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Blankets & Wine XLII, Mar. 3 2013 @ Carnivore
Pack your picnic baskets, wine, blankets and join us at the Carnivore Gardens Nairobi this March 3rd for the 42nd edition of Blankets & Wine from 1.00pm to 9.00pm.
Come celebrate Kenya with us as we host an all Kenyan lineup comprising of the astounding Mumala Maloba, the charming Nyota Ndogo, the gifted Kato Change and the multifarious Just A Band.
Limited advance tickets will be on sale for Ksh. 1,300 on www.ticketsasa.com before 25th February and for Ksh. 1,500 on ticketsasa and at select Dormans outlets (Mama Ngina, Westgate, Village Market, Yaya, Junction and Karen) thereafter.
Tickets at the door shall be sold at Ksh. 2,000 for adults and Ksh. 500 for children (5-12 yrs). Children below the age of 5 enter free.
BUY TICKETS: http://ticketsasa.com/order.aspx/71ab7f18-4cc9-4632-b6ae-eadfa3ca68d7/blankets-and-wine-xlii
Mumala: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLGV7jzX0UU&feature=youtu.be
Nyota Ndogo: http://ndogonyota.blogspot.com/
Kato Change: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheChangeKato?feature=watch
Just A Band: http://music.just-a-band.com/album/sorry-for-the-delay
Artist Presentation: by premier film producer – Ruby, Feb. 14 2013 @ Kuona Trust
After learning that Brand Kenya would have an exhibition centre during the Olympics, Ruby undertook a project to showcase to both tourists and investors aspects of our country which many people are not familiar with. She also wanted members of the Kenyan Diaspora to get a glimpse of how far we have come, particularly in the last 10 years.
The clip was shown at Kenya House in London and has since been uploaded onto YouTube having about 8,000 views in just 5 days.
View: Kenya Today really worth Knowing
Come interact with the artist and learn more about her work and experiences this Thursday, 14th February at Kuona Trust from 2pm.
Thursday Night Live January 2013: 5 Artists in a Month of 5 Thursdays @ Choices – Baricho Road
Dates: January 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31
Venue: Choices – Baricho Road
Time: 8-11 pm
January 2013 artists line up: From songstress Barbara Guantai, guitar and vocal whiz Fadhilee, piano and love songs of Sage, the jazz magic of Eddie Grey and lastly the electro grooves of Just a Band
The Trilogy Project: A fashion Show, concert and a DJ after party, Dec. 15 2012 @ Tree House Ball Room – Museum Hill
This December, come and experience your favourite brands personified in a union of Fashion and Music.
3 International Brands- Converse | Alcott | Jeans Bar (by Factory 55)
3 Artists – STL | Just a Band | Camp Mulla
3 Dj’s – Drazen | Dj Nruff | DVJ Mobi
Be part of the Trilogy Project and engage in a fashion Ascension in the highest Frequency.
Date: Saturday, December 15 2012
Venue: the Ball Room, Tree House – Museum Hill
Tickets: Advance Kshs 1,500 Gate Kshs 2,000 & VIP Kshs 4,000
Just A Band Album Launch Party, Oct 27 2012 @ KICC
On October 27th from 6pm, join a party in the heart of the city to officially launch Just A Band’s third studio album: “Sorry For The Delay”. Entry Fee: 500 Kshs.
Buy your tickets online
Pre-Listening Party/DJ Set: Sorry For the Delay by @JustaBand, Oct. 20 2012 @ Goethe
Just a Band will release their third studio album Sorry For The Delay on October 27, 2012 at KICC. Join them in a pre-launch listening party at Goethe Institut on;
Date: October 20, 2012
Venue: Goethe Institut
Time: 8pm
Entry: Free
Listen to their first single from their new album: Probably For Lovers
Concert: World Music Day 2012, Jun. 21 2012 @ Alliance
Date: June 21, 2012
Venue: Alliance Francaise Gardens
Time: 7pm
Entry: Free
Performances by: Dan Aceda, Just a Band, Slum Drummers and DJ-set by Zelalem
Readings & Book Launch: One Day I will Write About This Place, Jun. 1 2012 @ Kenya Railways Museum
Date: June 1, 2012
Venue: Kenya Railways Museum, off Haile Selassie Avenue
Time: 6.30pm
Entry: Copy of ‘One Day I will Write About This Place‘, @ Ksh 500 (purchased at the entrance)
Enquiries/Contacts: info@kwani.org or Tel 020 444 1801
Book Description
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother’s beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson—all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister, Jimmy and Ciru. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut memoir, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his mother’s religious period, his failed attempt to study in South Africa as a computer programmer, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya. The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention, but he also evokes the shifting political scene that unsettles his views on family, tribe, and nationhood. Throughout, reading is his refuge and his solace. And when, in 2002, a writing prize comes through, the door is opened for him to pursue the career that perhaps had been beckoning all along. A series of fascinating international reporting assignments follow. Finally he circles back to a Kenya in the throes of postelection violence and finds he is not the only one questioning the old certainties.
One Day I Will Write about This Place was first released to great critical and commercial success acclaim in the United States and the UK in 2011.
Kwani Trust will be launching the East Africa edition of this book, and the event also features a DJ set by Just A Band
Selections & Reviews
Oprah Book Club: Book of the Week (19th July 2011) and 2011 Summer Selection
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection (10th October 2011)
A New York Times ’100 Most Notable Books of 2011′
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011
`A beguiling account and vibrant celebration of coming of age in post-colonial Africa‘ –Sunday Times
‘An autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young man with brilliant commentary and critique‘ — Guardian
‘Head directly to the bookstore for Binyavanga Wainaina’s stand-up-and-cheer coming-of-age memoir‘ — New York Times
‘Witty, novelistic and dreamy, Wainaina’s story is effectively the story of Kenya itself‘ –Metro
“This is Africa from the African Point of View, a vibrant celebration of “normal human beings doing normal things.“– The Sunday Times.
About The Author
Wainaina, 41, is a travel writer, essayist, award winning fiction writer and journalist, and is also the Founding Editor of Kwani?, and one of Africa’s most dynamic literary voices.
He is presently the Director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College in New York and as travel writer, has written for The New York Times, National Geographic, Vanity Fair (US), The Mail and Guardian (SA), The East African, among other publications.
His landmark essay, How to Write about Africa has been translated into twenty languages and is studied in universities and schools around the world as a foundational text about the perception of Africa in the west.
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Release Concert “BLNRB – Welcome to the Madhouse”, Dec 10 2011 @ Nairobi Railway Club
What: LAST BLNRB SHOW!
Who: DJ Drazen, Just a Band, Ukoo Flani, Kimya, Lon’Jon, Nazizi, Michel
Ongaro, Radi (Nairobi)
Teichmann Brothers, Jahcoozi (Berlin)
Where: Nairobi Railway Club. See map: http://g.co/maps/tdbz4
Entrance Fee: 200/= KSh
The BLNRB project has caused quite a stir: mind-blowing parties in Nairobi, Berlin and Cologne, the international release and reviews for the album “BLNRB – Welcome to the Madhouse” from all over the world.
Now we are looking forward to its culmination. The BLNRB Release Concert, at the place it all had started: Nairobi! The artists will be reunited, for the last time you will have the chance to experience a night of great performances and incredible beats!
Get the album BLNRB – Welcome to the Madhouse at Nakumatt, Uchumi, iTunes and local music stores. It contains 18 of the best tracks from the project.
Since it will be the last show of BLNRB we are going to sum up the project with a screening of the BLNRB documentary, produced by Christian Füssenegger. The screening will start right before the concert, at 8.00 pm. Be there to get an exclusive look behind the scenes!
Concert: Kudishnyao! Finissage with DJ set by Just A Band, Jun. 4 2011 @ Goethe
*Kudishnyao! Finissage with DJ-Set
Date: June 4, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 8-11 pm
Entry: Free
*Kudishnyao! – Describes the onomatopoetic sound used by kids – when playing games like police and robbers, or any game requiring weaponry – to denote a gunshot (the less palatable “Dinyao!” stands for a gun with a silencer).
UPDATE Concert/Video Art Exhibition: Kidishnyao! [Trnsmssn II], Apr. 2-June 4 2011 @ Goethe
UPDATE!
Due to the high demand Goethe Institut has extend the video art exhibition by Just A Band till June 4, 2011.
In addition Goethe Institut is organizing a finissage of the exhibition with a DJ set by Just A Band.
Finissage with DJ-Set
Date: June 4, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 8.00 pm
Entry: Free
Video art exhibition and concert by Just A Band
Opening with concert
Date: April 2, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 8.00 pm
Entry: Free
Exhibition Dates: April 4-June 4, 2011
Days & Time: Monday to Friday, 1-6pm
Entry: Free
In 2009, Goethe Institut-Kenya challenged Just A Band, one of our their long term partners in the Nairobi scene, and commissioned them with a video art exhibition: TRNSMSSN which turned out to be a very popular show.
Now, with many videos and the first Kenyan viral video phenomenon Makmende on their back, Just A Band is ready for a follow up exhibition with: KUDISHNYAO! The video-art installation uses 6 parallel audiovisual streams to tell stories of fate, love, deceit and escape; with a cast of dancers, lovers, terrorists, victims and survivors.
On the occasion of the opening, Just A Band will perform one of its rather rare concerts! It is also a farewell party, since Bill, Jim & Daniel depart for the US the next day, where they will also exhibit KUDISHNYAO!
Concert/Video Art Exhibition: Kidishnyao! [Trnsmssn II], Apr. 2-29 2011 @ Goethe
Video art exhibition and concert by Just A Band
Opening with concert
Date: April 2, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 8.00 pm
Entry: Free
Exhibition Dates: April 4-29, 2011
Days & Time: Monday to Friday, 1-6pm
Entry: Free
In 2009, Goethe Institut-Kenya challenged Just A Band, one of our their long term partners in the Nairobi scene, and commissioned them with a video art exhibition: TRNSMSSN which turned out to be a very popular show.
Now, with many videos and the first Kenyan viral video phenomenon Makmende on their back, Just A Band is ready for a follow up exhibition with: KUDISHNYAO! The video-art installation uses 6 parallel audiovisual streams to tell stories of fate, love, deceit and escape; with a cast of dancers, lovers, terrorists, victims and survivors.
On the occasion of the opening, Just A Band will perform one of its rather rare concerts! It is also a farewell party, since Bill, Jim & Daniel depart for the US the next day, where they will also exhibit KUDISHNYAO!
TRNSMSSN – Video Art Exhibition, May 5-16 2009 @ Goethe-Institut
Exhibition: Monday to Friday, 11.00 am – 6.00 pm
info: +254202224640, prog2@nairobi.goethe.org
Broken synthesizers and fragmented satellite broadcasts from the future provide a fictionalized Kenyan future; Panicked astronauts, lovelorn puppets, a flying tortoise, the Scramble for Ugali, the meaning of life, an experimental boy band and a sprinkling of sparkly stuff. If you could see the future, would you want to?
DJ Ponyox, Nairobi Dhobi and DJ Bonyeza Kidude are not only Just A Band but also active as designers and photographers. The Goethe-Institut has commissioned them with works of video art for their first art show: TRNSMSSN:
Just A Band will mark the finissage with the DJ-Set END_TRNSMSSN: on the 16th May, 8.00 pm.
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