Nairobi What's on
Visiting Hour by Phoenix Players
15-30 June 2012. This play, entitled Visiting Hour, is written by Richard Harris and directed by George Mungai.
It includes four scenes, such as Plaster, in which a hospitalized husband is visited...
Nairobi What's on
15-24 June 2012. For the first time this exhibition, entitled Equilibrium: A Moment of Solitude, displays a series of 30 black and white images by the photographer Zia Manji.
These images, which ca...
Nairobi What's on
The Chronic Library Exhibition
2-27 July 2012. This exhibition, entitled The Chronic Library, consists of an installation of posters, books, journals, music and films, displayed in an interactive reading room.
Its aim is t...
Cape Town What's on
8 June-8 July 2012. The Baxter Theatre hosts the eighth edition of the Vodacom Funny Festival, which presents a selection of 30 award-winning acts coming from the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival as wel...
Nairobi What's on
Peace and Milk. Scenes of Northern Somalia
12 June 2012. This book launch is dedicated to a photographic documentation, entitled Peace and Milk: Scenes of Northern Somalia, by the Somali environmentalist Fatima Jibrell and the retired diplomat...
Nairobi What's on
Literature Reading of My Mother's Lover
21 June 2012. On occasion of the public reading series Stories Spoken, this literature reading is dedicated to a novel by Urs Widmer, entitled My Mother’s Lover.
The story is set in the 1920s...
Maputo What's on
7 June 2012. This dance contest, entitled Post Amatodos, was launched by the United States of America Embassy in Maputo through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) on 1 Decem...
Maputo What's on
Conference on Accumulation and Transformation in a Context of International Crisis
4-5 September 2012. The Institute for Social and Economical Studies of Maputo hosts a conference, entitled Mozambique: Accumulation and Transformation in a Context of International Crisis.
Lagos What's on
Roundtable Discussion ArtSpace RoundUp
23 June 2012.This roundtable discussion is part of ArtSpace RoundUp, a series of events, which focus on time, spatial/social displacement and artistic/architectural practice.
On this occasion the p...
Lagos What's on
Film Screening of The Naked Option
14 June 2012. Goethe Institut hosts the screening of this American documentary film, entitled The Naked Option, directed by Candace Schermerhorn.
It documents the life of grassroots women in the Ni...
Lagos What's on
Film Screening of The Big Sellout
30 June 2012. The Nigerian Film Corporation organizes, in cooperation with iREP, the Documentary Film Festival Goethe-Institut Nigeria, the screening of this German movie, entitled The Big Sellout, wr...
Addis Ababa What's on
14 June 2012. Goethe Institut hosts the screening of the movie Adopted by Gudrun F. Widlok. The emphasis is on the dominant perception that the rich West gives something to the poor South. For once th...
Nairobi What's on
22 June 2012. On occasion of a new album launch, entitled Hip Hop Revolution, Goethe Institut hosts a live concert by Fujo Makelele, one of the founding members of Mombasa’s first Hip Hop group...
Accra What's on
Workshop on Ghanaian Music Stakeholders
12-13 June 2012. This two days workshop is dedicated to Ghanaian music stakeholders and their transition into foreign markets.
Through lecture series and public discussions it aims to provide Afric...
Addis Ababa What's on
7 June-6 July 2012. This photographic exhibition, entitled From Arat to Sedist Kilo, displays a series of collages created by the Italian photographer Antonio Fiorente. On focus are the three building...
Addis Ababa What's on
Exhibition on Emperor Menelik II’s Personal Physician
18-30 June 2012. The Institute of Ethiopian Studies pays homage to the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II and his personal physician Dr. Max Steinkühler with a symposium followed by an exhibition.
I...
Cape Town What's on
11 July – 4 August 2012. This play, entitled Mies Julie, is based on the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg, directed by the South African director Yael Farber, starring Thoko Ntshinga, Bongil...
Lagos What's on
Photographic Exhibition by Aderemi Adegbite
16-29 June 2012. This exhibition, entitled N65, displays the works by the Nigerian photographer Aderemi Adegbite.
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Lagos What's on
7 July 2012. This book reading, better known as Author’s Talk, offers a great platform for young and emerging Nigerian writers to present and discuss their works to an audience of publishers, jo...
Lagos What's on
21 June 2012. On occasion of the World Music Day 2012 Goethe-Institut Nigeria in collaboration with Alliance Fran
