Canon Festival of Impressions, Nov 3-5 2011 @ National Museum

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Canon is delighted to officially invite you to the Canon Festival of Impressions, set to run from the 3rd – 5th of November, 2011 at the Nairobi National Museum, Museum Hill.

Given the great importance Canon attaches to the beauty we have in the country, especially our wildlife they have dedicated the 4th and 5th of November, 2011 to presentation workshops with Jonathan & Angela Scott, the famed Big Cat Diaries photographers and Canon Brand Ambassadors. These workshops will take place at 10 am to 12pm on both days, at The Ford Hall.

On the first day, we will have a presenation on “Wildlife Photography: Making the Most of Your Opportunities,” and “Travel Photography: Out of Africa in Search of New Destinations.”

Additionally, the ‘Canon EOS Adventure’ photographic competition will be officially launched on Saturday 5th November, 2011 from 6pm by Jonathan & Angela Scott..

We look forward to seeing you at the Festival of Impressions.

RSVP Ms. Bernice Kinuthia : crservices@officetechnologies.co.ke

Public Lecture: My story by Michael Joseph, Nov. 7 2011 @ National Museum

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One year after retirement as Chief Executive Officer of Safaricom Mr. Michael Joseph will share a decade in which he lead the company to become the largest mobile phone operator in East Africa.

Date: November 7, 2011
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium
Venue: National Museum of Kenya
Time: 6.15pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Donations*: Kshs 500 non-members, Kshs 400 Members and Kshs 200 Students
Contacts: 0724255299 or 2339158 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org

*Proceeds to fund the development of exhibitions at National Museum of Kenya.

Lecture: Water In Africa – Source of Conflict or Co-operation?, Oct 11 2011 @ National Museum

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Join Kenya Museum Society on October 11th, for a great talk by Rupert Watson
(Founder of the Dispute Resolution Centre Kenya), who will examine how water
conflicts can be minimised and even avoided. Further more he will give
examples of water Management and Mismanagement.

Nairobi National Museum, Louis Leakey Auditorium

Refreshments 6.15pm – Doors open 7.00pm
Donations:
Ksh 500 Non members
Ksh 400 Members
Ksh 200 Students

Proceeds fund development of Exhibitions at the National Museums of Kenya

Exhibit: On Red Ground – by Roy Pickering, Oct 1 – 30 2011 @ National Museum

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“On Red Ground’ 1st – 30th October
Roy Pickering is based in the English midlands and has been a frequent visitor to Kenya for over twenty five years. His paintings of his native Nottinghamshire emerge out of a close connection with the landscape and how it has been shaped by human intervention. In 2010 Roy Pickering spent several weeks in Kenya creating this exciting new series of mixed media paintings on aluminium and paper. Using rags and sticks to paint with as well as paint brushes these works also incorporate the red oxide soil of the land being depicted. The layered accumulation of marks simultaneously reveal and conceal in an archaeology of time and place. Often the resulting works capture a sense of moving through the landscape; a succession of passing glimpses and differing viewpoints.
Roy Pickering has exhibited widely, most recently at the ‘Gallery in Cork Street’, London in 2010, and as a contributor to the innovative mixed exhibition ‘Earth Critical’ at Alba la Romaine’ in France earlier this year.
This is his first exhibition in Kenya.
For more information contact : Nairobi National  Museum. www.museums.or.ke
Gallery opening times : 8.30am to 5.30pm

Conceptual Art Exhibition, Sept. 30 2011 @ National Museum

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The Embassy of Spain, in collaboration with the Nairobi National Museum, is happy to invite you to the Conceptual Art Exhibition

“The Proud, the Shy and the Angry: many (Hi)Stories, one Museum”.
This event will exhibit the works of the twelve Kenyan artists who have been taking part in the conceptual art workshop by Spanish artist Irene Izquierdo during the last two weeks. This showcase will present a collection of installation and performances specifically designed for this occasion, as the result of an innovative research on contemporary art, museums, collective memory and national identity, among other ideas.

In this event we will discover the original work of Gilbert Ouma, Susan Ngure, Abdilatif Hussein, Noor Jefwa, Zihan Kassam, Paul Mutuku, Anne Mwiti, William S. Ndwiga, Esther Mukuhi, Aggrey Agwata, Alacoque Ntome and Dennis Ruigu Kabucho.

WHEN: 30th September 2011, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
WHERE: Nairobi National Museum, Museum Hill
Free entrance.

Exhibition: “Our Bodies, Our Stories” with Xavier Verhoest, Oct 1-30 2011 @ Nairobi National Museum

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Our bodies tell our stories – Opening Sat 1st, 3-6pm
Since 2005, the German Development Cooperation through GIZ, Art2Be (a group of Kenyan and international psychologists and artists) and TICAH (Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health) work together on innovative approaches of self-expression that improve communication in HIV-affected families and improve resilience and acceptance. Body Map involves painting a life-size representation of one’s body onto canvas and using pictures, symbols and words to represent the path that one has taken through life.
This exhibition brings together a selection of Body Maps made by Kenyans.
All of the paintings in this exhibition are self portraits telling each Kenyan’s story about happiness, rights, health, illness, stigma and strength as they journey through their life in the age of HIV/AIDS.

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Creativity Gallery
Nairobi National Museum
Museum Hill
Tel +254 3742131/61/62/63
PO Box 40658 00100 Nairobi
art@museums.or.ke
www.museums.or.ke