Book Launch: Refuge? Refugees’ Stories of Rebuilding their Lives in Kenya, Dec. 11 2021 @ Alliance Française Nairobi

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Date: December 11, 2021

Venue: Alliance Française Nairobi Garden

Time: 2-6 PM

Tickets: Advance KES 700 (Available, here)

*Ticket prices include a copy of the book, and all ticket sales proceeds support Kintsugi’s “Share your Christmas meal with a refugee family” campaign.

About

Join us in celebrating a feat of refugee storytelling with this exciting new compilation of refugee autobiographies. What do these stories tell us about refuge in the modern era? What does it mean for Kenyans to be hosts to nearly 500,000 displaced people?

Panel discussion featuring:

• Prof. Peter Kagwanja, President & CEO, Africa Policy Institute

• Caroline Njuki, Chief Technical Advisor, ILO Kenya

• Foni Joyce, Refugee youth leader and education advocate

Musical performances by Kidum and Nick Kosovo.

Original poetry from Nadine Gakungu. 

This event is organized by Kintsugi and the Finance in Displacement (FIND) project of Tufts University and sponsored by FSD Africa and the International Rescue Committee (IRC).  

Book Launch: Refuge? Refugees’ Stories of Rebuilding their Lives in Kenya, Dec. 11 2021 @ Alliance Française Nairobi

by with No Comment bookscharityconcertsdebateeventslive musicProse Reading

Date: December 11, 2021

Venue: Alliance Française Nairobi Garden

Time: 2-6 PM

Tickets: Advance KES 700 (Available, here)

*Ticket prices include a copy of the book, and all ticket sales proceeds support Kintsugi’s “Share your Christmas meal with a refugee family” campaign.

About

Join us in celebrating a feat of refugee storytelling with this exciting new compilation of refugee autobiographies. What do these stories tell us about refuge in the modern era? What does it mean for Kenyans to be hosts to nearly 500,000 displaced people?

Panel discussion featuring:

• Prof. Peter Kagwanja, President & CEO, Africa Policy Institute

• Caroline Njuki, Chief Technical Advisor, ILO Kenya

• Foni Joyce, Refugee youth leader and education advocate

Musical performances by Kidum and Nick Kosovo.

Original poetry from Nadine Gakungu. 

This event is organized by Kintsugi and the Finance in Displacement (FIND) project of Tufts University and sponsored by FSD Africa and the International Rescue Committee (IRC).  

The Vagina Monologues Hosted by Karen Lukas, Mar. 20-21 2018 @ Kenya National Theatre

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Dates: March 20-21, 2018
Venue: Kenya National Theatre
Tickets: KES 5,000/-

The Vagina Monologues
An Obie Award-winning whirlwind tour of a forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices, including a six-year-old girl, a septuagenarian New Yorker, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnesses the birth of her granddaughter, a Bosnian survivor of rape, and a feminist happy to have found a man who “liked to look at it.”

Twenty years ago, Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against all women and girls (cisgender, transgender, and gender non-conforming).

Find more information, here.

The Nairobi Poetry Café Ft. Man Njoro & Stella, Feb. 22 2018 @ Alliance Française

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Date: February 22, 2018
Venue: Alliance Française
Time: 6.30 pm
Free Entry

About
Bimonthly Poetry Cafés that aim to give a voice to emerging poets and spoken word artists as well as serve as a platform for showcasing works by established artists.

The Nairobi Poetry Café will be hosted by Raya Wambui, Slam Africa Queen (Nairobi’s longest running poetry slam competition) and laureate of the Nairobi edition of The Spoken Word Project, and Poet Teardrops, Sheng spoken word poet featured on the Churchill Show.

Peace and Love II

Valentine Special Cocktail Performance: Peace and Love, Feb. 12 2017 @ Casual Bite – Westlands

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Peace and Love II
Date: February 12, 2017
Venue: Casual Bite, Westlands
Time: 3 pm
Tickets: KES 2,000 at the Door – inquiries/advance tickets – 0725 832 607

About
Our lovely collage of Poetry, Music and Dance is back! After our run at The Tribe, we are back with the show as a valentines special.

We stage it Casual Bites Coffee House, Westlands on Sunday 12th Feb at 3 pm.

The Tickets are at a 1800/- per head advance and 2,000/- at the door. A drink and bites on the ticket.

The cast is led by Xfm’s Nick Ndeda, Angela Mwandanda (formerly of the Tattuu girl group) and poet Laura Ekumbo. Music is by Serro and Checkmate Mido. Dance by Brigetta Ikwara.

Written by Joan Sikand. Directed and produced by Kigondu Martin under Prevail Arts Company.

Reimagined Kwani

A Magical Day of Storytelling, Mar. 19 2016 @ Kwani? – Off Riverside Drive

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Reimagined Kwani
Date: 19th March 2016
Venue: Kwani? Offices (Off Riverside Drive, opposite DusitD2)
Time: 11am to 6pm and the show from 7pm
COSTS 500 / = (adults) and 250 / = (children) both for the day’s activity as well as for the show at night

About
On the occasion of the World Storytelling Day, the Embassy of Spain in Nairobi is pleased to invite you to A Magical Day of Storytelling Where Nairobi’s finest storytellers, writers and artists will be joining hands to celebrate and to create a magical day of stories.

The one-day Programme will include:
• Interactive performances by the city’s finest storytellers
• A reading nook Where writers and parents will share Their favorite such
• Both workshops for kids and adults on a wide range of topics, from illustrating, writing and poetry
• An art exhibition by a collective of women illustrators and graffiti artist
• A stories’ booth to record children’s own stories
• A charity auction
• Books stalls and much more

The event AIMS to recapture people’s minds With traditional African storytelling and to Encourage a culture of reading amongst the youth. It is Also a celebration of women, as This Year’s theme for World Storytelling Day is Strong Women.

In Addition to the event during the day in Which is open to all, there will be a show from 7pm onwards in Which some texts of the five books will be ACTED Chosen out.