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Date: December 12, 2010
Venue: Impala Club Ground, Ngong Road
Time: 2:00pm- 6:00am
Tickets: Kshs 1,000
Kenya’s Greatest Music Experience is Back Due Great Demand
Featuring Kenya’s finest Suzzana Owiyo, Kidum,Makadem, Danger, Jua Cali, MOG, Kenge Kenge Orutu Systems, Juliani, Iddi achieng, Bakulutu, Lydia Ogoti, George Ochieng,Stanley Ng’ang’a,Mellisa Omeh, among others.
Live & Direct present the part 3 of 7 on the Wateule tour
Date: November 20, 2010
Venue: K1
Entry: Kshs 400
Advance tickets available at Dormans Yaya, Mama Ngina
Rear View – by the Kenyan artist James Muriuki
Exhibition Opening: Friday, 19th November 2010 at 7.30 pm
Exhibition Schedule: November 20th to 9th December 2010
Time: Monday to Saturday, 1.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Entry: Free
James Muriuki is internationally one of the best known Kenyan artists, using photography as his base medium. In 2006 James Muriuki was chosen for Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, Okwui Enwezor’s show at the International Centre for Photography/New York.
And yet, most of his work has not been shown in Kenya. This is his first solo exhibition, a show that is long overdue. For this occasion, 3Collect, an artist collective focused on curatorial practice, has put together a retrospective of Muriuki’s work in the past years, showing the variety of his art projects and the development of his use of photography.
Rear View includes Muriuki’s latest works as well as photographs that have been included in important exhibitions around the world such as Snap Judgments, Space: Currencies in Contemporary African Art at Museum Africa in Johannesburg and Events of the Self at the new Walther Collection Museum in Germany.
The first Nairobi Metropolitan Art Auction will be held at the Nairobi National Museum on the 27th November, 2010 starting 5pm.
This festive season have the best work of art by Kenyan Artists.
YOUNGLIM LEE will play works by J. S. Bach, C. Debussy, J. Brahms and F. Schubert.
Ms. Younglim Lee received her Bachelor of Music degree from Kyoungwon University and her Master’s degree from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). She continued her study at The New England Conservatory in Graduate Diploma program and also earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Younsei University in Korea. She has studied with Youngran Han, Victor Rosenbaum, Philip Bush, Louis Nagel, Chiho Cho and Sookhyun Cho.
She served as a piano faculty at the Won-Joo National University and Gaewon Art High School and she is currently performing in various concerts around Nairobi.
Ms. Lee performed alongside the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also performed at Chopin Hall in Seoul, Youngsan Hall, Seoul, YJY Hall, Seoul, Munho Art Hall, Seoul, SeiJong Hall, Seoul, Britton Recital Hall, Michigan, Kerrytown Hall, Michigan, Botolph Hall, Boston, Keller Hall, Boston, and Nairobi National Museum. She also took part in Chautauqua Music Festival in New York.
Proceeds from the event will benefit Korea Food for the Hungry International.
DATE: December 11, 2010
TIME: 7.00 pm to 9.30 pm
PLACE: Lobby at Tribe Hotel
Book: marketing@tribehotel-kenya.com
FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION, CONTACT: ALINA HAQ
+254 20 720 0112
Kshs. 3,500 per person.
Dates: December 17-19, 2010
Venue: Mama Ngina Drive, Mombasa
Hosting of the 3rd RISSEA Mombasa Cultural Festival with the theme ‘Culture as a vehicle of East African Integration and Cohesion‘ will be held from 17-19 December 2010 at Mama Ngina Drive Mombasa, Kenya. This years Festival which targets 75,000+ over 3 days period, unlike other previous festivals in Mombasa, Lamu, Malindi, will aim to highlight the role which culture can play in promoting the integration of East African Communities by facilitating the participation of NOT only Kenyan cultural groups BUT also from other East African Countries.
This is in keeping with RISSEA’s mandate and the coming into effect on July 1, 2010 of the East African community protocol on free movement of people within the region.
RISSEA will be hosting its inaugural Furniture and Furnishing Exhibition with the theme of ‘Economic Empowerment through Creative Cultural Industries‘
This inaugural event aims to highlight the role of creative industries as a vehicle of economic empowerment to alleviating poverty within the communities in line with vision 2030
Dates: December 10-12, 2010
Venue: Mama Ngina Drive, Mombasa
Presented by FEMNET (African Women’s Development and Communication Network)
Dates: November 17–28, 2010
Venue: Alliance Francaise ground floor gallery
An exhibition of photographs and video footage collected during the East African Caravan on Maternal Health, a project aimed at raising awareness on the crisis of maternal mortality in Africa.
