Dates: April 27 & 28, 2013
Venue: The Panari Hotel
Time: 2-7pm
ENTRY
Adults: 700 Advanced, 800 ksh Gate
Children: 1000 Advanced, 1200ksh Gate
(Inclusive of bouncing castles, cow rides, free skating & Much more)
Content: Live bands, Ice Skating, Hockey Games, Poetry & Spoken Word and Dj Mixes
Host: Ricardo Benon
Artists: Asali Msanii, Raya Wambui, Teardrops, Ricardo Benon, Fadhilee Itulya, Siri Ya Muziki, Tess da Poetess
This April the Creatives Garage will host several of the leading hubs in Nairobi to share about their work and engage in a discussion about the role, impact and importance of hubs in the creative industry. As a creative it is imperative for you to join as you are the main shareholder for the establishment of any hub in your field.
Date: Friday, April 19 2013
Venue: Pawa 254
Time: from 5 pm
Creative hubs have become a center for innovation and incubation for start ups in Kenya, with several coming up around Nairobi.
Date: Friday April 12, 2013
Venue: 3rd Floor, Alliance Française, Utalii Lane
Time: 6-8 pm (event starts 6.30pm sharp)
RSVP: naipolitans@gmail.com
What makes Nairobi, Nairobi? This question will be the focus of this month’s conversation as Joy Mboya and Judy Ogana of the GoDown Arts Centre tell us about the Centre’s Nairobi Project which takes the question of identity and belonging in the city to the neighbourhood level.
The project will support the 12 neighbourhood zones of Nairobi explore questions such as: Who are we at a neighborhood level? What do we care about? And what elements make my neighborhood feel like a community? Collectively, these neighbourhoods will be responding to the question “Nai ni Who?”
Come hear more about this project and take part in a conversation that delves into the question of what makes up Nairobi’s identity and how best to showcase these elements.
In what zone is your neighbourhood?
Zone 1: Central Business District
Zone 2: GoDown, Railway, Nairobi West, South B/C, Mukuru
Zone 3: Kamkunji, Shauri Moyo, Kaloleni, Ofafa Jericho
Zone 4: Buruburu, Kariobangi South, Umoja, Tena, Doonholm
Zone 5: Pumwani, Eastleigh, Pangani, Kariakor, Ziwani, Starehe
Zone 6: Mathare, Koch, Dandora, Kariobangi North, Babadogo
Zone 7: Muthaiga, Karura Forest, Gigiri
Zone 8: Ngara, Parklands
Zone 9: Lavington, Kileleshwa, Spring Valley, Kawangware-Kangemi, Dago-Junction
Zone 10: Kilimani, Upper Hill, Ngumo, Golf Course
Zone 11: Kibera, Ngei, Kenyatta Market, Dam
Zone 12: Karen, Lang’ata, Nairobi National Park
On 19 April, the Nairobi Forum will host the launch of a special Somalia edition of the Journal of Eastern African Studies. Speakers will include Markus Hoehne of the Max Planck Institute, Jutta Bakonyi of the University of Durham, and Jason Mosley, editor of the JEAS.
The seminar will take place at the British Institute in Eastern Africa from 1-4 pm.
Contact: forum@riftvalley.net or check the RVI website for updates.
The Nairobi Forum, in partnership with Kwani Trust, will be hosting an evening with renowned Somali author Nuruddin Farah on 18th April.
Date: April 18, 2013
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium, Nairobi National Museum
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Free entrance by prior registration only. Register here
Nuruddin is winner of the Neustadt International Prize for literature and the Lettre Ulysses Award, and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. His body of work includes two trilogies, Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship (1980) and Blood in the Sun (1986). His most recent novel, Crossbones, was published in 2011.
Nuruddin will be in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, the Founding Editor of Kwani Trust and author of the acclaimed memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place.
LOVE BY SHAKESPEARE: Directed by Robin Denault
Dates: April 5-20, 2013
Venue: Phoenix Theatre
RSVP: info@phoenixtheatre.co.ke or 020-2225506 or 0705 589 722
Synopsis
A collage of three of the Bard’s most recognized plays: Romeo and Juliet, Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream… Some of the characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream have escaped the world of Shakespeare, that scoundrel, and stumbled onto ours. As luck would have it, they wander onto a stage where coincidentally an audience is standing by. They will spend the next hour and a half convincing this assembly of theatre goers that love is but a game for fools and Shakespeare, that scoundrel, masterfully exploited that foolishness to create some of the best and deadliest love stories ever told.
Date: April 4, 2013
Venue: The Serena Hotel
Time: 7-9pm
Tickets: Kshs 3,500 [Students Kshs 1,000]
Agenda: Empowering Kenyan SMEs for global competitiveness.
