Thursday, January 5, 2012

The new African Arts Centre, was built at two hemispheres

By Gareth Roberts


The Lily Pond on the equator, Nanyuki is a wonderful new Arts Centre, offering inspiring modern but affordable african art, gifts and healthy lunches - which makes a unbeatable special break on a Kenyan safari itinerary.

This new contemporary arts centre is situated just off the main Nanyuki "Nairobi road route into Samburu National Park, Ol Pejeta Conservancy (Sweetwaters), Meru National Park and Mount Kenya Safari Club and so makes an ideal stopover on the Kenyan safari trail.

The vast art gallery displays affordable contemporary art from East Africa's top modern artists, away from the hustle of town life.

You can opt to either absorb the atmosphere of this tranquil and special african arts place, or meet the "Artists in Residence". The Art Gallery houses art graduates from art colleges in Nairobi, Kenya who are on full-time, long-term placements at the arts centre, making and displaying new affordable art works.

This new art studio in Nanyuki, intends to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, while allowing safari visitors to buy original pieces of art.

Safari guests can also enjoy a good lunch on a deck, overlooking an enormous lily pool.

With the great Mount Kenya mountain as a background, art visitors can also like watching the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pond!

What Kenyan safari guests find fantastic is that the equator slices clean through the middle of this Arts Centre. This means that you can view electrifying african art in both the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere!

This new Arts Centre in Nanyuki, has just installed a new equator sculpture, the Wish Globe, which is installed precisely at 0000000. Everybody writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".

Do you know that objects move in different directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres of the Equator? You can test the Coriolis effect at the Lily Pond Arts Centre, which is precisely on the Equator in Nanyuki.

The contemporary Arts Centre is also a rare opportunity to buy special hand- made African gifts like beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, kenyan metal geckos and a lot more unusual african gift ideas.




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