Dar Es Salaam What's on
16 July-4 August 2012. The Japanese Embassy in collaboration with the Japanese Foundation organizes this travelling exhibition of Japanese handcrafts, highlighting the different traditions and techniq...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Zanzibar International Film Festival
7-15 July 2012. This year’s edition of the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) includes a rich programme of cultural events.
The festival, consists in a long list of film screenings a...
Nairobi What's on
14 July 2012. This event, entitled Wamathai Spoken Word July, features a series of poetry, music and photography performances.
The poetry events will be performed among the others by El Poet, Jemed...
Cape Town What's on
24 July-4 August 2012. This theatre play, entitled Worst of Both Worlds, is written and directed by Bulelani Mabutyana and stars Thando Suselo, Lubabalo Nontwana.
It tells the story of a young girl...
Cape Town What's on
Waiting for the Barbarians at Baxter
16 August-1 September 2012. The Baxter Theatre Centre and Mopo Productions present this South African classic drama play, entitled Waiting for the Barbarians.
Written by the Nobel Prize winning J.M...
Cape Town What's on
27-28 July 2012. This international guitar night features a life concert by the world famous Australian virtuoso Michael Fix.
Fix will entertain the public during two evenings of rampant, unforgett...
Nairobi What's on
3-31 July 2012. This joint exhibition, organized by the Mexican Embassy in Nairobi, is entitled Signs of History. It displays the works by Martha Delgado Ponce and Casandra Sabag Hillen.
In contemp...
Nairobi What's on
6-21 July 2012. This play, entitled Three Fold Chord, is written by Scott Marshall and directed by Millicent Ogutu.
It tells the story of a man, called Markus, who is secretly living a triple life....
Cape Town What's on
4-8 July 2012. The Imperial Russian Ballet Company, directed by the artistic director Gediminas Taranda, performs its rich programme, which includes Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Walpurgis Night, taken...
Cape Town What's on
1–4 August 2012. On stage will be the talented dancers of the Afrika Ablaze Dance company, directed by the famous choreographer and dance teacher Glenda Jones.
This event proposes five shows...
Cape Town What's on
8-12 August 2012. This rock ballet, entitled Queen at Ballet, is performed by the Bovim Ballet production.
This show takes the public on an extraordinary journey through the life of one of the most...
Cairo What's on
7 June-3 July 2012. This exhibition pays homage to the Holy Family in Egypt through the works of various Egyptian artists of the caliber of Abdo Ramzy, Abdel-Aal Hassan, Adel Thabet, Gamil Shafik, Geo...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
28 June-26 July 2012. Goethe Institut organizes a series of movie screenings.
On 28 June at 19.00 it screens the German movie Soul Kitchen by Faith Akin. This famous director, who has previously di...
Nairobi What's on
27 June-25 July 2012. The Italian Institut of Culture pays homage to Italian Cinema with the screening of a series of famous Italian movies from the past decade.
On 27 June it screens Terraferma by...
Nairobi What's on
Recent Works by Michael Soi and Ogonga Thom
24 June-25 July 2012. This exhibition gathers together the most recent works by two Kenyan artists: the award winning Michael Soi and the self-taught Ogonga Thom.
Soi graduated from art school 1996...
Nairobi What's on
Lake Basin Art Group Exhibition
6 May-30 June 2012. This exhibition, entitled Tranquil Waters, features the paintings by Lake Basin Art Group (LBAG).
This unique group of artists, coming from the lake region in western Kenya, is...
Nairobi What's on
31 May-30 June 2012. This exhibition, entitled 11 in One Day, displays 25 works by some leading and talented African visual artists, such as Peterson Kamwathi, Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann, Ato Malinda, X...
Cairo What's on
Submissions for the 12th Independent Short Film Festival
20 June-20 July 2012. Goethe Institut is inviting new Egyptian short films to submit to the next edition of the Independent Short Film Festival of Cairo, which will take place in October.
This thre...
Cape Town What's on
3 June-14 July 2012. This Annual Winter Solstice Exhibition, entitled Turn Around Time, offers a time for reflection, revision and re-interpretation.
On display are a series of disparate, juxtapose...
Cape Town What's on
Exhibition by Catherine Ocholla
4-29 June 2012. This exhibition, entitled Nothing New Under the Sun, displays a series of paintings by Catherine Ocholla.
This new series, dedicated to the sky, immortalizes clouds, shown in detail...
