EU Film Festival Screening: I Am Not a Witch, May 11 2018 @ National Museum of Kenya

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Date: May 11, 2018
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium, National Museum of Kenya
Time: 5 – 7 pm
Entry: Free (Get your free ticket on mtickets here.)

Join us on 11 May for the screening of the ground breaking feature film I Am Not a Witch by Zambian-born Welsh writer director Rungano Nyoni.

When eight-year-old Shula turns up alone and unannounced in a rural Zambian village, the locals are suspicious. A minor incident escalates to a full-blown witch trial, where she is found guilty and sentenced to life on a state-run witch camp. There, she is tethered to a long white ribbon and told that if she ever tries to run away, she will be transformed into a goat. As the days pass, Shula begins to settle into her new community, but a threat looms on the horizon. Soon she is forced to make a difficult decision – whether to resign herself to life on the camp, or take a risk for freedom.

Watch the trailer

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Jam Session with Arun Ghosh (UK), the Nairobi Horns Project (Kenya) & Hussein Masimbi (Tanzania), Feb. 22 2017 @ the Alchemist

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Date: February 22, 2017
Venue: the Alchemist Bar, Westlands
Time: 8-10.30 pm

About
This year, the East Africa Arts programme will feature a dynamic collaboration at the 4th edition of the Safaricom International Jazz Festival on the 26th February. On stage will be clarinettist and composer Arun Ghosh (UK), the Nairobi Horns Project (Kenya), and percussionist and vocalist Hussein Masimbi (Tanzania).

Arun is a renowned innovator of the modern IndoJazz style, Ghosh’s sound and musical approach encompasses a huge span of music; he plays the music he loves, with jazz, classical, rock, folk, hip-hop and Afrobeat all brought together. Ghosh will be collaborating with acclaimed Tanzanian percussionist, Hussein Masimbi and the highly rated Kenyan trio of Mackinlay Mutsembi on trumpet, saxophonist Rabai Mokua and Victor Kinama on trombone to bring the SJF audience an innovative new showcase.

This eclectic trio had been exchanging music and ideas over the last month and their collaboration will come together as a performance of reworked and original pieces.

On Wednesday 22nd February 2017 we would like you to come Jam with us at the Alchemist in Westlands.

nAnA OPEN CALL

Open Call: New Arts New Audiences Grant Scheme, by Jul. 31 2016 @ British Council East Africa

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nAnA OPEN CALL
An annual open call for cultural partners across East Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia , Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda) and the UK to create new art to showcase to new audiences in the UK and East Africa.

The British Council’s East Africa invites submission of expression of interest to this programme, new Art new Audiences

nAnA Details
There is no theme for nAnA, the ONLY objective is to produce new art which connects to new audiences.
– Minimum one UK and two East African countries to be involved in the project
– Project administered by one East African or UK partner
– Target audience for nAnA is 18-35 year olds
– Project can be match funded
– Minimum and maximum grant allocation is £2,000 – £20,000
– 3-5 year projects will be selected for nAnA 2016/17

Deadline for one page submission of interest is July 31, 2016

About
The East Africa Arts programme works across Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and the UK. This month we are welcoming applications for the new Arts new Audiences grant scheme that facilitates the creation of new collaborative work across art forms in East Africa and the UK. This grant will support between three and five projects for 2016–17. Grant requests can be minimum £2,000 and maximum £20,000

For further info see: https://www.britishcouncil.co.ke/east-africa-arts

Tinga Tinga Tales

Tinga Tinga Tales – the Musical, Mar. 23 2016 @ the Elephant – #3 Kanjata Road

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Tinga Tinga Tales
Dates: March 23 to April 18, 2016
Venue: the Elephant.
Location: No. 3, Kanjata Road, next to Loreto Msongari Off James Gichuru Road.
Tickets available at Ticket sasa and all Toy world outlets.

About Tinga Tinga Tales – the Musical
Based on Tinga Tinga Tales the animated series, the Musical

Is a gloriously interactive and raucus live show designed to entertain the whole family. Written and directed by original creators of the TV show Claudia Lloyd and composed by Eric Wainaina, the musical will take its audience on a wonderful theatrical journey where they will sing with the Dawn Chorus, interact with their favourite characters from the TV series, help Giraffe get out of sticky situation and delight in seeing how Chameleon transforms from the greyest of grey things into an explosive Afrofusion Master of Colour. Everyone will sing, dance, laugh and cry… but most of all they will all have a TingaTingaTastic Time.

Written by Claudia Lloyd I produced by Sheba Hirst I music by Eric Wainaina I choreographed by Mkamzee Mwatela.