Date: August 18, 2012
Venue: Pawa254 Hub
Time: 1000-1400 Hrs
For more information: http://powoaugust2012.eventbrite.com/
About POWO
Poets and Writers Online (POWO) is a forum for Poets and Writers with blogs and those with an interest in using the internet in promotion of, or as a platform for their writing.
Helen O’Grady Drama Academy (www.dramaafrica.com) announces its Holiday Drama Camp from August 13-17 at Kenya National Theatre for ages 3-16. Students will produce a musical in a week, taught by the academy’s specialist teachers and will star in a public performance on Friday 17th at Kenya National Theatre. Limited places available. For more information, please contact their office on 0721 955 308 or email harun@dramaafrica.com.
WHAT IS MOSAIC?
Perhaps one of the oldest tile and glass working techniques known to man. Learn various methods of application – both direct and indirect.Today glass mosaic can create new opportunities for artists!
WHAT CAN YOU MAKE?
Architectural tiles / Lighting fixtures / Vases and pots / Decorative paving slabs.
IS THERE A LOT OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION NEEDED?
Not to get started . . .
You will be able to produce small works of great beauty.
This introductory class will simplify the science behind this fascinating art.
Date: 30TH JULY – 4TH AUGUST 2012
Time: 11AM – 3PM DAILY
Location: KUONA TRUST ART CENTRE
Is there a fee?
2500 shillings only, for the full workshop!!
First of its kind introductory glass workshop!
CALL 0721 262326 TO RESERVE A PLACE BEFORE FRIDAY 27th JULY 2012
Booking is by ADVANCE PAYMENTS only.
Workshop materials and lunch included in workshop fee.
Kenya’s first Bikram Yoga studio is coming to Nairobi! Opening Soon!, 2nd Floor, Lavington Green Shopping Centre, Nairobi.
Bikram Yoga is a 90 minute series of 26 Hatha yoga postures and two breathing exercises, carried out in a room heated to 40 degrees celcius and 40 percent humidity. The combined heat and humidity increase muscle flexibility and can help to prevent injuries. Bikram Yoga is also very detoxifying, releasing large numbers of toxins through the breath and through the skin by sweating.
Because of the combination of the heat and the sequence of postures, the practise is very intense, and has dramatic and immediate results. This yoga is highly addictive. Hundreds of thousands of normal people around the world have been cured of physical ailments, anxiety and stress, and have dropped several dress sizes in the process.
Bikram Yoga Nairobi is offering members a beautiful studio with a state of the art heated yoga room, large changing rooms and showers, free unlimited purified drinking water, a juice and smoothie bar, and yoga clothing boutique.
for more info www.bikramyoganairobi.com
Stand a chance to win a month of free yoga at Bikram Yoga Nairobi worth Kes16,000 by answering the following question by Friday 20 2012:
Why do you need Bikram Yoga Nairobi in your life?
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Kuona Trust invites you to a presentation by one of Africa’s leading photographers. Mario Macilau winner of the KL and 2011 Protection Project award at Pawa254 Hub.
Date: July 12, 2012
Time: 4:30-7:00pm
Venue: Pawa 254, YMCA building.
Location: State House Crescent
About
Mário Macilau was born in the newly independent Mozambique, in the midst of the most critical phase of its civil war in 1984. His family struggled financially and moved from the Inhambane province to the capital, Maputo, in search of a better life. When he was 10 years old he began to work in a small market frequented by the middle / upper class, washing cars in the car park and helping to carry the groceries in an effort to support his family.
Macilau started his journey as photographer in 2003 and engaged to professional level when he traded his mother’s cell phone for his first camera in 2007. He specializes in long-term projects focus on living and environmental condition over the time and in his home country he use to confronting the realism of power, environment and cultural heritage that affect the socially isolated groups and issues that define our times.
Download Mario Macilau Profile
Dates: August 6-13, 2012
Venue: Kibera & Mathare
Locations/Directions
Kibera Slum Location-Kamukunji Grounds, near Olympic Stage, Kibera Drive. [From downtown Nairobi: bus 32 from Kencom, or 8 from Railways]
Mathare Slum Location-Mabatini Grounds. near Mathare Road. [From downtown Nairobi: bus 46, from Tom Mboya street]
For more information visit the SFF Web-blog: www.slumfilmfestival.org
About SFF
The Slum Film Festival (SFF) is an innovative community-based film event, featuring stories from, by, and about people living in urban slums everywhere.
This edition of the festival will also incorporates film training workshops and art classes.
The Research Institute of Swahili studies of Eastern Africa (RISSEA) is a directorate of National Museums of Kenya. It is now offering Swahili classes in Nairobi at the National Museums of Kenya Headquarters.
The Institute offers Four Modules:-
Swahili Language (Swahili basic beginners and advanced)
Teaching will be conducted on Swahili grammar and phonetics depending on one’s level of proficiency in Swahili.
An entry examination will be conducted to determine the student’s level of proficiency in Swahili.2. Swahili Literature and Performance
Contemporary Swahili novel and play: In-depth analysis of the two genre of Literature that is play and novel in terms of-The plot, characters, themes and language used.
Short story in Kiswahili literature
Swahili poetry
Classical Swahili poetry and contemporary Swahili poetry.
Types of Swahili poetry.
How to write Swahili poetry
Language use in Swahili poetry.
Swahili epic
Oral Literature
Swahili songs, dances and music
Swahili History and Identity
The study of the origins and history of the Swahili
Swahili economy and international relations
Spread and development of Kiswahili in East Africa and the Diaspora.
Dialects of Kiswahili.
Swahili and her neighbors
Anthropology of the Swahili
Economic activities of the Swahili eg. Fishing, farming, weaving, dhow making, stone house building, wood carving etc.
The Swahili way of life, (birth, marriage and death )
Art, dressing, adornments, and other forms of creativity and personal beauty.
Religion Beliefs and forms of worship.
Swahili songs and dances.
Download the Lesson Schedule and contacts RISSEA Kiswahili Lessons Schedule[1]
Funga Deal-The Art of Negotiating Great Deals in the Art Industry
Dates: May 11-12, 2012 (Friday – Saturday)
Venue: Conference Hall at Pride Inn Hotel, Westlands Road, Nairobi- Kenya (Next to Graffins College)
Times: Both Full Days 8.30am – 5pm (Lunch Included)
Consideration: Ksh. 6,000/- for two days (M-Pesa: 0718 328 717 add 100/- for collection)
Spark Africa Contacts: Cell + 254 772 04 53 57, Twitter @SparkAfrica
Facilitators: Spark Africa and International Art Deals Negotiator Ross van Horn
Who Can participate: Artists/ DJs/ Singers/ MCs/ Rapper/ Artist managers/ Art gallery owners/ Film makers/ Fashion Designers/ Actors/ Writers/ Studio owners/ Music Producers/ Graphic Designers, Copy writers/ Illustrators/ Cartoonist/ Graffiti writers all other creators.
Workshop Details: Participants will learn how to identify a good deal, how to negotiate a good deal for their businesses, skills for strengthening their negotiating power, how to understand negotiation as a way of life to achieve their goals.
NB: limited Spaces First Come First Served Confirmation Message will be sent a week before to confirm participation
