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Miscellaneous Events

MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS

Sunday 28th June 2026
Ngong Racecourse
Thomas Deware Mile

The Thomas Dewar Mile race day is on Sunday, 28 June 2026 between 12 PM and 4:30 PM at Ngong Racecourse.
Nearing the end of the season, this afternoon will feature thrilling horse racing, the best of Nairobi fashion, a wide selection of food and beverages, curated pop-up market, and family-friendly fun. Stay after the races for fashion awards, sundowners, and more at The Afterparty.
Tickets: https://tikiti.co.ke/e/the-thomas-dewar-mile
Note:
* Dress code - Smart Casual
* All student ticket holders must show physical student ID
* Tikiti tickets valid until 4:30 PM on race day
* No pets allowed
* No outside food / drink permitted

Sunday 28th June 2026
Las Vegas Lounge Saika
Fundraising Towards Instrumental Purchase with MC Jambalariany & Uncle Sam

Saturday 27th June 2026
Chronos Lavington
Fashion & Art Denim Gala

Step into a world where denim becomes art.
Join us on the 26th of June at Chronos, Lavington - Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪 for an immersive fashion experience curated by Makasi Studios, where three designers will each unveil their own unique interpretation of the Denim Gala.
Expect:
- Bold denim installations
- Runway showcases
- Interactive live models
- Beautiful music & beautiful people
- Immersive creativity, style, and expression
And most importantly - come dressed in your own interpretation of the Denim Gala. We want to see your creativity on full display.
A celebration of fashion, art, denim, and identity.

Saturday 27th June 2026
Goethe Institut Library Monrovia Street
Amka Literature Forum

Be part of our monthly literature forum continuing next week! This edition will feature Adolf Bruno, a Kenyan author and legal scholar whose work moves between archival history, sociological critique, grassroots institutional building, and legal design. An alumna of the Alliance High School Class of 2024, Bruno served as a prefect within the school's historic leadership system - a position that placed him at the centre of the very machinery he would later examine. His book, The Double Helix of Elite Formation: Alliance High School and the Making of Postcolonial Kenya, 1926-2026 (Crux Nova Publishers, 2026) reconstructs a century of elite formation through the dual strands of radical meritocracy and colonial discipline. The book argues that the institution's celebrated ethos engineered not merely leaders, but a self-sustaining class insulated from accountability and that empathy is the strand the machine deliberately withholds. Currently a Bachelor of Laws student at the University of Nairobi, Bruno's academic work centres on the intersections of law, language, and social change. It explores legal design, access to justice, and the role of legal systems in shaping power structures.

Saturday 27th June 2026
Impala Rugby Club Ngong Rd
Vets After Dark Rugby

Vets After Dark is a premium floodlit veterans rugby and lifestyle festival that brings together rugby legends, social teams, fans, and the wider rugby community for an unforgettable night under the lights. Built around the identity "Rugby. Stories. Under Lights.", the event blends fast-paced veterans 10s rugby with music, food, drinks, entertainment, and the iconic rugby third-half atmosphere that lives long after the final whistle. Taking place at Impala Club on Saturday, 27 June 2026, Vets After Dark is more than a tournament - it is a celebration of rugby culture, nostalgia, friendship, and community during the off-season.

Sunday 28th June 2026
Bar'dayez Bistro First Floor Westlands Muthithi Rd
Austrian Grand Prix Fantastic Watch Party

Newsletter

STAGE / MOVIE / ENTERTAINMENT - click on poster to enlarge

Welcome to NILE TRIBE - a daytime Afro House experience where music, culture, style, and energy come together under the Nairobi sky. Expect deep rhythms, beautiful people, unforgettable moments, and a vibe that feels like home. This is more than an event. This is a movement.

Saturday 27th June 2026
Wow Pianos Limited Langata Rd
Acoustic Music Recital with hazel Lime

Step into an evening of soulful music, heartfelt storytelling, and genuine connection at an exclusive acoustic recital featuring the captivating Haze Lime. Set within the warm and intimate ambiance of WOW Piano, Karen, this special performance invites you to experience music in its purest form. Through a carefully curated selection of original songs and timeless favorites, Hazel Lime will take audiences on a journey of emotion, reflection, and inspiration. Unlike large concerts, this recital is designed to create a close and personal atmosphere where every note, lyric, and story can be felt deeply. Whether you're a lover of acoustic music, meaningful conversations, or simply looking for a beautiful way to spend your evening, this event promises an unforgettable experience.

Saturday 27th June 2026
Sarova Panafric Hotel Nairobi Upper Hill
Masquerade Party

It has been a while since Nairobi last danced with us. And for months now, the city has been asking when we return. On 27th June, the wait finally ends. Behind the masks, beneath the lights, and inside a room built for mystery, movement, and memory, Domino Revolution arrives with a masquerade experience shaped for the night crowd that knows how to disappear into music. Nairobi, we heard you. Now come dressed for the occasion.

Saturday 27th June 2026
Nairobi Club Ngong Rd
Alumni Reunion Prom Night

Step back into the glory days and join us for the Inter-High School Alumni Legacy Reunion on Saturday, 27th June from 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm at Nairobi Club, Ngong Road, Upper Hill. Under the theme "A Night of Nostalgia, Connections & Celebration," this unforgettable evening will bring together alumni from various schools for a night of re-connection, networking, laughter, music, friendly rivalries, and memories old and new.

Friday 3rd July2026
Quiver Lounge Kitengela
Prince Indah | Ogina Koko | Jendeke Mfalme

Saturday 27th June 2026
Holy Cross Catholic Church
A Journey Through Sacred Music: The Mass

Pulchra Musica presents an evening of sacred choral music spanning centuries of musical tradition.Featuring works by Bach, Mozart, Gounod, and Barber, this year’s edition of A Journey Through Sacred Music explores the beauty, solemnity, and grandeur of the Mass through some of sacred music’s most enduring composers.Conducted by Dr. Duncan Wambugu and Fr. Louis Gravrand, with guest appearances by the Holy Cross Choir and Holy Cross Children’s Choir.

Saturday 27th June 2026
Windsor Waterfront Gardens
The African Aluta

“The African Aluta is more than an event - it is a movement. A vibrant celebration of African culture, music, art, fashion, food, and unity, bringing together communities to honor our heritage and shape Africa’s future together.” All this, at a garden, next to a waterfall, at a fireplace surrounded by beautiful people.

Saturday 27th June 2026
Armee Arcade Westlands
Freestyle Friday Sessions with Frank White

Freestyle Sessions is back at it again on Saturday, 27 June, at The Space, Amee Arcade, Westlands. Expect live performances, freestyles, DJs, and a room full of people who love hip hop in all its forms. Whether you're an artist, a fan, or just looking for a night with good music and good energy, this is where you need to be. No two sessions are ever the same. The mic belongs to whoever is brave enough to step up.

Saturday 27th June 2026
KODA Kenrail Towers
Best Of Both Worldsi with Sfarzo Rtee | Jnr Sa

SNS x Sirocco Entertainment present a special partnership experience on 27th June at Koda Nairobi . A night bringing together the best of both worlds through 3Step and Amapiano. This intimate experience features two international guest artists, each representing their genre, for a night built around sound, culture, and community. More than just a party, this event marks the beginning of a new movement and the celebration of a partnership with something much bigger on the way. Expect immersive music, high energy, and a carefully curated atmosphere bringing together lovers of both sounds under one roof.
Join the movement.

Saturday 27th June 2026
Emara Ole Sereni Hotel
Album launch Master 1

Miscellaneous Events

MARKETS & SHOPPING

Every Sunday
K1 Klub House
K1 Flea Market

Every Friday
Village Market
Maasai Market

Every Tuesday & Wednesday
Westgate Shopping Center
Maasai Market

We are coming back again bigger and better from 6th Jan, 2026. Add a touch of heritage to your style. Shop the Maasai Market at Westgate.

Every Saturday
KSPCA Langata Rd
KSPCA Market

Every Sunday
Yaya Centre Argwings Kodhek Rd Rooftop Parking
Maasai Market

Your Sundays just got brighter at the Yaya Maasai Market! Wander through rows of stunning beadwork, chic handmade jewellery, bold fabric prints, art, crafts, and one-of-a-kind pieces you won't find anywhere else. Meet the artisans, shop local, and experience a marketplace full of life, colour, and creativity. Whether you're gifting, decorating, or treating yourself - the perfect find is waiting for you every Sunday at Yaya. #ygoanywhereelse? #yayacentre #masaimarket #sundays

Art Events

ART EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS - click on poster to enlarge

23rd to 30th June 2026
Munyu Space The Mall Westlands
Exhibition: Forging Urban Citizenship

8th to 26th June 2026
Embassy of Peru in Kenya Runda
Adelina y AmadorExhibition by Jeannine Ferran - Monday Wednesday & Friday

The exhibition pays tribute to the legacy of Amador Ballumbrosio, his wife Adelina, and the family.

4th June to 4th July 2026
Circle Art Gallery
Ephemerals by Raso Cyprian

15th Feb. to 13th June 2026
Karen Village Ngong Rd
Art Competition

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES VIA EMAIL TO: MANAGEMENT@KAREN-VILLAGE.COM
Present a single piece of artwork Offer an explanation and analysis of itShare a brief biography of no more than 15 words about yourself. PRIZES TO BE WON: Paid Supply of Art Material. Art Exhibition at Karen Village Residency at Karen Village 1865 Meal VoucherTop 12 entries to be in the Calender. WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED ON 30TH AUG 2026.

Thursday 2nd July 2026
Goethe Institut Library Monrovia Street
Indigoo Hypoxia - Exhibition Opening Performance by Sannad Shreed

In just over a week's time! Joi us for the opening of Sannad Shreef's Indigo Hypoxia, an exhibition as part of Networks of Belonging. Indigo Hypoxia is conceived as an immersive solo exhibition - a space that brings together painting, textile installation, and live performance. It presents a series of presences: alienated blue figures existing within a purple atmosphere. The exhibition explores an internal psychological state shaped by a sense of spatial and emotional void. This is not a literal room, but a mental enclosure in which the figures are suspended caught between withdrawal and exposure, fragility and weight.

12th June to 16th August 2026
African Arts Trust Victoria Square
'In this Valley of Dying Stars by Jess Atieno

9th May to 21st June 2026
Nobody Owns Me Gallery near HOF Gallery Kibera
Tides Of Presence
Featuring Eugene Miera & Mutune Waweru - Curated by Santana Sino

26th July to 15th Aug. 2026
Red Hill Art Gallery
Humanimals by Al naim (Sudan) | The Sorrow Of Exile by Rashid Diab (Sudan

3rd to 31st July 2026
Creativity Gallery Nairobi National Museum
Ithui Othe O Rimwe - An Exhibition by Harrison Karanja 'Scopt'

5th to 30th June 2026
Creativity Gallery Nairobi National Museum
Change Of Time by Mutisya Kasamba

Every Saturday
Karen Village Ngong Rd
Sip And Graffiti

Friday 26th June 2026
The Mall Westlands
Vernissage: Forging Urban Citizenship

Please join us on 26 June 2026 from 4:30 PM for a Friday night vernissage of the exhibition 'Forging Urban Citizenship': a collaborative art and research project that brings together sixteen independent artists and/or artist collectives from four cities across Kenya, Malawi, and Zimbabwe to think about what it means to continuously 'forge' the urban lifeforms, care, and justice that many Gen-Z demand on the streets. The project engages with a multiplicity of art forms, materials, genres, and techniques, mirroring an ever-growing panoply of urban life projects, spaces, politics, and practices. Cities in Africa and beyond have become social laboratories and workshops where new ways of belonging, caring, building, sounding, and enacting community are invented, tested, revised, and constantly brought into conversation with one another.

9th May to 9th July 2026
Nani's Wonderland @ Kitengela Glass
Colour Untamed by Katie Simpson

Katie Simpson is a Kenyan painter whose work is an act of witness to the animals, landscapes, and fragile ecologies that shaped her from childhood. Born in Kenya and formed by an artistic environment surrounded by nature, the colours and textures of Africa have never left her. They are the ground from which everything else grows. Colour Untamed brings that lifelong conversation into full focus. Her paintings are ethereal explorations of the earth’s fragility and wildlife’s vulnerability, attempts to catch fleeting moments before they vanish, subjects held briefly in abstracted, luminous space. There is urgency in that impulse. Kenya’s wild places are changing, and Simpson paints in response – not with polemic, but with something more tender and more lasting.

9th May to 21st June 2026
HOF Gallery Kibera
'Territories of Becoming' featuring works by Waleed Mohammed, Cynthia Nyakiro & Mugabo Baritegera

Food & Drinks

EAT & DRINK

Saturday 27th June 2026
Rosedale Gardens Kilimani
BBQ Bandits - Arty & Finer Edition

On Saturday, 27th June, the BBQ Bandits invite you to an extraordinary garden affair where refined BBQ, artistic expression, exceptional beverages, and meaningful connections come together in one unforgettable afternoon. Indulge in expertly prepared BBQ served with refined pairing and plating, discover captivating artworks displayed in a gallery-style garden setting, enjoy ambient funky soul music, and savour a curated selection of wines, whiskies, signature cocktails, and boutique lifestyle experiences. Whether you come for the food, the art, the conversations, or simply the atmosphere, The BBQ Heist – Arty & Finer Edition promises an afternoon designed for those who appreciate the finer things in life.

Fairs in Kenya

FAIRS & EXPOS IN KENYA - CONFERENCES - SUMMIT

26th June to 12th July 2026
The Sarit Expo Centre Loita Hall Westlands
Egypt and Middle East Expo 2026

Step into a world of culture, style, and savings! Join us at the Egypt & Middle East Expo for unbeatable deals and unique finds -perfect for you and gifting this holiday season!

26th to 28th June t2026
Village Market Rooftop parking
Village Market Autoshow

The Village Market Autoshow Experience – 3rd Edition is back, bigger and more exhilarating. Join us at the rooftop for three days of pure automotive excellence. Explore everything from luxury vehicles and family cars to EVs, SUVs, off-road machines, performance cars, and outdoor adventure vehicles, all in one place. Whether you are buying, upgrading, or simply exploring, you will find flexible finance solutions, reliable insurance options, premium accessories and upgrades, and expert servicing insights designed to give you a complete automative experience.

Fairs in Kenya

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