Oasis Music Festival, Aug 20 2011 @ DC Fields, Kibera
The Oasis Music Festival will be held on this Saturday, August 20, 1-5pm in Kibera. Cost: FREE!
Exact location: DC fields on Kibera Drive, 5 minute walk from Prestige Plaza (Ngong Road).
The Oasis Music Festival is hosted by Flying Kites and GoodMakers Films, featuring hundreds of children from orphanages around Nairobi who will share music and dance performances, along with some of Kenya’s biggest pop stars including Daddy Owen, Jimmy Gait, Emmy Kosgei, MC Eric Omondiand the 2008 Malta Guinness Pan African Street Dance champions Dashy Krew.
For the past 2 weeks, children and youth from 5 children’s homes in the Flying Kites Oasis Program (including 2 children’s homes located in Kibera) have been participating in creative workshops, led by Dashy Krew and the GoodMakers Street Team, with the goal of fostering self empowerment, creative expression, and giving a voice to orphaned and vulnerable children from Nairobi. The documentary film shooting is a cross-cultural collaboration between the non-profit film production company GoodMakers Films from Los Angeles USA, Flying Kites, and Kibera-based Hot Sun Films.
There will be a special spotlight on fundraising efforts for Kenyans for Kenya (K4K). A surprise guest will kick off a crowd challenge at the festival to text donations in real time with the goal of raising US$10,000 from the expected crowd of 10,000 to 15,000 people.
http://www.flyingkitesglobal.org/oasis/community/news/oasis-music-festival-and-documentary-film
Slum Film Festival, Aug. 9-20 2011 @ Kibera and Mathare slums
Founded in 2011 in Nairobi Kenya, SLUM FILM FESTIVAL is a pilot film festival showcasing films made by and about slums. This innaugural project focuses on the images around the slums in Nairobi with a vision of expansion to include films from around the world in the future editions.
A positive initiative for the slums and its artists, the Slum Film Festival seeks to raise positive attention and help to shift the public perspective on the slums and the people who call them home.
SFF intends to become a platform for film production out of the slums. With awareness and awards, it will help give local film projects a leg up to reach both International and local film festival circ..
SFF kicks off on August 6th 2011 and will run through August 23rd, in both Kibera and Mathare!
MISSION: Changing our belief system is central to making any real and lasting change; we are working to shift the global picture & perception of slums through social transformation utilizing media and the arts.
The Slum Film Festival is a joint project of the Spanish Embassy (Kenya), Hotsun Foundation, Slum-TV, AECID (Spanish Agency Of International Cooperation) in collaboration with the Nairobi Art Center.
CONTACT: slumfilmfestival@gmail.com
KIBERA Screenings & Performance schedule 9/11 August.
MATHARE Festival Screenings, Performance, and Workshop Schedule 15-20 August
Slum Film Festival Teaser
Out of town: Rift Valley Festival, Sept. 2-3-4 2011 @ Naivasha
The Rift Valley Festival will be an intimate gathering of local and international artists, combining traditional African roots and global styles.
It will provide a stage for established as well as developing talent, creating a fusion of musical influences with the very best independent acts. We will also create a platform for the exposure of local arts, crafts and culture.
The aim is to make a real difference to local communities by raising awareness and money to aid environmental improvement and community regeneration in Kenya. All profits from ticket sales will go directly towards supporting grassroots projects.
Out of Town: Kisumu Peace Festival, Aug 4-6 2011 @ Kisumu Sports Ground
Kisumu Peace Festival Thursday 4th – Sat 6th August Kisumu sports ground. promoting dialogue, respect and tolerance with Music, Sport and workshops. with winyo, macadem, kenge kenge and many many more. Full information and programme: http://kisumupeacefestival.wordpress.com
Palestine Film Festival, Aug. 8-12 2011 @ Alliance
Dates: August 8-12, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 5.30pm
Entrance: Free
Presented by the Kenya Palestine Solidarity Committee in partnership with Alliance Francaise, Fahamu (Networks for Social Justice), Pambazuka (Pan-African Voices for Freedom and Justice), the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Kenya and Solidarity Network Kenya.
Main feature: PLO – History of a Revolution by Aljazeera
Time: 6pm and from 5.30 – 6pm, a six part series
Date: Aug. 8, 2011
WALLS OF SHAME by Thierry Denis & Guy Ratovondrahona (52min)
The fall of the Berlin Wall gave us hope for the end of divisions. However, 20 years later, many walls be it of concrete, metal or wire have been erected throughout the world.
In the USA, in Israel, in Europe, and in many other parts of the world. In our so called global world, these walls are for us the evidence of a global crisis.
Date: Aug. 9 2011
LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE: Eyewitness stories & photos (59 min)
The film provides an excellent introduction to the occupation in Palestine and the non-violent movement for freedom and equality in the Holy Land.
Date: Aug. 10, 2011
LEMON TREE 106min, with English subtitles
The director tackles the bitter Israel-Palestinian conflict by focusing on how it impinges on one Arab widow (the wonderful Hiam Abbass) who tries to scrape a living from her grove of lemon trees. Her new neighbour, who unfortunately for her is the Israeli defence minister and his wife, is advised by his security goons that the next door lemon grove constitutes a security risk, and an order is given for its chopping down. The widow decides against all odds to fight the decision, eventually taking it all the way to the Supreme Court.
Date: Aug. 11 2011
THE SYRIAN BRIDE 1h37, with English subtitles
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married to Tallel, a television comedian who works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home.
Date: Aug. 12, 2011
GAZA HOSPITAL 1h24, with English subtitles
The Gaza Hospital in Beirut is adjacent to the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila; it used to be a vanguard health center run by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. The Hospital witnessed and endured the Israeli invasion in 1982 and the War of the Camps. This documentary switches between past and present as it traces the history of this building and the stories of the people who live or have worked therein.
For More information check Alliance website.
Download The Palestine Film Festival Programme (Pdf)
Kinanda Arts Festival #7, Jul. 31 2011 @ Kifaru Gardens
Date: July 31, 2011
Venue: Kifaru Gardens, Kanjata Road, off James Gichuru rd
Time: 1.30-6.30pm
Tickets: Kshs 200
Music by: Kato Change, Ma3’s superstar Annie Soul, Dempsey ‘M’ Omwega, aziza muzik and Maia Von Lekow
Poetry by: Kadryn D Kay, Kiptum and Dennis Inkwa of Mstari wa Nne
Photo gallery by the talented Mwangi ‘Mwarv’ Kirubi
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Festival: Film Aid Film & Film Forward Festival, Jul. 18-20 2011 @ Alliance
Dates: July 18-20, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 6pm
Entry: Free
July 18, 2011
Son of Babylon by Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq (2010 – 1h30)
In the days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, a young Kurdish boy and his grandmother venture through Iraq on a quest to find their missing father/son.
July 19, 2011
Winter’s Bone by Debra Granik, United States (2010 – 1h40)
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her missing father while trying to keep her family intact.
July 20, 2011
Amreeka by Cherien Dabis, United States (2009 – 1h36)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois, they find their new lives replete with challenges.
The films are presented by Film Aid International & Film Forward in partnership with the Sundance Institute with the aim of advancing cultural dialogue.
All films will be preceded by a short film produced by refugees in Kenya.
For more information visit: www.filmaid.org/festival