By Iminza Keboge
Published September 26, 2018
The Other Kind of Beauty, an exhibition of recent works by Nadia Kisseleva, is set to run at Nairobi National Museum (NNM) the whole of October 2018.
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“These works are based on my life in Kenya,” the painter says. “In the past artists used to say: ’My art is my life.’ and nowadays they say: ‘My life is my art.’ These paintings are about the latter and this is the first time I take this approach – reflecting on my life. I found it is a really big theme that takes my work from ‘private’ to the ‘public’ and political. I would like to develop it more in the future.”
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NNM, that shall host the month-long The Other Kind of Beauty show in its Creativity Gallery on Museum Hill, says Nadia Kisseleva shall be available to interact with art lovers on October 3, 2018 between noon and 5:30 PM and that there shall be no gate fees on that day.
Meanwhile an event that is scheduled to debate the future sustainability of festivals in Africa, their contribution to event tourism and impact on local economies is planned for March 27 – 30, 2019 in Cape Town, South Africa.
The inaugural Festival Africa Summit and Awards shall be held in the framework of Cape Town International Jazz Festival.
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“Festivals around the world operate in a disruptive economic environment and are challenged to sustain its value proposition as well as implementing strategies to attract the digitally-connected consumer to attend, ” says Gerrit Davids, Executive Producer of the event whose main theme is ‘Rethink & Reinvent Sustainable Festival Partnerships’. “Custodians of festivals and destinations will gather to debate, and exchange ideas on best practices trending internationally, find ways to make their partnerships work since the modern day festival is perfectly designed to attract out-of-town visitors, which benefits both the event itself, as well as the local destination at large.”
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Saying ‘panellists will share their thought leadership on what is required to implement successful festival visitor-attraction-strategies, the economic impact of festivals in terms of how it contributes to the local economy, the amount of jobs it create and how it supports the tourism and hospitality sectors,’ Davis says ‘the best performing festivals will also be recognised in the first ever edition of the African Festival Awards (AFAs), which will bestow awards in more than 30 categories ranging from the Leading African Festival to the Leading African Festival Personality of the Year as well as the best festival promotional video award.”
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Also being launched during the summit will be African Festival Industry Alliance (AFIA) aimed at serving as a ‘knowledge exchange platform for the industry on the continent, with the main objective to share strategies on how to make festivals sustainable for all its stakeholders’.
