Out of Town/Talk: Setting the Record Straight by Dr. Margaretta Gacheru, Aug. 21 2011 @ Paa ya Paa Arts Centre

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Date: August 21, 2011
Venue: Paa ya Paa Arts Centre
Time: 3-6pm

Dr. Gacheru is a professional journalist with experience working for the Weekly Review, Nairobi Times, the East African, Daily Nation, Kenya Times and magazines like Trend and Men Only.
Academically she has 4 masters: in Journalism, African Literature, Sociology and Education plus a Doctorate of Sociology from Loyola
University, Chicago, USA.

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Call for Artists: Professional and School Groups, Aug. 29 2011 @ Paa ya Paa

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Paa ya Paa is calling all creative artists to contribute their ideas on what they love about Africa for an exhibition called “In Love With Africa”.

This exhibition aims to pay tribute to all the beautiful things that we love and cherish in this continent. Let us come together to show our love for Africa in our own unique way to celebrate our common ground.

How can we show that we are “in love” with a continent?
Is it really possible to do this?
What do we love personally about ourselves and our lives that we would like to share with others?
Who are the people in Africa who have inspired us and make us love who we are?
How can we work together to continue to make Africa proud?

Calling on:
Painters, photographers, mixed media artists, sculptors, pottery and ceramic and textile artists, poets, writers, children and adults, all of you artists out there, come forth!!!

Many of you have your own special way of telling a story through art.

The theme is to pay homage to Africa, both in a personal and broader perspective, including personal art stories that make you proud to be African or connected with Africa.

Artists must bring their ready-to-exhibit works or poems and writings to Paa Ya Paa Arts Centre, Paa Ya\ Paa Lane, Ridgeways Road O! Kiambu Road by

Deadline: August 29, 2011
Time: 9am and 5pm.

Come with a short statement about your work as it relates to the above theme. It will accompany your artwork at the exhibition. Works may be for sale or not for sale. If for sale, there will be a 30% deduction against sales to defray costs.

MORE DETAILS
An artist or poet may bring no more than 2 works for the show.
The size of the artworks should not be larger than 1 sq. meter.
The artworks and poetry should be fresh work unless it is a tribute to an African hero/heroine, regardless of ethnicity.

SCHOOL CATEGORIES
We encourage children to participate through their class or art club groups. We would allow you to organize through a teacher and submit what he/she feels are the best entries.

CONTACT PERSONS (Should there be additional questions)
For the professional artists:
Mr. Nuru Bahati, Artist-Organizer
Cell: 0721 267 239
Mr. Boyd Oyier, Artist-Organizer
Cell: 0770 534 853

For the school group artists:
Ms. Phillda Ragland Njau, Coordinator,
International Arts Program for PYP
Cell: 0733 270 109

For poetry and literature:
Mr. Elimo Njau, Artist-Director
Paa Ya Paa Arts Centre
Cell: 0733 270 109
Thank you for your love and valued participation.

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Nairobi Arboretum Lecture, Jul. 28 2011 @ Nairobi Arboretum

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Date: July 28, 2011
Venue: Tree Centre (Nairobi Arboretum)
Time: 5.30-6.30pm
Entry: Students/FONA/Nature Kenya Members Free, Non-Members Kshs 100
Contacts: fona@naturekenya.org or 0727 300 933

Speaker: Victor Mutumah (Programmes Officer, Born Free Kenya)

For as little as twenty Shillings, you can have a sizeable chunk of meat for lunch or dinner. Have you consumed bush meat without knowing it?
Your chance to learn more about illegal bush meat trade that has led to the decline in wildlife populations contributed to habitat destruction and even exposed people to serious wildlife related diseases

Art Legend Talks, until Jul 20 2011 @ Kuona Trust

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Osei G. Kofi, the Ghanaian born, art lover, is the current Managing Director of Gallery Watatu. Gallery Watatu is the oldest privately owned art gallery of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa. Kofi started off by writing about art and with time, grew from this this to collecting contemporary Africa art, to consulting and setting up an art dealing company.
Topic:           The challenge for African contemporary art in the international market
Date & Time:    Monday 18th July, 2-4pm

Jak Katarikawe, who for many years was described as the Chagall of Africa, received early stimulus from his mother, who painted the walls of houses. Discovered by Prof. Cook from Makerere University, he had his first exhibition at the Nommo Gallery, Kampala (1973), and also in Denmark, Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Kingdom and USA. “When I remember or listen to a good story, I laugh at it and then later, translate it into a painting”, he says and does the same thing with dreams.
Topic:              Down memory lane – development of East African contemporary art
Date & Time:    Monday 18th July, 2-5pm

Joseph Bertiers who began his illustrious career as a sign writer, is now one of Kenya’s most famous artists. His paintings feature heavily populated imagined urban scenes of bars, market places and towns. They usually include recognizable Kenyan and international politicians and celebrities in ludicrous settings and are political commentaries of contemporary Kenya. The paintings themselves feature hand painted signs and messages above the bars and shops and there is a clear evidence of his sign writing background.
Topic:              Life and works
Date & Time:    Wednesday 20th July, 2-5pm

ICT investment event: IPO48, Aug. 12-14 2011 @ iHub

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On the 12th-14th of August, 2011 Nairobi, Kenya will be hosting the IPO48 for the second time. Last year it was the first city in Africa to hold a 48-hour ICT bootcamp investment event. What makes IPO48 different from all the other tech-events?
An investment of 2.5 million KShs. has to be made at the event within these 48 hours. Which makes it interesting not only for the entrepreneurs but also for the investors who all have agreed to play by the rules.
Secondly, it is all about the people. Many similar events focus on pitching and presentation. IPO48 is about candid interaction between mentors and entrepreneurs before and during the event. It is about building something, taking action, showing that you as an entrepreneur got what it takes for the little guy in a competitive market with big players.

“Ideas are in abundance, good entrepreneurs are not. IPO48 is about finding the good entrepreneurs, most of the ideas will mostly be adjusted or changed when they meet reality,” says Kresten Buch, co-founder of HumanIPO. The first IPO48 event changed the lives of the 3 entrepreneurs from M-Farm who won the event last time. “It not only had us creating our company on next Monday after the event, but also catapulted us into media frenzy, “ says Jamila Abass, one of the co-founders of M-Farm. With appearances already in the BBC News World, CNBC Business magazine, NTV, “The Standard” and “The Daily Nation” they got instant marketing most startups would kill for. And to top it all – M-Farm was just picked by the by the infodev a subsidiary of the World Bank, as Top 20 SME in the world during the 4th Global Forum on Innovation&Entrepreneurship in Helsinki, Finland.

About IPO48:
IPO48 is an event made by HumanIPO and has already taken place in Nairobi (Kenya), Prague (Czech Republic) and will go to Copenhagen (Denmark) after the 2nd edition in Nairobi. HumanIPO is a social media platform that aims at accelerating entrepreneurship by connecting entrepreneurs to professionals, co-founders, employees and angel investors. It was founded by Danish serial entrepreneur Kresten Buch and David Owino former COO of Kenya Data network, now Executive Director at The BCS Group Limited.

IPO48 event website

Film Aid Festival, Jul. 14-21 2011

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Dates: July 14-21, 2011
Venues: Goethe Institut, Alliance Française, GoDown Arts Centre, Dadaab, Kakuma
Entrance: Free
Contacts: 0204443385, +254 722 540 543 or Nairobi@filmaid.org
Website: http://www.sundance.org/filmforward/

Festival includes: Workshops, regular screenings, feature short films, outdoor community screening, seminar and documentaries.

Download the Sundance Film forward Draft Schedule.doc

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–Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General, United Nations