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Nairobi, Kenya
Joined May 2016
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while at the village market, our friend Alex
@FilmKenya was arrested last night for filming security guards harassing an artist. police are demanding 20k to let them go. Alex and friends might spend the weekend at gigiri police station. pls amplify, let's not make this happen
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The #CWprize is open, and we want your story!
This is a chance to win £5,000, see your story published, join a supportive literary community, and launch your literary career!
Commonwealth citizens aged 18 or over should enter by 1 November!
commonwealthfoundation.com/s…
ALT Advertisement for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The sign reads 'Calling All Fiction Writers. Enter your story before 1 November. Enter Today.' It is placed on grass with a blurred green background.
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NEWS: Next Fri, Sept 6th, Unseen Nairobi hosts the premiere of my short film, "Transaction". It is the 2nd of four fantastically feminist films I wrote in 2018 based on a short story from 2014. This is a project 10 years in the making.
Here's the launch week programme:
THREAD
Nearly a year later and I'm 1 film down w/ 3 more to go. Each script explores a different genre and feminist ideal.
"Transaction" - Drama - Sexual agency.
"Binaries" - Sci-Fi - Subverting gender socialization.
"Love Bite" - Horror - Consent
#FourFantasticallyFeministFilms
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📢Join us on Thursday 29th August at 8PM for a Conversations with Authors featuring @PemiAguda in conversation with Alexis Teyie on 'Pemi's debut collection of stories, Ghostroots.
Date : Thursday 29th August
Time: 8PM EAT/6PM WAT
Link in bio
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Call For Submissions: The Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize 2024 by Words, Rhymes and Rhythm (@authorpedia)
jaylit.com/call-for-submissi…
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📢Join us on Monday 26th August at 8PM for Conversations with Authors featuring @SiyaTheWriter in conversation with @kulnzu on Khumalo's debut novel, The Queer Book of Revelation.
Date : Monday 26th August
Time: 8PM EAT/7PM SA/7PM Mozambique
Link in bio
@NBPublishers
linda musita will be reading and signing books this eve @chechebooks with @kilimanispeaks. come through 😀
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How afraid are you of monsters? Even more afraid to write them? Worry not! #MacondoLitFest24 offers you a workshop to turn fear into fantasy fiction! Sign up and come craft your own eerie worlds as you explore how to use the familiar to write the strange.
🗓 Deadline: Aug. 31
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We have partnered with @onewm and @FT to support the work of a Global South filmmaker who wants to explore and portray underrepresented stories of how climate affects labor and working conditions in Global South communities.
Apply today!
👉 bit.ly/grantFilmCL
ALT Call for Film Proposals on Climate & Labor - We're looking for an experienced filmmaker who wants to explore, through a short documentary, how climate change is affecting lives and work in the Global South. Get up to USD $20,000 in founding for your film on our changing climate with particular focus on the economic transition.
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We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups (people of colour, ethnic groups, women, LGBTQ+, or people with disabilities)
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One experienced filmmaker, will receive up to £20k funding and a commission from the Financial Times, with the final film globally and freely available on the FT’s platform, in addition to mentorship and production support.
Apply now!
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Deadline reminder!
There's just one month to go for the deadline to our film grant in partnership with @pulitzercenter and the @FT
oneworldmedia.org.uk/fellows…
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We are still stuck here. Please let's not get tired, good people. The goal is to get to 100k+
Who wants to be the first one donating today? 🥹
Mpesa: 0704 731 560
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Okay nmeambiwa that the etymology is wrong, and that the origin of the word is 'gichagi'. I cede.
Anyway, this is the book (Down River Road), and this is the particular story (by Carey Baraka). A description of Nairobi from the perspective of a night-walker. I love it!
do you have items related to the ongoing historic protests? @ChaoTayiana and friends are working to build an archive and drr's karara library is one of the drop off points. check out peoplesarchive.ke for more details
