Magazine Launch: Nairobi Contemporary Magazine, May 11 2018 @ Shifteye Studios – Argwings Kodhek Rd

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“Nairobi Contemporary” Magazine Launch, Launch of new bi-monthly Intellectual Discourse Magazine by local Kenyan artists.

Date: May 11, 2018
Venue: Shifteye Studios, Argwings Kodhek Rd
Time: 19:00 – 21:30
Entry: Free

“Nairobi Contemporary is an artist-led platform that promotes appreciation of local contemporary culture & advances the study of modern and contemporary Kenyan art by encouraging informative and critical discourse through rationalised art writing.”

All are welcome. Entry is Free.

EU Film Festival Screening: I Am Not a Witch, May 11 2018 @ National Museum of Kenya

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Date: May 11, 2018
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium, National Museum of Kenya
Time: 5 – 7 pm
Entry: Free (Get your free ticket on mtickets here.)

Join us on 11 May for the screening of the ground breaking feature film I Am Not a Witch by Zambian-born Welsh writer director Rungano Nyoni.

When eight-year-old Shula turns up alone and unannounced in a rural Zambian village, the locals are suspicious. A minor incident escalates to a full-blown witch trial, where she is found guilty and sentenced to life on a state-run witch camp. There, she is tethered to a long white ribbon and told that if she ever tries to run away, she will be transformed into a goat. As the days pass, Shula begins to settle into her new community, but a threat looms on the horizon. Soon she is forced to make a difficult decision – whether to resign herself to life on the camp, or take a risk for freedom.

Watch the trailer

Science Café/Book Launch: Kenyan and Ethiopian Athletics, May 10 2018 @ Alliance Française Nairobi

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Date: May 10, 2018
Venue: Alliance Française Nairobi
Time: 6 pm
Entry: Free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ZLG-Fij_4

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Launch of the book ‘Kenyan and Ethiopian Athletics – towards an alternative scientific approach’ by Benôit Gaudin and Bezabih Wolde.

Will the ‘secret’ of East African runners be revealed? Despite decades of research, no study has provided any sort of evidence that portrays biological otherness among populations in Kenya and Ethiopia which produces the best athletes in middle and long distance runners.

Showcase Wednesday ft. Swahili Ally from Tanga – Tanzania, May 9 2018 @ Alliance Française

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Date: May 9, 2018
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Time: 6.30 pm
Entry: Free

About
Swahili Ally is a singer and kora player from Tanga, Tanzania. Born in a family of Digo musicians, Swahili Ally was coached by his grandparents and elders. He started performing with the Dar es Salaam based group of singers, dancers, musician, Lumumba Theatre Group, before joining the Dhow Music Academy in Zanzibar where he learnt to play the Kora, the iconic West African harp.

He has since mastered this string instrument and fluently blends traditional Digo music with the unique sounds of the kora.

Screening: On Palestine – Short Experimental Films, ‘Sci-Fi trilogy’, by Larissa Sansour, May 7 2018 @ Alliance Française Nairobi

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ON PALESTINE IN NAIROBI presented by the British Institute of Eastern Africa

Date: May 7, 2018
Venue: Alliance Française Nairobi
Time: 6 pm
Entry: Free

About
Short experimental films, ‘Sci-Fi trilogy’, by Larissa Sansour, Palestinian multimedia artist, and ‘Home Movies Gaza’ by Basma Alsharif. Under the common themes of loss, belonging, heritage and national identity, the films explore different aspects of the political turmoil in the Middle East.

The screening coincides with a photographic exhibition ‘On Palestine’ by Dr. Annie Pfingst at the British Institute in Eastern Africa.

Book Launch: Dukawalla by Pheroze Nowrojee, May 3 2018 @ Goethe Institut – Nairobi

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Date: Thursday, May 3, 2018
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 6 PM
Admission: free

About
Pheroze Nowrojee, born in Nairobi, is a leading human rights lawyer, a poet, and a writer, who over many decades has been an influential part of the political and social movements for constitutional and social change in Kenya.

Dukawalla is a collection of stories that takes readers on journeys into varied Kenyan, East African, and other landscapes, delving into lives and personalities equally diverse.