TEDxBraeburnSchools, Sep 24 2011 @ Braeburn School

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a Gathering for Curious Minds
When? Saturday 24th September 2011, 10am (for 10:30) to 12:00pm
Where? Austin Room, Braeburn School, Gitanga Road, Lavington

This week’s theme: The Business of Compassion
This Saturday we will show videos featuring:

14min – Google’s “Jolly Good Fellow,” Chade-Meng Tan, talks about how the company practices compassion in its everyday business — and its bold side projects.  Chade-Meng Tan was one of Google’s earliest engineers. Among many other things, Meng helped build Google’s first mobile search service, and headed the team that kept a vigilant eye on Google’s search quality. After an eight-year stint in Engineering, he now serves with GoogleEDU as the Head of Personal Growth. One of his main projects is Search Inside Yourself — a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence course, which he hopes will eventually contribute to world peace in a meaningful way.

16min – In this inspiring talk at the NextGen:Charity conference, Sasha Dichter of the Acumen Fund shares the results of his month-long “Generosity Experiment” where he said “yes” to every request for help.  Sasha Dichter is the Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that invests in enterprises that serve the poor.  In this role, he leads up capital raising globally for Acumen Fund, including executing a successful $100M capital raise, serving as the point person for Acumen Fund’s Partner community, and heading up global partnerships for Acumen Fund including global expansion.  Sasha is a member of Acumen Fund’s leadership team and the author of the Manifesto for Nonprofit CEOs. He blogs about generosity,philanthropy and social change at http://sashadichter.wordpress.com.

Directions to Braeburn: http://www.braeburn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=197&Itemid=695
Website: http://www.ted.com/tedx/groups/2441 ; also http://www.ted.com/tedx/groups/825
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Patamango presents Tango classes, Sep 24 2011 @ Italian Institute of Culture

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Time: Saturday 24 September – 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Sala Michelangelo, Italian Institute of Culture in Nairobi, Kenya

For total beginners and anyone wishing to strengthen Argentine Tango fundamentals.

A 2 and a 1/2 hour session to solidly introduce and establish the physiological and musical fundamentals of dancing Tango Argentino, and is intended for all prospective beginners as well as everyone else wishing to revisit the all important basics of posture, stepping and cadence. This session is also a requirement to be able to follow any of the other Tango classes we offer.

Cost participation to this is requested only once, meaning you may repeat this fundamentals workshop as many times as you deem is useful for yourself. Plus, for those who need it, we also offer a hardship discount of 60%. This is in the spirit of not excluding anyone with a genuine interest in learning Argentine Tango, and on a solid technical foundation.

www.patamango.com/classes
Email: nairobi.tango@patamango.com

BLNRB – Music Videos Launch, Sep 24 2011 @ Goethe-Institut

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A first for Kenya – the launch of a full set of music videos accompanying the songs of the memorable BLNRB album of collaborations between Berlin-based electronic musicians and the emerging Kenyan music scene. You can listen to some of the superb tracks on ReverbNation

The Goethe-Institut commissioned music videos for 11 tracks from the album from 11 different film and music video directors such as Hawa Essuman, Boomba Video, Rich Pictures, Circle & Square, Cultural Video Foundation, DYMK, Sam Hopkins, Just A Band, Dream Awake Pro, Studio Ang and Philippa Herrmann. The videos will be screened for the first time on September 24th, mixed by a VJ.
Here is a preview, other videos will be published on YouTube in the coming weeks

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Conceptual Art Exhibition, Sept. 30 2011 @ National Museum

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The Embassy of Spain, in collaboration with the Nairobi National Museum, is happy to invite you to the Conceptual Art Exhibition

“The Proud, the Shy and the Angry: many (Hi)Stories, one Museum”.
This event will exhibit the works of the twelve Kenyan artists who have been taking part in the conceptual art workshop by Spanish artist Irene Izquierdo during the last two weeks. This showcase will present a collection of installation and performances specifically designed for this occasion, as the result of an innovative research on contemporary art, museums, collective memory and national identity, among other ideas.

In this event we will discover the original work of Gilbert Ouma, Susan Ngure, Abdilatif Hussein, Noor Jefwa, Zihan Kassam, Paul Mutuku, Anne Mwiti, William S. Ndwiga, Esther Mukuhi, Aggrey Agwata, Alacoque Ntome and Dennis Ruigu Kabucho.

WHEN: 30th September 2011, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
WHERE: Nairobi National Museum, Museum Hill
Free entrance.

Concerts: Safaricom Kenyan Classical Fusion, Sept. 28-Oct. 2 2011

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Dates: September 28, 2011
Venue: Great Lake at Butterfly Pavilion (Haller Park, Bamburi)
Location: Mombasa
Time: 6.30pm (Doors open at 5.30pm)
Tickets: Adults Kshs 500, Students Kshs 200 and Children under 12 yrs Kshs 100
Performers: Sauti Sol and Lady Smith Black Mambazo

Date: September 30, 2011
Venue: Nairobi Aboretum
Time: 7pm (Doors open at 6 pm)
Tickets: Kshs 4500 (Inclusive of dinner)
Performer: Lady Smith Black Mambazo
NB: Cash bar available

Date: October 2, 2011
Venue: Impala Grounds
Time: 2pm (Doors open at noon)
Tickets: Adults Kshs 500, Students Kshs 200 and Children under 12 yrs Kshs 100
Performers: Lady Smith Black Mambazo, Sauti Sol, The Kenya Conservatoire of Music Orchestra, Nairobi Orchestra, Safaricom Choir, Nairobi Chamber Chorus, Kenyatta University Choir, Africa Nazarene Choir, Strathmore Chorale, Moi Nairobi Girls, Starehe Boys & Girls, Alliance High. Soloists: Brian Sempele, Kevin Munyi, Joseph Chege, Jazzinfolk
This will be an afternoon for the whole family – bring your own picnic and relax in an atmosphere of classical and operatic pieces that we have all grown up with

For more information: http://www.safaricom.co.ke/classicalfusion/index.html
Online Tickets info: MPesa Ticketing
Contacts: 0701018184, info@artofmusic.co.ke

Theatre: Wanjiku’s Dilemma, Sept. 23-Oct. 8 2011 @ Professional Centre

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Phoenix Players present Wanjiku’s Dilemma (Opening this Friday) by Oby Obyerodhyambo another Kenyan original .
Oby is certainly not a stranger to the Kenyan Theatre scene, and this is his second play to be presented on the Phoenix Stage.

Opening: September 23, 2011
Time: 7pm
Venue: Professional Centre (The Phoenix Players)

Dates: September 24-October 8, 2011
Time: Wednesday-Friday 7pm, Saturday 3rd & 17th 7pm and Sunday 4th & 11th 3 & 6pm
Tickets: Kshs 500 (Student nights Every Thursday. Buy 1 ticket @ Ksh. 300 and get 1 Free. Only those with school ID’S are eligible for the offer)

SYNOPSIS
Two young lawyers- TUNU and RICKO are running their own practice. TUNU has a habit of picking Pauper’s Briefs- especially those of the ‘down-trodden’ and uses her mother ALICE- a retired legal brain- as a bouncing wall for her cases. She picks up one such case- of a woman who has killed her husband and his lover in what appears, on the surface, as a fit of anger. Questions start to fly- with public opinion at variance with the suspect’s defense lawyers, the case starts to split the staff in the office as well. Tunu is convinced WANJIKU did no wrong. The Police have a very different view. So does her own mother and legal partner. This drama plays on the social attitudes, societal expectations of what a marriage should be. The conflicts – past and present – that re-wire our opinions and either clear or cloud our judgements.

The play is directed by GEORGE MUNGAI. WANJIKU’S DILEMMA is part of the on-going program to produce original Kenyan works by Phoenix Theatre, and we welcome this second script by Oby Obyerodhiambo, following THE STRIPED LEOPARD which was produced at Phoenix in 2002.