Comedy: Wrath of a Woman Scorned, Mar 10-11 2012 @ National Theatre

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The Festival of Creative Arts
brings you the riotous comedy “WRATH OF A WOMAN SCORNED”!!

“A secret threatens to tear apart a family as interfering neighbours
create humorous misunderstandings and chaos. Will the comic chaos
settle down long enough for the truth to emerge in this delightfully
funny comedy?”

Showing at the Kenya National Theatre on Saturday 10th March at 3, 6
and 8pm and on Sunday 11th March at 3 and 6pm. Tickets are available
for only 500 bob at Assanand Music Shop on Moi Avenue next to Jazz
Bar, Kenya National Theatre and Alliance Francaise. Call 0726-524-124,
0728-130-134, 0734524124 or 020-202-58-11 WRATH OF A WOMAN SCORNED!!

A Festival of Creative Arts production directed by Mbeki Mwalimu,
starring Derrick Amunga, Juma Williams, Martin Githinji, Nice
Githinji, Jackie Mungai, Veronica Waceke, Produced by Abuto Eliud

Live Argentine Tango recital by Michèle-H, Mar. 6 2012 @ Tree House

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Live Argentine Tango recital by Michèle-H, during La Milonga Patamango, 7:30 pm Tuesday 6 March 2012, free entrance

We are very pleased to present a live tango recital by actor, storyteller, dancer, and tango singer Michèle-H [ www.michele-h.net ] during the Tuesday 6 March Milonga Patamango! Michèle-H has lived and performed in numerous places around the world, including Buenos Aires, where she studied tango interpretation with some of the best contemporary tango vocalists there. She will be singing all the emotions of some of her favorite tango pieces… a live tango recital in Nairobi, during the course of the social tango dancing evening, starting from 7:30 pm, Tuesday 6 March 2012, at the Tree House Restaurant (previously known as Toona Tree) at the old International Casino Complex, off Westlands Rd just above Museum Hill. Entrance is free.

La Milonga Patamango — the only tango milonga between Cairo and Johannesburg — is proudly offered to you by the non-profit Patamango Association for Argentine Tango, whose mission is to develop the appreciation and practice of the art of tango dancing, within its musical and cultural context. Please always check the www.patamango.com website for any schedule changes, or contact nairobi.tango@patamango.com or +254 715 357 507.

Exhibition: Great Ideas come with Great Inspiration, Mar. 6-30 2012 @ National Museum

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NMK invites you to the opening of “Great Ideas come with Great Inspiration”. A solo exhibition of paintings by Peter N Mburu

Opening Date: March 6, 2012
Venue: National Museum, Creativity Gallery
Location: Museum Hill

Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Exhibition Dates: March 7-20, 2012

About the artist:
Peter Nyanjui Mburu is a talented Kenyan artist who has worked in various mediums. One of his great works is a life size relief train engine at the Man Eaters Of Tsavo corner inside the newly created History of Kenya gallery at Nairobi National Museum.

Attached please find your detailed copy of the artist’s profile.

Exhibition: Being Wanjiku, Mar. 8-31 2012 @ Alliance

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Dates: March 8-31, 2012
Venue: Alliance Française Exhibition Gallery

Wanjiku: Enigma, Allegory, Metaphor or Image?
In the 1990s, then-President Moi, responding dismissively to popular pressure for constitutional reform, posed the rhetorical question ‘What does Wanjiku want with a constitution?’ He thus unwittingly created the phenomenon of ‘Wanjiku’ who has since then become ubiquitous in the Kenyan public imagination and discourse as a way of gesturing to ‘public opinion’, the ‘common person’, or the ordinary mwanainchi. Although it might seem encouraging that “Wanjiku’ should emerge in the male-dominated world of the Kenyan public sphere, her appearance does not necessarily imply either a more equitable gender context in Kenya nor even an increased awareness to gender issues.
Wanjiku is successful as a popular icon because she is easily translatable into a number of different social contexts and because her persona is down-to-earth.

The participating women artists present their individual interpretation of ‘Being Wanjiku’.

Performance: The Vagina Monologues, Mar. 7 2012 @ Alliance

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Date: March 7, 2012
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 6.30pm
Tickets: Kshs 100/-

The Vagina Monologues have been put together by Naomi Mwaura, Sonnia Gitome, Lillian Itenya and Doris Angalo, with a cast of ten young actresses.
The award-winning play is based on V-Day Founder/playwright Eve Ensler’s interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace the piece celebrates women’s sexuality and strength.

The V-Monologues campaign is scheduled to tour various Kenyan universities in a bid to empower and emancipate Kenyan women.