Concert: Sousou & Maher Cissoko, Feb. 23 2013 @ Tribe Hotel Kenya

Date: February 23, 2013
Venue: Tribe Hotel Kenya
Time: 8 pm
Tickets: Kshs 3000
For reservations call: Tribe 020 720 0301 or Zelalem 0733 374885

Sousou & Maher Cissoko share a destiny shaped by music. Sousou grew up in the south of Sweden and fell in love with the kora when her father started gigging with the Gambian griot Alagie Mbye in the early ’90s. She has since spent a lot of time in West Africa learning to play the instrument and to sing in Wolof and Mandinka.

Maher Cissoko was born into a well-known griot family from Casamance, Senegal, and learnt to play kora at an early age. The couple met when Sousou was invited to continue her kora studies at the Cissoko house in Ziguinchor.

Since then they’ve married, formed the world’s best Swedish-Senegalese band, won a Swedish Folk & World Music award, released two albums and have been touring in Scandinavia, Senegal, South Africa and Zanzibar.

Women, Action & the Media (WAM Nairobi), Mar. 20-22 2011 @ Various Locations

UPDATE:
Women Action and the Media (WAM) Nairobi is calling all creative women to join them on:

Dates: March 20-22, 2011
Entrance: RSVP
Schedule, Locations, and Times (final details)

HAPPY HOUR
Date: March 20, 2011
Time:6pm – onwards
Venue: Wasanii: The African Place
Location: Harry Thuku Road, just five minutes from the CBD, between the University of Nairobi and the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) and across from The Fairmont Norfolk Hotel.

Join WAM-Nairobi for happy hour(s) at Wasanii: The African Place, a restaurant/pub above the Kenya National Theatre.
Take a chance to participate in a low-key social gathering and networking opportunity with other WAM attendees and presenters.
Discounts on some drinks will be available for WAM participants (check in with WAM-Nairobi first for your discount ticket!).

GETTING WOMEN AND GIRLS ON THE FRONT PAGE
Date: March 21, 2011
Time: 1-4pm
Venue: Nairobi Java House — downtown, Koinange Street

This workshop is aimed at helping organizations better tailor their media pitches to improve the amount – and quality – of media coverage of womens’ and girls’ issues.
If you’re participating in Spot Pitch, or even if not but you want to workshop your own idea, come on by and work with WAM Nairobi coaches.
This is a drop-in workshop; come when you can and stay as long as you want.

MY AFRICA, YOUR AFRICA
Date: March 21, 2011
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut library, Maendeleo House,
Location: At the corner of Loita and Monrovia streets, directions

This is the first of two evening panels looking at how journalists from Africa and abroad represent the continent and its women, and how we can do better.
Panelists are:
Helen Nyambura-Mwaura, Reuters
Carolyn Dunn, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Karen Rothmyer, public editor of at The Star (Kenya) and contributing editor to The Nation (US).

AT THE SOURCE: RAISING LOCAL VOICES ACROSS MEDIA
Date: March 21, 2011
Time: 7-8pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut library, Maendeleo House
Location: At the corner of Loita and Monrovia streets, directions

In the second of the two evening panels, citizen journalists, literary artists, and social media experts describe breaking new ground for news and information in Kenya.
Panelists are:
Rebecca Wanjiku, blogger/journalist and staff at Ushahidi
Rachel Gichinga, co-founder, Kuweni Serious
Angela Wachuku, executive director, Kwani Trust

WOMEN’S VOICES IN A MAN’S WORLD
Date: March 22, 2011
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut library, Maendeleo House
Location: at the corner of Loita and Monrovia streets, directions

In the first of the evening sessions, journalists and other media-makers will discuss dealing with gender gaps, glass ceilings, and other perils of being female in the media world.
Panelists are:
Rosemary Okello Orlale, executive director, African Woman and Child Feature Service /International Women’s Media Foundation
Jane Thuo, executive director, Association of Media Women in Kenya
Sarah McGregor, Bloomberg News & Foreign Correspondents Association of East Africa

THE SPOT PITCH: WINNING COVERAGE FOR WOMEN & GIRLS IN 120 SECONDS
Date: March 22, 2011
Time: 7-8pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut library, Maendeleo House
Location: at the corner of Loita and Monrovia streets, directions

In the second of the evening series, ten advocates and activists will get 2 minutes each to sell the audience on their most irresistible story about the issues facing women and girls — and will get real-time feedback from working journalists.
Attendees who aren’t pitching themselves will have the chance to learn by observation about the most effective tactics for working with the media. If you want to apply to be one of the ten people who gets to pitch a roomful ofinterested media professionals, click here to learn more.

SPECIAL NOTICE
Please take Nairobi’s rush hour traffic into consideration when you plan your travel to WAM events, so that we are able to start on time.

WHAT PARTICIPANTS NEED TO BRING WITH THEM
Questions and ideas, willingness to engage, sense of humor, business cards and note-taking materials, if you are the note-taking type.
Mind you can tag along friends and colleagues who are also interested in these issues.

It is worth emphasizing that not only are brilliant people presenting at the WAM sessions, but we have extraordinary people joining us as participants — journalists, lawyers, students, bloggers, humanitarians, public relations professionals, and many others.
The time you take to connect with fellow attendees will be well-rewarded.

For questions, more information or RSVP (which they are still accepting), Email: wamnairobi@gmail.com

WAM-Nairobi is part of a global conversation on the intersection of women and gender, all unfolding the same week. Look to the main WAM office for more information and details about the WAM events happening in New York, Vancouver, and elsewhere; womenactionmedia

Event: Women Action and Media (WAM) Nairobi, Mar. 20-23 @ various

Women Action and the Media (WAM) Nairobi is calling all creative women to join them on

Dates: March 20-23, 2011
Venues: various in Nairobi
Entry Requirements:RSVP, email [wamnairobi [at] gmail dot com]

WAM Nairobi will be discussing some of the big questions facing women and girls in media: What are the barriers for the full participation of female journalists in East African media?
How are stories of women and girls in Kenya told (or not told) in the international press? Whose voices “matter”?

March 20, 2011
Venue: Downtown pub
Time 6pm
Entry: RSVP

Date: March 21, 2011

Venue: Nairobi Java House
Time: 1-4pm
Topic: Getting Women and Girls on the Front Page
A drop-in workshop for activists, advocates and other movers and shakers to learn strategies for winning the interest of local and international journalists — and helping them focus on the information that matters.
We’ll be at Nairobi Java House (Mama Ngina Street) from 1-4 p.m. Stop on by! (We’d appreciate a heads up to let us know your coming by [wamnairobi@gmail.com], but it’s not required.

Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: My Africa, Your Africa
A dialogue between local and foreign journalists about the differences in their coverage

Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: At the Source
Raising local voices across media, where citizen journalists, literary artists, and social media experts describe breaking new ground for news in Kenya

Date: March 22, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: Women’s Voices in a Man’s World
Journalists and other media-makers will discuss dealing with gender gaps, glass ceilings and other perils of being female in the media world.
Topic: The Spot Pitch
Winning coverage for women and girls in 120 seconds. Ten advocates and activists will get 2 minutes each to sell the audience on their most irresistible story about the issues facing women and girls.

For more info: WAM Nairobi blog