Festival: Desturi Nairobi, Feb. 24 2019 @ Aug. 7th Memorial Park – CBD

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Date: February 24, 2019
Venue: Aug 7th Memorial Park
Time: from 12 noon – 7 pm
Tickets: KES 500/- [deposited via mpesa to +254716659166 (Embukane Vincent Libosso)]

PS: Vending spaces also available. Contact +254716659166 (Embukane Vincent Libosso)

About
Music is a universal language it resonates through generations and survives decades and centuries in history. It is one of the elements that can survive through wars, times and political regimes and for that matter, a powerful tool of communication. It is with this foundation that we present Desturi Festival, a collage of local artistry, talent and culture represented through the art of music.

Highlighting the renowned artist Abbih Nguma, who is a passionate, patriotic musical artist best known for vibrant and soulful tunes of urban Rhumba. Better known as, Le Prince de la Rhumba. Desturi Festival seeks to strengthen the family unit through music and fun activities.

The objective is to conduct a one day event to be held every once every two months. The event will feature a live band performance from Abbih Nguma and the band, other performing artists and DJ entertainment and fun activities and games for the young ones.

The only way we can preserve our Kenyan culture and beliefs is if everybody plays the part by embracing the powerful tools a music and art. We invite you to be part of Desturi Festival in the belief that you are the perfect and most suitable partner to execute this wonderful event.
DESTURI NAIROBI….Kama Kawaida Tu.

For more information, visit the event page on Facebook

Exhibition: Sculptures & Mbuno, from Feb. 10 2019 @ Red Hill Art Gallery

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Opening: February 10, 2019
Venue: Red Hill Art Gallery
Time: from 11 am – 5 pm

Sculptures & Mbuno
From traditional Makonde Sculptures – chameleon entwined Shetanis by Hossein Anangangola and grotesque creatures by Tanzanian Bernhard Pius & Mathias Nampoka – to the contemporary Giacometti like elongated and fragile female bodies of the late Makonde sculptor Simun Nyedi Dastani and his sons Boniface and Simon: the breast, the jar-head, the neck evolving into a snake, the long and frail legs, the clinching child – stylized elements as old and contemporary as ever.

From Zimbabwe’s first generation Shona sculptors Bernhard Matemera, Henry Munyarazi and Amali Maroba to a contemporary abstract stone sculpture by Tom Phiri, from Zambia

From the Kenyan master in wood sculptures Morris Foit to contemporary Kenyan sculptors Denis Muraguri and Gor Soudan.

A three dimensional presentation enriched by the archaic wax crayon paper drawings of Kivuthi Mbuno, his bizarre, hauntingly grotesque and almost surrealistic interpretation of nature, man and animal.

Live Concert: Ethio Jazz Funk with Trio Kazanchis +2, Feb. 8 2019 @ Alliance Française Gardens

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Date: February 8, 2019
Venue: Alliance Française Gardens
Time: 7 pm
Entry: Free

About
Trio Kazanchis +2 is made up of musicians Jeroen Visser (Switzerland), Mesele Asmamaw (Ethiopia) and Fabien Duscombs (France).

They labeled their music ‘Ethiopian traditional impro punk’. So far, they have toured Switzerland, France, Holland, Belgium, the Czech Republic and China.

In collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Kenya.