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#Movie Under The Stars
NAIROBI HALF LIFE
Wednesday 9 April 2014, 7:15pm
Purdy Arms Restaurant – Marula Lane, Karen

If you have not seen Kenya’s biggest blockbuster movie on the big screen, you have another chance to catch it at Purdy Arms on Wednesday 9 April from 7.15 pm.
Winner of the Kalasha Award 2012, Breakthrough Audience Award at AFI Fest 2012 and Film Africa 2012 Audience Award
Nominated for the for the 2013 Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Picture and for an Oscar
This is the story of a young man in pursuit of his dream of becoming an actor. He makes his way to Nairobi, the city of opportunity, and quickly understands why Nairobi is nicknamed Nairobbery when he is robbed of all his money and belongings and left alone in a city where he doesn’t know a soul.
He is drawn into a dangerous world of crime where he comes face to face with both the city’s criminals and ruthless policmen.
His determination is encouraging and a true testament to the adage that says, “What stands between us and our goals is us”.
You can purchase an original DVD of the movie for Ksh 1,000.

Refreshments: 6.45pm Starts: 7:15 pm (1.30 hrs) Dinner: following the movie
Movie, Drink & Dinner Ksh 1,700
Movie & Drink Ksh 600
Reservations: 0724 255299, 2339158 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org
MPESA no: 400800, Account no: 6571570019
All proceeds go to support the National Museums of Kenya.

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Announcement of KMS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
and tour of the new JOY ADAMSON EXHIBITION
Wednesday 23 APRIL 2014
from HONORARY SECRETARY, DR. MARLA STONE

You are kindly asked to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Kenya Museum Society Wednesday, 23 April, at 6:15 pm in the Louis Leakey Auditorium. Wine, juice and bitings will be provided from 5:00 pm. Park in the upper parking lot next to the Louis Leakey Auditorium.
There is a special opportunity for you at 5:30 in the Museum. KMS has worked with the Nairobi National Museum to revive what was a very popular anchor exhibition for the museum in the past, the Joy Adamson Exhibition. KMS has funded the project and worked hand in hand with the Exhibitions Department to develop a refreshingly new presentation of the colorful and intriguing illustrations by Adamson that capture and preserve the cultural and natural heritage of Kenya. Fifty pieces have been selected for the first year of the exhibition and another fifty will be substituted in the second year to keep the exhibition fresh. A sample of 6 of the peoples illiustrations have been selected for a post card set to be sold in the KMS Shop and other NMK museums.
Work is ongoing, but we want to give KMS members an opportunity to be the first to visit the exhibition in its nearly-finished stage. That opportunity will be just prior to the AGM, from 5:30-6:10. Please bring your KMS membership card for free entry to the Museum. The exhibition is on the second floor above the Hall of Kenya. At 6:10 sharp we will proceed to the Louis Leakey Auditorium for the AGM.
If you want to nominate officers or other Council members, you are encouraged to contact the KMS office by email or phone. Any member who wishes to submit a resolution at the Annual General Meeting must do so by sending it in writing to the Secretary, Dr. Marla Stone, via the KMS email (info@kenyamuseumsociety.org). Self nominations are welcome, but must be submitted in writing and seconded by another KMS member.
Please confirm your attendance on or before Wednesday, 16th April by email (info@kenyamuseumsociety.org) or phone (020 3743808, 0724 255299, or wireless 020 2339158).
If your membership has lapsed or will soon lapse you may renew prior to the beginning of the meeting. Though all categories of members are encouraged to attend, only paid-up members, exclusive of student members, visitor members, NMK special category members, and KMS staff, will be able to vote on any issues.

The agenda for the AGM will be as follows:
1. Opening of Meeting
2. Approval of Minutes of 2013 AGM
3. Chairperson’s Report
4. Treasurer’s Report
5. New Business
a. Election of officers and other Council members
b. Appointment of auditor
c. Additional new business
d. Revision of corporate membership charges
6. Adjournment

A constitutional change is proposed regarding the membership fee for corporate members. The proposal, which will be voted on in the AGM, is to change the cost of one-year corporate membership to Ksh 6,000 with 8 membership cards from the current rate of Ksh 15,000 with 8 membership cards.
Park in the upper parking lot near the Louis Leakey Auditorium and walk around to the main entrance.

NATURAL CULTURAL SITES IN KENYA
Saturday 29 March 2014
Louis Leakey Auditorium, Nairobi National Museum
Dear KMS Member,
Do you know what cultural or sacred sites are? Do you know where they are in Kenya? Do know their value and the challenges facing the kaya forests and other sites as Kenya’s?
All Kenya’s ethnic groups recognized ‘special places’ in their landscapes, places where the normal daily activities of farming, herding or hunting were forbidden or strictly controlled. Such places might be trees, forests, rock outcrops, hills or mountains, and they are often referred to as ‘natural sacred sites’ or ‘natural cultural sites’. Their meanings related to indigenous religions, or locations where ‘first settlement’ by the ancestors of a particular ethnic group occurred, or sites for particular community meetings and rituals.
After the imposition of colonial rule, many cultural sites were destroyed or degraded, but others have survived and are now the focus of conservation efforts by a wide range of stakeholders, from local community members to national and international NGOs and transnational organizations.
To find out the answers to these questions and how cultural forests, rocks and hills can survive in increasingly intensively developed landscapes, you are invited to this intriguing and captivating talk by Dr. Celia Nyamweru, who has been studying Kenya’s natural cultural sites for nearly 20 years, in particular the kaya forests of the Kenya coast.

Refreshments 3.15pm Starts 4:00 pm
Donation: Ksh 400 KMS member
Ksh 500 Guest
Ksh 200 Citizen & Student
Tickets: 0724 255299, 2339158 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org
Mpesa no: 400800, Account no: 6571570019

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Tour of the Murumbi African Heritage Collection Exhibition
Nairobi Gallery – Next to Nyayo House in town
Saturday 8 March 2014
10.30am – 12.30 pm

Located at the intersection of Kenyatta Avenue/ Uhuru Highway in the heart of Nairobi City is the Nairobi Gallery. Built 100 years ago, Old PC’s office building was referred to as ‘Hatches, Matches and Dispatches’ because of the births, marriages and deaths that were recorded there. Today, the building is a National Monument and serves as a museum holding temporary art exhibitions. The gallery is currently showcasing the Murumbi African Heritage Collection Exhibition.
Cost

KMS member: Ksh 600 Member child: Ksh 300
(KMS members to use their membership cards to enter the Museum)

Non members:
Residents: Ksh 1,100 Resident child: Ksh 600
Non Residents: Ksh 1,500 Non member child: Ksh 750
Included:
• Entrance fees for Non Members only
• Brief talk on Joseph Murumbi by Narinder KMS Safari Coordinator
• Guided tour of The Murumbi African Heritage Collection Exhibition
• Talk on some of the gazetted city buildings by Martin Wahogo author of Know Kenya pocket guide book
• Secure and ample parking at Nairobi Gallery

Optional tours after the Gallery visit:
We will take a walk to parliament buildings, to view Kenya’s first President, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta Mausoleum.
We will then culminate our day outing on the rooftop of the tallest building in Nairobi, The Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). Its strategic position in the City offers citizens and visitors a unique, breathtaking and an amazing 360 degrees view of Nairobi’s Central business district and its environs, from the rooftop, which also doubles as a helipad.
After the tour participants can have their picnic lunch at the rooftop or at Tin Tin restraurant located in KICC building.
Excluded: Transport; optional tours & lunch.

Bring: Your identification cards / papers, a hat, sunscreen, drinking water, picnic lunch (optional) a small camera & binoculars

Recommended books retailing at the KMS Shop:
Know Kenya by Martin Wahogo @ Ksh 600
A brief tour of the buildings of Nairobi by Everlyn Wanjiku @ Ksh 1500

Book and pay for your space now.

Contact: 0724 255 299 or 2339158
info@kenyamuseumsociety.org