Sudu Connexion’s AFROFUTURISTIK: Featuring We Need Prayers

We are excited to announce that This One Went To Market, an episode from our series We Need Prayers, featuring Patricia Kihoro and Hilda Gichungo, has been included in Sudu Connexion’s 6th edition of Quartiers Lointains, their short film touring program! The edition, called AFROFUTURISTIK, is a program also featuring other African sci-fi short films from Morocco (via filmmaker Sofia Alaoui), Rwanda (via filmmaker Kantarama Gahigiri), Nigeria (via filmmaker C.J.Obasi), and Congo (via filmmaker Baloji).

NewsThe Nest Collective2 February 2021We Need Prayers, AFROFUTURUSTIK

Zeitz MOCAA Head To Head Instagram Live: Jim Chuchu In Conversation

Our very own Jim Chuchu will be in conversation with the Zeitz MOCAA- Museum of Contemporary Art Africa’s Senior Curator, Storm Janse van Rensburg, speaking on the different ways storytelling can make invincible voices visible, how art can be used to enhance ongoing discussions around queerness, decolonization and much more!

NewsThe Nest Collective25 January 2021Jim Chuchu, Conversations

Apollo 40 Under 40 Event: Jim Chuchu In Conversation

Apollo, one of the oldest and most respected visual art publications internationally, selected our very own Jim as one of 10 African artists for their 40 under 40 list last year (more on that here, and find the full list of African honorees here)! This coming Monday, Jim will take part in an Apollo 40 under 40 Africa event titled ‘History in the Making’, exploring the question ‘How has historic art influenced and shaped the ways contemporary art is made and viewed?’

NewsThe Nest Collective21 January 2021Jim Chuchu, Apollo Magazine

Our First Festival Comes to an End x Thank you

We have come to the end of our DASH festival! As our first ever festival, we couldn't be more thankful to everyone who came through to watch the performances, conversations and the sound clashes! Thank you for sharing with us your best and enjoyable moments from the videos.

NewsThe Nest Collective15 December 2020DASH Festival

Stories of Our Lives: Now on Showmax South Africa!

Our anthology film’ Stories of Our Lives’ is now showing on ShowMax South Africa! Stories of Our Lives began as a documentary archival project in 2013 (yes, it has really been that long!). We collected over 250 stories of Kenyans identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex from 9 cities and towns all over the country: those stories are some of the most beautiful, joyful, sad, intimate, futuristic, wild, glorious, inappropriate, nostalgic and wholesome narratives we’ve ever been honoured with, and we remain grateful to this day to all the wonderful people who shared such personal moments with us.

NewsThe Nest Collective29 November 2020Stories of Our Lives, Showmax

Our First Festival: Presenting DASH!

Our first ever festival is coming your way in a week! The online audiovisual festival is called DASH, to celebrate fun, fast engagements that make the most of every available moment. The festival is an original series of curated, connected content by Kenyan artists, solo and in collaboration, and will feature live music and DJ performances, as well as some scintillating talks. DASH is helmed, from concept to output, by our very own Akati, Mars, Njeri, Noel and JP, who brought together, shot and edited this set of wonderful artists!

NewsThe Nest Collective19 November 2020DASH Festival, Music, Perfomances

Digital Transformation and Cultural Heritage in the Global South: Dr. Njoki Ngumi in Conversation

Our very own Dr. Njoki Ngumi was one of the panelists for the Fakugesi Online Festival 2020 discussion titled ‘Digital Transformation and Cultural Heritage in the Global South’, alongside Indonesia’s Lisistrata Lusandiana (the executive director of the Indonesia Visual Art Archive) and Brazil’s Cristiana Selveira Serejo (the vice director of the Museu Nacional UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro).

NewsThe Nest Collective17 November 2020Dr. Njoki Ngumi, Panel, Fakugesi

Work In Progress: It's A Wrap!

We've just wrapped shooting our feature film! We've been filming for three weeks on different sets and locations around Nairobi, ensuring that we adhered to local and international safety guidelines on workplace COVID-19 prevention that included: temperature and health checks at the beginning of every day; frequent, regular hand washing; and sanitising and face masks on at all times. This was made possible with the help of Anita Inziani, the wonderful freelance set nurse, who has expertise in helping cast and crew be COVID-aware and COVID-safe.

NewsThe Nest Collective23 October 2020Projects, production

IIP Object Movement Dialogues #05: Imagining Beyond Imperialism

Our very own Dr. Njoki Ngumi will be moderating a conversation for the International Inventories Programme Object Movement Dialogues on Thursday 15th October 2020 (today!) at 7PM EAT! The OMDs are an informal public engagement and interactive discussion unpacking different themes and elements that are part of the conversation on Kenyan objects in museums abroad, and object return/restitution. This is titled ‘Imagining Beyond Imperialism’.

NewsThe Nest Collective15 October 2020iip, OMD

African Mobilities X The Nest DJs: Everything Is A Seed

Our very own Ziggie, Atiani, Noel and Mars are collaborating with African Mobilities to present the one-off audio event, ‘Everything Is A Seed’! ‘Everything Is A Seed’ is a response to the earlier podcast conversation that Sunny, Njoki and Jim had about borders, the Continent, the Diaspora, the existing tensions therein, and the possibilities for love.

NewsThe Nest Collective8 October 2020djs, everything is a seed

Work in Progress: A New Feature Film in Production

We are thrilled to announce that we have started production for a feature film that we’ve been working on for a while now! We were gearing to start in late March, but everything was put on hold when the first lockdown (which was also global) was announced midway through the month. We are so happy to be on set again, and are also ensuring we stick to local and international safety guidelines on workplace COVID-19 prevention for the film sector.

NewsThe Nest Collective7 October 2020Projects

African Mobilities 2.0: The Nest In Conversation about Borders

Our very own Jim Chuchu, Njoki Ngumi and Sunny Dolat recorded a conversation for African Mobilities, a living archive of contemporary African thinking that presents alternative ways of creating urban realities. In their podcast episode, which is homed in the third volume in the series, they discuss how borders feature in the idea of African futures.

NewsThe Nest Collective5 October 2020Jim Chuchu, Dr. Njoki Ngumi, Sunny Dolat

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

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