Faces & Masks: The Interwoven Relation explores the stories we inherit and the identities we create Based at Nairobi Gallery, which houses over 10,000 archival materials collected from around Africa by former Vice President Joseph Murumbi, the exhibition brings together artists from Africa and Switzerland to respond to specific pieces from the collection, creating a
Sannad Shreef’s exhibition Indigo Hypoxia at Goethe Institut speaks of grief and trauma but also hope.
Find all the art iN Nairobi this month….Events, openings and ongoing exhibitions, it’s all here in your monthly art guide.
All That’s Left of You traces the Hammad family across four decades, opening in 1948 Jaffa, where a comfortable household living among orange groves is bombed out of its home and scattered toward Beirut and the West Bank. From there the film moves through the 1970s, the 1980s and into the 2020s, following one family’s line through occupation, imprisonment, protest, and grief.
Faces & Masks: The Interwoven Relation explores the stories we inherit and the identities we create Based at Nairobi Gallery, which houses over 10,000 archival materials collected from around Africa by former Vice President Joseph Murumbi, the exhibition brings together artists from Africa and Switzerland to respond to specific pieces from the collection, creating a
Sannad Shreef’s exhibition Indigo Hypoxia at Goethe Institut speaks of grief and trauma but also hope.
Find all the art iN Nairobi this month….Events, openings and ongoing exhibitions, it’s all here in your monthly art guide.
All That’s Left of You traces the Hammad family across four decades, opening in 1948 Jaffa, where a comfortable household living among orange groves is bombed out of its home and scattered toward Beirut and the West Bank. From there the film moves through the 1970s, the 1980s and into the 2020s, following one family’s line through occupation, imprisonment, protest, and grief.
Moonshine Returns to Nairobi for a Third Night of Afro-Diasporic Sound The global club night Moonshine lands back in Nairobi this Friday, 10 July, for its third edition in the city. Presented by Moonshine, The Mist, and OPAK, the party takes over MASSHOUSE from 10pm, with doors staying open until the early hours. Moonshine built
Find all the art iN Nairobi this month….Events, openings and ongoing exhibitions, it’s all here in your monthly art guide.
Ryan Marley’s documentary follows Amadou and Mariam as they travel between Paris, Spain, and Mali to record what would become their final album. The structure is familiar enough: archival footage, talking heads, performance sequences, the slow build toward a homecoming concert.
Playing at Unsene.en Nairobi through Ju
Father’s Day lands this Sunday, and Nairobi has shown up for it. Whether your dad is the type who wants a long, unhurried brunch with the family, a morning run before the city wakes up, or a cold drink somewhere with a view, there is something on this weekend that fits.
A Boubou Party Comes to Nairobi: Le Djembé Pops Up at SESAME, Kileleshwa
This October, Nairobi will host one of its most intimate and imaginative cultural gatherings yet — A Taste of Expression 2025.
On 2nd August 2025, Nairobi Street Kitchen will host The Wine Fair, offering more than a tasting event—it’s a landmark in Kenya’s growing wine journey. As part of our iNDULGE series, iN brings you the best of Food and Drink across the capital.
Miss Lou’s, an Afro Caribbean soul food concept restaurant that’s redefining comfort food by weaving together the rich flavors of the Caribbean, West Africa, and the American South.
Faces & Masks: The Interwoven Relation explores the stories we inherit and the identities we create Based at Nairobi Gallery, which houses over 10,000 archival materials collected from around Africa by former Vice President Joseph Murumbi, the exhibition brings together artists from Africa and Switzerland to respond to specific pieces from the collection, creating a
Sannad Shreef’s exhibition Indigo Hypoxia at Goethe Institut speaks of grief and trauma but also hope.
Find all the art iN Nairobi this month….Events, openings and ongoing exhibitions, it’s all here in your monthly art guide.
Moonshine Returns to Nairobi for a Third Night of Afro-Diasporic Sound The global club night Moonshine lands back in Nairobi this Friday, 10 July, for its third edition in the city. Presented by Moonshine, The Mist, and OPAK, the party takes over MASSHOUSE from 10pm, with doors staying open until the early hours. Moonshine built
Moonshine Returns to Nairobi for a Third Night of Afro-Diasporic Sound The global club night Moonshine lands back in Nairobi this Friday, 10 July, for its third edition in the city. Presented by Moonshine, The Mist, and OPAK, the party takes over MASSHOUSE from 10pm, with doors staying open until the early hours. Moonshine built
Nairobi has a night for everything. Afrobeat, amapiano, hip-hop cyphers, jazz brunches, rooftop sundowners. The city’s music calendar is full. But punk? Skate culture? The loud, fast, DIY energy that has built entire youth movements elsewhere in the world? That’s never really had a home here. Not a proper one…
Drop In #01 is trying to change that.
On Saturday 6th June 2026, the Nairobi Arboretum will transform into a vibrant celebration of African creativity, community, and self-expression. One day. One beautiful green space. And an entire programme designed to remind you that creativity lives inside all of us.
Few artists describe their work as healing, but for Nairobi-born singer-songwriter Mo, music has always been exactly that. Her sound blends soulful vocals, rich melodies and rhythmic grooves with lyrics designed to soothe, uplift and connect.
The Sound of Nairobi and beyond. iNTUNE captures the rhythm of a city always in motion. This is where Nairobi’s sonic culture lives—fresh drops, forgotten gems, and genre-blurring grooves that define the 254 code.
All That’s Left of You traces the Hammad family across four decades, opening in 1948 Jaffa, where a comfortable household living among orange groves is bombed out of its home and scattered toward Beirut and the West Bank. From there the film moves through the 1970s, the 1980s and into the 2020s, following one family’s line through occupation, imprisonment, protest, and grief.
Moonshine Returns to Nairobi for a Third Night of Afro-Diasporic Sound The global club night Moonshine lands back in Nairobi this Friday, 10 July, for its third edition in the city. Presented by Moonshine, The Mist, and OPAK, the party takes over MASSHOUSE from 10pm, with doors staying open until the early hours. Moonshine built
Nairobi has a night for everything. Afrobeat, amapiano, hip-hop cyphers, jazz brunches, rooftop sundowners. The city’s music calendar is full. But punk? Skate culture? The loud, fast, DIY energy that has built entire youth movements elsewhere in the world? That’s never really had a home here. Not a proper one…
Drop In #01 is trying to change that.
We followed the installation from start to finish, joining Franz Cerami and Ambassador Vincenzo Del Monaco of Italy to Kenya for every step of Jute Portraits.
When the World Looked Up: *Stand Together as One* Arrives at a Moment We Cannot Afford to Forget
Zoey Martinson’s award-winning Ghanaian comedy The Fisherman is screening through June at Unseen Nairobi. Our review of the talking fish film everyone’s loving. Tickets on Mookh.
Things We Carry presents a fundraising screening of the award winning film KHARTOUM at the unique venue Sarakasi Dome @sarakasitrustofficial in Ngara.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-director Snoopy Ibrahim.
In honour of World Oceans Day, Nat Geo have uploaded Attenborough’s latest documentary “Ocean” – for free.
In honour of World Oceans Day, Nat Geo have uploaded Attenborough’s latest documentary “Ocean” – for free.
…What they tend not to think about — what even many Kenyans tend not to think about — is 536 kilometres of Indian Ocean coastline, and everything living in it, on it, and because of it.
Wildebeests aren’t Kenya’s only migrating phenomenon. Whales are where it’s at by the ocean.
On Saturday 6th June 2026, the Nairobi Arboretum will transform into a vibrant celebration of African creativity, community, and self-expression. One day. One beautiful green space. And an entire programme designed to remind you that creativity lives inside all of us.
Award winning author and poet Adipo Sidang’ brings you a play that promises to be as enthralling as its name: In the Seashell Hum. This theatrical piece deals with the heaviness and complexities of mental health in a way that is multilayered and nuanced, addressing a darker side that we can often see and yet refuse to talk about.
This two-hour workshop is not about learning how to structure a book or plan chapters. It is about something much more fundamental than that. It is about the relationship between you and the work that is trying to come through you, and what it means to live your life as the person who is writing it.
The R*E*S*E*T Retreat at Nderit House isn’t just a getaway—it’s four days to fully switch off, be looked after, and come back to yourself. With only seven spots available, this is a rare chance to experience something truly personal, intentional, and deeply restorative.