Nairobi What's on
Flamenco Faces Photography Exhibition
9 October-9 November 2012. The embassy of Spain in collaboration with the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) displays this exhibition by the Spanish photographer Maque Falgas, which celebrates Flamenco a...
Nairobi What's on
3-21 October 2012. This photographic exhibition, entitled Their Fate is Ours –The Humanity of Great Apes, pays homage among the others to gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans.
On dis...
Addis Ababa What's on
Ethiopian Sport Celebrity Tour
Ethiopia, the land of Great long Distance Runner!
Addis Ethiopia Tour is an Ethiopian based company offering Ethiopian sport celebrity tours.
As the creators of the...
Nairobi What's on
2-21 October 2012. This exhibition, entitled Urbanization, features the latest acrylic, oil and water paintings by the Kenyan visual artist Tom Mboya. Mboya’s works focus on how human activities...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Cartoon Exhibition by Simon Regis
8-13 October 2012. This is the first exhibition in Tanzania by the cartoonist Simon Regis.
Regis started painting in primary school and later transformed his passion into a real job, mentored by Jo...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
10 October 2012. This concert is performed by the traditional dansi band Msondo Ngoma.
This band was founded in 1964 and was originally named NUTA Jazz Band after the name of its sponsor, the Natio...
Nairobi What's on
Nairobi hosts its fifth Fashion Market, in aid of breast cancer awareness, over the weekend 6-7 October.
In addition to more than 100 fashion and lifestyle stalls, there will be fashion shows and l...
Addis Ababa What's on
7th Ibero-American Film Festival
1-6 October 2012. The Ibero-American Film Festival is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the embassies of Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, Portugal and Spain.
On 3 Oc...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Movie Projection: Invitation to the Dance
18 October 2012. Goethe Institut projects the movie Invitation to Dance by Gerhard Schick.
It documents the working process of the German choreographer Gerda König, affected by muscular dystro...
Accra What's on
6 October 2012. This theatrical play, entitled Lovenet, is written by Asiadu Yirenkyi and Evans Eyram Adorkor.
It tells the story of the 16 years old Alice, who is dating two men apart from her off...
Cape Town What's on
Save Our Seabirds Festival and Exhibition
8 October-20 November 2012. On occasion of the National Marine Week, the Iziko South African Museum showcases this annual festival, entitled Save Our Birds (SOS), which will run from 8 to 12 October t...
Lagos What's on
13-27 October 2012. This exhibition, entitled Black Light Project, is organized by Goethe Institut in collaboration with German embassy and Lagos Photo Festival.
This project gathers together the p...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
18-24 September 2012. This exhibition displays the latest paintings and drawings on Dar es Salaam’s flora and fauna by Sarah Markes.
Merkes has spent her past years at exploring and illustrat...
Accra What's on
A Drama on the Abolition of Death Penalty
28 September 2012. This play deals with the abolition of the death penalty, which remains part of the Ghanaian Criminal Code.
This drama, presented by Amnesty International Ghana in co-operation wi...
Accra What's on
How To Make A Book With Steidl
27 September 2012. This documentary feature film, entitled How To Make A Book With Steidl, focuses on the German publisher Gerhard Steidl, during his collaboration with world famous photographers in N...
Accra What's on
26 September 2012. On occasion of the Writers Project of Ghana, Goethe Institut hosts this reading by the Ghanaian writer Chuma Nwokolo.
Nwokolo has published the African Writing magazine and writt...
Cairo What's on
Backstreet Festival in Alexandria
23-29 September 2012. This dance and theatrical Backstreet Festival takes place under the motto Towards Art in non-traditional Spaces. It offers a space for the dialogue between artists coming from Eu...
Cape Town What's on
Mounir Fatmi’s Suspect Language
22 September - 27 October 2012. This exhibition, entitled Suspect Language, is the first South African exhibition by the Moroccan-born and Paris-based multimedia artist Mounir Fatmi.
Fatmi creates...
Addis Ababa What's on
Piano Recital by Francesco Taskayali
25 September 2012. This live concert is performed by the 21-year-old Italian pianist Francesco Taskayali. In his compositions classic piano traditions meet minimalistic trends and Eastern rhythms....
Nairobi What's on
22-29 September 2012. The Samosa Festival consists of a biennial cultural platform for the promotion of Kenyan music, art, poetry and drama as well as ethnic and racial unity.
On stage are various...
