About our Programmes

The Alliance Française de Nairobi offers a rich programme of annual activities showcasing local and international Arts and encouraging creativity.

We support the production and presentation of artistic works, across all disciplines that reflect the diversity, aspirations and contradictions of our contemporary society and that open up space for dialogue.
Alliance Française also serves as an important bridge for artistic exchanges between Francophone and Anglophone artists.

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A weekly film screening that shows diverse Kenyan, French and Francophone films every Monday of the month.

A once-a-month platform for musicians, music and poetry collaborations. Artists are invited to perform, improvise, experiment and build audiences in an intimate acoustic setting.

Monthly visual arts exhibitions, installations and thematic exhibitions that serve multiple purposes: mediums for exposing and celebrating artistic creativity, catalysts for action and transformation, platforms for experimentation and dialogue and avenues for challenging conventions.

Monthly original productions or adaptations by Kenyan theatre companies.

Bimonthly informal discussions in English on diverse subjects of interest that make science and research accessible to the general public.

The competition aims to expose and promote young directors of short films and contribute to popularizing the art of cinema thanks to the ubiquitous smartphone.

For more information, please visit smartphonefilmcompetition.co.ke

The Night of Ideas, in annual event, initiated by Insitut Français (the French Agency for International cultural cooperation), that is marked simultaneously around the world in the third week of January.  The event aims to celebrate and share knowledge, ideas and innovations using different approaches in diverse areas.

Popular known as the World Music Day, it is held annually on 21^st June.  The celebrations brings together aspiring musicians and seasoned professionals to perform, celebrate and share their love for music.

The French Language and Francophone Week is celebrated globally every year around 20^th March. It is an occasion that unites about 275 million French speaking people around the world, bringing together a diversity of cultures that continue to enrich the French language.

Initiated by the Institut Français, the French agency for international cultural cooperation, Novembre Numérique or Digital November takes place across several countries to highlight myriad digital cultures.