Dates: October 24 – November 3, 2012
Nairobi Venues: Alliance Francaise, Goethe Institute, National Museums, Starflix Cinemas on Ngong road
Kisumu Venue: Mega City Starflix Cinema
Time: Daily film screening from 10am to 9pm
Entry: Free
Festival Theme: the world classics
Update: download Festival Full Programme (4.5mb, PDF)
Dates: September 26-30, 2012
Venue: Sarit Centre
Time: 9am-6pm
Entry: Free
Events at the fair: Workshops and seminars on topical issues, Book launches, Children activities, Presentation of the Wahome Mutahi Literary Award- 2012, Budding Authors Seminar, Books clearance sale and raffle for books- Publishers will sell books at huge discounts and book exhibitions
For more information visit: http://www.kenyapublishers.org/nairobi_bookfair.html
Date: October 28, 2012
Venue: Nairobi City
For more information visit their website: http://www.nairobimarathon.com/
Daily live coverage of the Olympic Games
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Time: from 12 to 3pm and 5 to 8pm.
Women Action and the Media (WAM) Nairobi is calling all creative women to join them on
Dates: March 20-23, 2011
Venues: various in Nairobi
Entry Requirements:RSVP, email [wamnairobi [at] gmail dot com]
WAM Nairobi will be discussing some of the big questions facing women and girls in media: What are the barriers for the full participation of female journalists in East African media?
How are stories of women and girls in Kenya told (or not told) in the international press? Whose voices “matter”?
March 20, 2011
Venue: Downtown pub
Time 6pm
Entry: RSVP
Date: March 21, 2011
Venue: Nairobi Java House
Time: 1-4pm
Topic: Getting Women and Girls on the Front Page
A drop-in workshop for activists, advocates and other movers and shakers to learn strategies for winning the interest of local and international journalists — and helping them focus on the information that matters.
We’ll be at Nairobi Java House (Mama Ngina Street) from 1-4 p.m. Stop on by! (We’d appreciate a heads up to let us know your coming by [wamnairobi@gmail.com], but it’s not required.
Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: My Africa, Your Africa
A dialogue between local and foreign journalists about the differences in their coverage
Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: At the Source
Raising local voices across media, where citizen journalists, literary artists, and social media experts describe breaking new ground for news in Kenya
Date: March 22, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: Women’s Voices in a Man’s World
Journalists and other media-makers will discuss dealing with gender gaps, glass ceilings and other perils of being female in the media world.
Topic: The Spot Pitch
Winning coverage for women and girls in 120 seconds. Ten advocates and activists will get 2 minutes each to sell the audience on their most irresistible story about the issues facing women and girls.
For more info: WAM Nairobi blog
On the occasion of the Chopin Year the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi and Chopin2010 Office in Warsaw presents
“Chopin in Africa”
Fryderyk Chopin Christmas piano concert by Janusz Olejniczak
Date: December 16, 2010
Venue: Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi
Location: Harry Thuku Road (next to the Norfolk Hotel)
Time: 8:00 pm
Entry: Free
Born in 1952. Janusz Olejniczak is one of the most famous polish classical pianist. He is a member of a chamber orchestra, and his repertory includes compositions of Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, Ravel and Prokokofiev.
He also played Chopin’s music in Andrzej Zulawski’s film ‘The Blue Note’ and appears as the hands of of Wldyslaw Szpilman in Adrien Brody’s role in the film the ‘Pianist’. He is a winner of the Fryderyk Chopin International Competation in Warsaw (1970) and A. Caselii Competition in Naples (1974).
