Training: 5-Day Acting Class with Niel Schell, Aug. 15-19 2011 @ Art without Borders (Formerly Ramoma Art Gallery)
Dates: August 15-19, 2011
Venue: Art without Borders (Formerly Ramoma Art Gallery)
Location: 2nd Parklands Avenue
Time: 9am-4.30pm
Fee: Kshs 7,500 per set before Aug. 8, 2011 and Kshs 10,000 after Aug. 8, 2011
Palestine Film Festival, Aug. 8-12 2011 @ Alliance
Dates: August 8-12, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 5.30pm
Entrance: Free
Presented by the Kenya Palestine Solidarity Committee in partnership with Alliance Francaise, Fahamu (Networks for Social Justice), Pambazuka (Pan-African Voices for Freedom and Justice), the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Kenya and Solidarity Network Kenya.
Main feature: PLO – History of a Revolution by Aljazeera
Time: 6pm and from 5.30 – 6pm, a six part series
Date: Aug. 8, 2011
WALLS OF SHAME by Thierry Denis & Guy Ratovondrahona (52min)
The fall of the Berlin Wall gave us hope for the end of divisions. However, 20 years later, many walls be it of concrete, metal or wire have been erected throughout the world.
In the USA, in Israel, in Europe, and in many other parts of the world. In our so called global world, these walls are for us the evidence of a global crisis.
Date: Aug. 9 2011
LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE: Eyewitness stories & photos (59 min)
The film provides an excellent introduction to the occupation in Palestine and the non-violent movement for freedom and equality in the Holy Land.
Date: Aug. 10, 2011
LEMON TREE 106min, with English subtitles
The director tackles the bitter Israel-Palestinian conflict by focusing on how it impinges on one Arab widow (the wonderful Hiam Abbass) who tries to scrape a living from her grove of lemon trees. Her new neighbour, who unfortunately for her is the Israeli defence minister and his wife, is advised by his security goons that the next door lemon grove constitutes a security risk, and an order is given for its chopping down. The widow decides against all odds to fight the decision, eventually taking it all the way to the Supreme Court.
Date: Aug. 11 2011
THE SYRIAN BRIDE 1h37, with English subtitles
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married to Tallel, a television comedian who works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home.
Date: Aug. 12, 2011
GAZA HOSPITAL 1h24, with English subtitles
The Gaza Hospital in Beirut is adjacent to the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila; it used to be a vanguard health center run by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. The Hospital witnessed and endured the Israeli invasion in 1982 and the War of the Camps. This documentary switches between past and present as it traces the history of this building and the stories of the people who live or have worked therein.
For More information check Alliance website.
Download The Palestine Film Festival Programme (Pdf)
Spoken Word: Root 2 Light, Aug. 6 2011 @ Dass Restaurant
Date: August 6 2011
Venue: Dass Restaurant
Time: 7pm
Tickets: Advance Kshs 200, Gate Kshs 300
Play: The Doctor’s Dilemma, Aug. 5-7 2011 @ Alliance
Dates: August 5-7, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française
Tickets: Kshs 500
Synopsis
Prof. Collins Randi has been made a professor for his discovery of a new treatment for tuberculosis. The beautiful Jennifer Tabedi comes to Prof. Randi to treat her sick husband, Lawi, who is both an artist and a bigamist. Lawi is invited to dinner with Prof. Randi and some of his colleagues. After he leaves his bigamy is discovered. Also, as at the dinner is a poor medical practitioner, Dr. Matata, who is sick.
Prof. Randi, with only enough medicine to treat one of the two patients, chooses the honorable Dr. Matata over the rascally Tabedi. His decision is complicated by the fact that he is in love with Jennifer.
Tabedi dies, but when Prof.Randi confesses his love to Jennifer, he discovers that she has already remarried. Just how much humanity have we lost because of greed, Lust, selfishness and pride?
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Concert: Tribal Roots-Aziza Muzik, Aug. 5 2011 @ Dass
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Kwani? Open Mic, Aug 2 2011 @ Club Soundd
Kwani Trust is inviting you to Kwani? Open Mic on Tuesday 2nd August 2011 7pm at Club Soundd, Hamilton House Kaunda Street.
Featured Poet will be Jemedari
Featured Artist will be Masanduku Junior.
Jemedari is an artist who has been described as a child of two worlds, delving in both hip hop and written poetry. Having laid stakes in both categories, he strives to raise the bar in terms of performance, content and impact. His alias being the ‘general,’ he molds and morphs his act to best suit the audience and ambiance of any event, be it a hardcore hip hop environment or a high end function. Jemedari’s music is enjoyed by Kenyans young and old, with conscious, relevant lyrics that incorporate the context of his times.
His end game is to start a mentorship program through which talented youth with no avenue to make their talent work for them can be guided by those who have already carved a niche for themselves in the entertainment industry.
He has graced several stages, including Slam Africa, Flowetree, Wamathai Poetry nights, and Discovery Poetry with Sitawa.
Movie screening: Soul Boy, Aug 6 2011 @ Kifaru House
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Enjoy a unique evening watching a movie under the stars and supporting Kenyan movie talent.
SOUL BOY – Directed by Hawa Essuman
Where: Kifaru House off Kanjata Rd. House with Rhino on gate (see map below)
When: August 6th 2011
Gates open at 2pm for relaxed drinks and nyama choma; movie starts at 7pm
ONE FREE PLATE OF NYAMA CHOMA WITH FOR FIRST 100 GUESTS WITH TICKET
Popcorn, bar, nyama choma, live DJ
Advance tickets 800Ksh, gate tickets 1000ksh
Designers’ Showcase: Runway254, Aug 4 2011 @ Sixeighty Hotel
12 amazing designers who have done The First Runway254, The African Fashion Fair, AfroFashion, Citizen’s Fashion Show Season one and others will be doing it for the first time. Among those showcasing include Fashion by Achie Otigo, Bendigale, Namour, Penzi 4 Enzi, Judah Collection, Pink Rain by Sumi, Iquira, Zuhura, Ka’an by Tawi, Sheci Denim, Uatita Creation and Earty and Vanilla by Nkatha.
On Thur 4th Aug 2011 at Hotel 680 from 7p
Catch their profiles daily on our FB page or blog http://runway254.blogspot.com/.
Entrance is Ksh 350.00.
Twitter @runway254 or simply email: runway254@sitawa.com
Tango Classes, Jul 30 2011 @ Italian Institute of Culture
Time: Saturday, July 9 · 10:00am – 12:30pm
Location: Sala Michelangelo, Italian Institute of Culture in Nairobi, Kenya
For total beginners, as well as for 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.
No prerequisite, but limited to maximum of 6 couples.
Email reservation required: nairobi.tango@patamango.com
Only cost-covering charges are requested (and only the first time, as the session may be repeated at no further cost participation), see our web site full details.
This is the last such session before our August break–the next planned would be for 3 weeks later i.e. on Sat 27 Aug 2011.