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- BRIDGING THE URBAN DREAM
- NIFTA FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES
- VIDEO IMPRESSION
- WHERE
- WHO ARE THE NIFTA 2006 PARTICIPANTS?
- CALL FOR SPONSORSHIP
- GALA NIGHT INVITATION
- CONTACTS
BRIDGING THE URBAN DREAM (top)
NIFTA 2006 is a 5 day participatory and interactive youth cultural festival that brings together performing arts, visual arts, culinary, fashion and street urban art. The festival experience is aimed at partnering art, with community development, social advocacy& awareness, youth mobilization and entrepreneurship.
NIFTA is pointed towards defining art as an entrepreneurial source of income and to create a forum for artists to perform, have exchanges, seminars detailing the rights of artists on their original creativity, contests and exhibitions from all social stratas of the society living in Nairobi with a targeted outreach of over 150,000 residents each day of the event thus giving them exposure to the international standards and to entertain Nairobi residents. NIFTA is inclined towards re-defining Nairobi as a junction of commerce, quality entertainment.
This will afford the government, local residents, visiting tourists, business and corporate entities the opportunity to explore the role of art in championing community development and appreciate the diverse cultures, performances, visual arts, foods, films, workshops and professional art that has thrived through high times of socio-political and economic changes.
We have therefore made deliberate effort in line with our theme, to ensure that talents from all locations are tapped and categorized for the NIFTA Festivals Awards 2006.To achieve this ,we have organized the festival as per our programme schedule attached above, encompassing all genres of art from dance, theatre, beauty pageants, fashion, music, to visual and all other forms of art culminating to the final NIFTA .
The rationale behind NIFTA 2006 is to use art to mobilize youths towards community development that is the bedrock for employment and poverty reduction. As we synergize this national and international meeting between artists, rich artistic talents will be polished in live performances to establish a professional pool and market for the performers and their performances to potential sponsors, art companies, media, and consumers. NIFTA 2006 will not relent in encouraging art commerce that is a nursery bed for small business entrepreneurs to develop the capacity of youths at the village level, harness their creative and imaginative talents to overcome the current socio-cultural challenges facing the youth especially risky expressions of sexuality that increase HIV and AIDS infection and the endemic normalization of poverty.
NIFTA 2006 is a forum for discussion amongst artists, sponsors and leaders as they launch community theatre as a tool for civic education and behaviour change communication. The inclusion of academic institutions in the festival will impart to the students practical skills in creative and performing arts in emerging fields like social advocacy, public relations, advertising, media and sustainable development.
NIFTA FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES (top)
NIFTA 2006 has series of activities planned to maximize the five days. We have Performing arts incooperating dance, theatre, poems, comedies, live music performances, Visual arts exhibition, paintings, murals, Kenyan Film shows during the evenings at the community centres, Capacity building workshops on dance& physical theatre, arts management and visual arts, Exhibitions by corporate bodies and civil society organizations.
During the festive days, Kenya Performing Arts Group will be launching community theatre. A key component of accelerating community sensitization towards participatory development especially with the increase of community owned programmes like community policing and behaviour change communications especially those targeting mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS. Community performances are planned in Kibera, Mathare, Kawangware, Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Kangemi, Buruburu. For public participation, street theatre has been incorporated in the programme besides capacity building workshops for producers, directors and writers. For beauty models, MR&MISS NIFTA 2006 will be up for grabs on the 27th. August 2006.
NIFTA is a platform to network art, youth entrepreneurship and social change. As we synergize this national and international meeting between artists, rich artistic talents will be polished in live performances to establish a professional pool and market for the performers and their performances to potential sponsors, art companies, media, and consumers.
So NIFTA 2006 will encourage art commerce that is a nursery bed for small business entrepreneurs to develop the capacity of youths at the village level, harness their creative and imaginative talents to overcome the current socio-cultural challenges facing the youth especially endemic normalization of poverty, juvenile crime and risky expressions of sexuality that increase HIV and AIDS infection.
For civil society organizations, NIFTA 2006 is an ideal forum for disseminating their programmes and messages to the youth, community leaders. This will be made easy by the exhibition stands around the festival venues not forgetting the evening film shows.
The inclusion of academic institutions in the festival is to familiarize the students with professional art and expose them to the use of creative and performing arts in emerging fields like social advocacy, public relations, advertising, media and sustainable development.
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The NIFTA festival will be held in five community venues namely; SOS Children’s Village in Buruburu, Kibera Cultural Centre, Kawangware Social Hall, Korogocho Social Hall, MATHARE Sports Centre and Kangemi. NIFTA will encompass the majority who live in the slums of Nairobi a chance to be part of these festivities. For over time the slum areas have been neglected towards their contribution to the metropolis of Nairobi.
These will be complemented with town venues which include the Kenya National Theatre, Kenya Cultural Centre, Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Goethe Cultural Institute, University of Nairobi and city streets.
WHO ARE THE NIFTA 2006 PARTICIPANTS? (top)
NIFTA 2006 brings together participants from Coast, Western, and Rift Valley, Central, Nyanza and Nairobi provinces. This will be enhanced with the presence of international artists from Adugna from Ethiopia, Crossroad Productions from the Netherlands, Mionzi from Tanzania, Footsteps and Okulamba Dance from Uganda and other arts Groups from Germany, Rwanda and Burundi.
NIFTA is inviting your valued partnership and support for the planned first annual event through collaboration as per our previous discussions on the same, or promotion schedule below and in any way desirable to you.
We are also open to new inputs and promotional ideas that may directly benefit your organization. Please feel free to contact us incase of any inquiries.
NIFTA’s sponsors and partners:
- Kenya Cultural Centre (KCC) incorporating the Kenya National Theatre (KNT)
- The Royal Netherlands Embassy
- Ministry of Culture
- Kenya Tourism Board
- Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
- Metro Radio and TV
- Nation Newspaper
- Citizen radio and TV
The Nairobi International Festival for the Arts (NIFTA) secretariat is pleased to invite you to grace the NIFTA gala night to be held on Wednesday 23rd August 2006 at the Kenya National Theatre from 6.30pm.
Our theme for the 2006 NIFTA festival is Bridging the urban dream. We are using arts to de-polarize the urban society and create an even creativity platform for our artists - mostly young people from all socio-economic strata - and showcase undiscovered talent.
We shall also use this opportunity to contribute part of the Gala ticket proceeds to a charitable cause, by way of our donation to the SOS Children