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Location:
Koinange Street, Nairobi Kenya
Phone:
+ 254 20 2250373

Photos

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Helena Hugo: KZN @ WorkCreated about 11 months ago
Mohamed GhazalaCreated about 11 months ago

Events

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August 4, 2008: Having passed through life’s challenges in the village and in the city, Charles Ngatia has become a storyteller. An artist based at the GoDown, Ngatia paints stories that record his personal life and other historical events, and then puts them up for sale wherever there is space...
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Applications are now invited for the AfricanColours 2008 Critical Writer's Workshop as part of its partnership with the DOEN and HIVOS Foundations...
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“What's Culture Got to Do with it?” A conference 15–18 June 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS We invite abstracts by 10 October 2008 with 100-300 words or one A4-page, to be sent to both Mai.Palmberg@nai.uu.se and Caroline.Kyhlback@nai.uu.se...
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The ArtVenture Freedom to Create Prize has been launched. It seeks to celebrate artists who have used the arts as a medium to promote and protect human rights...
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AfricanColours Hey Ed, thanks for the link. Also created a group- figured the more that know about it the better! See you there. Patricia

August 4, 2008 at 12:38am · Report
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Showcasing work from Kenya, Tanzania, Benin and SouthAfrica
Gallery Baraka invites you to an exhibition showcasing art works by several african artists who best represent the innovative and dynamic artistic practices across the African...
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Time:7:00PM Saturday, August 16th
Location:Gallery Baraka, Lamu Town, Lamu
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An exhibition by Pam Guhrs-Carr
RaMoMa Museum of Modern Art in Nairobi, Kenya is pleased to invite you to an exhibition of paintings by Pam Guhrs- Carr running from the 9th of July till the 9th of August 200...
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Time:10:00AM Monday, August 4th
Location:RaMoMa Gallery, Nairobi
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AfricanColours Quote of the week

"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
-Salvador Dali, Spanish painter-

August 3, 2008 at 11:39pm · Report
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The Art Republic announces the resumption of its exhibition/publication project 20th Century Art: a Story from Nigeria Nigerian artists of all generations (up until the last decade of the 20th century) are invited to submit works reflecting important stages in the development of their careers...
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Her name has over six thousand hits on Google search, some of her pictures were exhibited alongside those of the great Malian photographer Seydou Keita, she has had over forty photographic exhibitions since 2000, and she was recently named the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Arts 2008...
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African animation started about 70 years ago in Egypt and was founded by the Frenkel brothers...
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The Art Republic’s Third Peace Poster Competition/Exhibition Call for entries The Art Republic (Centre for Arts and Cultural Democracy) invites entries from youth and art students in Nigerian universities and polytechnics to submit entries for her third Peace Poster competition and exhibition...
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AfricanColours Quote of the week

"A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing."
-Giorgio Morand, Italian painter-

August 1, 2008 at 12:47am · Report
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During my artist residency in Nairobi I have tried to explore ideas through non-figurative forms, something I have always used within previous bodies of work. In two of the paintings I have used female silhouettes/shapes. Concepts are explored through decorative shapes, forms and colour...
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Is there room for the creative arts in Vision 2030, Kenya’s blueprint to becoming a middle-income country within two decades? This is a question that was recently raised by a number of people on a writers’ group that I subscribe to...
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"Expired Trading Products" is a mixed media exhibition that deals with refugees. The title refers to the fact that, like products that have passed their sell-by date, refugees are discarded or destroyed after their period of usefulness has expired...
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