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Kayd Somali arts and Culture: upcoming events

Thursday 11 February 2010 SMC 

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Date: Friday, 12  February 2010
Time: 6:30-9pm.
Place: Oxford House, Derbyshire Street E2 6GH
(This discussion will be held in English)

Book Launch: Black Mamba Boy’ by Nadifa Mahamed
With entertainment from Abdifataah yare and Ga’id ( lute-player)

Chaired Mohamed Mahamoud

We will be introducing the exciting new novel by Somali-British author Nadifa Mohammed. ‘Black Mamba Boy’ tells the extraordinary tale of the author’s father. From his time as street child in Aden in the 1930’s, to his epic transcontinental journeys, and eventually his voyage with Jewish refugees in the Second World War which took him to safety in Britain. This novel explores a plethora of issues and offers a wealth of history and culture in a lively and inspiring book. Please join us for a discussion and book signing with the author at Oxford House. Nadifa will be joined by Dr Virginia Luling, an independent scholar and an expert on the Somali people.

Book launch: Weerane –The Mourning Tree: the autobiography of Mohamed Barud Ali
Saturday, 20 Feb. 2010
Time from 3pm
Oxford House, Derby Shire Street, E2 6GH

Kayd Somali Arts and Culture in collaboration with redsea-online.com are proudly inviting you to the presentation of new book: 'Weerane: autobiography by Mohamed Barud Ali’. This prison memoir will not only give first-hand information of the experience of the brutalities of military regime of Somalia but also of the life of a nomad child who is brought to the city to live with his aunt because there was no work for him due to the fact that his father did not own any camels to be looked after.
The other speakers are  Jama Musse Jama; director of Red Sea online (publisher of ‘The Mourning Tree’), Rashiid Sheikh Abdullahi; Author and expert on Somali culture, Martin Hill; the former director of Amnesty International Somalia desk and researcher who was involved in this case, Judith Gardner; author Somalia--the Untold Story: The War through the Eyes of Somali Women, Adan Warsame Said; the author’s friend and fellow prisoner, Fawzia Yousuf H Adam, The Director of Raad, I.M Lewis; emirates professor at The London School of Economics and Political Science (TBC) and others.

Comedy Night: Prince Abdi, Ola and Nabil Abdul Rashed- Third World Comedy
Friday, 5 March. 2010-02-03
Time 7pm-10pm
Oxford House, Derby Shire Street, E2 6GH

Kayd Somali Arts and Culture is presenting ‘Third World Comedy’. We are proudly inviting you to a hilarious comedy night. This includes Prince Abdi who is a few Anglo-Somali comedian in the UK, who was a finalist in the 2007 Chortle student comedy awards. He is a relative newcomer who has the material and confidence of that of full time comic. He has a lovely style in his delivery 'pacy, upbeat and infectious - that makes the audience warm to him. Set pieces such as his Bollywood and Nollywood reconstruction capitalise on that energy well. Also there will be entertainment from other Two comedians. Ola and Nabil Abdul Rashed.

For more information about events please visit www.kayd.org

 

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