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Photography workshop with Robert Sturman, Apr 29 2013 @ AYP Shine Center, Diamond Plaza
Robert Sturman reveals all of his secrets about how to make powerful, poetic images celebrating the beautiful art of yoga.
Aspiring yoga models and yogis learn what it takes to get great pictures. Photography enthusiasts learn about composition, balance, integrating the pose with the surrounding environment, cool phone apps and much more.
In this workshop you can be the photographer, model, artist, muse of all of the above. Bring your camera, phone, questions and curiosity.
Most of the workshop will take place in the Africa Yoga Project Shine Center located at Diamond Plaza on the 4th floor. In the 2nd half, we will stroll nearby streets in the surrounding Parklands neighborhood and catch natural light to create a few masterpieces. Anyone who wants to model can. Everyone can shoot. One thing’s for sure, everyone will walk away with great pictures- www.robertsturmanstudios.com and africayogaproject.org.
LOCATION AYP Shine Center,Diamond Plaza 4th Floor
DATE Monday, April 29
DURATION 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
PRICE 1000 KSH suggested donation
EVENT CONTACT
Eliam Wanjiku
wanji@africayogaproject.org
0708372767
Concert: Sounds of the Heart, Apr 11 2013 @ MJ Centre
Thursday 11th April 2013 sees musicians from Nairobi School (Old and New) on one stage at the Michael Joseph Centre. The concert, apart from being a wonderful evening of music-making, is aimed at raising awareness of how important music is in the government school curriculum. You’ll be surprised at how many fantastic Kenyan musicians have come out of the Kenyan government school system. The evening includes the following groups.
THE MORANS
‘The Morans’ are a brass group consisting of players ranging from University lecturers, Music teachers and Music students. The group was formed about a year ago and plays a wide range of musical styles ranging from works from the Renaissance Period to present day works. Members of this group are also involved in other musical groups such as the ‘Nairobi Orchestra’, ‘The National Youth Orchestra of Kenya’ (KNYO) and ‘The OCs’. Some of them also teach in Nairobi’s Korogocho slums under the Ghetto Classics programme run by the Art of Music Foundation.
THE OCs
‘The OCs’ are members of the Old Cambrian Society (Kenya). This society is the alumni organization for Nairobi School. ‘The OCs’ consists of alumni from the school, ranging between 1978 up to class of 2012. Group members are committed to raising Music Education standard at the school. Several of them volunteer their time and resources in teaching the current students. They are also involved in other musical groups such as the ‘Nairobi Orchestra’, ‘The National Youth Orchestra of Kenya’ (KNYO) and ‘The Morans’. Some of them also teach in Nairobi’s Korogocho slums under the Ghetto Classics programme run by the Art of Music Foundation. This group is a few months old and hopes to keep growing as more students graduate from the school.
ZEZE- Nairobi’s Premier String Chamber ensemble.
The show starts at 7pm and tickets cost Kshs 500/-
Outer Space & Inner Dreams – A hands on activity, Feb 24 2013 @ Paa Ya Paa Arts Centre
Sunday, February 24, 2013 – 2:30pm at Paa Ya Paa Arts Centre
In the open air, under the bamboo on the Love Garden compound. Paa Ya Paa Lane, Ridgeways Road
Off Kiambu Road, Nairobi, Kenya East Africa
Create with artists and scientists and science lovers in a hands-on workshop, using recycled objects and
natural materials. 5 minute poster presentations invited on a science topic of your choice. Can bring ready made
artworks, inventions, etc or create on the spot. Call 0733 270 109 for more details.
Please RSVP.
Anyone know where we can find old bicycle gears? Old metals, motors from cell phones that are broken and irreparable that we
can recycle, old broken radios, resistors, capacitors, electrodes, wires, recycled boxes and containers. Please, if you plan to attend
this event come with your recycled objects so we can turn them into something you dream of.
If you need information let us know; If you can’t remember how to make a circuit. If you can’t remember how to make a galvanic cell we can
work with you. Artists, we can turn chromatograms into some art. We can make electronic sculptures. We can extract liquids from plants
to explore basic properties like acidity and basicity. Let’s make a rocket sculpture and try to let it take off using basic science. Let’s put
our heads together. Let you imaginations run wild. What do you want on 24th? It is all up to you. What do you think or feel when you look up into the sky? What dreams or ideas do you have here on earth?
Screen on The Green Presents: When Harry Met Sally, Feb 16 2013 @ Kifaru Gardens
Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship and eventually something more blooms between them.
A great movie for the season! Come with something to sit on and with something to eat. Gates open at 6pm and movie begins at sundown.
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Workshop: Life Drawing, Saturdays @ Kuona Trust
This Saturday’s class will be instructed by Ermias Ekube who is a skilled sculptor, poet, engaver and painter.
Learn how to sketch potraits from one of the best!
Classes cost only 500 Kshs.
For more information: http://lifedrawingworkshop2.splashthat.com
Phoenix Players Presents: In the Eye of a Stranger, until Feb 9 2013 @ Professional Centre
“In the eyes of a stranger” runs until 9th feb 2013. Tickets only Ksh. 500. Students Ksh. 200.
Sold Out: 6pm show on 9th Feb
SYNOPSIS
The enigmatic center of the play is Pinon, a hermit who 18 years ago locked himself away in his seaside house after possibly cutting his wife into small pieces and permanently scarring the face of Gratia, a local prostitute. Now he sits at the edge of the sea cliff, observing the would-be suicides who come to this lonely spot.
They include Sebastian, a nervous young man with a heart condition who has just been jilted, and Daniel, who is suffering from questions over his sexuality and abandonment by his parents when he was a child. The third visitor is Vera, a runaway bride who comes to see Pinon out of curiosity after hearing his story from a hotel porter.
Bauer explores variations on his title theme. Sebastian asks Pinon to move into the light so he can see his eyes. Vera wonders to an unseen companion how she must appear in their eyes. The porter begs Vera to let him watch her change her clothes. Along the way Bauer weaves the characters’ lives together, in “La Ronde” fashion, shaping ever-changing onstage and offstage duets. In this complex intertwining, Pinon lives in a house he won from the porter in a card game; the porter relates Pinon’s history to Vera; Sebastian wants Vera; Daniel wants Sebastian; Pinon wants to be Daniel’s substitute father figure.
Business Conversation with Henry Njoroge: ICT as an enabling pillar for investment in Africa, Feb 6 2013 @ Business Lounge, Junction Mall
The Business Conversation is a monthly forum created by the Business Lounge where young entrepreneurs and business people can interact with various personalities who have had a track record of exceptional leadership, management and entrepreneurial experiences.
Mr. Henry Njoroge, the founder and CEO of Xtranet is the guest speaker for the next forum scheduled for 6th/Feb/2013 whose theme is: ICT as an enabling pillar for investment in Africa.
Mr. Henry Njoroge works to expand the information technology sector of Kenya and currently runs Xtranet Communications, which aims to capture the growing opportunities in value added services arising out of the rapid growth of mobile telephony penetration and the coming of the fiber optic cable of East Africa Coast this year. He hopes to provide employment to hundreds of jobless youth in Kenya through initiatives such as call centers, outsourcing and business process engineering.
He is also a trustee of the Kenya Youth Business Trust, a non-profit organization affiliated to Youth Business International, whose aim is to empower the poorest of the poor through entrepreneurship by giving microloans. Mr. Njoroge was previously CEO of Openview Business Systems and has also established and expanded several other IT companies in Kenya, Angola, Zambia and Uganda. With each company, he has worked to redefine ICT, the Internet, and telecommunications in Africa, making technology more widely accessible.
Date: February 6, 2013
Venue: Business Lounge, Junction Mall, 4th Floor, Ngong Road
Time: 6:00pm -9:00pm
Tickets: Advance Kshs 1,500 & Gate Kshs 2000
Reservation: 0705 980520
Contacts: Email info@businesslounge.co.ke
Concert: The Beathogs, Feb 2 2013 @ Kengeles Lavington
The Beathogs bring their famous Soul Funk show back to Kengeles Lavington. This Saturday 2 Feb 9pm. Free entry. A show not to be missed! New songs, old songs, new guitarist, same great groove!
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