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The Night, Brought To You By Smirnoff – Win Tickets

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Smirnoff Kenya has put together an amazing event called ‘The Night’ for all the party lovers in Kenya.

The Night will be on Friday, the 6th of April at Galleria Mall [google maps: http://g.co/maps/7une3] from 6PM.

Music will be provided by an able DJ lineup that will include: DJ Chery Ice, Emma Feline, Joe Mfalme, Dj Chuckie and DJ Mobi.

Tickets are only Kshs. 1,000 & in advance.

Other Details

  • Tickets are available from: Galitos, Books First & Blanco’s Galleria
  • Dress code: White & Sexy

I’m giving away three tickets to this awesome event and to get them you need to do one of two things:

  1. Follow @TheNightKenya & then tweet with the hashtag #TheNightKenya & tell me why i should give you the tickets.
  2. Like the Smirnoff Kenya Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/SmirnoffKenya/] and then post on their wall the reason why i should give you the tickets. Don’t forget to put the name Hapa Kenya in your post. Continue reading →

Introducing the BAKE Blog Awards

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BAKE [Bloggers Association of Kenya] is a Kenyan organization that promotes online content creation and represents a group of content creators. They have decided to organize bloggers awards to recognize and reward exceptional bloggers and even micro-bloggers (tweeps).

There will be a submission phase starting March 15th (already started) where blogs will be nominated in 14 categories as below:

1. Best Technology Blog

Blogs that cover tech matters like social media, internet usage, consumer electronics, mobile phones, tech startups etc.

2. Best Photography Blog

Blogs that showcase original photos or have photography related content.

3. Best Creative Writing Blog

Blogs that feature original creative writing in the form of poetry, fiction and essays.

4. Best Business Blog

Blogs that feature business content like business development, entrepreneurship, startups, stocks, investments, banking etc

5. Best Food Blog

Blogs that focus on food, cooking tips, restaurants, wines and recipes Continue reading →

Discovering The Tusker Lite Experience With Joe Thomas

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If you were to take a walk on the streets of Nairobi, asking people the song they lost their virginity to, Joe would appear somewhere severally. Others fell in love and didn’t know how to express it better, so they turned to Joe Thomas. He knew how to say it for them in a song. He brought us The Good, The Bad, The Sexy. He made us vault in the air in the mellow of I Believe In You, Let’s Stay Home, Bedroom. See where this is going? Joe comes from an era of music when music was not just anything-goes. It was music. Somewhere between the old and the new.

For the first time, this smooth-voiced American musician will be performing in Kenya at the Tusker Lite Concert on March 31 at The Bomas of Kenya Auditorium. He will be accompanied by an 8-member band and Donell Jone’s DJ, Jaytech will keep the crowd fired up. Somoina Kimojino-Kwikiriza, Programmes Controller at 98.4 Capital FM promises that this will be a night of fun and good music, with a comfy lounge for the patrons to sit and comfortably feed on good music when they can’t dance any more.

The 39-year old music sensation has thrilled R & B lovers since his first album in 1997, All That I Am. And for those years he has been, Joe Thomas has been all that and more. He has made love ballads for those in love and for the heartbroken. So good was his latest album The Good, The Bad, The Sexy that it hit a #2 on the Billlboard! The new album is a bit different from what we are used to- it is more assertive and fast paced.

Joe is one of the artists that Tusker Lite has lined up this year. Last year, revelers were allowed a chance to experience Tusker Lite with Donnel Jones in the wild.

Tickets for this show are retailing at Sh3, 000. You can get yours here , then come experience Tusker Lite with Joe Thomas.

 

 

Event: Poetry at Discovery Ignited By Sitawa

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The 100 Girls in 100 Days campaign was launched last week and it’s main target is to raise Kshs. 10 million which will be used to send 100 girls to high school for 4 years. The amount would include fees, sanitary towels and other necessities.

As a contribution to the campaign, Sitawa [the organizer] plans to share a whole collection of her work at a poetry event called ‘Poetry at Discovery Ignited’ which will be held at The Business Lounge, The Junction on Saturday 17th from 7pm.

All proceeds from this event goes towards the campaign.

Other Details

Date: Saturday, 17th March 2012
Venue: The Business Lounge, 4th Floor The Junction [Ngong Road]
Door Charges: Ksh 300

Wine and Snacks will be served.

Note: Attendees are also welcome to bring an additional contribution of any amount plus sanitary towels, Bata shoes vouchers, Shopping Vouchers, Lotion, anything a school going lady needs and it will be highly appreciated.

For more info about the 100 girls in 100 days campaign check out the campaign’s website

Why Unpublished Writers Should Attend The Publishing Forum

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Every writer dreams of getting published but most of them don’t know how to get their work published, what publishers are looking for, the processes involved and so forth.

Lesleigh Inc, a literary agency in Nairobi that is working with emerging writers to produce good manuscripts and find publishers for the manuscripts has teamed up with Agatha Verdadero, Publisher and CEO of Can-Do Publishing, to bring you a publishing forum that will take writers through the various publishing processes which include:-

    1. How to get published
    2. The different types of publishing
    3. The difference between submitting fiction and submitting non-fiction
    4. How to prepare and present your manuscript to editors, literary agents and publishers
    5. When is the right time to submit manuscripts
    6. How do you submit a manuscript
    7. Self publishing and what it requires from a writer
    8. What should a writer do when a manuscript has been rejected?

Event Details

Venue: August 7th Memorial Park Conference Rooms
Date : 4th March 2012
Time : 2pm to 5pm.
Charges : Kshs. 1000/

Note: Your attendance will be confirmed and guaranteed once you pay the forum fee of Kshs 1000/- only. You can pay cash at our offices or via MPESA to 0725758389. A confirmation message will be sent to you with a ticket number once your payment is received.

For more info: Email: info@lesleighinc.com or Call: 0725758389, 0725836533, 0720927655

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The Creativez Meetup: January 2012

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The First Creativez Meetup of this year will be on the 29th of January The iHub, 4th floor Bishop Magua Centre 4th Floor from 2.00-5.30pm. 

The speakers will be Mary Kimonye, CEO of Brand Kenya  and Rio Alves, CEO of Brainwave Communications (a leading visual arts company) who will be sharing their various experiences and tipping creatives on “The Business of Creativity”
The following will also be covered:
  • How to position yourself as a Kenyan Brand
  • What sort of support creatives can can expect from Brand Kenya
  • At what stage should we review businesses and figure out whats working and change models.
  • Global avenues for creatives to position themsselves not just as artists but as  creative entities.
  • Intellectual property rights

If you are a  Creative, Techie or Innovator then you should definitely attend.For More info or to RSVP for this Free event email: TheCreativez@gbs.co.ke or tweet @TheCreativez

Lele And Aziza Muzik Present NDOTO, A live music concert

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Afro-fusion bands Lele and Aziza have come together to bring you NDOTO, a musical story of Urban Hopes and Dreams. This live music concert will be on Friday 27th January from 7PM.

More Info

Date : Friday 27th January 2012
Venue : Safaricom House,Michael Joseph Centre
Time : 7pm
Tickets:300 in Advance and 400 at the Gate [To get advance tickets Call 0728621571,0728621571, 0721759510 or 0721759510. They are also
available at: EXTREME VIDEOS 6th floor Hazina Towers, DVD CENTRE Lonrho House 2nd floor and at The Michael Joseph Centre Reception Desk.]

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Nairobi Kinanda Arts Festival: The January 2012 Edition

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The Nairobi Kinanda Arts Festival is a monthly Arts [ music, poetry, visual art, creative writing, spoken word, film and street art] extravaganza that happens every last Sunday of the month.

The January 2012 edition will be on the 29th at KARI [ Kenya Agricultural Research Institute] on Waiyaki Way from 1.30PM.

There will be musical performances by Wairimu Ng’aru, Sarabi, Sage and Jay Dabliu and Poetry perfoemances by Jemedari, Wacera and Kavossa Asavva [ Drumline Poetry].For the first time ever there will have two film makers show casing their short films i.e. Dawa by Mark Kaigwa and the 3D animated film Wageuzi by Andrew Kagia.

More Info

Date: Sunday 29th January
Time: 1.30pm pm-6.45pm!
Tickets : Adults   – 350/=, Children- 50/= [For Advance tickets call: 0728306630 or email: sifa@kinandafestival.com]
Where : KARI [ Kenya Agricultural Research Institute] on Waiyaki Way

  • Google Maps: http://g.co/maps/a6xa5
  • From Westlands: Get on to, Waiyaki Way,  KARI is directly opposite the bus-top at the junction of Waiyaki Way and James Church Rd.
  • From Kangemi: KARI  is the second Gate to your left, immediately after Nairobi School

Mobile Web East Africa 2012

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Mobile Web East Africa returns to Nairobi after a 24-month gap and will be hosted by The Kenya ICT Board and All Amber. The conference dubbed Mobile Web East Africa 2012: Taking the monetisation and content dialogue to the next level will be on 22nd & 23rd February 2012 at The Southern Sun Mayfair hotel.

The main objective of the conference is to facilitate the growth of the mobile ecosystem in the region. To ensure sector wide representation at this event start-up companies and application developers are eligible to apply for a 50% subsidy to make their attendance more financially viable. More info on that can be found here.

All the different elements of the sector will be in attendance and participants and will be encouraged to interact to facilitate the establishment of relationships and enable sector expansion, as was the case at the inaugural event held in February 2010.

The following are the confirmed speakers:

*Emma Kaye, CEO, Bozza
*Paul Kukubo, CEO, Kenya ICT Board
*John Waibochi, CEO, Virtual City
*Mark Kaigwa, Partner, Afrinnovator
*Joseph Sevilla, Director, @iLabAfrica
*Judith Owigar, President, Akirachix
*Paul Stemmet, COO, World of Avatar
*Neil Ahlsten, New Business Development – Africa, Google

The organizers had this to say about the event:

Paul Kukubo, CEO of the Kenya ICT Board:

I have no doubt that Mobile Web East Africa 2012 is going to make a serious contribution to the evolution of the ecosystem in East Africa. The inaugural event in 2010 was fantastic; I have a feeling that 2012 is going to surpass it. I look forward to seeing all the key stakeholders there.

Matthew Dawes, MD of All Amber:

To secure the support of an organisation as significant as the Kenya ICT Board is an illustration of how important the focus of this conference is. Across the continent the mobile web and applications opportunity continues to have a profound effect on all echelons of society. That’s why developing a thriving industry, which is the foundation behind the idea of Mobile Web East Africa, is so essential.

Visit the event website for more details.

Update

Nairobi’s Innovation Hub (*iHub_) and m:lab East Africa have both agreed to formally support the conference