Nairobi What's on
9-16 Dec. This edition of the traditional biennial Kwani Literary Festival, organized by Kwani Trust, will focus on several geopolitical trends and shifts in Kenya’s immediate north to host lite...
Nairobi What's on
Musical Seventeen by Kenya Conservatoire
14-16 Dec. This musical, entitled Seventeen, is performed by the Kenya Conservatoire of music, led by the famous Kenyan composer and performer Nancy Day.
Among the contributors to this project are...
Nairobi What's on
7 Dec-15 Jan. The Matatu Project in Movement is an exhibition by the Kenyan artist Dennis Muraguri, inspired by the famous Nairobi Public Service Vehicles, such as matatus, buses and human transporter...
Nairobi What's on
Workshop on Art and Entrepreneurship
11 Dec. Professor Ole Lutzow-Holm of the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg and Lotta Lekvall from Natverkstan in Sweden will hold a workshop with academics engaged in the crea...
Nairobi What's on
11 Dec -15 Jan. This exhibition, entitled Edition One, displays a limited edition of woodcut prints by the Nairobi-based visual artist Thom Ogonga.
His exclusively handmade prints are the result of...
Nairobi What's on
4 Dec. This charity jazz event, entitled Live in Concert, is performed by the internationally acclaimed Italian singer and composer Mario Biondi.
Biondi will be accompanied by Claudio Filippini at...
Nairobi What's on
Theatrical Play My Brilliant Divorce
26 October-10 November 2012. The Phoenix Players present My Brilliant Divorce, directed by Geraldine Aron.
It hilariously explores the life of a 40-something woman, named Angela, who suddenly retur...
Nairobi What's on
19-21 October 2012. This hilarious and confusional comedy of misunderstanding, entitled The Hot Mamas, tells the story of a Kenyan named Kinyua, who is on his first holiday with his wife Nyakenya in K...
Nairobi What's on
25 October 2012. This concert features the five member band De Bolso, led by the voice of Camila Jotaba, who will perform some popular Brazilian compositions.
The band’s original work focuses...
Nairobi What's on
5-20 October 2012. This theatrical play, entitled Side Effects, tells the story of Frank, who has been hospitalized for a rare complaint for one week in a private nursing home by his wife June. Whilst...
Nairobi What's on
3-21 October 2012. This photographic exhibition, entitled Their Fate is Ours –The Humanity of Great Apes, pays homage among the others to gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans.
On dis...
Nairobi What's on
Flamenco Faces Photography Exhibition
9 October-9 November 2012. The embassy of Spain in collaboration with the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) displays this exhibition by the Spanish photographer Maque Falgas, which celebrates Flamenco a...
Nairobi What's on
2-21 October 2012. This exhibition, entitled Urbanization, features the latest acrylic, oil and water paintings by the Kenyan visual artist Tom Mboya. Mboya’s works focus on how human activities...
Nairobi What's on
Nairobi hosts its fifth Fashion Market, in aid of breast cancer awareness, over the weekend 6-7 October.
In addition to more than 100 fashion and lifestyle stalls, there will be fashion shows and l...
Nairobi What's on
22-29 September 2012. The Samosa Festival consists of a biennial cultural platform for the promotion of Kenyan music, art, poetry and drama as well as ethnic and racial unity.
On stage are various...
Nairobi What's on
Happy Birthday by The Phoenix Players
14-29 September 2012. The Phoenix Players present Happy Birthday, a play directed by George Munga.
The plot tells of Bernard, who invites his mistress, Brigit, to his home on her birthday in presen...
Nairobi What's on
Accumulating Signs by Mimi Cherono Ng'ok
18 September-12 October 2012. This exhibition, entitled Accumulating Signs, by the Kenyan photographer Mimi Cherono Ng'ok, is displayed within the series Sasa Nairobi, dedicated to Kenyan contemporar...
Nairobi What's on
28-30 September 2012. The second edition of the Ngoma Jazz Festival focuses on instrumental artist in Kenya and East Africa.
Several local Jazz musicians and bands from different generations, such...
Nairobi What's on
Theatrical Play: If I Were You
24 August-8 September 2012. The Phoenix Players present this theatrical play, entitled If I Were You and directed by Caroline Odongo.
It tells the story of an ordinary family, the Rodales, who hide...
Nairobi What's on
At the Discovery of the Milky Way
6-13 September 2012. The Italian Cultural Institute presents this photographic exhibition, entitled The Milky Way through Science, History and Art.
Since many centuries the arc of the Milky Way, a...
