For true Anto fans: Win two tickets for Blankets & Wine, March 4 2012 @ Mamba Village
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Yes – you read well: today we give away not just one ticket for Blankets & Wine, but *two*. One for yourself, and one for whoever you want: your loved one, your best friend, you name it!
We are very excited about Anto’s concert on Sunday. We remember him playing at the first Kwani? Open Mic events back in 2006, and he’s come a long way! So, here is what you need to do to win: share with us what’s your favourite Anto song, and why you love him. Maybe tell us about a gig of his you’ve attended, or any other detail showing why we should give *you* the two tickets we have today. Make sure you leave a comment before midnight on February 29th…Good luck! (all participants will be subscribed to Nairobi Now’s weekly newsletter – hopefully you’ll find it useful)
Concert: Nneka, Feb. 4 2012 @ Tree House
Goethe-Institut Nairobi presents Nneka, an Afro-German warrior princess stretching from teardrop soul-singing to freestyle rapping. She grew up in the Delta region of Nigeria and later relocated to Hamburg. In 2005, she put out her first album, Victim Of Truth, followed by No Longer At Ease (2008) which impressed US rock star Lenny Kravitz so much that he invited her to be the supporting act on his tour.
The tour was followed by an extended stay in her native country, where she composed many of the songs on her third album, Soul Is Heavy (2011). This album is multi-faceted and “politically conscious”, a potpourri of Reggae, Soul, Afro, R&B and Hip Hop. Nneka is setting out for an East Africa tour made possible by Goethe-Institut to Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the Sauti za Busara festival in Zanzibar.
Some regard the powerful vocalist Nneka first as an activist, and then as a musician. “I wouldn’t see myself as a political activist,” says the soul singer, “but if there were no pain in the world, I wouldn’t sing.”
Who’s playing: support act DAN CHIZI ACEDA & Band, main act NNEKA, DJ-Set by ZELALEM
Tickets: 500Ksh, pre-selling from 30th January @Goethe-Institut, Monrovia Street
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012
Time
8:00pm until 5:00am
Where
Tree House Nairobi, Museum Hill near Chiromo Flyover
Call for Proposals: Tandaa Digital Content Grant, Jul. 21 – Aug. 22 2011
The Kenya ICT Board is pleased to announce that the second round of the Tandaa Digital Content Grant Call for Proposals is now open.
Companies and individual teams with innovative ideas that use web and mobile phone technology are invited to submit their proposals for a chance to be awarded a grant of $10,000 – 50,000.
The objective of the grant is to stimulate ICT innovation and creativity while promoting economic growth in the sector. By supporting tech-entrepreneurs with the funds they need to successfully take their products to market, the Tandaa Grant hopes to grow the number of relevant and local web and mobile applications available to Kenyans.
Workshop Dates
Nakuru: July 26
Kakamega: July 29
Garissa: Aug 2
Mombasa: Aug 6
Nairobi: Aug 9
Call for proposals: July 21 – August 22, 2011
Grant amount:
Individuals: $ 10,000
Companies: $ 50,000
Matching grant for established companies: $ 150,000
Number of grants to be awarded in 2011: At least 40
Eligibility: Kenyan citizens, companies registered in Kenya
Categories: Private Sector Innovation, Government Data Applications
For more information visit: www.ict.go.ke
Exhibition: Home, Away, the Common Ground. Jul. 26-Sept. 30 2011 @ National Museum
Sanctuaryartists.org presents its first international, collaborative, touring exhibition ‘Sanctuary: Home, Away, the Common Ground’ curated by Annabelle Hulbert on behalf of Sanctuary artists. This exhibition is the product of 10 artists, five from Kenya and five from the UK/Ireland.
Date: July 26-September 30, 2011
Venue: National Museum of Kenya
Entry: Museums Rates Apply
The aim of the exhibition is to explore the cultural, political, social and environmental differences and commonalities that construct the concept of Sanctuary from the perspective of Home, Away and the Common Ground between Kenya and the UK.
The motivation for the exhibition is to create a platform for dialogue from both representative parties in an effort to highlight the work of the Metropolitan Sanctuary For Sick Children in Nyeri Kenya, in the hope that it will bring awareness to the plight of the many terminally ill and seriously disabled children the charity work with.
ICT investment event: IPO48, Aug. 12-14 2011 @ iHub
On the 12th-14th of August, 2011 Nairobi, Kenya will be hosting the IPO48 for the second time. Last year it was the first city in Africa to hold a 48-hour ICT bootcamp investment event. What makes IPO48 different from all the other tech-events?
An investment of 2.5 million KShs. has to be made at the event within these 48 hours. Which makes it interesting not only for the entrepreneurs but also for the investors who all have agreed to play by the rules.
Secondly, it is all about the people. Many similar events focus on pitching and presentation. IPO48 is about candid interaction between mentors and entrepreneurs before and during the event. It is about building something, taking action, showing that you as an entrepreneur got what it takes for the little guy in a competitive market with big players.
“Ideas are in abundance, good entrepreneurs are not. IPO48 is about finding the good entrepreneurs, most of the ideas will mostly be adjusted or changed when they meet reality,” says Kresten Buch, co-founder of HumanIPO. The first IPO48 event changed the lives of the 3 entrepreneurs from M-Farm who won the event last time. “It not only had us creating our company on next Monday after the event, but also catapulted us into media frenzy, “ says Jamila Abass, one of the co-founders of M-Farm. With appearances already in the BBC News World, CNBC Business magazine, NTV, “The Standard” and “The Daily Nation” they got instant marketing most startups would kill for. And to top it all – M-Farm was just picked by the by the infodev a subsidiary of the World Bank, as Top 20 SME in the world during the 4th Global Forum on Innovation&Entrepreneurship in Helsinki, Finland.
About IPO48:
IPO48 is an event made by HumanIPO and has already taken place in Nairobi (Kenya), Prague (Czech Republic) and will go to Copenhagen (Denmark) after the 2nd edition in Nairobi. HumanIPO is a social media platform that aims at accelerating entrepreneurship by connecting entrepreneurs to professionals, co-founders, employees and angel investors. It was founded by Danish serial entrepreneur Kresten Buch and David Owino former COO of Kenya Data network, now Executive Director at The BCS Group Limited.
