Cape Town What's on
Cape Town International Fair 2006.
27 Oct-5 Nov 2006. Exhibitors from Egypt, India, Pakistan, Syria, China, Thailand, Iran, Korea, Turkey and other countries display home furniture and fashion in the Good Hope Center designed by Italia...
Addis Ababa What's on
25 Oct-9 Nov 2006. Works in watercolour and Indian ink by Carlos Marin Bellido depicting life in the walled city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia are on display at the Alliance Etio-Francaise. Bellido has...
Maputo What's on
15 Oct-15 Nov 2005. This is the third edition of the biennial international photography festival in Maputo organised by the Mozambican Photography Association, the Photography Training and Documentati...
Nairobi What's on
17-19 Nov 2006. The Lamu Cultural Promotion Centre welcomes visitors to the Indian Ocean island for the 2006 edition of the annual Lamu cultural festival. The three-day programme includes traditional...
Nairobi What's on
20 Sept-7 Oct 2006. Fanaka Arts Theatre, Nairobi Theatre Players and Mwangaza Theatre Productions present Mayai Waziri wa Maradhi na Hadithi Nyingine by Kenyan poet Kyallo Wadi Wamitila, an adaptation...
Maputo What's on
Communication for Development forum in Mbabane.
10-14 Oct 2006. Filmmakers, distributors and other related organisations meet in the Swazi capital Mbabane to screen and debate selected film and video productions at the tenth annual Southern Africa...
Addis Ababa What's on
21 Oct 2006. Up and coming Ethiopian rap and hip-hop band Rising Squad perform at the Alliance Ethio-Franaise. The group sings in four languages: Amharic, French, Orominya and English. Tickets 20 birr...
Nairobi What's on
Geraldine Robarts at the Village Market.
12-22 Oct 2006. Artist Geraldine Robarts returns to the Village Market in the northern suburb of Gigiri with an exhibition of her work. London-born Robarts grew up in South Africa and has lived and wo...
Addis Ababa What's on
27 Oct 2006. Dutch saxophonist Olaf Boelsen has gathered some of the best musicians in Ethiopia to perform in a concert of traditional and modern Ethiopian and world sound. The line-up includes Abagaz...
Accra What's on
17-27 Oct 2006. Work by patients at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital in Asylum Down goes on display at the Goethe Institut to mark the hospitals centenary year. The work on show is the result of an art...
Cape Town What's on
South African Airways Cape Town flower show.
26-29 Oct 2006. Members of the public, horticultural societies, garden and flower clubs and commercial growers and retailers exhibit fresh flower displays, new and unusual plants for the house and gar...
Accra What's on
1-31 Oct 2006. Cold cast sculptures by Kwatei Nee-Owoo go on display at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra. Born in James Town, Accra, in 1942, Nee-Owoo studied art in Kumasi before moving to the United...
Cape Town What's on
18 Oct-4 Nov 2006. Photographs by Dirk Van der Merwe of HIV-positive Sizophila (meaning we shall survive) counsellors working for the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation are on show in the Hope Exhibition at...
Accra What's on
17 Oct-18 Dec 2006. Alf Bremer, a German expert in photo digitalisation, editing and layout, leads a workshop in the identification, restoration and editing of selected photographs from the Bell Photo...
Accra What's on
21 Sept 2006. Participants in the Crossing Borders project read from their work on the theme of African proverbs and their meanings. Crossing Borders is a pan-African initiative organised by the Briti...
Nairobi What's on
Book reading at the Goethe Institut.
21 Sept 2006. Mumbi Kaigwa and Birgit Virnich will read from Juli Zehs dbut novel Eagles and Angels (Adler und Engel, 2001), a tale of obsessive love and underworld dealings set against a backdrop of...
Addis Ababa What's on
Short film festival at the Goethe-Institut.
18-22 Sept 2006. Short films from Germany are being screened at the Goethe-Institut in a special programme aiming to promote German film in Ethiopia. Screenings are at 18.00. For programme details see...
Maputo What's on
Documentary film festival in Maputo.
15-24 Sept 2006. Over 70 films from 27 countries are to be screened in Maputo in the first edition of the annual documentary film festival DOCKANEMA. The programme, which includes special sections on...
Accra What's on
Macmillan Writers Prize 2005/6 awards ceremony.
28 Sept 2006. Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa prize winners Elizabeth Irene Baitie and Enoch Yaw Mensah, both from Ghana, will receive their awards at a special ceremony at the British Council in A...
Addis Ababa What's on
Dawit Abebe at the Alliance Ethio-Franaise.
13-28 Sept 2006. Paintings by Ethiopian artist Dawit Abebe are on show in Green Women at the Alliance Ethio-Franaise. Mon-Fri 12.00-19.30.
