Maputo What's on
Homage to the Cheny Wa Gune and his Quartet
6 June 2012. This exhibition pays homage to the famous Mozambican musician Cheny Wa Gune and his quartet. Gune has been a member of the musical quartet Timbila Muzimba for more than 14 years. His mus...
Nairobi What's on
27 May-20 June 2012. This exhibition features the paintings and sculptures by the Kenyan artist Joseph Bertiers.
Bertiers, who lives and works in Nairobi, began his artistic career in his teens pai...
Nairobi What's on
Concert by Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik
3 June 2012. This concert, entitled Two who Replace a Band!, will be performed by the Austrian singer, composer and jazz trumpet player Michaela Rabitsch and by her partner the composer and guitarist...
Nairobi What's on
5 June 2012. The Polish Embassy presents this concert by Artur Dutkiewicz, one of the leading Polish jazz pianists and composers.
Dutkiewicz will perform his own, contemporary jazz mazurkas, taken...
Nairobi What's on
8-9, 21 June 2012. Goethe Institut pays homage to Wanjiru Kinyanjui, one of Kenya’s veteran film directors.
Kinyanjui studied at the Technical University of Berlin and was awarded for he...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Screening of The Life of Others
31 May 2012. Goethe Institut screens the German movie “The Life of Others” by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
This political thriller and human drama is set in East Berlin between 198...
Maputo What's on
15-29 May 2012. On occasion of the 11th European Film Festival Goethe Institut screens the German movie “Lila Lila” by Alain Gsponer.
It tells the story of a waiter named David, who fal...
Nairobi What's on
6 May-10 June 2012. This exhibition, entitled Nature, Nurture and Other Visual Meditations, displays the works by the Argentinean visual artist Miriam Rubino. Her latest colourful and playful works ar...
Nairobi What's on
Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia
24 May-1 June 2012. This art exhibition, entitled Message Stick, pays homage to the Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia and is presented by the Australian High Commission.
On display is a select...
Nairobi What's on
4-27 May 2012. This exhibition, entitled Kangaeru, displays the works by the contemporary artist Yoshinari Nishio and his artists collective, Nishio Workshop Nairobi.
This series of works was produ...
Nairobi What's on
22 May-22 July 2012. This exhibition, entitled Power of unity: creating a vital voice for artists to influence good governance.
It aims to enable the artists to create a platform and forum, which t...
Nairobi What's on
The Language of African Art by Chuma Pascal
19 May-1 June 2012. This exhibition, entitled The Language of African Art, displays the works by the Kenyan artist Chuma Pascal.
Pascal started drawing when he as five years old, he later participa...
Addis Ababa What's on
Building the Konso Visual Archives
17-31 May 2012. This exhibition, organized by the Konso Cultural Centre (Karat, Konso) and the Italian Cultural Institute (Addis Ababa), displays a series of selected photographs, which focus on the a...
Addis Ababa What's on
Kendo: Japanese Art of the Sword
29-30 May 2012. This breathtaking performance is performed by seven of the best practitioners from Japan and organized by the Embassy of Japan.
It pays homage to the Samurai culture and its traditi...
Accra What's on
30 May 2012. This reading is part of the series Writers Project of Ghana and is held by Kojo Laing.
Laing is a Ghanaian novelist and poet. Among Laing’s novels are Search Sweet Country, Women...
Nairobi What's on
Geraldine Robarts’ Spirit of Africa
30 May-10 June 2012. This exhibition, entitled The Spirit of Africa, displays a series of about 20 paintings by the English painter Geraldine Robarts.
Her paintings, which are dedicated to the past...
Nairobi What's on
21st European Film Festival Nairobi
11-27 May 2012. This European Film Festival is the longest running film festival in Nairobi. On its 21st edition it foresees the screening of 18 movies, including some award winning films, from 16 Eur...
Addis Ababa What's on
22 May-1 June 2012. The Italian Institut hosts the award ceremony and the opening of this design exhibition, entitled What Can You Make With Bamboo.
The exhibition displays a series of winning proj...
Cairo What's on
Annual Conference on Arab Philanthropy and Civic Engagement
10-12 June 2012. This annual conference, entitled Takaful, is organized by the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement.
It is the first interdisciplinary forum for research in...
Lagos What's on
26 May 2012. The Nigerian Film Corporation hosts the screening of the Nigerian movie Relentness, directed by Andy Amadi Okoroafor.
It tells the story of Obi a Nigerian peacekeeping soldier in war-t...
