Graffiti Session at the National Museum with the BSQ Crew! Dec. 8 2017 @ National Museum

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BSQ at the NMK | Image via the NMK
Date: December 8, 2017
Venue: Nairobi National Museum
Time: 2 pm

The group will also have an exhibition – NextGen – at the Museum, Creativity Gallery – running until January 15, 2018

About
Join the artists on Friday 8th December at 2PM for a fun and interactive graffiti session in the gallery!

The bomb squad crew (BSQ) is a street art group consisting of young Kenyan artists. The group formed in 2011 and hails from the city streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. It is made up of members with a passion and love for art, specifically mural work and graffiti. The exhibition titled NextGen is BSQ’s first major exhibition. The public is invited to join the artists on Friday 8th December at 2PM for a fun and interactive graffiti session in the Nairobi National Museum’s Creativity Gallery!

NextGen is an exhibition about the next generation, a generation that has forgotten the beauty of our culture. The artists use a variety of techniques in collaborative and individual works to investigate how our culture is affected today by the mixture of traditional and technological influences.

BSQ hopes to show museum visitors that street art is not only for vandalism but can be displayed in a museum gallery to express and address different societal issues, in this case to portray how technology has affected our culture both positively and negatively.
BSQ have managed to carve up a name for themselves as the most energetic, inspiring and creative art crew in East and Central Africa. BSQ is a group of young Kenyan artist formed in 2011.

http://bsqart.com/home/

Discussion + Mini – Concert: On Benga – Kenya’s Signature Genre, Dec. 7 2017 @ Alliance Française Terrace

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Date: December 7, 2017
Venue: Alliance Française Terrace
Time: 6.30 pm
Entry: Free

About
A discussion organized by FLEE, a cultural engineering platform dedicated to the documentation and enhancement of hybrid cultures, that is at the same time a record label, a publishing house and an exhibition curator. For its first issue, FLEE decided to focus on Benga music. This discussion will be an opportunity to première in Nairobi a vinyl record along with a printed magazine that tells the story of benga and celebrates the pioneers of benga (Daniel Owino Misiani, George Ramogi and the Migori Superstars), concluding with modern respectful re-interpretations by Nik Weston, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, and Africaine 808.

Kenya Wildlife Trust 10th Anniversary Fundraising Cocktail Party, Nov. 30 2017 @ Hemingways Hotel – Nairobi

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Date: November 30, 2017
Venue: Hemingways Hotel, Nairobi
Time: 6-10 pm
Tickets: KES 3,000/- Available here

To celebrate 10 years of conservation impact, Kenya Wildlife Trust are holding a Fundraising Cocktail Party at Hemingways Hotel, Nairobi, on Thursday, November 30, 2017.

Join us for cocktails, bitings, live music, auction, raffle and more!

All funds raised on the night will support our 3 pillars – Predator Conservation, Community Development and Conservation Education

http://kenyawildlifetrust.org/

Kenya Wildlife Trust 10th Anniversary Fundraising Cocktail Party, Nov. 30 2017 @ Hemingways Hotel – Nairobi

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Date: November 30, 2017
Venue: Hemingways Hotel, Nairobi
Time: 6-10 pm
Tickets: KES 3,000/- Available here

To celebrate 10 years of conservation impact, Kenya Wildlife Trust are holding a Fundraising Cocktail Party at Hemingways Hotel, Nairobi, on Thursday, November 30, 2017.

Join us for cocktails, bitings, live music, auction, raffle and more!

All funds raised on the night will support our 3 pillars – Predator Conservation, Community Development and Conservation Education

Kenya Wildlife Trust

Megaloh & Octopizzo in Concert! Oct. 13 2017 @ Goethe Institut Auditorium

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Date: October 13, 2017
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: 8 pm
Entry: Free

About
The rainmaker carries hope. It can bring prosperity in times of drought and new life, where for a long time none was. With his music the Berlin Rapper Megaloh has become a kind of rainmaker himself. He brings the hope of a new area of in German Hip Hop. Now his new album “Regenmacher” has been released. He sees Rap as a narrative vehicle but also as a form of art. In October 2017 Megaloh will tour Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and Kenya, organized by the Goethe-Institut.

For his performance in Nairobi on 13th October, he will be joined by Kenyan artist Octopizzo.

The Lamu Coal Plant: Uncovering the Real Political, Health & Environmental Aspects of the Project, Jul. 14 2017 @ Laico Regency

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Date: July 14, 2017
Venue: Laico Regency
Time: 3-6 pm

Speakers: Hon. Shakila Abdalla – Lamu County Women Representative, Prof. Nick King – Climate Change & Sustainable Development Expert, Hindpal Jabbal – Former Chairman, Energy Regulatory Commission, Prof. Peter Orris – University of Illinois Hospital, Raya Famau – Save Lamu

Moderator: John Allan-Namu, Journalist

Exhibition: Transitions by Boniface Maina, Until Jun. 30 2017 @ Nairobi Gallery

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Dates: Until June 30, 2017
Venue: Nairobi Gallery
Time: 8.30 am – 5.30 pm
Entry: Museum Rates Apply

About
Boniface Maina represents a new breed of promising young contemporary artists in Nairobi. He has exhibited widely in East Africa and internationally. He has co-founded a cooperative of young artists in Nairobi known as Brush Tu Art Studio.

Born in 1987 at Nanyuki, Kenya, Boniface studied at the YMCA Training Institute, graduating with a diploma in art and design in 2008. He works primarily with acrylics on canvas and inks on paper. He is inspired by human reactions, personal experiences, dreams and daily encounters which he illustrates through his surrealist scenes and figures.

Thus, he is part of a new generation of artists who are finding fame and fortune both at home and abroad through a combination of training, exposure and inner reflection based on their unique perspective in present day Kenya. This is both a continuum and a departure from the “Pioneer Artists” of East Africa who have been exhibiting works at the Pioneer Gallery of the Old PCS Office for the past several years.

These artists commenced their careers at the time of Kenyan independence or shortly thereafter, against all odds, as art was not considered a priority at that time. The Pioneer artists based their works primarily on tradition, yet they have opened paths and set stages for those who follow, such as Magdalene Odundo, the first Kenyan to receive the Order of the British Empire from the Queen of England for her brilliant ceramic works (she is now installing mammoth tableaus of glass in various parts of the world).

TRANSITIONS is the title for a series of exhibitions which seek out and promote a younger generations of artists like Boniface Maina. Maina will premiere a new series of works, debuting his “new” style, which will be a marked departure from what his fans have been accustomed to in the past. Maina’s works have been published in a book, Masters of Contemporary Art Volume I, by Art Galaxie, an organization that serves to promote and disseminate the artwork of contemporary artists.

Boniface has had numerous solo and joint exhibitions including the Kenya Art Fair, the Kenya National Theatre, Alliance Francaise, the Italian Institute of Culture, the UNHCR, the Circle Art Gallery – Lamu exhibitions, and the Nairobi National Museum. He has also exhibited through the Danish and Russian Embassy residences and at Glocal Art Gallery, Denmark.