MARAHABA FESTIVAL, CHAPCHAP, SAFARI YA MAUA & IRHAM JARUPH

Hello Art lovers! Karibu Nafasi Art Space (video). Mambo wapenzi wa sanaa! October at Nafasi Art Space is ending wi...

Hello Art lovers! Karibu Nafasi Art Space (video). Mambo wapenzi wa sanaa! October at Nafasi Art Space is ending with a BANG! :  @Nafasi Sat 28 Oct @ 10am-1pm ChapChap Mural: Public Art Workshop Sat 28 Oct @ 1pm-2pm Opening of group exhibition "Safari ya Maua" Sat 28 Oct @2pm-12 midnight Marahaba Swahili Music Festival Member/Partner events until 31st Oct @ 9am-6pm Group Art Exhibition, including "Life & About Paintings" by Lute Mwakisopile (Alliance Francaise)  For event information and news on happenings, read on below! On Saturday, 28th October 10am-1pm, our Nafasi member artist Thobias Minzi will run this month's exciting installment of Chap Chap Mural : Public Art Workshop. Participants of the workshop will get a chance to learn from the amazing painter, photographer, videographer himself, and work alongside him to paint a beautiful Mural on the walls of our music studio at Nafasi Art Space.   The workshop is FREE and open to the public. All ages are welcome, and no art experience is necessary! We're looking forward to welcoming you. If you have any questions or want more information please just send an email to info@nafasiartspace.org.  On Saturday 1pm-2pm there will be an opening for the exhibition "Safari ya Maua" by a group of young Tanzanian women artists. Before that they will exhibiting their work on Tue-Wed 24-25 Oct in a private exhibition at the Hyatt Regency – the Kilimajaro Hotel, in Kinondoni as part of NMB (National Microfinance Bank)'s project "Making Finance Work For Women".  For many of the artists, this will be their first time showcasing their artwork in a public exhibition. There isn't a lot of spaces supporting women in the art world in the country, so this is progressive step towards creating opportunities for female visual artists in Tanzania. The exhibition will run for one month from 28th October - 30th November. So stop at Nafasi and support the female art world! Marahaba Swahili Music Festival Promo (Video) The Marahaba Swahili Music Festival is an annual live music showcase for both the up-and-coming and the well-established musicians from Tanzania, East Africa, and the rest of the globe. It offers a platform for musical artistry exchange, whilst at the forefront celebrating the rich cultural and traditional music from Tanzania.  The 5th instalment of this music event crucial to the continued success of the traditional music scene in Tanzania, will occur at Nafasi Art Space's grounds on the 28th of October from 2pm to 12 midnight. All ages are welcome, and no entrance fees will be collected. Check here for the line-up. The previously announced solo exhibition "Life & About Paintings" by Lute Mwakisopile at Oasis, has been moved to the Group Art Exhibition at Alliance Francaise located along Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road, Dar es Salaam. Public hours are from 9am-6pm. The exhibition is open until 31st October. Stop by and have a look at Lute‘s beautiful works inspired by what he sees in everyday society, and in the daily life of people in the colorful Dar-es-Salaam. Which will be displayed alongside the works of some of our other Nafasi member artists. RECAP HOME CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION The HOME exhibition opening held on Friday 13th Otcober at DARCH (Dar Center for Architecture and Heritage), was an outstanding success. If you were unlucky enough to miss the opening, you can still stop by DARCH anytime between 10am-4pm to see the exhibition over the next few months. 9 artists and 4 performing groups showcased their artworks expressing what HOME meant to them. Each made an attempt to respond to the question "What is Home? What does it mean to be at home? To find or make one?" in a creative, personal and enlightening way. The show was put together beautifully and all the visitors were completely fascinated by what they saw. Tadhi Alawi from Nantea Dance performing in front of an installation by Paul Ndunguru. Installation artwork from the HOME exhibition. ARTIST HANGOUT WITH WASHINGTON MASANJA Thursday's hangout with our new Artist in Residence Washington Masanja was a wonderful opportunity for the AIR to introduce himself to the audience antalk about his work and life experience. He talked about what it is like being a fine artist in Tanzania, and his work in different media i.e. wood (making furniture, music instruments) painting (water color) and drawing (charcoal). ARTIST SPOTLIGHT  This week's Artist spotlight focuses on Irham Jaruph. She currently lives in Bagamoyo, but was born and raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She was one of our Artists in Residence this year, and was also one of the winners of the 2016 Spanish Art Competition "Don Quixote: A Spanish Myth through Tanzanian Eyes", which we partnered with the Embassy of Spain in Tanzania. She was also an Artist in Residence at Gibbs Farm in Karatu and has shown her work at exhibitions in Bagamoyo and Nyumba ya Sanaa in Dar es Salaam. Through her artwork, Irham aims to find out the problems facing society especially children and learn how to solve them. She expresses her many thoughts on these issues by working with different art mediums such as clay, wood carving, metal work and painting. Besides creating artwork, she is the main director of the Bagamoyo Young Artist Centre, a non-profit organization that creates space for children to practice art outside school. Irham describes her work in her own words: "I strive to promote positive social changes in the lives of youth and use my work to show how art rooted in Tanzanian culture can empower, and be used for economic sustainability. My work is not only a critical eye on society, my works are also my social statements of freedom, beauty, empathy, and hope." Her beautiful and poignant artworks can be seen on weekdays 9am-5pm, Saturday 10am-5pm at Nafasi Art Space, and are currently up for sale. For more information email us at: info@nafasiartspace.org   OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS  Art Competition - Art and Democracy In November 2017, Twaweza is convening Democrasia Yetu -- an open dialogue on democracy and civic space in Tanzania. Differing perspectives will be deliberately brought together to challenge each other and try to create space for greater collaboration and cohesion. The event will also serve as a celebration of democratic spaces and freedoms in Tanzania through the arts. Twaweza and Nafasi Art Space are pleased to announce a Visual Art Competition and Exhibition to coincide with the event. We encourage artists to submit work in any medium (painting, sculpture, photography, video art, and installation) responding to and exploring the theme and topics of the event, which include opening up (transparency versus secrecy), acting together (positive and productive relationships between government and citizens), free exchange (openness to new ideas, constructive critique and unusual partnerships). Prizes for winning entries will include artist residencies at Nafasi Art Space, and laptops. Submission requirements:     1.    Artist Statement.     2.    Artist CV with biographical information, education, and selected exhibitions and awards (1 A4 page).     3.    1-3 High-Res images of artwork in response to theme including artwork details (title, year of production, media and size) by 13 November 2017.     4.    Entries must then be delivered in-person to Nafasi Art Space, Mikocheni B, between 13-17 November 2017. Important: Only submissions in PDF format will be accepted. The PDFs are to be sent by 13 November 2017 to the following e-mail address: asteria@nafasiartspace.org  Are you a photographer? Then this might be of interest to you. Casa África announces its 8th Photography Contest "Objetivo África" which will award prizes (up to 1200 euros) to photographs which best portray the positive aspects of the 10 past years of the African continent. Any person of legal age can take part in the competition. Photographs can be entered for the competition from 10 October to 13 December 2017 (inclusive). Each applicant may participate with a maximum of five (5) photographs. To do this, you must send them either as attachments or through a file exchange system (such as WeTransfer or Dropbox) to redes.sociales@casafrica.es. Photographs should be sent in JPEG format with a minimum resolution of 200 dpi and file-size between 1.5 MB and 5 MB. Click here for more information. That's it for this week's update! Please follow us on our social media pages for more day-to-day happenings and contact us with any queries at info@nafasiartspace.org Asante sana!