Dates: January 28 – February 7, 2016
Venues: Participating Outlets
Costs: KES 1,500 – 2,500
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Nairobi’s finest restaurants will be designing special 3 course menus for KES 1500 / KES 2500 depending on the establishment. 2 course lunch menus will also be on offer at most restaurants at Ksh 1000 / Ksh 1800.This year’s menus will be specially paired with wines from Nederburg, South Africa.
For more information, visit www.nairobirestaurantweek.com
The Italian Cultural Institute in Nairobi celebrates the beginning of 2016 with the reopening of its premises – having undergone renovations in the last few months.
Date: January 15, 2016
Venue: Italian Institute of Culture, Westlands
Time: 6 pm
Entry: Free
Date: January 14, 2016
Venue: National Museum Kenya, Old Board Room
Time: 2.30 pm
Entry: Free
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A lecture by the Italian Archaeologist Savino Di Lernia – Director of the Italian Archaeological mission in the Libyan Sahara – will take place at the National Museum January 14th at 2, 30 pm, before departing for Turkana where – in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology of the National Museum of Kenya – will carry out a survey in preparation for a possible Italian Archaeological mission.
Date: Wednesday 20 January 2016
Venue: Rift Valley Institute Office, Seminar Room
Location: Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time 2pm – 4pm
Entrance is by prior registration only. Register here
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It is difficult to know how much Somalia loses to illegal fishing by foreign vessels, but estimates range from USD 100 million to over USD 450 million per annum. Illegal fishing costs Somalis jobs in fishing and post-harvest fish processing, and it costs the Somali state revenue that could be secured from landing fees, licenses, taxes and other fees paid by legal fishing companies. Unregulated illegal fishing also causes overfishing, harming the marine environment and destroying local fishing communities.Join the Rift Valley Forum and Adeso for a panel discussion of the effects of illegal and unregulated fishing in Somalia and the ways in which they can be addressed. This meeting will launch Adeso’s report Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in the Territorial Waters of Somalia. There will also be a screening of Adeso’s short film Illegal and Unregulated Fishing of the Coast of Somalia.
Moderator: Rashid Abdi, International Crisis Group
Panellists: Abdi Mohamed Dahir – Adeso, Kifle Hagos – The University of Rhode Island, Bashir M Hussein – Researcher, Pauline Gibourdel – Delegation of the European Union to Somalia
10th Edition of Koroga Festival Ft. Jose Chameleone, Ken wa Maria, J.B. Maina & Tony Nyadundo
Date: January 3, 2016
Venue: Arboretum Gardens
Tickets: KES 2,500 at the Gate
The 14th edition of the Lusophone Film Fest Nairobi will be on the 9-Jan at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi. This session will mark two years of the Film Fest with a selection of the best shorts we’ve had so far.
We will also have a talk with Bernardo Nascimento (director of North Atlantic) and Tosh Gitonga (director of Nairobi Half Life) for a lively discussion after the session! This edition will feature a number of shorts, lasting for about 2 hours:
– A Tropical Sunday (Mozambique)
– 3×3 (Portugal)
– Animalz (Portugal)
– Relic (Brazil)
– The Suspect (Portugal)
– The Ball (Mozambique)
– Isle of Flowers (Brazil)
– Alambamento (Angola)
– Rafa (Portugal)
– North Atlantic (Portugal)
Recognised with international awards at film festivals around the globe, the cinema from the Portuguese-speaking world is still mostly unknown to the general public. This 240 million people linguistic community is a thriving one, promoting over 80 film festivals and cinema awards every year, with movies mostly consumed in the respective countries.
The Lusophone Film Fest is a showcase of the diversity of film production in the eight Portuguese-speaking countries spread across 4 continents. The festival presents multiple works (documentaries, animations, shorts and feature films), in sessions of several films from the different countries.
The event is free of charge. More info in https://www.facebook.com/Lusophonefilmfest
Link to iTunes, where you can stream and download.
Behind the Scenes: The Making of “The Change Experience” Album Cover
Visit http://visitlamu.org/ for more information about the above festivals.
Date: December 31, 2015
Venue: Hotel Sonrisa – Diani
Time: from 9 pm
Tickets: KES 5,000 at the Gate
Headline act: Nora En Pure
About
At the core of Indie Dance and Deep House music, Swiss based Nora En Pure is on a quest to fulfil her need to arouse feelings of bliss and inject unconventional and serene sensations to be carried out into the world. The vivid South African, has already proven to be quite productive, what resulted in deep and funky works of audible engineering for the label Enormous Tunes and Tokenish since 2009. Besides her passion for Africa, only music has been able to steal her feelings to that extent leading her to dedicate more and more mind and soul to it. The melodic but mesmerising club music has been fashioning a big and an undoubtedly dedicated fanbase.Her Remix for Daniel Portman’s KHAWERI in 2010 got huge reactions from all global players, became the preferential mix of the single and launched her career as a producer. In 2011 her track YOU MAKE ME FLOAT hit Top 50 of Beatport charts, made the cut onto legendary Buddha Bar Compilation and got over 500k views on Youtube. In fall 2012 she released AURELIA, which became a requested club hit and made it on various compilations. Her crossover chart hit COME WITH ME first saw lights in February 2013 and made its way up on top of Beatport charts, and remained in Top100 for over 7 months.
2014 has been a great year as well for Nora En Pure, and has seen her touring all over Europe, South America, North America, Africa and Australia. On the production side she has collaborated with the likes of Wretch 32, Aston Shuffle, Adrian Lux and Klingande and her records have made her a Top100 selling artist.
Find more information on the event Facebook Page
Kenya Nights introduces Nairobi’s newest and sweetest spot, The Alchemist Bar, and also the new home for the Bus.
Date: December 31, 2015
Venue: The Alchemist Bar, Parklands Road (Just behind Kwik Fit), Westlands
Time: from 9 pm
Tickets: Early Bird Tickets KES 2,500, Advance Tickets KES 3,000 and Gate Tickets KES 5,000
V.I.P @ KES 10,000 [Free Drinks All Night Long]
The lined up DJ acts are: Norah | Nzech Emmanuel | Cheek-O Dread | Mateyo | ENCHAN
New art coming up in #Nairobi in what used to be club undecided in Westlands. pic.twitter.com/G6f43mgen5
— Nairobi Now (@nairobinow) December 18, 2015
Kenya Nights New Year’s Eve Party promises to be an intimate and exclusive affair.