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Exhibition: Young Woman Welcome to the Holocene by April Zhu, Oct 21-Nov 4 @ The Shifteye Gallery

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Opening Night: October 21, 2016
Venue: The Shifteye Gallery, Priory Place, Hurlingham
Time: 7pm
Free entry

Exhibition runs through November 4, 2016

About
“Young Woman, Welcome to the Holocene” is the debut solo show of American artist April Zhu in Nairobi, featuring works on canvas and poetry.

Opening night is Friday, 21 October at 7pm. The Exhibition will be on the Ground Floor of The Shifteye Gallery at The Priory Place.

April Zhu was born in West Virginia, USA. She received her BA in Environmental Studies and Studio Art from Wellesley College in 2014, where she has previously exhibited in group shows Half Artist and Object and Image (2013) and independently Kinyago (2014). She lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya.

My Camera My Life by Sir Mohinder Dhillon | Photo via the NMK

Photo & Film Exhibition: My Camera My Life by Sir Mohinder Dhillon, Until Oct. 31 2016 @ the National Museum

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My Camera My Life by Sir Mohinder Dhillon | Photo via the NMK
My Camera My Life by Sir Mohinder Dhillon | Photo via the NMK
Dates: Until October 31, 2016
Venue: the National Museum of Kenya
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Tickets: Normal Museum Rates Apply

The photographs that make-up this exhibition were shot over a period of fifty-six years, (1952 – 2008), by Sir Mohinder Dhillon, a Kenyan news camera man. The photographs allow us to travel with Mohinder back in time and eavesdrop on history, reminding us of our past and the individuals and events that helped shape our world.

“Looking back over the more than 83 years I have spent in the world; I cannot help but feel a sense of wonder. Did I really do all these things? Go to all these places? Meet all these people? How, as a simple village boy from Punjab who never even finished school, did I end up travelling the globe, dodging bullets to make a living by shooting thousands of meters of film in some of the world’s most dangerous trouble spots?” – Sir Mohinder Dhillon, October 2016.

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Space – A Digital Art Festival, Oct. 4-8 2016 @ Goethe Institut and the Shifteye Gallery

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Dates: October 4-8, 2016
Venues: Goethe Institut and the Shifteye Gallery

About
New technologies and digitalization are influencing how modern societies run – everything from how we access goods and services to how we socialize are continuously being transformed. Computers and mobile phones are often considered necessary tools that are highly valued both at work and at home. With the good comes the bad – our online lives leave us vulnerable to potential security threats as well as open us up to challenges to our personal and societal well-being.

The Goethe-Institut Kenya, in collaboration with Mbithi Masya and Youth Knows No Limits (YKNL), is organizing a Digital Art Festival with the objective to create a forum for dialog, exchange and presentation of digital art.

Five artists have been asked to consider how we consume and interact in/with the digital sphere and how these influence or are influenced by traditional value systems and global trends. Through their medium of choice, they have been encouraged to bring their perspective and style in the exploration of digital possibilities to comment on the social and psychological implications of digital technologies.

The participating artists include Awuor Onyango, Bazil Ngode, Chris King, Melisa Allela and Lenny Njagih as well as Musa Omusi. The festival programme consists of screenings, talks, workshops, an exhibition of the artworks as well as the performance of “Winterreise” by the German artistic research and production collective Institut für angewandtes Halbwissen.

Find an overview of all the events happening during “Space – A Digital Art Festival” on Goethe Institut-Nairobi Facebook event Page