Sunday Salon - July 20
June 30, 2008
Sunday Salon, Nairobi
A Prose Reading Series
NEW YORK - NAIROBI - CHICAGO
http://www.sundaysalon.com
Makena Ringera
Al Kags
Peter Chepkonga
Gitura Kamau
Four readers, four unique voices, in a tranquil outdoor setting
An evening of entertainment for discerning lovers of the written word.
With live neo-soul music by
“ANTO”
7-9pm, Sunday 20th July
Kengeles, Lavington Green
Entry Only KSh300
Free entry before 6.30pm
Free entry for all Sunday Salon Alumni
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Gitura Kamau
Gitura Kamau is a young Nairobi theatre and film actor who has recently begun to direct his own movies. His first feature film, “Wangai’s Cross,” was shot in Nairobi and premiered June 18th, 2008. Kamau is currently involved in several film projects, including his second film, “Odohoz.”
Makena Ringera
Makena Ringera (formerly known to use ‘Jackline’ but discarded it after discovering herself to be African) took pen to paper at age 15. The result of that effort was ‘The Mystery of the Twin Webs’, a fantasy novel laced with thrilling adventures, a pinch of romance and some bad grammar. Good luck sent Makena across the Atlantic to Amherst College in 2006 where she is a devote Economics student. Having learned a thing or two in creative writing classes, she is working on a rewrite of ‘Twin Webs’.
Al Kags
Al Kags is the publisher of The Quarterly Colour Series of Poetry, a poetry ebook series that is now distributed virally to over 160,000 people all over the world. He has been writing since he was twelve and has been a regular columnist and feature writer in various publications both in Kenya and Internationally. www.alkags.com
Peter Chepkonga
Peter Chepkonga grew up in Eldoret and can run very fast. He writes for KASS magazine
Sunday Salon - June 15
June 3, 2008
Sunday Salon Nairobi
A Prose Reading Series
Saga McOdongo
Samuel Munene
Susan Njeru
Ken Kamoche
Four readers
Four unique voices
In a tranquil outdoor setting
7-9pm
Sunday 15h June
Kengeles, Lavington Green
Entry Only KSh. 300
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Saga McOdongo
Judy Akinyi, aka Saga McOdongo, was a teacher at the Kenya Polytechnic until 2001 when she was introduced to drug trafficking by one of the most feared operators in the murky business at the time. She was jailed for 11 years for trafficking in drugs but the sentence was commuted on appeal. She was recently released from prison and has published a book about her experiences, Deadly Money Maker.
Samuel Munene
Samuel Munene is a young Nairobi poet, short story writer, and contributor to Kwani? as well as various literary online magazines. He holds an economics degree from the University of Nairobi, and currently earns a living as a freelance writer.
Susan Njeru
Susan Njeru was born and raised in Kenya. She did her undergraduate degree in Business Administration in Nairobi, and her Master’s degree in Urban Policy at the New School University in New York. She currently works in tax administration for the Government of Kenya.
Ken Kamoche
Ken Kamoche’s debut collection of short stories, A Fragile Hope, made the Frank O’Connor long list in 2007 and the Commonwealth Writers First Book short list in 2008. He also won second prize in the 2007 Olaudah Equiano Prize for African Fiction for A Glimpse of Hope. Ken’s stories have appeared in magazines like Ambit, Wasafiri, Kunapipi, New York Stories and in various anthologies, including Dreams, Miracles and Jazz recently released by Picador. For a day job, Ken works as a professor of management, currently at Nottingham Business School. He’s also a columnist for the Sunday Nation.
Sunday Salon - May 18, 2008
May 12, 2008
Sunday Salon Nairobi…A Prose Reading Series
Alison Ojany Owuor
Kinyanjui Kombani
Naliaka Wafula
Tony Mochama
Four readers, four unique voices
In a tranquil outdoor setting
7-9pm
Sunday 18th May
Kengeles, Lavington Green
Entry Only KSh. 300
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Alison Owuor
Alison Ojany Owuor is a young published poet who has presented her work in different public forums. She got her voters card and also graduated from college late last year. She is looking for three things: meaningful work, Kenyans who are of the ethnic group enyan, and hopeful imaginings in red, green, white and black.
Kinyanjui Kombani
Kinyanjui Kombani is a graduate of Kenyatta University. His book, The Last Villains of Molo was born out of Kinyanjui’s experiences both at Molo and Ng’ando, the Nairobi slum he lived in for 5 years, and research into the events that led to the 1992 ethnic clashes.
Kinyanjui’s other works include: Wangari Maathai: Mother of Trees (Longhorn Publishers), We Can Be Friends (Longhorn Publishers) and Mizoga, a film produced for the Born Free Foundation. He is married to Wangui Kombani.
Naliaka Wafula
Naliaka is a poet and runs the monthly Rhythm and Spoken Poetry and Open Mic session at Daas restaurant in Westlands, Nairobi.
Tony Mochama
Tony ‘Smitta’ Mochama is a poet and journalist who lives and works in Nairobi. A Law graduate, Tony is also a vodka connoisseur, gossip columnist extraordinaire, and has a collection of short stories coming out soon titled – ‘The ruins down in Africa’. He has also been called a ‘literary gangster’, from time to rhyme. His collection of poetry, ‘What if I am a literary gangster?’ was published by Brown Bear Insignia in 2007.
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Sunday Salon - April 20
April 16, 2008
A Prose Reading Series Featuring:
MILLICENT MUTHONI
NEEMA NGWATILO MAWIYOO
ARNO KOPECKY
KINGWA KAMENCU
Four readers, four unique voices
In a tranquil outdoor setting
7-9pm, Sunday 20th April
Kengeles, Lavington Green
Entry Only KSh. 300
About the Writers:
Millicent Muthoni is a trained architect turned journalist in real estate and a columnist with the Standard. Her short story was published in the Caine Prize anthology, Jambula Tree and other Stories, 2007
Arno Kopecky is a freelance journalist and travel writer from Vancouver, Canada. Currently based in Nairobi, he is an editor at Kwani?.
Kingwa Kamencu is a journalist writing for the Media Institute’s magazine- Expression Today (ET) and a contributor with ‘The Standard’ newspaper. He first book, To Grasp at A Star was published by East African Education publishers and has since won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for fiction in 2007
Neema Ngwatilo Mawiyoo grew up singing in church in Nairobi, Kenya, but it was while at university that Ngwatilo’s relationship with music took a definitive turn. She embarked on a quest for self that took her to Johannesburg, South Africa to study the role of Kwaito music in shaping post-apartheid urban youth identity. There Ngwatilo found the stuff of poems spewing out of impassioned exchanges with friends, thick in the air at a particular Jozi reading, and alone with her on the road between Venda and Johannesburg. There was little to do but hold on.( http://www.myspace.com/ngwatilo )
