Dates: July 6-31 2020
Venue: Alliance Francaise
About
Evans breathes life into an assortment of discarded material and found objects to create sculptures, collages and other function art.Evans holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Art from Kenyatta University. He is also known for his quirky jewelry.
Date: March 21, 2020
Venue: Karen Village Arts Centre
Time: 7 pm
Entry: Free
Opening: March 14, 2020
Venue: Village Market
Time: 3 pm
Entry: Free
Until April 13, 2020
Organised by the GoDown Arts Centre
Date: March 5, 2020
Venue: Alliance Francaise Gardens
Time: from 7 pm
Entry: Free
Winner of the 2019 Radio France Internationale Discovery Award, the Congolese singer, Céline Banza, will be in Nairobi as part of her African tour prize with her 5-man band.
Céline Banza sings folk-inspired ballads in Ngbandi, a language spoken in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo. She studied musicology at the National Institute of Arts in Kinshasa and is working on her debut album to be released later this year.
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Venue: Rabuko Bistro, The Mall – Westlands
Time: from 7.30 pm
Entry: Free
MC: Akinyi Oluoch
Date: March 3, 2020
Time: 7.00 pm – 9.30 pm
Venue: IMAX Cinema, Mama Ngina Street (CBD Nairobi)
Entry: Kes 1000 at the door. Advance tickets at Kes 800*. Early Bird Tickets at Kes 500. (Get tickets on mookh.com)
*Advance ticketing closes at 6 pm.
About Ogutu
Ogutu Muraya is a writer and theater maker whose work is embedded in the practice of Orature. He studied International Relations at USIU-Africa and graduated in 2016 with a Master in Arts at the Amsterdam University of the Arts – DAS Theatre. He has been published in the Kwani? Journal, Chimurenga Chronic, Rekto:Verso and Etcetera Magazine. His performative works & storytelling have featured in several theatres and festivals including- La Mama (NYC), The Hay Festival (Wales), HIFA (Harare), NuVo Arts Festival (Kampala), Storymoja Festival (Nairobi), Spoken Wor:l:ds (Berlin), Globe to Globe Festival (London), Ranga Shankara (Bangalore), Afrovibes Festival (Amsterdam), Spielart (Munich), Theatre is Must Forum (Alexandria), Theatre Commons (Tokyo) among others.Ogutu is a recipient of The Eric Brassem Exchange Certificat. He was recognized as a talent in the 2017- 2018 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst – 3 Package Deal.
His latest solo performance ‘Because I Always Feel Like Running’ was nominated for – The ZKB Patronage Award and ZKB Audience Award during the 39th edition of Zürcher Theater Spektakel, in Zurich.
Date: February 26, 2020
Venue: Alliance Française
Time: from 7 pm
Entry: Free
Opening: February 29, 2020
Venue: #16 Rosslyn Lone Tree
Until March 29, 2020
One Off is always delighted to hold an exhibition of spectacular paintings by veteran conservation artist, Timothy Brooke, who is undeniably ‘at the top of his game’ and painting like never before.
‘Almost vanishing Africa’ opens on 29th February. This show offers vignettes of a continent undergoing change so swiftly, that much of its natural wealth will shortly be a distant memory for us; something our grandchildren will only read about.
PRIVATE VIEW: Saturday, 29 February – 12 noon to 5 pm
Date: February 29, 2020
Venue: Malindi
Time: from 9 pm
Tickets: KES 3,000/-
Date: February 21, 2020
Venue: Alliance Française Nairobi
Time: 7pm
Entry: Free
The Swiss afro-soul singer, Thaïs Diarra, with roots in Mali and Senegal, accompanied by the Senegalese kora player Noumoucounda Cissoko, the drummer, Axel Lussiez and the arranger/producer Fred Hirschy, will be in Nairobi for a one-off concert straight from the Sauti za Busara Festival.
Thaïs has worked and toured with Didier Awadi and Positive Black Soul. She has recorded three albums with Fred Hirschy. Her style is both a subtle mix of African instruments such as the kora and balafon and influences from American soul, reggae, Senegalese mbalax and Mandingo music.
