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As a part of Equity Week, International Budget Partnership Kenya (IBPK) and Kwani Trust invite you to a poetry event about fairness, equity and governance this Thursday, 22nd September from7:00pm until 9:00pm at Mageuzi Theatre.
Nairobi Seminar Series: Pericles & the Professors by John Harrington, Sept. 22 2016 @ BIEA
Date: September 22, 2016
Venue: BIEA
Time: 11 am
[Updated] Mindspeak: A View of the World by Aly~Khan Satchu – CEO rich.co.ke, Sept. 17 2016 @ the InterContinental Hotel
Date: September 17, 2016
Venue: the InterContinental Hotel
Time: 9.30 am – 12 noon
Presentation by Aly~Khan Satchu – CEO rich.co.ke
Dance Performance: Wilder Beast Migration! Sept. 16 2016 @ Goethe Institut Auditorium
Date: September 16, 2016
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: 6 pm
Admission: Free
Presentation/Talk: Blood and the Nation in Kenya after the Westgate Attack, Sept. 14 2016 @ BIEA
Date: September 14, 2016
Venue: BIEA
Time: 11 am
Presentation by: John Harrington
Kilimani Community Dinner: The Power of Community Action, Aug. 27 2016 @ Moniko’s Restaurant
Date: August 27, 2016
Venue: Moniko’s Restaurant, Valley Arcade
Time: 6.30 pm
Dinner Tickets: Members KES 1,000 and non-members KES 1,200
Chief guest will be Mr. Jonathan Mueke, Deputy Governor of Nairobi who will talk about ‘The Power of Community Action.’
Seminar: A Sea of Suspicion – The Dhow Trade and Dispossession in the Western Indian Ocean, Aug. 9 2016 @BIEA
Presentation by Nidhi Mahajan
Date: August 9, 2016
Venue: BIEA Seminar Room, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
http://www.biea.ac.uk/event/a-sea-of-suspicion-the-dhow-trade-and-dispossession-in-the-western-indian-ocean/
Seminar: Policing the Police in Kenya – Understanding State Authority from Within, Aug. 8 2016 @ BIEA Seminar Room
Presentation by Dr. Tessa Diphoorn, Utrecht University
Date: August 8, 2016
Venue: BIEA Seminar Room, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
http://www.biea.ac.uk/event/policing-the-police-in-kenya-understanding-state-authority-from-within/
Artists and Writers Online – July Edition, Jul. 23 2016 @ Pawa 254 Hub
Date: July 23, 2016
Venue: Pawa 254 Hub
Time: 10.30 am – 2 pm
Entry: Free
Presentation: They Go Out To Be Seen – Recognition and Place-Making in Johannesburg Nightclubs, Jul. 19 2016 @ BIEA
Presentation by Beth Vale:They Go Out To Be Seen – Recognition and Place-Making in Johannesburg Nightclubs
Date: 19 July 2016
Venue: BIEA Seminar Room, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Urban studies have given increasing attention to the everyday life of cities – the daily activities that constitute and re-imagine urban space. Yet surprisingly little consideration has been given to their every night life: the spatial tactics and creative insurgencies of urban residents after dark. Where authors have attended to the nocturnal city, those focused on ‘pleasure’ have often negated the subtle politics of nigh-time play, embedded in expressions of identity, attachment and resistance.
This paper investigates Johannesburg nightclubs as sites of quotidian political activity, through which young people contest social space and their place in it, thereby contributing to the city’s affective and socio-political cartography…
Read more, here