Lamu Festival Calendar for the Year 2016
Venue: Lamu Archipelago, Lamu County
Festival and Dates
Art Festival – February 12-14, 2016
Yoga Festival – March 2-6, 2016
Food Expo and Festival – April 14-16, 2016
Lamu Cultural Festival – November 10-13, 2016
Visiting Lamu for the first time? Read Nairobinow‘s travel write-up. Seven Days in Lamu Archipelago, Lamu County
Spend your valentine’s weekend in Lamu, on legendary Peponi Beach, Shela Village.
Dates: February 13-14, 2016
Venue: Shela Village, Lamu
Programme
Saturday, 13 February: Shela Hat Contest (4th Edition)
Sunday, 14 February: The ‘Mad Hatters’ Dhow Race
Find more information, here http://www.shela-hat-contest.com/
Dates: January 28 – February 7, 2016
Venues: Participating Outlets
Costs: KES 1,500 – 2,500
About
Nairobi’s finest restaurants will be designing special 3 course menus for KES 1500 / KES 2500 depending on the establishment. 2 course lunch menus will also be on offer at most restaurants at Ksh 1000 / Ksh 1800.This year’s menus will be specially paired with wines from Nederburg, South Africa.
For more information, visit www.nairobirestaurantweek.com
10th Edition of Koroga Festival Ft. Jose Chameleone, Ken wa Maria, J.B. Maina & Tony Nyadundo
Date: January 3, 2016
Venue: Arboretum Gardens
Tickets: KES 2,500 at the Gate
The 14th edition of the Lusophone Film Fest Nairobi will be on the 9-Jan at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi. This session will mark two years of the Film Fest with a selection of the best shorts we’ve had so far.
We will also have a talk with Bernardo Nascimento (director of North Atlantic) and Tosh Gitonga (director of Nairobi Half Life) for a lively discussion after the session! This edition will feature a number of shorts, lasting for about 2 hours:
– A Tropical Sunday (Mozambique)
– 3×3 (Portugal)
– Animalz (Portugal)
– Relic (Brazil)
– The Suspect (Portugal)
– The Ball (Mozambique)
– Isle of Flowers (Brazil)
– Alambamento (Angola)
– Rafa (Portugal)
– North Atlantic (Portugal)
Recognised with international awards at film festivals around the globe, the cinema from the Portuguese-speaking world is still mostly unknown to the general public. This 240 million people linguistic community is a thriving one, promoting over 80 film festivals and cinema awards every year, with movies mostly consumed in the respective countries.
The Lusophone Film Fest is a showcase of the diversity of film production in the eight Portuguese-speaking countries spread across 4 continents. The festival presents multiple works (documentaries, animations, shorts and feature films), in sessions of several films from the different countries.
The event is free of charge. More info in https://www.facebook.com/Lusophonefilmfest
Introducing, Kilifi New Year 2016, Kenya’s freshest boutique festival experience. Thirty six hours packed with the dopiest and most exhilarating vibes the continent has to offer.
Date: December 31, 2015
Venue: Distant Relatives Backpackers Eco-lodge, Kilifi
Tickets : KES 6000 – Includes: Free camping for two nights, entrance into the New Year’s Eve party at Distant Relatives on the 31st and Lake of Fire Party on the 1st of January.
About
Kilifi New Year gets bigger and better every year, and this time around we’re very excited to announce that our headliner is chart-conquering Berlin DJ Wankelmut! Ever heard this song?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRAMNWzfjcgWe’re also proud to welcome Toby2shoes, South Africa’s favourite genre mashing funkster, back again to #KilifiNYE2016!
We have also confirmed a full line-up of incredible musical depth drawn from across Africa, Europe and the States, and over the next few weeks we will be introducing you to a troupe of traveling troubadours who will keep the dancefloor rocking throughout this year’s event. We’ll be publishing a full schedule soon!
All this will be taking place in one of East Africa’s most unique and stunning settings. Our build team of artists, sculptors and industrial designers are hard at work putting together a wonderland of electric installations and mind-bending decor. It’s going to be even bigger and better than last year’s event!
The Beach Baobab Stage has been confirmed as the venue for the second night! We have extended the festival into a second day this year, so save some energy for January 1st as the incredible music continues from 4pm. Dance under the stars, swim out in the phosphorescence, jive in the jungle, and witness the hypnotizing beauty of the burn at the Lake of Fire Party!
This is going to be an amazing journey and you’re all invited!
For tickets message FULL NAMES for each attendant to 0718522872 and then await individual payment instructions and confirmation number. ID compulsory on entrance.
More info visit Distant Relatives Eco-lodge & Backpackers website
Date: December 20, 2015
Venue: Along City Hall Way
Time: 10 am to 10 pm
Karen village is hosting Colour Festival to be held on the 12th – 13th December.
This event entails playing around with colour dust. There will be different activities which are fun and exciting. This will be the 3rd edition and due to public demand it has been extended to a two day festival. The event begins at 11 AM Saturday to 4 PM Sunday.
For more details visit our FB Page Karen Village / Day fusion 4 Colour fest.
On Saturday 5 December the Rift Valley Forum and Kwani? Litfest 2015 will host Nuruddin Farah for the launch of his book Hiding in Plain Sight.
Date: Saturday 5 December 2015
Venue: Kwani? Trust
Location: Off Riverside Drive, Chiromo
Time: 2 – 4pm
About
Nuruddin is the winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Lettre Ulysses Award, and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. His body of work includes two trilogies, Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship (1980) and Blood in the Sun (1986). The novel Hiding in Plain Sight is partially set in Nairobi and explores themes of family, freedom and loyalty. Says the New York Times Book Review, “The rewards of reading Hiding in Plain Sight lie in Farah’s sensitive exploration of grief and his depiction of a family’s love for one another…Farah is particularly adept at evoking the way in which the sight of a familiar face or place can trigger painful memories and how comfort can come to us from unexpected sources.”This year’s Kwani? Litfest, themed “Beyond the Map of English”, will also host a variety of conversations on language and writing, including:
Language and its changing relations to African experience and writing on the continent, a panel discussion featuring Siphiwo Mahala, Patrick Mudekereza, and Yvonne Owuor. Wednesday 2 December 2015, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, at the Kenya National Theatre.
Capturing African Worlds, a public lecture by acclaimed Ghanaian-Nigerian writer Taiye Selasi about her work and the different worlds language that capture African experiences. Taiye will later join Yvonne Owuor in conversation with Dr. Sheila Ochugboju. Wednesday 2 December 2015, 7:30pm – 9:00pm, at the Kenya National Theatre.
Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature winners Anna Samwel, Mohammed K. Ghassani, Enock Maregesi and Christopher Bundala Budebah in conversation with Mukoma wa Ngugi. Friday 4 December 2015, 6:00 – 7:30pm, at Kwani Trust.
New contemporary narratives – escaping the straitjacket of genre. Where do fiction and non-fiction meet? A conversation with Wu Ming 1 and Mikhail Iossel, moderated by Billy Kahora. Friday 4 December 2015 ,7:45pm – 9:30pm, at Kwani Trust.
Pre-registration is not required.
More information and the full Kwani? Litfest 2015 programme are available at http://kwanilitfest.tumblr.com.
Dates: December 1-6, 2015
Venues: Kwani? Trust Offices, University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University, the Elephant, Kenya National Theatre, Alliance Française
About 2015 Kwani? Litfest
The fifth edition of Kwani? Litfest, a biennial gathering of writers, artists and thinkers from across Africa, takes place from 1st – 6th December 2015. This year’s literary festival, Beyond the Map of English: Writers in conversation on Language hosts readings, performances and discussions that explore issues of language and how this relates to African experiences and writing on the continent.
Confirmed participants include Nuruddin Farah, Taiye Selasi, Boris Boubacar Diop, Yvonne Adhiambo Owour, Wu Ming, Prof. Aldin Mutembei, FOKN Bois and Siphiwo Mahala.
The Kwani? Litfest will also launch the East African edition of Nuruddin Farah’s book, Hiding in Plain Sight, a novel set in the wake of a terrorist attack that kills a Kenyan UN worker in Mogadishu, published by Kwani Trust.
The festival features public lectures by Mr. Farah, Ghanaian and Nigerian novelist, Taiye Selasi, Senegalese writer, Boris Boubacar Diop and Tanzanian scholar and novelist Prof. Aldin Mutembei. The latest issues of the Kwani? Journal, Kwani? 08, is also set for release during the festival.
A book party featuring the Ghanaian music group Fok Bois will introduce this issue, featuring work on the 2010 Kenya constitution, the 2013 general elections and devolution. Featured writers include Paul Goldsmith, Okwiri Odour, Laura Fish, Jackie Lebo and Ngala Chome.
Over the past few months, Kwani Trust has been working on a collection of narratives from the Coast and Northern Kenya regions. During the course of this work, we have found that issues around the relationship between Western-oriented creative writing, up-country English-language publishing dominance and the use of Kiswahili at the Coast to warrant a special session at the Kwani? Litfest.
Therefore, writers from the Coastal region will feature prominently on programming. Through a partnership with Mabati Rolling Mills, we are also thrilled to host the winners of the inaugural Mabati-Cornell Prize for Kiswahili Literature, who will be announced at the festival.
See full programme here: www.kwani.org
