2nd Edition of Slum Film Festival, Aug. 6-13 2012 @ Kibera & Mathare

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Dates: August 6-13, 2012
Venue: Kibera & Mathare
Locations/Directions
Kibera Slum Location-Kamukunji Grounds, near Olympic Stage, Kibera Drive. [From downtown Nairobi: bus 32 from Kencom, or 8 from Railways]

Mathare Slum Location-Mabatini Grounds. near Mathare Road. [From downtown Nairobi: bus 46, from Tom Mboya street]

For more information visit the SFF Web-blog: www.slumfilmfestival.org

About SFF
The Slum Film Festival (SFF) is an innovative community-based film event, featuring stories from, by, and about people living in urban slums everywhere.

This edition of the festival will also incorporates film training workshops and art classes.

Exhibit: Grassroots Upgraded, Jan 16 – Apr 20 2012 @ Nairobi Gallery

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Grassroots Upgraded ¦ Reflections on Nairobi’s Eastlands

Exhibition
The exhibition is Slum-TV’s biggest Art project so far, filling the Nairobi Gallery with photographs, installations and video works. It presents a unique perspective of life in Nairobi’s Eastlands, challenging the stereotypes about life in the marginal areas of town and revealing a dynamic and bustling urban life.

More than anything else, this exhibition seeks to raise questions. Questions about how Nairobi is represented. Questions about an image that a city has, and how this can be shaped. Questions about who is creating this image, and what the relationship between images and power is. The camera used, “LOMO”, presents their own unique aesthetic: improvised, spontaneous and unconventional expression. The corresponding catalogue will be launched at the opening.

The exhibition is curated by Sam Hopkins.

It is a partnership of Africalia and Goethe-Institut in conjunction with the National Museums of Kenya.

Entry: Museum Charges (of Nairobi Gallery)!

Goethe-Institut Nairobi – +254-20-2224640 – prog@nairobi.goethe.org