The GoDown Arts Centre is receiving applications for creative entrepreneurship training, Artxchange Project Cohort II, tenable from Oct-Nov 2021.
Eligible Countries: #Kenya & #Somalia.
Deadline: September 18, 2021
Follow this link for more details and to apply https://axc.thegodown.org
The GoDown Arts Centre is receiving applications for creative entrepreneurship training, Artxchange Project Cohort II, tenable from Oct-Nov 2021.
Eligible Countries: #Kenya & #Somalia.
Deadline: September 18, 2021
Follow this link for more details and to apply https://axc.thegodown.org
Dates: Made an application by filling in an application form by March 9, 2018
Auditions: March 17, 2018
Venue: Safaricom House, Waiyaki Way
About
The Safaricom Youth Orchestra invites new applications from young musicians aged between 10 to 17yrs playing the following instruments: Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, Tuba & Percussion. The preferred candidates must demonstrate commitment to individual practice and ensemble music.All candidates must fill in an application form prior to their audition. The closing date for receipt of filled applications is Friday 9th March 2018.
The auditions will take place at the Safaricom House, Waiyaki Way on 17th and 18th March 2018, starting from 9:00am. You will be contacted prior to the audition with your audition time.
If you require an application form please let us know by responding to admin@artofmusic.co.ke.
Submission Dates: March 9, 2018
Submission Venue: the GoDown Arts Centre
About
The submitted work should aim to present creative expression that explores the human interests, aspect of the city of Nairobi – Nairobians in their diverse settings, neighborhoods and lifestyles, at work, at play, etc.
About
PAK, in collaboration with PAWA254 recently launched the Kenya Photography Awards 2014, and is now accepting submissions from photographers all over the country.There are 9 categories under which you can submit your entries: News, Sports, Nature, Portraiture, Daily Life, Creative Young Photographer of the Year, Special Category (Climate Change), and People’s Choice. Before submitting your entries, please be sure to read the KPA Submission Rules to avoid disqualification and ensure all your entries are accepted.
Please click here to submit your entries. Submissions close on 10th February 2015, at 12:00AM.
For further information on rules, and guidelines, please visit the Kenya Photography Awards website or call 0729-913946 during office hours.
Kwani Trust Seeks Applicants for 2014 Fiction Workshop
Kwani Trust invites applications for a residential fiction workshop to be held from June 24th to July 6th. Following Kwani?’s pursuit of developing new contemporary fiction, the workshop will incubate writing from fourteen emerging voices with particular focus on writers between the ages of 18 and 24 and writers from outside of Nairobi’s urban space.
Kwani? has always been interested in providing creative and alternative voices, narratives and expressions to mainstream societal concerns. The establishment of devolutionary politics in Kenya, the planned decentralisation of power with the application of the new Constitution and the emergence of new aspects of power in our society requires scrutiny and the telling of new stories. We are therefore interested in developing creative writing that mirrors what has been described as our new politics.
Not limited to the above, the workshop will broadly explore what new narratives can emerge from the county as Kenya’s new central political unit beyond the state. Linked to this will be explorations of the mtaa, or neighbourhood, as an oppositional and organic context to these new narratives, expressions and voices.
We hope that the writers invited to the workshop will work with power and mtaa as broad thematic concerns. The two week-workshop, and the intensity of the residential format, will allow the writers enough time to produce substantial work, learn aspects of the writer’s craft and develop style with Kwani?’s guest tutors and mentors. The invited writers will also form a meaningful working relationship with the other writers on the programme.
At the end of the workshop we will ask writers to submit drafts suitable for submission to Kwani? 09, the ninth issue of Kwani Trust’s flagship literary journal subtitled Your Count®y Needs You.
To apply, please email submissions@kwani.org by Monday, May 26th with the following:
-Email Subject Line: 2014 Fiction Workshop Application
-A short fiction sample (1000-2000 words) (Word or PDF)
-A one page motivation statement including 1. Why you wish to attend the workshop 2. Story idea(s) around power or mtaa 3. A brief bio
-Name
-Age
-Location
-Phone number
-Email address
*Writers must be available for the duration of the workshop. Transport, full accommodation and meals will be provided.
Auditions: Open Possibilities for Young Musicians-
Dates: Mar. 22-23 2014
Venue: Strathmore University Auditorium
Get registration forms which must be filled and returned before the audition dates from info@artofmusic.co.ke / 0715-918977
Swahili Fashion Week East and Central Africa’s leading fashion week is back for the second time with the Swahili Fashion Week Kenya. This year it is set to take center stage on 5th April 2014 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Nairobi.
Are you a designer who would like to showcase at Swahili Fashion Week Kenya?
If so go to Swahili Fashion Week Website and download the application form.
Entries should be submitted by February 28, 2014
Find more info on their Facebook Page
A Call to Visual Artists to give to a coming generation of Kenyans
Beautiful Delivery – Making Pumwani Hospital a place of Healing and Joy Project
Deadline is February 21, 2014.
Background
Pumwani Hospital is an Obstetric and Referral Hospital for delivery of expectant mothers in Nairobi, and adjoining districts. Pumwani also caters to HIV+ mothers through its PMTCT program. Daily normal deliveries are 50 – 100, and Cesarean Sections are 10 – 15. It is the largest maternity hospital in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Artwork in hospitals can serve as a positive distraction for what the patient is experiencing. It is the ultimate way to demonstrate the healing power of art and its utility beyond aesthetics.
In 2004, a clinical study* showed that placing original artworks within the healthcare environment had the following benefits:
– Reduction in levels of anxiety, stress and depression
– Reduction in patients’ length of stay within the hospital
– Reduction in the use of some medications
– Increase in staff morale
The Situation
Pumwani’s hospital walls are stark and drab, with images from posters of dying and deformed babies, mostly information NGOs that still practice shock advertisement to push mothers to bring children for immunization etc.
The walls at the Antenatal Clinic were recently repainted by Google. The new walls remain empty and for the women who bring the children there, the clinic is dreary and uninspiring.
The garden where relatives of women in labour (often husbands) and mothers-to-be await the arrival of their babies, is also devoid of any benches or works to both heal and inspire.
The mothers who attend the PMTCT program come with young children who have nowhere to play.
It is not right that only hospitals that have a budget to commission artists should access art. Four artists from Kuona Trust have come together to create scultpures for the garden, a stained glass window panel, a see-saw for the children and art pieces for the antenatal clinic.
There are still alot more opportunities to push the healing properties of art within this public space – to a population that might not otherwise have access to contemporary art.
Where do you come in
Do you have any art pieces that you would like to donate to Pumwani Hospital?
All the artwork must be for the benefit of the community; images that inspire and uplift – around the themes of both or one of the following: giving life through birth children
Deadline is February 21, 2014.
If you are interested and would like to participate in this loving gesture, please contact Wambui Kamiru at: wambui.kamiru@gmail.com
