SAMOSA
FESTIVAL KICKS OFF SUNDAY AT THE ALCHEMIST
By Margaretta
wa Gacheru (posted 6 June 2018)
The 8th
Samosa Festival opens this coming Sunday afternoon (4pm) at the Alchemist in
Westlands. There will be a tasty preview that day of all the fascinating
multicultural events that will transpire between 10 June and 17 July.
This year’s Samosa
Festival will be filled with films, public forums, puppetry and an original
Kenyan play by Walter Sitati and Hearts of Art entitled ‘What Can’t Kill You’.
There will
also be an Open Mic where local poets will perform as well as a book launch
accompanied by stimulating discussions with the author of the new book about
Kenya’s first Foreign Minister and second Vice President, Joseph Murumbi, the
former Kenya media ombudsman Karen Rothmyer.
There will
even be a house tour of the African Heritage House, a site filled with heaps of
Pan African art, artifacts, musical instruments, textiles and architecture from
all over Africa.
The public fora
are events one won’t want to miss, apart from one happening 21 June, which is
said to be ‘for women only’ since it’s about Gender-Based Violence and the
Persistence of FGM. But the others are bound to rouse lively discussions as
they will address such topics as the ‘Handshake and its After Effects’,
upcoming on Thursday 14 June at the Mathare Social Justice Centre and ‘Constitutional
and Governance Principles’ happening Saturday, 7 July from 6:30pm at University
of Nairobi.
The films
should also attract crowds. At The Alchemist, ‘Nairobi Half Life’ will be shown
on Wednesday 27 June and Wednesday, 20 June, the documentary ‘Pearl of Africa’
about a Ugandan transgender person will be screened.
Joy Mboya,
Managing Director of The GoDown Art Centre will be keynote speaker at the
Sunday Launch. The organizers of the Festival Zahid Rajan and Zarina Patel will
also be there with their team.
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