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This community-based annual film festival returns to Kibera and Mathare, Nairobi’s biggest slums, for its third edition. The programme includes a rich calendar of outdoor screenings of slum sto...
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What future for democracy in Somaliland?
This public discussion focuses on the future of democracy in Somaliland, which has worked since its independence in 1961 to create a multi-party democracy. The result has been a complex asset of polit...
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This exhibition, entitled Kanga Stories, The Cloth that Reveals, focuses on the Kanga cloth, a colourful printed cotton fabric, worn mainly by women in central and eastern Africa. Kanga and which in o...
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The screening of the movie Berlin Calling by Hannes Stöhr marks the inauguration of Ten Cities, a series of screenings of feature films and documentaries by musicians and writers. It focuses on v...
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Uirapuru by Iván Navarro & Courtney Smith
This exhibition, entitled Uirapuru, features a series of short videos by the Brooklyn based sculptors Iván Navarro and Courtney Smith. On screen are five short videos, which refer to the traje...
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This exhibition pays homage to art, décor, bags, sandals and unique handmade jewellery from Italy. On display are leather accessories by African Lily, a small, luxury leather enterprise, run b...
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25 Mar-15 Apr. The second edition of this photographic contest, entitled Women’s Planet, is launched by Alliance Française Nairobi and honours women worldwide.
On display are a selecti...
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Orna's Cooking Classes - March 2013
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Orna's March Cooking Classes Call 0733-740027 to sign up! From the kitchen novice to the budding chef, Orna will give you the confidence, recipes and inside knowledge to mak...
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2-15 Mar. Find the Art Trench features a series of works by the Ugandan artist Hassan Mukiibi.
Mukiibi is specialized in printmaking, painting and tie and dye. His art is conceived as a cure for...
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26 feb. This afro-jazz concert is performed live by Ricky Na Marafiki, who will perform songs from his debut album, entitled Tucheze, as well as some newer compositions.
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27 Feb. The association Sentinelles in collaboration with the French and Swiss Embassies in Kenya, screens Blood of Women by Christian Lajoumard.
The focus in the film is on female genital mutilati...
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Peace Through Service Exhibition
21-28 Feb. This fundraising exhibition, entitled Peace Through Service, is organised in collaboration with the Kenya Rotary Club and supports various charities in Kenya.
On display are works by 30...
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5-24 Feb. This exhibition, entitled Breath of Consciousness II, displays a series of powerful and striking paintings and engravings on women by the Eritrean born, Nairobi-based artist Ermias Ekube. Hi...
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4-16 Feb. This photographic exhibition, entitled One Third, focuses on food waste and was commissioned to Klaus Pichler by the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organsation (FAO).
A UN st...
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31 Jan-14 Feb. This series of portraits by Brian Omolo are inspired by the 2013 presidential aspirants.
In this series Omolo re-imagined the faces and personalities presidential candidates in a new...
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In Art We Can by Armando Tanzini
31 Jan-14 Feb. This exhibition features a series of paintings by the Italian artist Armando Tanzini.
Born in Livorno in 1943, he started his artistic career at a very young age and was a student an...
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15-27 Jan. The Heartstrings Kenya presents this theatrical play, entitled Resolutions broken in Kenya and directed by Sammy Mwangi and Victor Ber.
This hilarious comedy tries to explain to the publ...
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18-26 Jan. This play, entitled The Jury, was adapted from Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men.
The plot centres on the deliberation of a jury in a homicide trial. The initial, nearly unanimous,...
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15 Dec-14 Jan. This exhibition pays homage to Somalia’s capital, Africa’s most wounded city. Mogadishu is immortalized in all its splendour before the destruction of the civil war in 1991....
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Photographic Competition: Les Metiers du Monde
6 Nov-11 Jan. On occasion of the third edition of this international photographic competition, Alliance Française invites amateur photographers to participate.
This year’s theme is The...
