co-pilot, this flight is the final test for his promotion to become captain. For Saito Etsuko, a newly recruited cabin attendant, this is her memorable debut on an international flight. However, the aircraft hits a bird soon after takeoff and the aircraft is forced to turn back to Japan due to technical failures. Then they are faced with yet another challenge – difficult landing conditions due to an approaching typhoon. They manage to overcome the challenge with the help of instructions issued by the operation control center on the ground. The young crew in aviation-related occupations grows in experience after this bittersweet but fulfilling flight.We encourage you to come with a friend(s) for this movie.
To register for the movie screening, kindly provide us with your name, ID Number and contact details (via email [jinfocul@nb.mofa.go.jp] or through a phone call [020-2898510]).
Deadline for registration is Friday, February 26, 2016 at 4:00pm. If you plan to attend the movie with a friend(s), please provide us with your friend’s name when you register for yourself.
For more information on the movie, please refer the poster attached; call 020-2898510; email jinfocul@nb.mofa.go.jp or have a look at the Cinema Japan Page on our website (http://www.ke.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/CinemaJapan.html)
Exhibition: by Souad Abdel Rassoul – Egypt & Salah Elmur – Sudan, Feb. 21 2016 @ Red Hill Art Gallery
About
Souad Abdel Rassoul holds a Master’s Degree in History of Art and a PhD in Modern Art History. Her artistic practice spans the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture and graphic design.
The current exhibition presents a wide range of ink-colour-mixed media drawings set on the wide perspective of maps, densely detailed and a pleasure to investigate.
Souad lives and works in Cairo.Her Sudanese husband, Salah Elmur, presents his latest large scale canvases, naive, distorted human figures on colourful background; lately shown in the prestigious Mashrabia Gallery in Cairo and in the Dubai Art Fair.
Salah Elmur lives and works partly in Cairo and partly in Khartoum.
Directions to the Gallery
From Village Market join Limuru Road. After 13km turn left down a dirt road, signposted “The Retreat”, continue for 200m, keep left (ignore the road climbing sharply right), after 50m take the right smaller track. Red Hill Art Gallery is located at the end of the track on the left side (red metal gate) Karibu!e-mail: info@redhillartgallery.com
Mobile: 0700 108989 / 0700 108626
Street Art Festival: Wall to Mall W/ Berlin Street Artists, Feb. 15-20 2016 @ the Village Market
Dates: February 15-20, 2016
Venue: the Village Market
2nd Annual Mardi Gras Parade, Feb. 27 2016 @ Luna Amusement Park, Kiambu Road
It’s that time of year again!! The City of Nairobi will let the good times roll with its 2nd Annual Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday, February 27, 2016, at Luna Amusement Park, Kiambu Road.
The Celebration will start at 6pm with food, live music, body painting and AMUSEMENT PARK RIDES… Yes, you read right – bumper cars, banana boats, merry-go-rounds and a gigantic ferris wheel!
Complemented by the starry sky and extraordinary light installations, the parade will roll out from within the amusement park at 11pm with floats, music, dancers and more and there will be lots of candy and beads tossed to the crowd. GET YOUR OUTFITS READY!
THE LINEUP: Jojo Abot (GH/UK), Kadhalika (KE), Jinku (KE), Disco Vumbi (KE), Gregg Tendwa (Bengatronics) (KE), KAYA Brass Marching Band (KE/UK), Cybersnack (DE), Marcu Ezra (KE), Noise On Demand – N.O.D (KE), Shaq Deff (KE) and all the parade participants…….
Thursday Nite Live Ft. Lulu Abdalla, Feb. 25 2016 @ Choices – Baricho Road
Date: February 25, 2016
Venue: Choices, Baricho Road
Time: 8-11 pm
No Cover Charge
Pan-Nile Music Concert, Feb. 28 2016 @ Alliance Française Gardens
Date: February 28, 2016
Venue: Alliance Française Gardens
Time: 7 pm
Tickets: 1000/- at the Gate
About
The Nile Project is an exceptional cross-cultural collaboration, its members hailing from all along the great river that connects eleven countries and over 400 million people, from its sources beyond Lake Victoria to its delta in Egypt. Through its innovative musical process that allows its artists to leverage each other’s strengths, the project unearths unique sound representative of the Nile watershed as a whole.Musicians include: Claude Ciza (Burundi), Ahmed Omar (Eritrea), Endalekachew Niguse, Roza Kifle,Dawit Seyoum Estifanos (Ethiopia), Mohamed Kamal, Adel Mekha, Saleeb Lowza, Nader El Shaer (Egypt), Rapasa Nyatrapasa, Kasiva Mutua (Kenya), Asia Madani (Sudan) and Msafiri Zawose (Tanzania).
Safaricom Jazz Festival Ft. Branford Marsalis, Feb. 21 2016 @ Training Grounds – Safaricom Stadium, Kasarani
Dates: February 21, 2016
Venue: Training Grounds – Safaricom Stadium, Kasarani
Time: Doors Open at 10 am – Show starts at 12 noon
Tickets: Regular: KES 1,000/-
Performing Artists: Branford Marsalis, Jef Neve Trio, Afrosync, Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat, Sons of Kemet, Edward Perseen & the Different Faces Band, Kunle Ayo and Siya Makuzeni