Kwani? Open Mic, Jun 7 2011 @ Club Soundd
Message: Kwani Trust is inviting you to Kwani? Open Mic on Tuesday 7th June 2011 7pm at Club Soundd, Hamilton House Kaunda Street Entry ksh 100/- only.
Featured Poet will be Sitawa Wafula
Featured Artists will be . Tamasha Beats
Sitawa is a Feather Awards Kenya nominee, 2010, an Actuarial Science drop-out and poetess who writes, performs and hosts poetry forums and workshops in Nairobi. She started writing in 2003 after a rape ordeal and began open mic performances in Nov 2008 when she was fired from her last job after getting a seizure attack and falling on a client. Being a rape-survivor, most of her pieces centre round the girl-child and socio-political issues and is involved in advocacy work, leading a sanitary-towel campaign in partnership with Sanibank Consortium for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds. She is also an Ambassador for Mental Health in Kenya under BasicNeeds UK in Kenya given her own illness. She also blogs for Southern Sudan’s widows and orphans charity, Hope Ofiriha and loves eating and reading during her free time.
Check out her blog for more about this wonderful poet.
http://sitawa.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html
New book: Red Soil and Roasted Maize by Rasna Warah
Red Soil and Roasted Maize is a selection of Kenyan writer Rasna Warah’s most poignant, introspective and satirical articles, columns and essays that provide snapshots and analyses of events that have shaped Kenyans’ lives and dreams in the last decade, from the turbulent transition to democracy in 2002 to a flawed election in 2007 that had a deep impact on Kenya’s political, economic and social landscape. She candidly deciphers and describes the perils of growing ethnic chauvinism and corruption in an increasingly polarised nation and examines her own life as a writer in one of Africa’s most diverse and unequal societies.
Red Soil and Roasted Maize is now out and available at Bookstop in Yaya Centre and online. It will also be available as an e-book and on Amazon in about a month. Hope you will order copies and pass the word around.
Concert: Kudishnyao! Finissage with DJ set by Just A Band, Jun. 4 2011 @ Goethe
*Kudishnyao! Finissage with DJ-Set
Date: June 4, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 8-11 pm
Entry: Free
*Kudishnyao! – Describes the onomatopoetic sound used by kids – when playing games like police and robbers, or any game requiring weaponry – to denote a gunshot (the less palatable “Dinyao!” stands for a gun with a silencer).
Event: Open Day 2011, Jun. 4 2011 @ Goethe
Goethe Institut is having an Open Day
Date: June 4, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut
Time: 9 am – 4 pm
For more information contact: 2224640/2211381/0719455215 | spr@nairobi.goethe.org
Attend to experience Germany in Kenya. Also, get a chance to explore the Language, Culture & Information departments of Goethe-Institut Nairobi.
Get up-to-date information on education opportunities, sample German language classes, information on cultural events and library.
DAAD and the German language sub-departments of the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University will be in attendance.
Party: Sunglasses at night, Jun. 11 2011 @ Insomnia Disco
TIME: Saturday, June 11 at 9:00pm – June 12 at 6:00am
LOCATION: Insomnia Disco, T-Mall, Langata Road
Concert: The Rainbow Room, Jun. 1 2011 @ National Museum
Date: June 1, 2011
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium, National Museum
Time: 2-4pm
Tickets: Adults Kshs 500, Kids Kshs 250
Supported by international maestro centre
Art Exhibit: Mobiles and Variations, ‘Soaring’ an Exhibition, Jun. 5-10 2011 @ One Off Gallery
One off Contemporary Art Gallery Invites you to an open day and the inauguration party of the exhibition, “Soaring” Mobiles and Variations by Umberto Signa.
The exhibition is on Sunday 5th June 2011, from 12 to 6pm at 16 Rosslyn Lone Tree, and continues daily from 11am to 6pm until 10th June
Tel: +(254) 722 521 870
Email: oneoff@africaonline.co.ke