[Postponed] Homages: Cajetan Boy, Nov. 4-5 2011 @ Goethe


Due to unavoidable circumstances Cajetan Boy film screenings have been cancelled. A new date will be communicated later. Any inconvenience caused is highly regretted by G.I.

Dates: November 4-5, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: Nov 4, 2011 at 4pm and Nov. 5, 2011 at 3pm
Entrance: Free

Kenyan Film is making big strides, but many of its protagonists are not well known, not even in Kenya. It’s time to pay homage to their works. Goethe Institut in their Homage series, which introduced Jacob Barua, Judy Kibinge, Willie Owusu, and Jane Murago-Munene to a keenly interested audience, continues with Cajetan Boy.

Cajetan Boy is a playwright, screenwriter, lecturer in screenwriting, mentor, performing artist, and the Products Development Leader for Et Cetera Productions Limited, an independent film and TV production house. His first full-length play was Benta (2000) which was published and later produced as a feature film in 2006. Many of his stage plays have also been produced as feature films.

Cajetan is an alumnus of the Maisha Film Lab. Other than film and stage, he has written extensively for Comic Books, Radio, and TV, i.e. several episodes of dramas, soaps and sit-coms. As usual in this series, a representative selection of his corpus of work will be screened, and accompanied by a discussion with the filmmaker.

Concert: Netnakisum, Nov. 3 2011 @ Goethe Institut


Date: November 3, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: 6pm
Entrance: Free

Netnakisum are direct, cheeky, cool, bright, funny, and also serious musicians, always highly professional in their playing and singing, always with sheer quality

Immediately when you meet Netnakisum, you will notice their infectious energy and style. These three Austrian women present their music with a rare joy and humour, not always found in the classical genre and all this from superb classically trained musicians.

An important source for them is also Austrian folk music, which they grew up with in their very musical families. Having this background, Netnakisum absorbed music and traditions from different cultures. They work their musical path from an Austrian “Jodler” via Mozart to a unique interpretation of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’.

Their repertoire is crowned by their own brilliant compositions.

This concert is brought by G.I. in cooperation with the Austrian Embassy Nairobi

Amka Literature Forum, Oct. 29 2011 @ Goethe

Amka invites you to its October session reading this Saturday 29th October from 10am – 1pm at the Goethe Institut Library, Maendeleo House, Monrovia Street. They will be reading the following pieces among other selected texts.

Short Stories:
Kampala Express
Inception

Poems:
White Bird in the Dark
A Poem
It’s Our Time

For more information contact: Riva 0751 291 253 Amka Coordinator

Event/Symposium: Sheng, Gender, and Youth Culture in Nairobi, Oct. 6 2011 @ Goethe

Date: October 6, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Time: 1-6pm
Entry: Free

Sheng has become the basic urban vernacular for the youth in Kenya these days. It is a coded language associated with youth sub cultural identity and has become the most enduring expression of youth hybrid culture.

As opposed to English and Swahili, which are still oftenconsidered foreign languages, Sheng is a language that Kenyan youth cancall their own. On the other hand, men profit much more from speaking the language than women do. Women’s skillful use of Sheng is still associated with prostitution and low moral values. But can we talk about an urban youth culture, if half of the young population is – more or less – excluded from speaking it?

During the symposium there will be a discussion with sociolinguists, gender experts, media representatives, artists, and the youth on the relation of Sheng, gender, and youth culture in Nairobi.

This symposium is organized by Kenya National Commission for UNESCO, Youth Forum.

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Photographic Presentation: Ananias Léki Dago, Oct 7 2011 @ Goethe-Institut


GOETHE-INSTITUT, Friday 7th October 2011 – 6 PM, Free Entry
Maendeleo House , Monrovia Street
+254-20-2224640 – prog@nairobi.goethe.org

Ananias Léki Dago: Mabati
Photographic Presentation

Ananias Léki Dago is a photographer from Côte d’Ivoire, based in Paris since 2002. After his studies in Abidjan, Ananias began to travel the world, which since then became an essential source of his work. He calls himself a product of urban life and his photographic approach focuses on everyday life within an urban context. Using a personal and free thought process documentary, he offers a different view on the little things in life.

Working on shebeens (illicit bar or club) in South African townships in 2009, Ananias now addresses another urban phenomenon in Kenya: Mabati, the corrugated iron sheets that not only shape the city but also play an important social, economic, and cultural role in the life of Kenyans.
Ananias is going to show us the first pictures of his ongoing project.

BLNRB – Music Videos Launch, Sep 24 2011 @ Goethe-Institut

A first for Kenya – the launch of a full set of music videos accompanying the songs of the memorable BLNRB album of collaborations between Berlin-based electronic musicians and the emerging Kenyan music scene. You can listen to some of the superb tracks on ReverbNation

The Goethe-Institut commissioned music videos for 11 tracks from the album from 11 different film and music video directors such as Hawa Essuman, Boomba Video, Rich Pictures, Circle & Square, Cultural Video Foundation, DYMK, Sam Hopkins, Just A Band, Dream Awake Pro, Studio Ang and Philippa Herrmann. The videos will be screened for the first time on September 24th, mixed by a VJ.
Here is a preview, other videos will be published on YouTube in the coming weeks

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Album Launch/Concert: Sven Kacirek-The Kenya Sessions, Sept. 16 2011 @ Goethe


Date: September 16, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 8pm
Entry: Free

For five weeks in 2009, Germany‘s electronic music virtuoso Sven Kacirek from Hamburg travelled back and forth across Kenya, equipped with his audio recorder. The result is a musical road movie: from Lake Victoria in Nyanza to the Kenyan coast. His album The Kenya Sessions features some of the best Kenyan musicians such as the legendary Dodo singer Ogoya Nengo, the multiinstrumentalist Raymond Mackenzie, the orchestras of Jack Nyadundo, Ali Khamed and Swaleh Mwatela, the Nyatiti players Okumo Korengo and Owino Koyo, and many others.

The album has been released and is getting international acclaim; it received a nomination for the prestigious German Record Critics‘ Award 2011! In Kenya, Daily Nation stated: „This is surely the way of the future. What emerges retains a Kenyan ‚creative soul’ but has a captivating freshness to it.”

Now Sven Kacirek returns to Kenya to present the album to the Nairobi audience in a solo concert

The Out Film Festival, Sept. 9-10 2011 @ Goethe


Dates: September 9-10, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: September 9, 2011 at 7-10pm and September 10, 2011 at 10 am
Entry: Free

Queer cinema comes out!

The Inaugural OUT FILM FESTIVAL will be the first public showing of cinema that reflects the life of sexual minorities.

The film festival wants to make known a community that Kenyan society deems to be secret. The festival aims to entertain, educate and celebrate. There will be a variety of films and documentaries from within and outside the continent that will alter the way you look at the way the Queer community lives and loves. People just like you, people who are African themselves.

Diversity + Tolerance = Ubuntu
Ubuntu = I am what I am because of Who We all Are

Visiting movie makers will be in attendance.

The OUT FILM FESTIVAL is brought to you by the Gay Kenya Trust in cooperation with the Embassy of Switzerland and Goethe-Institut Nairobi

Screenings
Friday, 9th September 2011, 7.00 pm
7.00 pm: Fluorescent Sin
7.15 pm: Kuchus of Uganda
8.00 pm: Transformation
8.20 pm: Dakan

Saturday, 10th September 2011, 10.00 am
10.00 am: 7 years
10.30 am: Coming Out
2.00 pm: La Parade, followed by a Q&A-Session with the director Lionel Baier
4.00 pm: Transformation
4.20 pm: Fluorescent Sin
4.35 pm: Kuchus of Uganda

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