Charity/Art Show, Oct 15-16 2011 @ The Cloisters

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Art Show 15-16 October, 10am-4pm
Welcome to a two day charity art show at The Cloisters in Muthaiga
Kioko Mwitiki will show his new collection of iron furniture and animals, and four painters will bring their latest art: Ash Uman, Michael Soi, Moses Nyawanda and Maryann Muthoni
Vernissage and grand opening by HE the Danish Ambassador, Geert Aagaard Andersen, Saturday 15th October at 11 am
20% of sales to the New Dawn Secondary School in Huruma

Directions:  From Muthaiga Mini Market, take Muthaiga Road. Go down Naivasha Avenue, turn right on Tchui Road. The Cloisters is the second house on your left.

Photographic Exhibition: Brothers in Arms, Oct. 6-16 2011 @ National Museum

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The African Union/United Nations Information Support Team invite you to the opening of Brothers in Arms, a photographic exhibition by Kate Halt, Stephen Mugambi, Emmanuel Mucunguzi, Jean Claude Mbayisenga and Baker Tumusime, portraying the work of AMISOM soldiers in Mogadishu in the promotion of peace and stability.

Read the review By Zihan Kassam | AfricanColours.com
Brothers in Arms: A Paradise Lost

Exhibition: Kibera ni Moja, Oct. 14-Nov. 11 2011 @ Goethe

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Exhibition Opening: October 14, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: 7pm

Exhibition Dates: October 17 to November 11, 2011
Time: Monday to Friday, 1- 6pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Entry: Free

In 2009 Goethe Institut invited the South African photographer Andrew Tshabangu for a residency programme in the framework of their series Contemporary African Photographers to Nairobi, where they worked with G.I. for about three weeks and facilitated a photography workshop.

Together with the Kenyan dancer and photographer James Mweu, the Kenyan artists Kevo Stero and Davis Kabala, they shot pictures of dwellings in Kibera, East Africa’s largest slum. Contrary to the stereotypical image often from high above, of opaque masses of houses and people, they instead show closely and in detail the complex lived-in world of Kibera.

In 2010 the Goethe-Institut Nairobi held a Carte Blanche with the Picha Festival in Lubumbashi where the project was exhibited for the first time.

Now they are going to present the works in Nairobi.

Exhibit: ‘CONDEMNED’: mental illness in Somalia, Oct 10-23 2011 @ Alliance Francaise

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“CONDEMNED” is a project undertaken by photojournalist Robin Hammond and it sets out the challenges faced in Somalia and the Dadaab refugee camps in dealing with the problem of mental health and Somali living with mental disorders. It is estimated that in war-tom Somalia, with a population of 8 million people, one person out of three has been affected by some kind of mental illness. Yet in the entire country there are only three psychiatrists working in mental health facilities. By contrast, the United Kingdom has one psychiatrist for every 10,000 people.

Most of the incidences of mental illness are caused by a traumatic event. Mental health care in Somalia often relies on placing people in jails or hospitals, where they are regularly chained to the wall or walk around with shackles. Conditions in many of these settings are deplorable. They violate an individual’s right to be treated humanely and live a life of dignity. The mentally ill in these jails and hospitals are forced to live a life of incarceration.

The exhibition has been supported by the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, GRT, OCHA Somalia and European Commission.

Exhibition: Jan Van Esch, Oct. 7-Nov. 10 2011 @ Le Rustique Restaurant

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Opening: October 7, 2011
Time: 6-9pm

Exhibition Dates: October 8-Nov. 10, 2011
Venue: Le Rustique Restaurant
Location: General Mathenge Drive Westlands
Tel: 0721 842 231

“One day a leaf came into my life. It fell off a tree in my garden. And I liked the leaf. Dry as it was, it was still full of form.  Strange to start to like a leaf, and even stranger to feel I was betraying it when another one was found. But it liked being drawn and I liked drawing it, over and over again as if creating my own mantra. That became the start of this series; leftovers from trees – leafs, branches, flowers – are portrayed on existing patterns. Similar patterns on different surfaces do become different things. I gave myself the task to work with dictated surfaces to see how similar patterns became combinations, or not. In the end a white background became a deliberate choice, making a white background a pattern by itself. Ideas, hand movement, memories, preferences and limitations are always there, because a blank slate doesn’t exist.“

Exhibition: Recent Paintings by Joseph Cartoon, Oct. 4-23 2011 @ Alliance

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Dates: October 4-23, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française, Ground Floor gallery

Cartoon is one of many Kenyan artists whose career started at Banana Hill Art Studio and was propelled to further heights by the enigmatic Ruth Schaffner of Gallery Watatu in the 1980s and 1990s.
His work is dominated by traditional lifestyles and rural settings painted in vibrant colours.