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The TI Sawa Sawa Festival 2010 Program
Posted: May 26, 2010, 3:18 pm by N.W
* TI SAWA SAWA FESTIVAL *
* Music, Poetry & Acrobatics *
* WHERE & WHEN: *
* Saturday 29th May 2010 10 AM to 6 AM: Sarakasi DomeNgaraNairobi
* Sunday 30th May 2010 - 10 AM to 5 PM: Kasarani StadiumKasaraniNairobi
* ENTRY * FREE *
THE SARAKASI SAWA SAWA FESTIVAL IS BACK WITH A BANG!!!
The fourth edition of Sawa Sawa Festival is here again, this time extended to five days! It is back with a bang that will see high profile artists feature in the event. Furthermore, this year Transparency International has team up with Sarakasi Trust to bring the festival dubbed the TI Sawa Sawa Festival 2010. The festival will be a platform to conduct civic education on good governance, and encourage Kenyans to be active citizens when it comes to anti corruption and good governance: “Wajibika sasa, fighting corruption begins with you”
Legendary reggae artist Don Carlos is set to perform at the reggae event at Kasarani Stadium on the 30th May 2010 along other local and international artists. Don Carlos was born and raised in one of the most deprived regions of Western Kingston, Jamaica, in a district notoriously known as Waterhouse, which incidentally is also a musical breeding ground for many of Reggae's greatest ever talents, such as King Tubby, Black Uhuru, The Jays, Junior Reid and King Jammy, just to name but a few.
Watch this space and keep your heads up. Three days of workshops and exchange programs with local and international talented artistes from 26th to 28th May 2010 at Sarakasi Dome in Ngara followed by free diverse music extravaganza beginning on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th May during the day at Sarakasi Dome and Kasarani Stadiums’ Laureates Gardens respectively.
PROGRAM OF EVENTS
We intend to conduct capacity building workshops on Wednesday 26th Thursday 27th and Friday 28th May, morning and afternoon sessions, as well as series of media visits with artistes and local talent for publicity, interviews and audience building.
Saturday 29th May Saturday (at the Sarakasi Dome-Ngara) will see a youth event (during the day) including our WAPI platform / stage, exhibitions by visual artistes, cultural merchandise, brand merchandise, outdoor video wall, skill factory (youth capacity building), information stalls and so on. On the line up are LNess, Moroko, Ukoo Flani, Mista Ree, Cannibal, Mzungu Kichaa, GKon, Sarakasi Dancers, Batuque Batucade (Brazil), DJ Zaq and MC Point Blank. During the night we plan a Deejay music night dubbed ‘Feel the Beat’ with DJ Adrian, MOB Deejays, Six AM Deejays, Prezzo, Daddy Owen, Sarakasi Acrobats, Batuque Batucada and MC Blaze. The Deaf Community will be targeted to be included in this event as well.
Sunday 30th May at the Kasarani Sports Centre (Laureate field) will usher a reggae day concert with exhibitions, cultural and merchandise displays/markets /information stalls, outdoor video wall and so on. The main artist will be Don Carlos and the Dub Vision Band (Jamaica) who will share the stage with Aluta Continua (Jamaica), Ousmane, Bafu Chafu, Dotty Family Deejays, MC Njambi (all from Kenya), Zelia Duncan and Batuque Batucade (both from Brazil).
Notably abscent is the presence of an Africa Music category in which Sarakasi has always brought one of the great African Music Legends. They have previously brought the likes of Baaba Mal, Mahotella Queens, Hugh Masekela, Ayub Ogada among others.
I sure hope its not because of lack of funding as the festival this year has 20 sponsors. I hope to find out from them soon. -
More scenes from my trip to Santiago Chile, May 7th -10th(1ltr beers, Pisco Sours, dogs & Parties)
Posted: May 17, 2010, 8:04 pm by N.W
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Mines & Mind Fields; My Spoken Words now on Amazon
Posted: May 17, 2010, 7:46 pm by N.W
Some good news for all those with Amazon accounts, my book is now available on Amazon for only $12.
For Kenyan buyers, I will update you immediately the book hits the shelves.
Look out for info on the book launch also coming soon. -
Barcamp Nairobi 2010 is here, June 12 & 13th at iHub
Posted: May 17, 2010, 5:01 pm by N.W
Its confirmed! BarCamp 2010 is back! and this time round, it will be a 2 day event on the 12th and 13th of June. The camp will also combine WhereCampAfrica.
The first ever BarCamp held in Nairobi was in 2008 at the Jacaranda Hotel in the Westlands area, the event brought together many tech lovers(Software developers, hackers, Website designers, bloggers etc) from the private, public and freelance sectors.
I wrote about and attended the 1 day event where I got to meet the likes of Kahenya, Hash, Josiah, Phares, Njihia, ory and many other bloggers/techs.
It was great to see lots of locally made applications, ongoing projects and to finally meet bloggers who previously only existed virtually.
The Camp this year will be held at the newly unveiled hub for Nairobi Tech community, the iHub located on Ngong Road.
Registration is currently ongoing with a target of 500 attendees. If you haven't yet, you need to register soonest possible as I can assure you, the applicants will be more than 500.
Some of the potential topics so far are:-
•Using my (GPS Enabled) cell phone to avoid traffic
•Cloud Computing Applications in Kenya
•Business Skills for Techies
•Google Earth and Fusion Tables
•Food Security and Mapping
•Rural ICT
•ICT initiatives for youth
•Mobile Application Development
•Using Google Fusion Tables
•Web design, and why it’s not as good as it should be in Kenya
For more info as it happens, follow @barcampnairobi -
Photos of Day 1 of Global Voices Summit in Santiago Chile
Posted: May 7, 2010, 3:19 am by N.W
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Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 6th -7th May in Santiago, Chile
Posted: May 4, 2010, 1:06 pm by N.W
It is now confirmed, I will be going to Santiago, Chile for the annual Global Voices' Citizen Media Summit 2010 The summit which brings together bloggers from all over the world will be held at the Santiago Public Library on the 6th and 7th of May.
Global Voices Online is an international network of bloggers and citizen journalists that follow, report, and summarize what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of the world.
Getting a visa from the Embassy of Chile has been a nerve wrecking experience since I had to get a yellow fever jab, cert of good conduct, and wait for at least a month. I only picked it from the Chile Embassy on Riverside Drive yesterday. But despite the delays and requests for more documents(bank statements etc), Mary at the Embassy has been of great help. Fortunately I can now relax and hope to get to Chile on 5th May evening (Its a whole 36hrs journey).
The summit will be on the rise of the Citizen Media as well as case studies of the start of blogging in Uruguay, the empowerment of women activists in Yemen among many other discussions which will be in form of plenary discussions, topic-based breakout groups, and open sessions using an “unconference” format in which participants can propose discussions topics and hands-on training workshops(those who have been to a Barcamp event are familiar with this)
I have been writing for Global Voices Online for quite sometime now focusing mostly arts bloggers not just in Kenya but also in Africa.
Will definitely keep you updated on the events as I bet I might be doing some live tweets at the event as well as taking some photos. The tweet tag for the summit will be #GV2010. -
'Mines & Mind Fields;My Spoken Words' Get your copy now.
Posted: May 3, 2010, 11:05 pm by N.W
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