Date: May 4, 2013
Venue: Timers Restaurant (Opposite GPO), Kenyatta Avenue
Time: From 7 p.m. till Midnight.
Charges: Kshs. 200
Featured Artist: Kambua
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Literature Forum: Amka Space – Guest Muthoni Likimani, Apr. 27 2013 @ Goethe-Institut Library
Date & Time: Saturday, 27th April 2013, 10.00 – 1 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Library
Entry: Free
The Literature Forum brings together upcoming women writers and literary critics to share and discuss stories, poems and current literary trends with the aim of enhancing their creativity. The forum provides a space to listen to the voices of established and budding female writers – voices of women with a passion for literary adventure.
AMKA and the Goethe-Institut organise the monthly readings in the library of the Goethe-Institut every last Saturday of the month.
Participation in the forum is open to both men and women.
During this month’s session, the veteran writer, journalist and publisher, Muthoni Likimani, will be the guest-speaker.
Public Reading: The Cello Player, Apr. 25 2013 @ Goethe-Institut Library
Date & Time: Thursday, 25th April 2013, 6.00 p.m.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Library
Entry: Free
The narrator of this witty, ironic exquisitely told tale of love and loss is a middle-aged German composer who writes avant-garde music, but makes a living producing jingles for TV. When Judith, an ambitious young cello player from Budapest (whose mother was once the composer’s lover and who may or may not be his daughter), shows up on his doorstep, he agrees to take her in while she studies at the conservatory in Munich. Judith’s presence evokes memories of a far different time, when Eastern Europe was a world away and when life was about art. As our protagonist sets out for the composer’s house in Southern France, where he will finish his opera and she will master her instrument, it gradually becomes clear that this young woman is playing more than the cello.
Excerpts from the novel will be read in English and German by Pete Openda and Peter Schreiber.
Event: Mindspeak – Aly-Khan Satchu hosts Patricia Ithau, Apr. 27 2012 @ Inter Continental
Date: April 27, 2013
Venue: Inter Continental Hotel
Time: 9 am -12 Noon
Guest Speaker: Patricia Ithau, Managing Director L’Oreal East Africa Ltd
Entrance: Free
Get acquainted
Patricia Ithau in a past interview
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Party/DJ-Set: TEN CITIES Pop-Up Club, Apr. 19 2013 @ Restaurant Petra
Date & Time: 19th April 2013, 10.00 pm
Venue: Maendeleo House
Entrance : Free
Whether it’s Nairobi or Naples, Bristol or Johannesburg: in all the major cities of Africa and Europe, people get together in dedicated spaces to dance to music and party – and form communities and subcultures. Club culture is a global phenomenon, but what kind of music are people dancing to? What sort of public sphere do club cultures create? And what happens when the club music from two different continents meets head on?
Over the last few years we have organised quite a number of projects that go beyond Kenya, but TEN CITIES is our biggest endeavor so far. It is a music and research project that brings together musicians and writers from ten cities in Africa and Europe. The project initiates music production and details the unwritten history of club culture in Cairo, Johannesburg, Luanda, Lagos and Nairobi as well as in Berlin, Bristol, Kiev, Lisbon and Naples.
To start the project off in Nairobi, we are setting up a club at an special location. For one night only, we transform an actual restaurant into a great party place by adding a distinct clubbing atmosphere to the interior.
Blinky Bill and DJ Raph will spin and play some hot tunes to join us all in!
Symposium & Concert: The Afrikan Hip Hop Caravan, Apr. 18 2013 @ Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Date & Time: Thursday, 18th April 2013, 2.00 – 5.00 pm & 8.00 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Entrance: Free
The Afrikan Hip Hop Caravan connects artists and cultural educators in five cities: premièring in Cape Town in February, it paved its way through Johannesburg and Harare, will enter Tunis in March and finally reach Nairobi in April 2013.
Hip Hop music has been an important tool for youth to express themselves. Through symposia, the caravan tries to explore the contribution of Hip Hop to community struggles as the basis of a broader struggle for self-emancipation. Moreover, performances act as organic link between the cultural activists and the people who are engaged in daily social struggles.
The performing artists in Nairobi are: Ukoo Flani, Mau Mau, Lness, Ran-D and Vuli Vuli of Makaburi.
Contributors of the Symposium include: Dr. Aggrey Nganyi Wetaba and Dr. Priscilla Nyawira Gitonga, a lecturer at the department of Music and Dance at Kenyatta University. Her doctoral studies set out to explore the contribution of Hip Hop music to the construction of identity of female late adolescents in South Africa.
Dance Performance: Lamhe – Moments, Apr. 20 & 21 2013 @ Oshwal Centre Auditorium
Over the years Kaminis School of dancing has put up high standard dance shows and they have always been a hit with the Nairobi audience.
Once more it is putting up the show LAMHE meaning moments at OSHWAL CENTRE AUDITORIUM ON THE 20TH AND 21ST OF APRIL.
The show is based on the music of the Bollywood classics of 2000, which are LAMHE , LAGAAN AND DEVDAS.
90 senior girls from the class have participated in the production. It is a beautiful blend of semi classical and classic Bollywood numbers which combine art and entertainment.
LAGAAN which is a lavish ,rousing entertainment in the old fashioned tradition, is directed by Ashutosh Gowanker. It is a tale of an Indian village beset by draught .Without a drop of rain , the villagers urge the
almighty to pour water from the heavens for them to survive , based on these we have taken the songs , ghanana and o mitwa .Radha kaise na jale has been added from the same movie done in a traditional style,
LAMHE; is the story of moments ;moments of passion , moments of ecstasy, which we show through songs like megha re megha and morni baga ma bole.,
DEVDAS; THE 2002 BLOCKBUSTER, A SANJAY LEELA BHANSALIS FILM.
The tale of 2 soul mates whose love is thwarted by Indias rigid class structure. The saga of a man called Devdas who loved, loved and just loved, his love for PARO -his lovely childhood playmate and as
youth beckoned , the love intensified, but fate created the wall of separation between them. Which completely shattered Devdas . He left behind a testimony of true love that was pure, chaste and undemanding.
Based on that concept, all the songs of Devdas are rich in lyrics and music. We have taken 5 numbers from this movie , summing up with Dola Music for this movie is by Ismail Darbar . Rarely have we seen an album where all the songs are perfectly sung
Screen on The Green: Scarface, April 27 2013 @ Kifaru Gardens
Date: 27 April 2013
Gates open at 6pm, movie starts at sundown
Price: 500Ksh
Location: Kifaru House
Tony Montana (Pacino), a Marielito freed from Castro’s jails and sent to Florida along with the political prisoners taken in by the Carter administration. After a harrowing introduction to the US coke business he makes his way swiftly up the crime ladder, ruthlessly squashing anyone who dares to stand in his way, even bent cops.
Come with something to sit on and with something to eat. Gates open at 6pm and movie begins at sundown.
Tickets available on ticketsasa.com