News and updates from the Nest Collective.
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We are thrilled to have officially published (digitally!) 2 comic books. We chose and framed, and wrote the narrative skeletons of these stories, then invited some of our favourite illustrators, Joe Barasa and Daniel Muli (who was assisted by Ray Gicharu), to work with us to make them a reality. One is the story of Mekatilili wa Menza, and the other is of Wangu wa Makeri.
Read MoreOur very own Jim Chuchu had a lovely, insightful conversation with the Sticks and Stones squad, in which they baptised him a Multidisciplinary Warrior (we love this name <3!) for Chart-a-box, their podcast series on Kenyan creatives. They discussed his creative journey through music, film, photography and activism for the last 10+ years,
Read MoreWe are excited and very proud to announce that our very own Sunny Dolat is joining Industrie Africa as a member of its incoming advisory board! The new board comprises a diverse team committed to sector excellence, all already eminent in their own respective fields. Here are Sunny’s fellow board members in some wonderful interviews about their work and achievements: Omoyemi Akerele, Nigerian fashion business and industry developer; Hanneli Rupert, South African luxury designer and retailer;
Read MoreFak’ugesi, a South Africa-based festival that sits right at the intersection of arts, culture and tech in Africa, are hosting their African Digital Innovation Festival soon! Themed #PowerToThePixel, this year’s explorations consider the pixel as the smallest visual unit, alongside its ability to bridge divides and bring focus to our digital creativity. The festival this year will take place in 5 main online interventions throughout the month of September.
Read MoreWe Need Prayers, our short one-scene anthology web series, is showing at the HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces exhibition in Cologne, Germany. This exhibition was put together by the wonderful team at Contemporary And (C&) (Fun fact: C& commissioned the very first episode of WNP during the residency we did with them a couple of years ago!)
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that our queer anthology film, Stories of our Lives, is screening as part of the Bird’s Eye View for Pride 2020 Takeover by Campbell X, an amazing trans filmmaker! Campbell X is a luminary in contemporary British queer cinema, and for Pride Month this year, they have curated a mixture of features and shorts exploring the black queer experience—including our little film!
Read MoreCan we transform the ways we teach, value and practice design? In Decolonising Design, What Design Can Do's co-founder and creative director, Richard van der Laken, hosts a roundtable with creatives Anoushka Khandwala (UK) and the Nest Collective’s Sunny Dolat (Kenya), to unpack how colonialism has shaped the way we teach, value and practice design.
Read MoreOur very own Sunny Dolat will be live on What Can Design Do’s Facebook page as part of a series of urgent conversations around social justice in design today (Friday 19th June—also known as Juneteenth) from 4–5pm EAT (3–4pm CET). He'll be featured alongside Anoushka Khandwala, unpacking how colonialism has shaped the way we teach, value and practice design. The presentation is part of a teaming up between What Design Can Do and Dezeen to present a programme on social justice in design.
Read MoreOur good friends at Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut are having an open call for their 2020-2021 research fellowship! This year's focus is on the theme “Regeneration. New Institutional Practices”, inviting collectives to take current conditions of the body's burn-out and planetary exhaustion (their call themes for 2018 and 2019 respectively) as a point of departure to generate new ways to organize and act. The call is a request to reimagine the protocols, decision-making processes, forms of care, working ethos, and financial structures of institutions.
Read MoreWe are very excited that our latest short film project - Tapi! - is part of the exciting line-up of films that form part of the We Are One Global Film Festival - an unprecedented 10 day-long online extravaganza of film offerings from all over the world, brought FREE to home and mobile screens by a consortium of the world’s leading film festivals via Youtube. Our short, Tapi!, was programmed as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s curated list - following its world premiere at the 2020 edition of the festival, and will be seen here for the very first time online!
Read MoreIn partnership with the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi, we are thrilled to be presenting some of our work at the upcoming Oberhausen International Short Film Festival - one of the oldest short film festivals in the world, now in its 66th edition! Our presence at the festival is as part of a new cooperation between the Goethe Institut and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Their first partner in this program is the Goethe-Institut Nairobi, and we are super proud to be selected to present our work, practice and the society we operate from.
Read MoreWe were thrilled to host a two day workshop series at Baraza Media Lab in early March (just before the ‘Rona landed, thankfully). The workshop was called “Independent Filmmaking in Kenya: A Practical Guide.” Each day was set apart for different elements we have found important to focus in filmmaking.
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