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The Nest Collective is a multidisciplinary collective living and working in Nairobi, Kenya.


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Het Nieuwe Instituut: Fellowship Open Call and The Nest's International Jury Participation

Our 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.

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Online Premiere: Tapi! at the We Are One Global Film Festival!

We 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!

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The Nest Collective at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival

In 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.

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Tapi! A New Film presented by the Nest premieres at IFFR 2020

We’re excited to share our first film release of 2020! We’ve been part of a really special project with the wonderful people at the International Film Festival Rotterdam: they asked us, alongside 2 other African collectives, to make films to be presented at the festival. These 3 works would be part of a total of 14, in their Pro Harvest docket. The other 2 African collectives are Geração 80 (Angola) and Kriolscope (Cape Verde).

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A Phenomenal Strictly Silk!

The third edition of Strictly Silk was phenomenal! We are tremendously grateful to everyone who showed up and brought their own brand of magic to the night! We know that Strictly Silk is the amazing space it is because of all the people who show up to share joy and care, and we appreciate every one of you!

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