NOMA! An XR Experience, Jan. 23 – Feb. 4 2020 @ Goethe-Institut Auditorium

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Dates: Until February 4, 2020
Venue: Goethe-Institut Kenya

NOMA!An XR Experience
The integration of visual art forms with Virtual and Augmented Reality and deploying these technologies in a learning and experimental context while building capacity and exposing artists to these new arts formats form the pillars to the three-month program State of the ARt.

The fusion at the intersection of technology between artists and tech visionaries can be experienced from 23rd January – 04th February, 2020 at the Goethe-Institut, Auditorium.

Discussion: Civil Society Dialogues – Education and the Market, Mar. 28 2018 @ Goethe-Institut – Nairobi

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Date and time: Wednesday, 28 March 2018, 6 PM
Venue:Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Admission: free

About
Our session on 28 March 2018 will be dealing with the connection between education and the market. How is the education system trying to make sure that its graduates are well prepared to enter the labour force? Are we doing enough to encourage young people to choose courses that are in high demand by the market? Is the professional education system geared towards providing the best possible education, even if it isn’t in an academic field? And how does the German dual education system earn its reputation of producing highly skilled trained workers?

Literary Prize Winners

Discussion with Literary Prize Winners, Jun. 15 2016 @ Goethe-Institut Nairobi – Auditorium

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Literary Prize Winners
Date and time: Wednesday, 15th June 2016, 6.00 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Auditorium
Admission: free

About
The Etisalat Prize for Literature is the first ever pan-African prize celebrating first time writers of published fiction books. On the panel: playwright and poet Fiston Mwanza Mujila from Democratic Republic of Congo, Etisalat Prize for Fiction winner 2015, and Kenyan writer Stanley Gazemba who is winner of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize and one of the Africa39 writers.

Moderated by Zukiswa Wanner.

Displacement and Refuge

Discussion: Displacement and Refuge – Refugees in Kenya, Apr. 28 2016 @ Goethe Institut

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Displacement and Refuge
Date: April 28,2016
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Time: 6 pm
Admission: free

About
The second edition of Displacement and Refuge focuses on Somali Refugees in Kenya.

The panel will include Abdullahi Mire, a staff member from World Food Programme and will be moderated by Rasna Warah. Abdullahi Mire, who lived in Daadab for the better part of his life, started activism for the rights of refugees and continues to fight for the rights of refugees from Nairobi. He has written for Al Jazeera, CBC and UNHCR on refugee rights. Warah is a journalist and author and her research interests include the politics of aid, cities and urbanization, Somalia and questions surrounding identity in Kenya.

And then she said

And Then She Said: 5 Novels Re-Imagined, Apr. 14 2016 @ Goethe Institut Auditorium

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And then she said
Date: April 14, 2016
Venue: Goethe Institut, Auditorium
Time: 6-8.30 pm
Tickets: KES 500

About
Five Novels. Five Women. Five Stories. Experience African literature in a totally new way through an intimate re-imagining of five acclaimed novels, performed for the stage. The women grapple with questions of race, sexuality, patriarchy, friendship, love, loneliness and much more.

– So Long a Letter, 1980: by Mariama Ba, re-imagined by Sitawa Namwalie
– Coming to Birth, 1986: by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, re-imagine by Mumbi Kaigwa
– The Orchard of Lost Souls, 2013: by Nadifa Mohamed, re-imagined by Raya Wambui
– Maid in SA: 30 Ways to leave your Madam, 2013: by Zukiswa Wanner, re-imagined by Patricia Kihoro
– The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, 2014: by Lola Shoneyin, re-imagined by Maimouna Jallow

Wretched Africans

Book Launch: The Wretched Africans, Apr. 7 2016 @ Goethe Institut Auditorium

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Wretched Africans
Date and Time: Thursday, 07th April 2016, 6.00 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Admission: free

About
A Study of Rabai and Freretown Slave Settlements By Joe Khamisi.

No one in the history of humankind has suffered the indignity, abuse, and pain of slavery than the African. Unfortunately, the African slave narrative – written mainly by western historians and missionaries – has been contemptibly distorted to portray Europeans as the gallant saviours, the notorious slave traders as swaggering heroes.

The Wretched Africans peels off what is beneath the Arab slave trade, unravels the racism and abuse meted against Africans by European explorers and missionaries, and lays bare the heroism and resilience of the African captives.

The book will be launched in the form of a moderated panel discussion with Joe Khamisi, Dr. Mshai Mwangola, Edgar Manasseh and Khainga O’Okwemba.

Dorphanage

Poetry/Live Music: Dorphanage Experience, Feb. 25 2016 @ Goethe Institut

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Dorphanage
Date: February 25, 2016
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Time: 6.30 pm
Admission: 500/= Ksh

About
Spoken word poetry is a form of artistic expression that has evolved into a conduit for the dissemination of information and education while providing entertainment in the same breath.

What Dorphan as a spoken word poet has been able to create is a blend of free verse, flow, hip-hop, word-play and storytelling to explore historical, social, cultural, political and humanitarian issues while at the same time providing a light humorous touch that provides audiences an experience that is both thought provoking and entertaining.

Dorphanage Experience will feature poetry performances laced with live music.

Conversation with Kenyan Writers

Book Discussion: Nairobi – A Night Runner’s Guide Through the City in the Sun, Dec. 17 2015 @ Goethe Institut Auditorium

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Conversation with Kenyan Writers
Book Discussion: Nairobi – A Night Runner’s Guide Through the City in the Sun – A Novel by Tony Mochama

Date and Time: Thursday, 17th December 2015, 6.00 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Admission: free

Panelists will include Professor Mikhail Iossel of Canada’s Concordia University, Dr. Tom Odhiambo of UoN, Pen president Khainga Okembwa and Kingwa Kamenchu.

Find more information, here.