Return to main Nairobi What's on page: click here
What's on in Nairobi - Archives
Friday, February 26th 2010
26 Feb-6 March 2010. This year's edition of the annual international music festival organised by the Kijani Kenya Trust in Nairobi features a classical concert by the Operaplayhouse accompanied by Lesley-Ann Sammons and the Guildhall Strings (26 Feb), an opera gala concert by the Operaplayhouse accompanied by Lesley-Ann Sammons and the Guildhall Strings (27 Feb) and a gala dance performance of classical ballet and Kenyan and Indian dance performed by the Vienna Festival Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet (6 March), with a dress rehearsal open to schools and orphanages the previous day. For full programme details see the Kijani Kenya Trust website. Established in 2004, the Kijani Kenya Trust supports health, education and environmental projects in Kenya. more
Textures art exhibition at ISK.
Monday, February 22nd 2010
22-27 Feb 2010. High school art students at the International School of Kenya (ISK) present the exhińbition Textures, featuring work designed to stimulate the senses as well as drawing attention to the possibilities of using recycled materials in art. From 25-27 Feb the school i salso presenting the drama production Seven Up. more
GoDown artists at the Talisman.
Tuesday, February 16th 2010
16 Feb-2 March 2010. Four resident artists at the GoDown art centre, Tom Mboya, William Wambugu, Patrick Kariuki and Martin Chumbi, present their mixed media work in a group exhibition at the Talisman restaurant in Karen. more
Wednesday, February 24th 2010
24 Feb 2010. Dr Richard Leakey gives the inaugural lecture in a series to mark the 40th anniversary of The Kenya Museum Society. The title of the lecture is The Leakey Family Story. The Leakeys are a family of paleontologists, archaeologists and anthropologists who have lived and worked in east Africa for three generations, dedicating themselves to the search for human fossils in a bid to understand the genesis of mankind. Richard founded the Kenya Museum Society in 1971 to raise funds and provide operational assistance to the National Museums of Kenya. 18.30. Tickets Ksh500 including refreshments. Proceeds from ticket sales will fund the Fossil and Artifact Casting Department at the museum. more
Nairobi Provincial Visual Arts Exhibition.
Saturday, January 30th 2010
30 Jan-28 Feb 2010. Paintings, sculptures and multimedia works by Nairobi-based artists are on show at the GoDown arts centre in an exhibition organised by the department of culture in conjunction with local arts organisations. more
Wednesday, January 13th 2010
13 Jan-4 March 2010. Rahimtullah Museum of Modern Art hosts three parallel exhibitions covering a range of disciplines and styles. The first is an exhibition of work by Kuona Trust artist Michael Soi that takes a critical look at contemporary social, economic and political trends. Soi explores the corruption that he sees as being prevalent in today’s society, using images of cats and pigs as metaphors to represent greed and gluttony respectively. The second presents photographs by the Danish architect and photographer Anders Grum, taken during a series of anthropological expeditions in various parts of Kenya in the late 1960s and 1970s. The pictures tell of the artist’s experiences with the Rendille nomadic camel pastoralists and the Kamba people in southeastern Kenya, and the Pokot, agriculturalists and pastoralists, in the Rift Valley. Finally, Inmates presents work by prisoners at Nairobi Remand and Allocation Prison resulting from an art workshop led by Faraja Trust, which works with poor Kenyans and refugees in Nairobi. The workshop was intended to contribute towards prisoners’ healing and rehabilitation, but it also gave rise to a body of work which was subsequently displayed at an exhibition at the prison at the end of 2009. Daily 09.30-16.30, Sat until 18.00. more
African biodiversity at the Nairobi National Museum.
Friday, December 11th 2009
11 Dec-28 Feb. Africa ’s Wealth - Exploration, Use and Conservation of Biodiversity is the title of an itinerant exhibition to promote an awareness of the diversity of life forms in Africa and the importance of natural conservation for the future. The exhibition has already been shown in Germany and South Africa and after its Nairobi run it will travel to Burkina Faso. Daily 09.30-17.30. more
Timothy Brooke at Le Rustique.
Thursday, January 14th 2010
14 Jan-11 Feb. Drawings and watercolours by Kenya-based Irish artist Timothy Brooke, whose colourful landscapes are on permanent display in leading hotels in Nairobi, including the Norfolk and the Intercontinental. more
Wine-tasting course in Nairobi
Tuesday, January 26th 2010
26 Jan-4 Feb 2010. The Italian Cultural Institute is organising a wine-tasting course at its premises in Nairobi. The course will consist of four lessons and will be led by Dalia Masia, a wine taster and member of the Italian Sommeliers Association (A.I.S.). Lessons are on 26 and 28 Jan and 2 and 4 Feb from 18.00-20.00. They will include a brief introduction to wine production and tasting and an overview of the most important Italian and international wines. The cost is KSh6,000 and booking is required. For information see the culture institute’s website. more
Pentamony in concert in Nairobi
Saturday, February 20th 2010
20 Feb 2010. Pentamony is a RnB, Afro-fusion vocal band of three members, Philip Tuju, Seamus Njuguna and Benson Mutahi, who have made the search for new musical horizons the key to their success. The group has released three singles and one album and has won the prestigious Kisima Music Awards for best urban fusion group in Kenya. The trio has set up its own recording studio and is working on a second album. more