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✨Ready to run a show?✨ We’re launching the Event Production Accelerator with @passpass__ — an intensive 5-day training designed for emerging event practitioners. This pilot program is for those working in events, lighting, and sound who want to sharpen their skills. This will be done through interactive workshops + follow-up assignments. Expect to leave with more confidence, broader skills for you to take your events career further! 📅 3rd – 7th November 2025 📍 Nairobi ✨ Only 5 spots available! Call is closed! #StrictlySilk #PassPass #EventProduction #CreativeIndustry

@cocoem__ giving artists and event promoters gems regarding the VISA processes. The full panel which covers a range of topics related to her @passpass__ initiative is out now on our YT channel. This is one that our industry friends shouldn’t miss @amsterdamdanceevent @meetmeconnect

Hi friends, We hope you’re having a great start to your week! If you haven’t bought your tickets for the Ghana edition of Vuka Mpaka, there is still time! Join us this Wednesday (tomorrow!) at @unseen.nairobi , 6pm 🗓️ If you’re wondering what we have in store for you here’s a sneak peek! - Pass Pass Panafrican networking for creatives - meet your next collaborators! - Conversation with Douglas Opoku @dopo.ism of PRJCT Kumasi on creative work and collaboration in Ghana; featuring a short film screening by @lago_collective x @orokoradio 🎤 - Panafrican quiz with a prize for the winning team 🏆 - Palava with Fish - a typical Ghanaian dish served up by Unseen’s kitchen team 🍛 - Music and dance from Ghana! We hope to see you there - remember to spread the word to your Ghanaian comrades - they get in for free! 🇬🇭 🇰🇪 Tickets here: /event/pass-pass-vuka-mpaka-ghana

Habari zenu, Boyei Malamu, Akwaaba! We hope you year is off to a good start! Last year in November, we introduced you to our Vuka Mpaka series of events in collaboration with @unseen.nairobi . Vuka Mpaka which translates to ‘Cross the border’ is a night of networking and exchange between African and diasporan creatives. With our second edition around the corner we are excited to announce that our next stop will be Ghana 🇬🇭 Our special guest for this second edition is Douglas Opoku aka ‘Dopo’, a visual/art director and creative based in Kumasi and founder of founder of @prjct.kumasi . Dopo recently directed a short film called ‘Stories of Visa Inequality,’ with @lago_collective who do research on migration and culture - a subject dear to us. Join us on the 29th January, 2025 as we immerse ourselves in Ghanaian culture, learn about new creative territory, eat Ghanaian food, listen to Ghanaian music and find avenues for more direct collaboration in our creative scenes. Let’s connect and celebrate Ghanaian culture! Tickets are 650KSH (on Mookh) Ghanaian attendees get in free! Wednesday, January 29th 2025, 6.30pm #PassPass #PRJCTKumasi #GhanaianCulture #ArthouseCinema #AfricanFilm

Pass Pass is proud to partner with Unseen Nairobi to produce the first edition of ‘Vuka Mpaka”! Vuka Mpaka is a Pan African networking event for creatives (filmmakers, artists, performers, activists, intellectuals, practitioners) to connect and exchange. Our first stop this Thursday, is Congo a Our special guests for the night are Friends of the Congo, working for change and peace in their country, and Yolè Africa, a non-profit cultural center using art to empower disadvantaged youth in Congo. We will have short film screenings & Unseen’s kitchen will have a delicious Congolese dish for the night, served with a healthy portion of Lingala music! Let’s connect and celebrate Congolese culture! Tickets are 550KES (on Mookh) Congolese attendees get in free! Thursday, November 21st, 6.30pm #PassPass #FriendsOfTheCongo #CongoleseCulture #ArthouseCinema #AfricanFilm Tune Eloko Oyo by @fallyipupa01

Pass Pass is proud to partner with Unseen Nairobi to produce the first edition of ‘Vuka Mpaka’! Vuka Mpaka is a Pan African networking event for creatives (filmmakers, artists, performers, activists, intellectuals, practitioners) to connect and exchange. Our first stop this Thursday, is Congo 🇨🇩 Our special guests for the night are Friends of the Congo, working for change and peace in their country, and Yolè Africa, a non-profit cultural center using art to empower disadvantaged youth in Congo. We will have short film screenings & Unseen’s kitchen will have a delicious Congolese dish for the night, served with a healthy portion of Lingala music 🎶 Let’s connect and celebrate Congolese culture! Tickets are 550KES, Congolese attendees get in free! Thursday, November 21st, 6.30pm Ticket link in bio 🎟️ . . . #PassPass #FriendsOfTheCongo #CongoleseCulture #ArthouseCinema #AfricanFilm

Habari zenu 🙏🏾 Here’s a recap of our week at @amsterdamdanceevent Big thank you to Meedy @descendants.rec @jasmin.vivian @adegreenconference Tiwa & @darebalogun @ourhomecoming Matt @tamizdat_inc for creating the space to share ideas, raise awareness and strategize on solutions together. Shoutout to all the inspiring panelists and thanks for sharing your knowledge! @femaleconnections @siljafischer @joeyakan @ladyshaka @bethany.andrzejak @shanaedennis_ @andilembete @thandidraai @djkittyamor @dacaposa Special thank you to @jackiequeens and @meedymusic for your encourangement and support. And to all the wonderful people and connections we made, we look forward to building together. Asanteni! #passpass

Greetings from Amsterdam! Pass Pass is at @amsterdamdanceevent this year to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing African artists - travel restrictions and sustainable touring models. We have so many ideas to share and we’re working on multiple projects, so if you’re attending, come connect and be part of the solution! Representing the Pass Pass team in Amsterdam this year are founder and co-founder @cocoem__ and @the_huile_mccoy You can find us at the following venues throughout ADE: Wed 16th Oct - 16:15 - 17:00 @tamizdat_inc panel at Felix Meritis Thur 17th Oct - 00:00 till late! DJ set @descendants.rec party curated by @meedymusic at @parallel.am Fri 18th Oct - 14:45 - 15:30 @adegreenconference panel at Felix Meritis Sat 19th Oct - 15:15 - 16:00 @ourhomecoming panel at Felix Meritis Sat 19th Oct - 19:00 -20:30 - @descendants.rec panel at Room Mate Aitana Special thanks @jasmin.vivian @darebalogun and to @meedymusic for extending the invitation to be a part of the Descendants extended programming at ADE this year. See you there! #passpass

Hi fine Should have done this a month ago but here we are at the tail end of this EU/UK tour to “officially”announce that I was on tour with @the_huile_mccoy hehe I will perform my last set tonight at the @sfinksmixed festival and I share the stage with an EA mbogi @catu_diosis @ninaogot @sitiandtheband + @_liboi_ @maijameehameow & Rashid. To everyone who has hosted us, booked us to perform, given us a platform to speak, thank you so very much 🧡 Aside from all the gratitude and love I feel for the support and love I have received in this chapter, I have struggled to feel present on this tour. My mind has been pre-occupied with the ongoing struggle my people are currently deeply involved in as they call for various changes in our country. There are calls for accountability and transparency within our governance, respect for human life, an end to police brutality, an end to the murder of our people, an end to corruption, better living conditions and much more. Observing this struggle, and many others like it go on and on, as I move around, and work and entertain the peoples from some of our former colonial powers, I cannot help but consider the real impacts that neo colonialism is having within our current struggles today. Did a quick ‘what is neo-colonialism’ search on the interwebs. Didn’t go super deep into it this time, but looking forward to prodding further - I’m supposed to be set prepping hehe Canva came through for this quick tour poster, but it got me inspired to put together these small poster-like posts, the way @red_maat does! This is in a bid to continue to educate myself on what is going on in the world, understand how everything is connected, to share what I find (most of which is readily available online) and to join in with those who seek to build stronger foundations for our collective freedoms, sustain those freedoms and guard our beautiful lives to come. Praying for the safety of all those involved in this struggle and looking forward to being back in Nairobae 🌸🧡

Singeli Movement: Greed for speed, directed by @jan_moss (Full trailer on YouTube) Singeli Movement: Greed for speed will be screening tonight at 7pm EAT at @unseen.nairobi Todays program is a special collaboration between @unseen.nairobi @tangazamagazine and @passpass__ In addition to picking Jan’s brain about the film and his decision to come all the way to Tanzania to highlight this movement, we will be exploring the threads that tie various global underground music movements with socialist ideals, cultural resistance and preservation and more with @themist.ke co-founder DJ, producer and community organizer @maybedjraph . After the chat, we dance! If you’ve been curious to hear more Singeli and other bubbling sounds from the underground in Nairobi, @lilywhite_sk has got you covered tonight :) Karibuni 🙏🏾 —— Some random talking points that will be synthesized into coherent convo later on… Career skepticism ending once money starts coming in Associated with hooligans Ujamaa “Familyhood” Ambitions of stardom in artists competitiveness of capitalist acceleration “As he saw that other countries are not interested in this music, he turned to typically Tanzanian music.” Thieves of development Tatizo pesa From the poorest stratas of society Advancements in tech + info in the digital age (DSLRs, cellphones, music prod software) ability to control your own narrative- there is power in that

Hello friends! Join us for the screening of @jan_moss ’s film Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed on Thursday, March 21st at 7pm at @unseen.nairobi curated in collaboration with @passpass__ . The screening will be followed by a conversation discussing the development of underground music movements between @cocoem__ and co-founder of @themist.ke , @maybedjraph ; and a DJ set by @lilywhite_sk . Can’t wait to see you there ✨ 🎟️ in bio

DJs without borders ✊🏾 Wonderful honour for us to curate tonight’s lineup with our family over at the @themist.ke - big thank you @maybedjraph Catch @bizi_bingi @djaypaps @mouriiiiiiiiii @ngatmaler @cocoem__ @brayo_sensei @budalagi on the ones and manys 🍉🍉🍉 #passpass 🇰🇪 x 🇵🇸