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.
Read MoreThe Nest Collective is a multidisciplinary collective living and working in Nairobi, Kenya.
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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!
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.
Read MoreWe’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).
Read MoreWe're really proud to be one of six British Council new Art new Audiences (nAnA) grant recipients with our 2020 project: The Feminine and the Foreign, commissioned by the 2020 edition of the London International Festival of Theater (London) and Infecting the City (Cape Town).
Read MoreThe 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!
Read MoreAs part of our continuing involvement in the International Inventories Programme (IIP), our very own Dr. Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu travelled to Frankfurt and Cologne this month for a series of intense workshops and tours courtesy of the Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt) and the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (Cologne).
Read MoreAll twelve episodes of our 2015 web series - Tuko Macho - are now available on YouTube! Watch them here.
Read MoreWe Need Prayers - a new series by the Nest Collective - premieres this January 31st on our Facebook page. :)
Read MoreIn Not African Enough, a collection of photography and essays on Kenyan fashion, one designer bemoans what she calls the “vicious cycle of wax print.” The bright, intricately patterned fabrics that have come to define African textiles are not from East Africa, nor really from Africa at all.
Read MoreIn the fashion industry, there is hardly consensus as to what constitutes ‘African’ design. So far, the mantra has been: if it looks ‘African’ it probably is (and vice versa). But there is more than meets the eye. The NEST collective, the creative tour-de-force based in Nairobi
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