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Play: The Gods You’ve Built by Masvingo Drama – Zimbabwean Company, Oct. 20 2014 @ The Theatre Company Studio

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Date: Monday 20th October, 2014
Venue: At The Theatre Company Studio,
Location: The Creative Centre, Lwr. Kabete Rd
Time: 5pm
Tickets: 1,000/- Seating limited to 50
Contact 0722 554 372 for reservations

After a successful tour in South Africa, Zimbabwean company Masvingo Drama Circle’s gut-wrenching play, The Gods You’ve Built will be staged in Nairobi on October 20th at 5pm.

Masvingo Drama Circle has just returned from Durban, where the play was performed at the Isigcawu Theatre Festival before making trips to the Pretoria State Theatre and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.

Written by Tawanda Kanengoni and directed by Leeroy Gono, The Gods You’ve Built is set over the period of one night in an abandoned toilet.

Three people — Brian, Rudo and Pamhidzai — converge in a tragic and tumultuous turn of events that leaves two of them dead and one changed forever.

Preview:

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Launch of Heroes for Peace + Performance of Kimbia by the Theatre Company, Oct. 20 2014 @ August 7th Memorial Park

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The Theatre Company of Kenya and August 7th Memorial Trust invite you for the Launch of Heroes for Peace with renowned Kenyan Athletes. The day will be highlighted by a gripping performance of our Fire by Ten Touring show 2013/2014 Kimbia; five short plays based on the thrills, temptations, desires and fears of Kenyan Athletes

SHOW DATE: Monday, 20th, October, 2014
VENUE: August 7th Memorial Park
TIME: 10:00am( Show starts at 12noon)
Cost of Tickets: Kes 200 for kids and 500 for adults
For tickets please contact Liz Enane on 0728848137 or Annbel 0722 323 302

Synopsis of Kimbia:
The world knows Kenya as a running nation. Since its inception in the 1950’s, athletics has grown into a nationalist sport- a symbol of national unity and pride. Kenyan runners are loved and admired worldwide. However, little is known about them as people and what they go through to achieve such great heights. In order to tell the story of the athletes, The Theatre Company of Kenya has developed, in close consultation with the actual runners, a brand new performance called ‘Kimbia’, which literally means, “run”. ‘Kimbia’ is an exciting, innovative and collaborative theatrical show about the life and times of Kenyan athletes.

The five plays that make up ‘Kimbia’ are:
1. The Race by Cajetan Boy,
2. When the Door Opens by Joseph Murungu,
3. Just a Man by Edward Nthiga,
4. Doping by Ogutu Muraya,
5. Usiguskong (which means ‘Don’t Look Back’) by Joseph Gichinga.

Directed by Liz Enane and Mido Dembede. Original music composed and arranged by the cast and directors. Movement and dance choreography by Joseph Gichinga.

All actors are, just like the runners, Kenyan talent, professionally trained at facilities of The Theatre Company around the country.

For a short preview have a look at the following link: https://vimeo.com/786078

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Kampala Contemporary Art Festival, Oct. 4-31 2014 @ Kampala Railway Station & 28 Locations Across the City

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KLA ART 014, Kampala Contemporary Art Festival
Theme: “Unmapped” Who are the unheard voices of our cities?

Dates: 4th – 31st October 2014
Venue: Kampala Railway Station & 28 Locations Across the City
For the month of October, thirty artists from Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Congo and Rwanda will unveil
new artworks across Kampala.

The festival will see the reopening of Kampala’s Railway Station to the public for an exhibition that will feature the work of ten artists, showcasing their interpretation of the “Unmapped”.

“The bicycle knife sharpener; the express fashion designer; the mobile nail salon: they fill every corner of the city. ‘Unmapped’ will attempt to artistically showcase how people from every stratum of society adapt creatively to survive” Violet Nantume, Curatorial Committee, KLA ART 014

Five Ugandan curators, working with renowned South African curator Gabi Ngcobo, have selected the artists, who include Helen Nabukenya; a visual artist from Uganda who uses discarded fabric to create vast tapestries depicting the overlooked, the forgotten and the rejected. From Kenya, Dennis Muraguri explores the matatu; presenting it, not only as a transport tool, but also as a space for intriguing gossip and communication.

Reaching out directly to the public, twenty boda bodas (motorcycle taxis) will be turned into artworks, ‘mapping’ Kampala, by forming temporary exhibition spaces in pre–‐‑selected locations across the capital. Ugandan artist Kizito Mbuga will transform a boda boda into a travelling cinema; whilst Ogwang Jimmy John will turn another into an interactive recording studio, which maps the ‘unheard’ musicians of the city. The mobile exhibition will attract new audiences from every corner of Kampala, from the iconic Independence Monument to bustling Ggaba market on the shores of Lake Victoria.

“Building on the success of the festival in 2012, KLA ART 014 offers a platform to showcase new and emerging ideas by contemporary Ugandan artists. KLA ART is a two–‐‑year process of thought, production and experimentation resulting in a unique festival, which directly links artists, artworks and audiences” Rocca Gutteridge, Project Director, KLA ART 014

“Umeme has partnered with KLA ART 014 to celebrate and support art as a driver of community togetherness, self-development and cultural diversity” Core Supporting Partner, Umeme (Energy distribution company, Uganda)

For more information visit http://klaart.org/

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Concert : Playing Outside the Box – The Cnirbs Jazz Trio Tours Africa, Oct. 18 2014 @ Goethe-Institut Auditorium

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Playing Outside the Box - The Cnirbs Jazz Trio Tours Africa,
Date & Time: Saturday, 18th October 2014, 7.00 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Admission: free

CNIRBS is off on a tour of seven different African countries with their new record Hey Kollege. They are looking forward to garnering interesting impressions, new encounters and perhaps a new fan or two.

Don’t miss their performance in Nairobi at Goethe-Institut.

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[Postponed to Next Year] Screening: The Ambassador by Mads Brugger, Oct. 31 2014 @ Docubox Offices

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Screening: The Ambassador by Mads Brugger
Screening: The Ambassador by Mads Brugger
Date: October 31, 2014 [Postponed to Next Year] Venue: Docubox Offices
Time: 6.30-8.30 pm

About
In his new stunt documentary, “The Ambassador,” the Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brugger impersonates a European adventurer seeking his fortune in Africa. This character, named Mads Cortzen, might have been dreamed up by Joseph Conrad in collaboration with Sacha Baron Cohen. A slender, dapper fellow with a ginger beard and an ironical manner, Cortzen motors around Liberia and the Central African Republic in a flag-festooned Volvo, handing out bribes and secretly recording his meetings with government ministers, diamond mine owners and shady passport brokers. Mr. Brugger’s voice-over briskly explains the rules and risks associated with his imposture, and reveals a world in which everything seems to be for sale. His first purchase is a Liberian diplomatic credential, which he thinks will allow him to operate in the Central African Republic with impunity as he buys conflict gems and sets up a match factory. Nothing is quite as simple as it seems. A Dutch fixer and Liberian officials, in spite of thousands of dollars in fees and “donations,” cannot put his papers in order, placing him at risk of arrest or worse. His Central African partners might be ripping him off, and it becomes hard to tell if Cortzen is master of the mock-diplomatic game or the world’s biggest sucker.

It is also sometimes difficult to read Mr. Brugger’s intentions. “The Ambassador” is both a satire of European cynicism and an exposé of African corruption, but a crucial element of social or ethical concern is missing. There is, for example, no sense of the toll that venal governments and abusive business practices exact on ordinary Africans, and the arrogant contempt that his alter ego shows for the Central African Republic and its people sometimes seems to belong to Mr. Brugger as well.

But much of what he was able to record — the deadpan viciousness of a French mercenary in charge of state security; the casual greed of fellow diplomats; the pomposity and duplicity of local bureaucrats — is genuinely appalling. Mr. Brugger’s portrait of shameless, routine collusion between exploitative foreigners and dysfunctional dictatorships is depressing and undeniable.

Unless, that is, “The Ambassador” is even more of a hoax than it seems to be. This strikes me as plausible, since somebody having this much fun in such proximity to horror may not be completely trustworthy. Via http://www.nytimes.com/


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Cinema Japan: Robo-G, Oct. 25 2014 @ Japan Information & Culture Centre

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The Japan Information & Culture Centre invites you to the screening of the movie “ROBO-G” which will be shown on Saturday, 25th October 2014.

Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans.

Next Screening: ROBO-G
Date: Saturday, 25th October 2014
Time: 2:00p.m.
Gates Open: 1:30pm
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill

Synopsis
Consumer electronics company employee Kobayashi (Hamada Gaku) is ordered to develop a bipedal robot, but fails miserably. He comes up with a plan to pass off a human in a suit as a robot, and finds an elderly man named Suzuki (Igarashi) who fits inside the suit perfectly, but….