Slum Drummers are a group of guys coming from Waithaka, Dagoretti. They use music as a mean for raising community awareness on the life in the slums and to involve street children in the programme of psychosocial support run by Italian NGO GRT.
Tickets 500ksh,
Students, children, musicians, disabled people, CBOs members: 250ksh
Music for Passiontide: Thurs 29 March, St Francis Church, Ngong Road (just before the turning onto Karen Road) Karen, 7:30pm
This concert will feature choral music written in the 16th, 17th and 20th centuries to be sung in Holy Week. It will be sung by an amateur chamber group led by Stuart Tibbs. The main work is the setting of the St John Passion by Heinrich Schutz (English translation) written sixty years before the Bach version. Schutz’s Passion is a beautiful, dramatic and moving account of events from Jesus’ arrest in the Garden of Gethsamane up to his Crucifixion. Jamie Munn will sing the Evangelist, Stuart Tibbs will sing the parts of the characters.
The programme will start with Maurice Durufle’s setting of Ubi Caritas et Amor, a hymn for Maundy Thursday and the last supper. Then there will be two settings of psalms associated with Lent: a plainchant version of Psalm 22; and Allegri’s famous version of Psalm 51 – Miserere Mei. After the Schutz, the concert will finish with a short but stunning 8-part setting by Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus.
Tickets (KSh 200) will only be available on the door. The church can seat at least 300 people; seats will be allocated first come first served.
Artist: KEVIN ODUOR
Exhibition Title: ‘Existence’
OPENING: Wednesday, March 28th, 6pm. Kuona Trust Gallery (Beer and Wine available)
Exhibition Dates: March 29th – April 10th
Venue: Kuona Trust, Centre for Visual Arts. Likoni Close, off Denis Pritt, Hurlingham.
For those of you not inclined to artistic practice but still possess a curiosity about art and creativity, this exhibition will send your mind on a tangent of questions that will leave you wanting to know more. Questions about being human; about being alive! What is the thing about a thing that makes it a thing? Is it its form, its material, or our experience of it – our human perception?
Renowned sculptor, Kevin Oduor investigates the form of the everyday object resulting in conceptual installations that will leave you questioning ‘existence.’ His delicate aesthetic tells a story of French rococo elegance, adding a feminine temperance to the flow of drapery caught in time. This process and concept is something never explored by a Nairobi-based sculptor and Oduor stands out as pioneer in the field of three dimensional expression. Having practiced for twenty years now, he has worked primarily on commissions but has had ideas brewing in his mind. Finally they are out and for all to see. This exhibition is site to behold!
Kevin Oduor – the artist behind the statue of Dedan Kimathi in Nairobi’s CBD has over twenty years’ experience as a sculptor. He started off as a painter after high school, his love for art was inflamed when he met the late Ruth Schaffner of Gallery Watatu, who mentored him to the world of art. Twenty years on Kevin has become a mentor of note himself.
Kevin draws inspiration from human nature and from throughout the animal kingdom. He would like to give people the opportunity to see nature as he perceives it. Kevin has done numerous commissions and has had several successful international works; one of the most recent being in Saragossa in Spain. Other pieces as he puts ‘are all over’ he recalls fondly a life size buffalo in the Meru National Park, a commission to commemorate the eradication of a disease epidemic that had been attacking cows and buffalos. He uses fiber glass, metal and found objects having initially started his career working in clay.
Heartstrings Kenya presents The King of Wits, Larry Asego on stage in this month’s one-man stand-up hit comedy #HOT SEAT.
The most sought-after public stand-up comedian, Larry Asego will literally give us the alphabetical A to Z of what men hate and women like; blow by blow.
Hosted by Dan ‘’ Churchill’’ Ndambuki
Directed by: Sammy Mwangi and Victor Ber
Date: Saturday 24th March 2012
Time: 7pm. Gates open from 6:30pm
Venue: Le Jardins, Alliance Française – Nairobi
Charges: 500/=
Call: 0721 608656
Drinks and snacks will be sold.
At 10am (for 10:30) to 12:00pm.
This TEDx event screens previous TED talks followed by discussion about them
This Weeks Theme: Elevating human consciousness
Talk 1 – Bryan Stevenson: http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice.html
Talk 2 – Richard Wilkinson: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
Hosted by: Irfan Keshavjee
Out of Africa, The Magic of Kenya is a musical theatre show that highlights the Kenyan culture and traditions through song, dance and costume. This musical is set to promote Kenyan culture in Europe during a 3 month European tour with a minimum of 70 theatre performances.
WHO: The musical theater show is produced by Peter Ultee Productions B.V. (Amsterdam,
Netherlands) and supported by the Kenya Tourist Board (Kenya and Europe agencies). Mr. Peter Ultee is a renowned producer known for his African musical Theatre shows that have been in the European market for the last 25 years i.e. Township Boy, Under African skies, Stamping, Soweto Spiritual Singers (performed at the 2010 FIFA world cup opening with R.Kelly), African Mamas(toured Europe for 7 years), Daughters of Africa (was staged for Her Royal Princess Maxima of the Netherlands and Mr. Kofi Annan), Sing Mama Africa- a tribute to Miriam Makeba among others. The production is weaved together by an international team of experts; the Executive Producer-Gloria Orwoba, Artistic stage Director-Mrs. Leoni Jansen, Artistic stage assistant-Oscar Siegela, Dance Choreographer-Portia Lebohang among others.
First Auditions (Kenya National Theater)
– Friday 23rd March 2012 (Singers/Dancers Auditions by appointment)
– Saturday 24th March 2012 (Singers/Dancers Open Auditions)
– Monday 26th March 2012 (Band Auditions)
Training and short list auditions – 26th – 31st March 2012 (Kenya National Theater)
For booking of audition slots email outofafricashow@yahoo.com
