Date: Saturday, October 14, 2017
Venue: The Point, Buruburu
Time: 3 pm
Entry: Free
Battle Slalom
Nairobi’s growing community of roller skaters will meet for a battle freestyle slalom to show off their technical and tactical skills. Using inline skates, the slalomers will pull out their best tricks and combos around lines of equally spaced cones to compete for the champion’s title.
Date: October 8, 2017
Venue: August 7th Memorial Park
Time: 3:00 PM
Cost: KES 800 at the gate for the public
Acts: Njerae, Wangui Githu (Kahawas), Kendi Nkonge, Prisca Ojwang’ and Serro
Emcee: Aleya Kassam
Date: October 7, 2017
Venue: the Alchemist
Time: 7 pm till late
Dates: October 5-9, 2017
Venues: Kisii University, Mara Game Reserve, & University of Nairobi
For more information, visit the official festival website.
Dates: October 1 (Nigeria National Day) – November 30, 2017
Venues: Nairobi Gallery, Nairobi National Museum and the French Cultural Centre
Organised by Alan Donovan – he of the African Heritage House – and other collaborators.
Date: October 1, 2017
Venue: Carnivore Grounds
Time: noon – 7 pm
Tickets: KES 3,000 at the Gate
Date: October 1, 2017
Venue: 910 James Gichuru
Time: from 11am till 7pm
Entry is free
About
Pop Up & Chill is a market that features a carefully curated array of artisans and collectors bringing handmade, eco, holistic and vintage goods and items inspired by Africa and majorly made in Kenya. Its main aim is to link local independent unique artists, designers, makers collectors and traders with consumers of handmade, made in Kenya and made in Africa in a relaxed setting.
Date: September 30, 2017
Venue: the Carnivore
Time: 7 pm
Tickets: KES 5,000/-
Date: Sunday, 24th September 2017
Venue: Nairobi Racecourse, Ngong Road
Time: starting from 9:00 am
Advance Tickets: Adults KES 950, Children KES 450 – available at all CBA branches in Nairobi & Thika, Sarova Panafric, The Stanley, Capital FM and TicketSasa
Gate charges: Adult Kshs 1,000, Child Kshs 500
About
East Africa’s most prestigious spectator motor-show event, the CBA Africa Concours d’Elegance.This year’s will be the 47th edition of Concours d’Elegance, a lifestyle event that is acclaimed for the beauty and elegance showcased by both the competitors and the spectators. Apart from the judging of 70 classic and vintage cars and 40 motorcycles – the centre piece of the event – there will be a grand finale involving; pyrotechnics, a fashion show and live performance by Nyashinski. The theme for this year’s Concours is, Beauty and the Beast.
It is the ideal fun-family experience, organized by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club and proudly sponsored by Commercial Bank of Africa.
The Trap Neuter Release (TNR) Trust will host an event to raise funds for the Trust’s new Mobile Clinic. There will be dinner and a show by the highly acclaimed Sitawa Namwalie and Aleya Kassam and a raffle.
Date: September 30, 2017
Venue: the Tribe Hotel, Village Market, Nairobi
Time: 6 pm
Tickets: KES 7,000/- (inclusive of welcome drink, dinner and show) | Raffle tickets at KES 200 on sale now through e-mail on; tnrtrustnairobi@gmail.com
NOTE: 6 pm welcome drink; 7:15pm show and dinner. Dress Code; Beautiful.
About
TNR Trust, a registered Trust in Kenya, was established in 2015 following growing concerns over the stray dog and cat population in regards to animal welfare, disease control and population management.The Trust aims to combine education on rabies and animal welfare with affordable rabies vaccinations and spay/neutering. This will curb the burgeoning dog and cat population and reduce the spread of the fatal disease rabies. This will, in turn, reduce the human mortality rate and improve community health.
Sitawa Namwalie is exploring the many ways of telling stories. She is a poet, playwright and performer. She wrote “Cut off My Tongue” (2008), “Homecoming” (2011), and “Silence is a Woman” (2014) which won Kenya’s Sanaa Theatre Awards Best Spoken Word and Poetry in the same year. Her second play “Room of Lost Names” has been performed to critical and popular acclaim at the Kampala International Theatre Festival and Ubumuntu Arts Festival Kigali.
Aleya Kassam is a Kenyan reader, writer and performer. She has been published in Jalada, Mail and Guardian Africa. She blogs her musings at www.chanyado.wordpress.com, which was nominated for Best New Blog at the Blog Awards Kenya 2015. She has performed in ‘Stories from the Mall: A Westgate Memorial’, and acclaimed shows ‘Silence is a Woman’ and ‘Cut off my Tongue’ amongst others.
