Walk for Womanhood, Jul. 2 2011 @ Karura Forest

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WALK FOR WOMANHOOD (5 & 10kms)
to help raise funds for Serah Mwihaki’s surgery and aftercare
The cost for the walk per person is Ksh 500/-
…. and those with cars Karura admin charges Ksh 100/- for parking

We have friends who cant make it for the walk and are asking how they can still contribute to the cause. Well if you are too in the same situation then you can send your donation to Mpesa Acc. 0721271349 OR 0723773847 and notify us when you do. plus you migh…t just as well then mark attending. We will appreciate that a lot. thanks

Just because we dont have anyone so far for drinks and snacks we request everyone bring their own. Shoul we have any development about thins and anything else we will most definately update you all. Thanks

here is the the map to Karura Forest, Limuru Rd. gate

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Performance: Homecoming Season Finale, Jul. 2 2011 @ Braeburn Theatre

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Sitawa will be performing Homecoming Season Finale on

Date: July 2, 2011
Venue: Braeburn Theatre
Location: Braeburn School off Gitanga Rd
Time: 7pm
Tickets: KShs 1000
Contacts: 0770 300 714 (for advance tickets and more info)

What others have said about the show:

“Wow! I thoroughly enjoyed myself, and not only because the show tackles important issues, but because it does so in a wonderfully fresh manner, at once funny, thought-provoking, and subversive! Subversive because you’re causing us Kenyans to remember (and you know how quickly we like to sweep things under the carpet), to think/rethink, to question and to laugh at the “truths” that we believe about ourselves. Along with building superhighways, we must also build our spirit, our confidence, and our values as Kenyans, as human beings. Your performance made me very proud to be Kenyan!!-Rose Maruru

Party: The Kuweni Serious “Volunteering Is Sexy” Party, Jul. 2 2011 @ Kifaru Grounds

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Date: July 2, 2011
Venue: Kifaru Gardens
Time: 6-8.30pm
Entry: Free

Kuweni Serious have just just wrapped up 125/100, and are incredibly grateful to have had your support to do it. Whether you joined them over the last few months, or would like to join them for future events, they want you to come out on Saturday night to Kifaru Grounds as they explore cool ways in which you can participate in your community.

Expect: Awesome people, life-changing conversations, and one kick-ass party (Just A Band will be DJ-ing!).

Volunteering is sexy. Do it.

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Theatre & Performance: Disturbia! Jul. 8-10 2011 @ Alliance

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Disturbia is an original dance/musical presentation by Festival of Creative Arts.

Dates: July 8-10, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française
Time: Friday at 6:30 and 8pm, Weekends at 3, 6 and 8pm
Tickets: Kshs 400 Advance, Kshs 500 at the door
Contacts: 0726524124, 020-2025811, 0734524124|fcakenya@gmail.com

This play weaves together poetry, dance, music, and drama to transcend the pain and anguish of a young man caught in the middle of societal moral degradation. The fast-paced play offers diversity, virtuosity, humour, musicality and entertainment that will stimulate your senses and imagination.

Ngoma KIKWETU! Concert Platform, Jul 2 2011 @ Kenya National Theatre

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Featuring 3 Professional Creative African dance and music presentations by:
Fahari Afrika
Sanalimu Music and Dance Company
Sanaa Utamaduni Troupe

The best of emergent Kenyan Creative Afrodance and music. When young people inherit the roots of Afro dance   heritage, they reinterpret it within the ethos and imaginations of their world, time and future. It becomes a new, fresh, daring and so infectious the limits become blurred. “Ngoma KIKWETU! Concert Platform” initiated by Kenya Cultural Centre presents  new voices in Afrodance tradition as reconfigured by multicultural urban realities. This next edition features: Fahari Dancers, Sanalimu and Sanaa Utamaduni professional groups.

Flat Cover Charge: Ksh. 200

Update/Seminar: Different Seas, Different Histories? Reflections on the Western Indian Ocean, Jul. 6 2011 @ BIEA

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Due to unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances, Professor John Mack has with deep regret had to cancel his trip to Kenya and therefore his Seminar too (Different Seas, Different Histories?), which was scheduled for

Date: July 6, 2011
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) Seminar Room, Laikippia Road, Kileleshwa
Speaker: Prof. John Mack, President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)
Chair: Dr. Hassan Wario, Director of Museums, Sites & Monuments-National Museum of Kenya (NMK)
Entry: RSVP with Kerry (Kerry.kyaa@biea.ac.uk)
Tel. Contacts: 0735 260 004 or 0724 576 600

This seminar has been rescheduled to a later date and details will be communicated once we get them. Please accept apologies from BIEA.

The seminar discusses some of the arguments in the speaker’s recent book The Sea, A Cultural History. It begins by suggesting that seas have different characteristics which need to be taken into account in assessing the human engagement with them. Interpretations based on the Mediterranean or the North Sea have dominated interpretation of wider histories as have terrestrial understandings of what it means to be at sea. Topics discussed will include navigational practices, conceptions of the sea, trading practices and piracy. The occupation of Madagascar and the Swahili islands is instructive in terms of the implications of moving across the Equator. The mismatch between astrological systems and navigational knowledge, both based on observations of the stars, provides a suggestive conclusion.

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