The Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival is a hybrid between a traditional place-based festival and a bus tour. The tour will cover 5 countries (12 towns): Kenya (Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu, Mombasa), Uganda (Kampala, Kabale), DRC (Goma), Rwanda (Kigali) and Tanzania (Mwanza, Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar). The festival will celebrate diversity and create living connections between writers, artists, and diverse audiences in the big cities and small towns across East Africa. The festival main festival partner for the Kenyan leg is Goethe-Institut Nairobi The Nakuru Programme will feature: Two school visits for literature and art talks, together with poetry and fiction book reading and conversations. Two Jalada Teams will visit Menengai High School & Flamingo Secondary School from 11:00 AM - 1:00 pm. The Jalada Team in collaboration with the Kenya National Library Service - Nakuru and MAC Festival will co-produce an evening performance showcase featuring spoken word, poetry, music and theatre from 6:00 - 9:00 PM. Events will be held at Kenya National Library Service-Nakuru Branch Attendance is free! Visit the festival site for more details http://www.jalada.org/festival