Exhibition and Live Events: Jibambe na Tech. Festival, Nov. 16-30 2020 @ Online + Physical Locations

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Dates: November 16-30, 2020
Medium: Online + Physical Locations

About
A Festival of Digital Media brought to you by the Alliance Française de Nairobi and the Goethe-Institut Nairobi, with the support of the French-German Cultural Cooperation Fund.

The online activities will bring together the international games and VR creator community from Kenya and East Africa with the aim of exploring new, creative, and innovative ways in gaming and game development.

Calls for Games demo and Hyper Talks open now for African developers only. The Hyper Talks will give 10 digital creators the opportunity to present their work in 5 minutes, be it games, animation, digital art, immersive experiences, virtual reality, or other playful media.

The Hyper Talks will be streamed live, and the Games exhibited in the A MAZE. / SPACE – a virtual multiplayer 3D game environment between 20th and 22nd November.

Final programme will be available here: https://jibambenatecfestival.space/

Exhibition and Live Events: Jibambe na Tech. Festival, Nov. 16-30 2020 @ Online + Physical Locations

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Dates: November 16-30, 2020
Medium: Online + Physical Locations

About
A Festival of Digital Media brought to you by the Alliance Française de Nairobi and the Goethe-Institut Nairobi, with the support of the French-German Cultural Cooperation Fund.

The online activities will bring together the international games and VR creator community from Kenya and East Africa with the aim of exploring new, creative, and innovative ways in gaming and game development.

Calls for Games demo and Hyper Talks open now for African developers only. The Hyper Talks will give 10 digital creators the opportunity to present their work in 5 minutes, be it games, animation, digital art, immersive experiences, virtual reality, or other playful media.

The Hyper Talks will be streamed live, and the Games exhibited in the A MAZE. / SPACE – a virtual multiplayer 3D game environment between 20th and 22nd November.

Final programme will be available here: https://jibambenatecfestival.space/

Cartoons and Comics in Kenya: Chronicles and Conversations, Nov. 22 2019 @ Goethe Institut

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Date: November 22, 2019
Venue: Goethe Institut Nairobi
Time: 2-5 pm
Entry: Free

The Goethe Institut and Kymsnet, are once again bringing together cartoonists, scholars, media practitioners, consumers etc., in a symposium to interact and interrogate the book Ink & Pixels – the wild and wondrous tale of Kenyan comics.

The symposium will also celebrate the contributions that comics and & cartoons have made in the growth of the media space and holistic development agenda in the country.

The panelists include: Prof. Levi Obonyo, Dr. Peter Kimani, James Kamawira (Kham), Roseleen Nzioka, Paul Kelemba (Maddo) and Oby Obyerodhyambo.

Moderated by Dr. Mshai Mwongela.

Admission is free.

Listen: An Exhibition Introducing Sound of Nairobi, the City’s Sound Archive, Nov. 7-20 2019 @ Goethe Institut

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Opening: November 7, 2019
Venue: Goethe Institut Nairobi
Time: 6 pm

Finissage: November 20, 2019

About
Sound is a medium which can you think about yourself in an environment. Listening consciously to sounds and noises places you in time and space and makes you aware of your surroundings. Sound is immediate and distance-less. Pressure waves move through space and penetrate everything in their way. The expanding nature of sound waves establishes a relational connection between sounding entities. These entities might be human, non-human, material or organic and they are never independent, they exist in a network of interrelations. Sounding bodies always have relations to their environment.

This opens up a way of thinking about sound as a medium that forces relations. Thinking through sound produces knowledge that is informed by context, process, “between-ness”, “interrelated-ness”. It has the ability to bring established power hierarchies into question.

In a series of workshops, City Walks worked by practically moving through spaces and listen actively.

The exhibition presents the results of this unique perspective on the city of Nairobi.

Concert: Women in Music Concert with Kendi Nkonge & Wambura Mitaru, May 17 2019 @ Goethe Institut

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Date: May 17, 2019
Venue: Goethe Institut Nairobi
Time: 7 pm
Admission: KES 500/-

The Women in Music concert series is back. We have a great array of vibrant and dynamic artists lined for you this year, ready to give a stellar performance.
This edition will feature two great Kenyan artists, Kendi Nkonge & Wambura Mitaru, live in concert.

Exhibition: GZ Calling by Sam Hopkins and David Lalé, from Mar. 4 2019 @ Goethe Institut – Nairobi

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Opening: Monday, March 4, 2019
Venue: Goethe Institut – Nairobi
Time: 6 pm
Entry: Free

The exhibition will be opened at 6 pm, followed by a conversation with Sam Hopkins at 7pm.

About
GZ CALLING The exhibition GZ Calling (2017) by artist Sam Hopkins and David Lalé approaches the tangled China-Africa relationship from the embedded perspective of a private investigator surveilling the export markets of Guangzhou.

Find more information, here.

Jazz Concert ft. Christine Kamau (Kenya), and Slatec (Germany), Feb. 20 2019 @ Goethe Institut Auditorium

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Date: February 20, 2019
Venue: Goethe Institut, Nairobi
Time: from 7 pm
Tickets: KES 500/-

Kenyan Trumpeter Christine Kamau & German organic-improvised techno band SLATEC will perform at an exciting Jazz Concert hosted by Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Wednesday 20th February from 7 pm!

This concert is a result of the ‘Jazz from Germany Visitors Program’ that saw Christine Kamau join 16 jazz music industry players from 15 countries in touring the jazz scene in Berlin, Munich and Stuggart in July 2018.