Exhibition: Indulgence Curated by Violet Nantume & Nyambura M. Waruingi, Apr. 6-24 2018 @ Goethe Institut Nairobi

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Opening: April 5, 2018
Venue: Goethe Institut Nairobi
Time: 6-9 pm

Until April 24, 2018

About
The exhibition Indulgence, curated by Violet Nantume and Nyambura M. Waruingi, is the third iteration in a series of conversations that had begun in 2015 and led to the exhibition Eroticism and Intimacy: Face, Places, and Paths at Under Ground Contemporary Art Space in Kampala in 2016. Now, Indulgence takes the artists and curators from Kenya and Uganda out of their comfort zones, building on our interpretations of genders, sexualities, and pleasures in their particular artistic expressions. It seeks to illuminate the relationship between art and its ability to interrogate, using local knowledges, and reflecting on issues affecting Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (SOGI). Regionally and artistically diverse, the participating artists have been investigating genders, sexualities, and pleasures in their own locality drawing from their experiences to inform their artistic practice.

The exhibition will be broadened by several events: the exhibition opening on 5th April 2018, several walkabouts with the curator and an artist’s talk in conversation with Awuor Onyango on 19th April 2018. The exhibition will travel to Johannesburg, South Africa later this year, supported by !Kauru Contemporary Art From Africa.

Artist Talk:
19/04/2018, 7.00 PM

Opening Hours Exhibition:
06/04/2018 – 24/04/2018
Monday – Friday: 1.00 AM – 6.00 PM
Saturday: 10.00 AM – 3.00 PM

Admission is free!

Find more information, here.

found-footage

Found Footage Exhibition Conversation: Critical Conversations – Pasts, Presents & Futures, Feb. 17 2017 @ BIEA

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found-footageDate: February 17, 2017
Venue: BIEA Seminar Room, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa, Nairobi
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

About
Found Footage is the preface to the curatorial project, Crossings & Moorings, an immersive multi-media exhibition exploring historical movement of people, and the transmission and transformation of identities across geography and time, with a focus on the cultures of the Indian Ocean Coast.

http://www.biea.ac.uk/event/found-footage/

Steel M

Theatre: Steel Magnolias, Sept. 20 – Oct. 5 2013 @ Phoenix Players

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Steel M
Phoenix Players Present: Steel Magnolias directed by Nyambura M Waruingi

Opening Date: September 20, 2013
Venue: Phoenix Players
Runs Until: October 5, 2013.
Tickets: Ksh. 500.

SYNOPSIS
First produced in New York in 1987, it successfully opened at London’s Lyric Theatre in 1987. Hilarious and touching, this play for six women is set in a beauty parlour somewhere in Louisiana. Through four scene spanning three years, Clairee , Ouiser, her eager but inexperienced assistant, engaged in small town gossip, running the gamut of the birth/marriage/death cycle.
The play moves towards tragedy when Shelby – a diabetic dies following a kidney-transplant operation, and the deep strength and purposefulness, underlying the antic banter of its character is ultimately revealed.