Date: July 9, 2016
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: from 5 pm
Entry: Free
About
The Lusophone Film Fest is an English-subtitled showcase of the diversity of film production in the 8 Portuguese-speaking countries spread across 4 continents. Recognised with international awards at film festivals around the globe, the cinema from the Portuguese-speaking world is still mostly unknown to the general public.
Opening date: 8th July 2016
Venue: Goethe Institut Nairobi
Admission: Free
Until: July 26, 2016
About
The exhibition ‘There Are Worlds Out There They Never Told You About’ by Jackie Karuti elaborately introduces the audience to her imagined worlds seemingly set in a galactic and underwater universe. It is a selection from Karuti’s latest work, an impressive collection of drawings, installations, videos, animations and text which depict evidence of other worlds in space, among the stars and perhaps even in the ocean.There exists a myth about an underwater civilization descended from slaves thrown overboard during the middle passage from Africa to the Americas. Where do people who die away from ‘home’ go? What would it mean to migrate or run away to worlds that exist in our imagination? And if the present exists in a way that is not necessarily one in which you have agency, can you perhaps fly away to another time and space?
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.
Date: May 28, 2016
Venue: the Goethe Institut Library
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Entry: Free
Date: Saturday, 21st March 2015
Venue: Goethe-Institut Nairobi
Time: From 5 pm
Admission is free!
Screening movies from the Portuguese-speaking world:
– Alambamento (Angola, 2011, Mário Bastos)
– Arena (Portugal, 2009, João Salaviza)
– The Thorn of the Rose (Guinea-Bissau, 2013, Filipe Henriques)
Shailja Patel an acclaimed US-Based Kenyan Poet and Human Rights Activist
Introduction by Khainga O’Okwemba (President, PEN Kenya)
Panel: Prof Chris Wanjala,Prof Elizabeth Orchardson-Mazrui,Dr Tom Odhiambo,Dr Waveney Olembo,Eliphas Nyamogo,Tony Mochama.
Date: Thursday May 23, 2013
Venue: Goethe-Institut-Nairobi
Time: 5:00pm
Entry: Free
Shailja Patel at TED
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This event is organized by PEN Kenya Centre and supported by the Goethe-Institut.
