James Mweu at One Off

Visual & Performance Art by James Mweu, Jul. 28 – Aug. 21 2013 @ One Off

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James Mweu at One Off
A day of visual and performance art from James Mweu with the added honour of Binyavanga Wainaina, to add a literary slant to proceedings

Date: Sunday 28th of July
Venue: One Off Contemporary Gallery
Location: #16 Rosslyn Lone Tree
Time: 11am to 5pm

Exhibition Dates: Until August 21, 2013

James Mwau is best known in Kenya for his work as a dancer.

In this exhibition he presents extraordinarily intimate photographs of the living spaces of his friends in Kibera.
He will also dance with Kunja Dancers on a number of occasions throughout the day.

Binyavanga Wainaina won the 2002 Caine Prize for African writing. He is the founding editor of Kwani and has taught at Union and Williams College. He is the Director of the Chinua Achebe Centre for African Writers and Artists at Bard College. One of his most recent works is the memoir One day I will write about this place.

Type Faces

Exhibition: Typefaces & Heroes by Brian Omolo, Aug. 2 – 23 @ Que pasa Bar & Bistro

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Type Faces
Typeface & heroes is an art exhibition of Brian Omolo’s latest works

Opening: August 2, 2013
Venue: the Que pasa Bar & Bistro
Time: 6 pm

Exhibition Runs until August 23, 2013

The typeface artworks are little wisdoms and experiences that the artist has picked up along his journey as a designer, boiled down into a series of artworks that people can enjoy.

The hero artworks are an attempt to show a cross cultural upbringing. Growing up we all loved heroes like superman and batman but also loved hearing about the mighty animals of the wild like lions, tigers and gorillas so the idea of mixing them together to see awesomeness happen was quite fascinating.

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Nairobi Live Pres. Harry Kimani, Jul. 25 2013 @ Tree House Club

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Nairobi Live presents Harry Kimani

Date: July 25, 2013
Venue: Tree House Club
Entrance: Free

Harry Kimani is an award winning musician and composer, a fine voice, an excellent guitarist and passionate composer is the best way to describe him. This superstar musician has already become a leader of his own style and we still haven’t heard anything yet. Harry Kimani can be described as Africa’s answer to John Mayer.

Harry Kimani has three albums to his name, African Woman 2001, Unborn 2004, Tuishi Mi Nawe 2007 probably the best selling album in Kenya.

Harry Kimani is currently working on his fourth studio album, which is due late this year. You should keep your selves posted because this is going to be the best album out of East Africa ever.

Harry has had various achievements as an artist and has had various nominations and won different awards around the region like.

• 2005 Kisima Music Awards for Best Song of the year for the Song HAIYA.
• 2005 Kisima Music Awards for Best Music Video of the year for HAIYA
• His also been nominated for the most promising male artist by the Kora Awards 2005.

Harry Kimani has performed alongside a number of international musicians such as Hugh Masekhela, Richard Bona, Thandiswa Mazwai, Baaba Maal, The Band Blof, Tracy Chapman, and many other artists.

Harry has performed for various audiences around the world in Europe and Africa His recent performances have included the Festival Mundial, North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, North Sea Jazz Salutes Nairobi, and Bløf’s Umoja Project launch in Amsterdam, Kenya Independence celebrations in South Africa, and many more concerts.

In the maestros own words, “My music comes from the heart. It is in my essence, and that’s what comes through my music.” When we compiled the album “Unborn”, it was just as the name suggests, unborn. There has to be a beginning to something, and this is definitely the continuation of a great journey into music.
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