Event: The Conversation Africa: Writing for Academics, Oct. 9 2018 @ BIEA – Nairobi

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Date: October 9, 2018
Venue: BIEA Seminar Room, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 11 a.m. onwards

The Conversation Africa is a news website – written by academics. Our team of professional editors work with university and research institute experts to unlock their knowledge for use by the wider public.

We have a readership of about million a month. This is both local and international. Our aim is to promote better understanding of research, current affairs and complex issues. And hopefully allow for a better quality of public discourse and conversation.

Moina Spooner, Editor from The Conversation Africa’s Nairobi office, will give a presentation for all interested academics at the British Institute East Africa on October 9th at 11a.m.

More information can be found at www.theconversation.com/africa

Irreplaceable – Art Exhibition by Evans Ngure, Apr. 6 – May 4 2018 @ BIEA

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Opening: April 6, 2018
Venue: BIEA, Laikipia Road – Kileleshwa

Until: May 4, 2018

About
‘IRREPLACEABLE’ is an exhibition celebrating endangered species that are crucial to the continuity of life on planet Earth. He chooses to create this series of collage art to raise public awareness of the threat posed to the animals he’s created by human activities which have been the cause of pollution, climate change, degradation of all eco-systems and finally the potential extinction of not only animals but human beings as well.

Artist Biography
Evans Maina Ngure’s first inspiration was his father who showed him how to draw cartoons and cars. He was fortunate to have had art classes up through Kenyatta University where he majored in painting. It was at KU that he was first encouraged to create art using ‘unconventional materials’ which naturally led him to start working with what other people called junk.

Today he works with an assortment of found objects, such as zippers, spare parts from cars, buttons and used belts from Gikomba. He continues to ‘paint’ however his canvases are also filled with junk items. He also creating wearable art such jewelry, wind chimes, collages, back packs and purses. But his current exhibition at BIEA focuses on the creation of creatures, both wild and domestic which he designs with more ‘unconventional materials.”

Evans has exhibited all over Nairobi, from the Village Market, Dusit D2 Hotel, Nairobi National Museum, K1 Flea Market, Nairobi Gallery and ISK. His artwork is also available to see on Facebook (evans maina Ngure) and Instagram (Evans Ngure).

Discussion: Reading Africa in the Black Panther Film, Apr. 6 2018 @ Rift Valley Institute, Laikipia Road – Kileleshwa

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Date: 6 April 2018
Venue: Rift Valley Institute, Laikipia Road – Kileleshwa
Time: 2.30-5.30 pm
RSVP – here

About
On 6 April 2018, the Rift Valley Forum in partnership with the British Institute in Eastern Africa will bring together panelists from different disciplines and interest groups to discuss the (mis)representation of Africa in the movie. It aims to explore the larger issues of the depiction of Africa while raising questions of homogenisation, the concept of Blackness and diasporisation, among others.

Moderator
Sitawa Namwalie – Writer/Poet/Performer

Discussants
Dr Wandia Njoya – Lecturer, Daystar University
Nanjala Nyabola – Political Analyst
Mehul Gohil – Writer
Patrick Gathara – Journalist/Cartoonist
Dr Njoki Ngumi – The Nest