You are invited to take part in a welding workshop instructed by mixed media sculptor Meshack Oiro. Participants will be introduced to the basics of welding, use if power tools and safety.
Dates: 19th- 22nd November 2013
Time: 9.30 am -1.00 pm
Charges: Ksh 1000 per day (Inclusive lunch& materials)
RSVP on 0721262326/0733742752
Mama African Dance Diana Akinyi and Master Congueiro Wakake Otieno are back with another exciting collaboration.
This workshop develops the connection between the movements of African Dance and the percussion of traditional Kenyan rhythms.
Find more info here
Date: November 2, 2013
Venue: National Museum of Kenya
Time: from 11 am
Entry: Kshs 1000 (Storymoja Hay Festival Season Tickets are Valid)
Programme
Kofi Awoonor Tribute Lecture
11.00am – 12.15pm| Louis leakey Auditorium
Founding editor of Kwani?, Caine Prize Winner and author of ‘One Day I Will Write About This Place’, Binyavanga Wainaina honours the late great Ghanaian Writer, Kofi Awoonor.
In Partnership with Kwani Trust
Community Policing and Online Activism: Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
11.00am – 12.15pm|Ampitheatre
Kenya: We are one… or are we? Join this engaging discussion on communities’ reactions and its effects on cohesion, segregation and shaping identity. How much have you done or given to secure the welfare of your community?
In Partnership with UP Magazine
Blogging In Kenya
12.45- 2.30pm|Louis Leakey Auditorium
Join David Mugo (BAKE Kenyan Blog of the Year: niaje.com), Njeri Wangari (POWO and kenyanpoet.com),Jackson Biko (BAKE Creative Writing Winner: bikozulu.co.ke) and Emmie Kio (Tracking The Agricultural Scent: http://emmiekio.blogspot.com) as they talk to Robert Kunga of the Bloggers’ Association of Kenya about their passions online and off.
In partnership with the Bloggers Association of Kenya
Real Life Events Inspire Fiction
12.45pm -2.00pm| Ampitheatre
Authors Kinyanjui Kombani (The Last Villains of Molo) and Richard Crompton (The Honey Guide) both set their novels against a backdrop of real life events – the Molo tribal clashes of 1992 and the electoral violence of 2007.
What are the issues and ethics of incorporating real-life events into fiction? How does reality work in a narrative context? And does there need to be a certain distance, in time or space, between the events described and the decision to create a work of fiction about them? Can novelists tell a greater truth about real events than journalists or historians are capable of? Or are they exploiting human tragedy for the sake of entertainment?
Disrupting Sanitised History: The ICC Witness Project
2.30pm – 3.45pm | Louis Leakey Auditorium
Powerful readings from ‘Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project’, which originally appeared in The New Inquiry. The ICC Witness Project is a collaboration between Kenyan poets to imagine and amplify the voices of some of the missing witnesses for the ICC trial, to make sure the victims and survivors of the post-election violence that rocked Kenya in 2008 are not forgotten.
Mshai Mwangola with thanks to the New Inquiry
Drumbeats on Mobile
2:30pm – 3:45pm | Amphitheatre
Following the steamy launch of the Drumbeats Romance series at the Storymoja Hay Festival, where sexologist Getrude Mungai unveiled the secret territory before the point of no return… we invite you to join this second installation of Drumbeats on Mobile. Light the flame of East African love, and download Drumbeat stories on your mobile phone.
Art and Activism
4:15pm – 5:30pm | Louis Leakey Auditorium
Patrick Gathara is one of Kenya’s bravest cartoonists, whose blog is a must read – gathara.blogspot.com. He is joined by Kenyan performance scholar and renowned storyteller, Mshai Mwangola who is also the former chairperson of the Governing Council of the Kenya Cultural Centre in a discussion on transforming society through art.
2013/2014 Fire by Ten touring show
4:15pm – 5:30pm |Amphitheatre¬
The Th¬eatre Company’s exciting theatrical show is based on the thrills, temptations, desires and fears of Kenyan Athletes ‘Kimbia’ is a strong inter-disciplinary production that combines theatre, music, dance, and multimedia. Join Cajetan Boy, Joseph Murungu, Edward Nthiga, Joseph Gichinga and Ogutu Muraya- ¬The Th¬eatre Company’s Performance Lab
Are you interested in various forms of Journalism and do you live in Mombasa?
Pawa 254 invites you to a Citizen Journalism workshop.
Date: 19th September, 2013
Venue: Milele Beach Hotel, North Coast
Time: 9am to 5pm
SESSION 1
-The Code of Conduct and Practice of Journalism in Kenya.
SESSION 2
Reporting:-
-The art of news gathering
-Getting the most from an interview
-Noticing things that others miss
-What it takes to be a good sports reporter
Apply now! Limited slots available, send your RSVP to info@pawa254.org together with your resume and brief profile of why you think the workshop will be beneficial to you.
For more information call +254 721 956 552
Urban Live Presents: The Kite Building Workshop set for the 15th of September, 2013.
Venue: Ngong Racecourse
Time: 11am-6 pm
Entry: Adults Kshs 550| Kids Kshs 350 & Kids below 3 years free
Kiting is considered to be a high energy, family event that originated from China, one of the greatest kiting destinations. The kiting culture has spread across the world and attracts kite flyers and kite enthusiasts from every corner for a day of kites and family fun. Original handmade art kites, giant creature kites, kites trains, fighter kites, stunt kites and kite buggies fill the air over an open field.
The first Kite Building Workshop was held in August 2012; a one day workshop where kids and adults alike were taught how to make their own kites as well as learned how to fly them.
Due to public demand we’re doing it again only this time bigger and better. Come build your very own kite with us and learn how to fly a kite like one of the pros!
For more information on this event contact: email kitefestival@urbanlive.co.ke or call: 0737619473/20 2072945
Date: September 12, 2013
Venue: IFRA
Entry: Prior confirmation at seminars@ifra-nairobi.net
Presentation by Gerard Gerold and moderated by Thierry Vircoulon and Musembayi Katumanga
Date: August 30-September 1, 2013
Venue: Stone Town– Zanzibar
Programme
Website: www.jahazifestival.com
After running a successful 6 month training program for craftpreneurs, Craft Afrika has recently introduced short courses in craft and design.
Classes start 22nd August 2013 and run both daytime and evening. Course fees start from 2500 KShs and will be conducted at Shalom House, St. Daniel Comboni road, off Ngong road.
For more details about course content, rates and benefits, visit www.craftafrika.org
Deadline for applications is August 19, 2013
Contact email: craft@craftafrika.org and tel. +254 732 98 22 26
Date: Thursday 27 June 2013
Venue: BIEA
Time: 2 – 5 pm
Entry: Prior RSVP
Since it declared independence in 1991, Somaliland has worked to develop a system of multi-party democracy. The result is a relatively complex but home-grown set of political arrangements, providing concessions to and incorporating different interest groups.
The most recent test of Somaliland’s commitment to democratic development came on 28 November 2012, when Somalilanders went to the polls to elect local councillors. The elections were monitored by hundreds of local and international observers who described them as largely peaceful and fair.
There is much to be learned from the process to further strengthen the democratisation of Somaliland. The lack of voter registration led to confusion, voter education was rushed, and legal frameworks need to be updated and clarified. While women’s representation increased by 400%, they achieved only ten of the 375 councillor positions.
In April 2013, Saferworld and the Somaliland Non State Actors Forum (SONSAF) released a report by the local election observers – Somalilanders Speak: Lessons from the 2012 local elections. The report provides a synthesis and analysis of civil society organisations’ observations and highlights the ways in which the electoral procedures and democratisation of Somaliland can be further strengthened.
The Rift Valley Institute Nairobi Forum and Saferworld are pleased to invite you on 27 June to a discussion on the lessons learned from the electoral process and on future prospects for democracy in Somaliland.
BC Nairobi will host a literary week and fiction writers workshop
Dates: June 19, 2013 to June 23, 2013
Venue: BC Nairobi
For more info visit: Kwani?
Kwani Trust and British Council Kenya will collaborate with Granta UK to host a week of literary events in Nairobi between 19th-23rd June 2013. The joint literary programming week will include a launch of the latest Granta issue, ‘Best of Young British Novelists 4’; a three-day fiction-writing workshop; a lecture by the visiting writers from Granta, UK-based Somali Writer, Nadifa Mohamed and British Writer Adam Foulds, at Daystar University; and a 2013 elections evening symposium based on related work by Kwani Trust.
15 selected emerging Kenyan writers will join visiting writers from Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi and Nigeria for the workshop and other literary events.
Regional British Council offices have partnered with literary organisations from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda to select a writer from each of the countries to attend the fiction workshop, along with a corresponding Literature Programmers’ workshop with participants from the countries above.
