Simanye Mobile Clinic, in partnership with Arushvest Capital and Supivaa Medical, a division of Supivaa Advisory Group and in collaboration with RED! Gala for Good will be launching a LIVE virtual art auction to raise funds for the clinic in South Africa. The EXCLUSIVE art auction will feature works provided by the House of Mandela Foundation and feature several well-known and upcoming artists from across Africa, curated and hand selected by renowned art curators at RED! Gala for Good.
During the Gala event, we’ll hear from artists and art experts & investors from across Africa and also have the opportunity to network in a cocktail event with our global guests.
We invite the world to Africa (virtually) to experience rarely seen works of the extraordinary Nelson Mandela - pieces that he’s personally sketched and painted, plus other works from the House of Mandela that have been donated exclusively for this auction.
The purpose of the fundraiser is to raise funds for the operations of Simanye Mobile Clinic. The brainchild of Dr. Kim Lamont of South Africa, Simanye Mobile Clinic seeks to become the premier provider of health care services for the missing middle market of Africa. With the use of innovative processes and technology, Simanye Mobile Clinic introduces mobile medical clinics and laboratories bringing primary health and care services to the poorest and hard-to-reach places in Africa.
Please note: Ticket holders for either day are able to come for both days. Please bear in mind the differences in time zones. The programme on both dates will be the same format but some of the speakers may change.
Please note that times listed here are PST for December 14th and GMT for December 15th.
Therefore if you’re joining us from Toronto, you’ll likely join on the 14th at 8pm EST. If you’re joining from Nairobi, you’re likely to join at 20:00 EAT on the 15th.
“Doors open” at 16:45. Feel free to “mingle” virtually. African music LIVE will be welcoming you to the Gala Event
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| Cocktail - Networking Event
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| 16:45 “Doors open”
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| 17:00 Welcome and Housekeeping
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“The Dream - Simanye Clinic” - How this Gala and Auction Came to Life
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House of Mandela Art International: Expressing Nelson Mandela’s Legacy through Art
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“These are a few of my favourite things….” Perspectives and insights from an African Art Curator
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African Art Comes in Other Forms
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The evolution of African Art as an Investment
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Panel: “Bringing The World To African Art” - perspectives from Artists, Curators, Collectors and Artists
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The Auction! How Does it all Work?
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Breakout/Networking
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Closing Remarks: Simanye Clinic
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African Inspiration to End the Evening: Reading from “Born for Greatness”
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| Music Performance |
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RED! Gala For Good AUCTION INFORMATION
HOW TO BID:
Bidding is easy with our automatic bidding system. Enter any bid amount as long as it is greater than the next minimum bid shown on the bidding screen, then click the “Bid” button. This will automatically place a bid for you at the next increment and save the amount you entered (if higher) as your “Maximum Bid.” You will receive an email from us to let you know your bid has been received.
We strongly recommend that bidders don't wait until the final moments of an auction to place their bids, as factors like Internet speed may affect how long it takes your bid to be placed. Also, please keep in mind that all bidders will need to register and add their credit card information before bidding.
For over a decade Ruby’s been supporting businesses, entrepreneurs and funders/investors in Africa, the US, UK and Europe. She recently came back to Canada to found Vancouver-based Supivaa Advisory Group, a boutique consultancy firm, rooted in women’s inclusiveness and gender-lens perspectives, and Supivaa Medical, a supplier, consultant and funder focused on the world’s global medical challenges.
Ruby is a seasoned entrepreneur, impact investment practitioner and executive business consultant focused on entrepreneurship, women’s inclusiveness/gender-lens investing and Africa’s growth across a variety of sectors including renewable energy, agriculture, and fintech. She’s held roles as Managing Director, CEO, COO and CMO for companies benefitting from commercial, impact and/or blended finance from the likes of USAID, the EU Commission, DFIs, and European-based impact investors.
Truly global by nature, she has lived in 16 countries through her career in UK, Europe and Africa including Tanzania, Nigeria, Madagascar and Kenya.
Ruby’s a passionate speaker on the topics of entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment, diaspora investments and the potential in Africa for prominent events globally.
She currently sits as a Senior Advisor and Head of Entrepreneurship Uhusiano Capital, a UK-based impact investment firm which bridges UK & European impact capital into Africa. She is the Co-Treasurer and Board Director for The HiVE Vancouver, a social impact-focused co-working community. Ruby’s also an Activator of SheEO (UK Ventures), and a voting member of the Canadian Forum for Impact Investment & Development (CAFIID).
She holds an MBA from IE Business School and a BA in Communications and Political Science from Simon Fraser University
Completed her BSc in Molecular Cell biology with distinction at the University of Limpopo in 2006. During the period between 2007 to 2012 she completed her Honours in Human Biology, MSc in Medicine and her PhD (Med).
In 2015, she completed an MPhil in IP Law and her keen interest in IP was further demonstrated when she completed an internship in the commercialisation of IP at Wits Enterprise and passed her group 1 Patent Board Exams.
Further to this she worked as a research and analysis manager for a period of 3 years at Amahlo Consulting a risk management company.
Dr Kim Lamont-Mbawuli was the project coordinator for the Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit for a period of two years and participated in various health education programs with a particular emphasis on maternal health.
Dr Kim Lamont-Mbawuli has completed two postdoctoral fellowships namely, the NIH leadership program for non-communicable diseases and the NRF scarce mskills program.
In 2019 she graduated with her LLB at Unisa, she completed her articles of clerkship and practical legal training with LEAD in the same year.
Currently she is a legal consultant at Leslie Sedibe Inc. Further to this she is an Expert Consultant for the Mentorship program at The Innovation Hub.
She was recently appointed the Chairman of the Board at Alternative Energy (a 100% youth, black owned company). She is also co-founder of Pan African Network for Investment and Development (PANfID).
Lastly, she is the CEO for the newly founded Simanye mobile clinic.
Athi founded Arushvest Capital in 2017. He has a total of 10 years’ experience in financial markets, including fund management, stockbroking, real estate investments and the hospitality industry.
His role within Simanye Clinic as Chief Operations Officer is to provide the broad strategic support to the CEO, assist with access to new markets and strategic partnerships, locally and across the globe through his vast network nurtured over his career in financial services.
Prior to forming Arushvest, he was involved with CTI as a Politics and Development Studies Lecturer, an equity derivatives trader at BNP Paribas Cadiz Securities, fixed-income analyst and assistant PM at Vunani Fund Managers, Global Markets and Investment Banking Consultant at Aperture and Expand Africa, Investment Analyst at Rebosis Property Fund and most recently Chief Operating Officer at Housing Development and Finance Corporation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Athi is a Member of the Institute of Financial Markets of South Africa, a Level 2 candidate in the CFA Programme with Honours in Economics (Investment Analysis)
Born in Johannesburg South Africa and raised in the close-knit community of Merebank in KwaZulu-Natal, Nepheritie Jade, drew upon inspiration from her great grandparents in aspiring to connect her passion for social community and her love for art to make a change in society.
“I began to be more intentional around transforming the art industry almost four years ago upon concluding business dealings with David, my now social development business partner. I was instantly drawn to challenged artists and discovered that I was able to use my skills in the field of Neuro Linguistics and Behavioral Programming to help them become even better versions of them self.”
This was the beginning of her introduction of the concept of giving back and through it the Red! Gala Charity Auctions was birthed.
She elaborates; “We have an auction every three months. They’re generally a win for everybody, especially the buyers,” she says. “Giving younger collectors, first time buyers and art enthusiasts an opportunity to acquire art at a good deal.”
A portion of all RED! The Gallery auction proceeds always go to a charity since Nepheritie has been involved.
These have included The Roxy Davis Foundation, The Hein Wagner Academy - for the blind, The Spirit Foundation, which raises money for educating underprivileged children
Mudiare Onome Onobrakpeya is the Director of Art and Culture and Head Curator at the Harmattan Gallery and is an advocate of artists and a curator of African Art and culture. He is a valiant steward of the visual arts and creative industry with over 30 years of involvement in various aspects of modern and contemporary African Art development in Nigeria and the US.
Mudiare opened his first gallery in the famous Newberry street in Boston, U.S.A. in l990 and since then has been associated with several platforms of expression for artists, which has fostered enduring relationships in the arts across several countries.
Mudiare is the publisher of “Adumadan Arts Beats”, a specialized newsletter in the arts established in the late 90s and was an early pioneer in deepening and accentuating the discourse on the true earning potential of the creative industry by being an advocate for innovative and modern art business thinking.
As an Art ambassador at large, Mudiare took modern Nigerian Art to the international stage, including countries like Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, U.K. and the U.S.. Thanks to his innovative leadership and outreach the Nigerian art community has achieved new successes defined by his meticulous eye for cultural and artistically inspired works.
Mudiare is an avid Art collector and Custodian and takes an interest in world Art in all its forms. With broadened awareness and appreciation through commitment to art education and scholarship Mudiare has ultimately enriched the earning power of many players in the creative industry.
Mudiare attended the prestigious St Gregory’s College Lagos and went on to attain an MBA from Xavier University USA. He was conferred with the honorary degree of Doctor of Science, (Honoris Causa) by the African American University for contributions in Art Business and Entrepreneurship in the creative industry In Oct 2019.
RED! The Gallery is a dynamic art gallery situated in the Constantia winelands area in Cape Town, featuring work from South Africa’s best contemporary and emerging artists including Andrew Cooper, Michael Waters, David Kuijers, Derric van Rensburg and Junior Fungai to name a few.
Alexandre is a French entrepreneur, activist and humanist. For the last 18 years, Alexandre has been managing and advising emergency programmes for major International Humanitarian organisations like the Red Cross, Oxfam, the UNs in more than 30 disaster-prone countries across the world. Through his career he helped thousands of people be prepared to cope with and respond to disasters.
He worked 5 years in Haiti where he miraculously survived the massive earthquake in 2010. This experience had a major incidence on his life and his vision about life.
While he was in Haiti, Alexandre fell in love with Haitian art and built a collection of over a hundred artworks.
In 2016 Alexandre started a new venture, to share his passion for Haitian contemporary art and support living Haitian artists sell their art.
He imported over 200 artworks which he showed successfully in more than 20 exhibitions and art fairs in London.
He founded AYITI Gallery -a fine art and social enterprise-, developed a large network of artists, art lovers, collectors and investors; and built an ecommerce platform (www.ayitigallery.com) that sells the works of 7 artists he currently represents.
Alexandre is now focusing on the growth of the business to transform it into an innovative and immersive global platform to bring visibility and empower thousands of talented underrecognized artists in the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania.
Cameroonian-native, now residing in Toronto, Nancy Banyong is the founder of The Afrikan Experience, an online platform focused on bringing diversity, literacy, representation and exposure to unknown African Authors, culture and creativity to the world. The Afrikan Experience has become the fastest and easiest channel to find African literature for children and adults in North America.
Nancy is a dynamic and bilingual Financial Analyst with over 13 years of progressive international experience in Finance, Investment, International Payments, and Remittances.
Exposed to the cultures of Africa, North America, Europe and the Middle East, with in-depth awareness of cross-cultural diversity, creativity, marketing, strategy and innovation. She is passionate about books and wishes to see more African authors read and celebrated globally which is the reason why she is into book publishing. She loves music, movies, dancing and fashion.
Nancy is always on the lookout for African publishers/published authors who write children stories, adventure, comic, graphic, sci-fi, romance, fantasy, folklore, futuristic stories in Africa
Dr. Bholla is a Molecular Epidemiologist with 20 years of health-sector experience in Eastern Africa. She managed the Medical Laboratory at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi for 11 years. During this time, her technical focus was on HIV diagnostics and in the later years on tuberculosis in children. She is therefore specifically qualified to do the much needed COVID-19 molecular test.
She currently consults in the Health Sector in East Africa and has relevant networks in the public and private sectors. Part of her portfolio in the Health industry includes market research and data analysis for pharmaceutical and health insurance companies, bringing together expert panels on cancer, advice on medical and paramedical projects, supply chain logistics and supervision of postgraduate students.
Dr. Gerald J. Maarman is a lecturer and biomedical scientist at Tygerberg Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, where he trains medical students/future health professionals and conducts biomedical and clinical research. He has approximately 37 publications and has supervised multiple post-graduate students. Dr. Maarman has significant experience in teaching academic writing to postgraduate students and health professionals. His degrees include BSc, BSc. Hons (Med), MSc, Ph.D. and accreditations with the USA National Institute of Health for Human Subject Protection and Good Clinical Practise.
Dr. Maarman also holds several research grants to the value of millions of Rands and is a NRF rated researcher with multiple awards.
For over a decade Ruby’s been supporting businesses, entrepreneurs and funders/investors in Africa, the US, UK and Europe. She recently came back to Canada to found Vancouver-based Supivaa Advisory Group, a boutique consultancy firm, rooted in women’s inclusiveness and gender-lens perspectives, and Supivaa Medical, a supplier, consultant and funder focused on the world’s global medical challenges.
Ruby is a seasoned entrepreneur, impact investment practitioner and executive business consultant focused on entrepreneurship, women’s inclusiveness/gender-lens investing and Africa’s growth across a variety of sectors including renewable energy, agriculture, and fintech. She’s held roles as Managing Director, CEO, COO and CMO for companies benefitting from commercial, impact and/or blended finance from the likes of USAID, the EU Commission, DFIs, and European-based impact investors.
Truly global by nature, she has lived in 16 countries through her career in UK, Europe and Africa including Tanzania, Nigeria, Madagascar and Kenya.
Ruby’s a passionate speaker on the topics of entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment, diaspora investments and the potential in Africa for prominent events globally.
She currently sits as a Senior Advisor and Head of Entrepreneurship Uhusiano Capital, a UK-based impact investment firm which bridges UK & European impact capital into Africa. She is the Co-Treasurer and Board Director for The HiVE Vancouver, a social impact-focused co-working community. Ruby’s also an Activator of SheEO (UK Ventures), and a voting member of the Canadian Forum for Impact Investment & Development (CAFIID).
She holds an MBA from IE Business School and a BA in Communications and Political Science from Simon Fraser University
Completed her BSc in Molecular Cell biology with distinction at the University of Limpopo in 2006. During the period between 2007 to 2012 she completed her Honours in Human Biology, MSc in Medicine and her PhD (Med).
In 2015, she completed an MPhil in IP Law and her keen interest in IP was further demonstrated when she completed an internship in the commercialisation of IP at Wits Enterprise and passed her group 1 Patent Board Exams.
Further to this she worked as a research and analysis manager for a period of 3 years at Amahlo Consulting a risk management company.
Dr Kim Lamont-Mbawuli was the project coordinator for the Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit for a period of two years and participated in various health education programs with a particular emphasis on maternal health.
Dr Kim Lamont-Mbawuli has completed two postdoctoral fellowships namely, the NIH leadership program for non-communicable diseases and the NRF scarce mskills program.
In 2019 she graduated with her LLB at Unisa, she completed her articles of clerkship and practical legal training with LEAD in the same year.
Currently she is a legal consultant at Leslie Sedibe Inc. Further to this she is an Expert Consultant for the Mentorship program at The Innovation Hub.
She was recently appointed the Chairman of the Board at Alternative Energy (a 100% youth, black owned company). She is also co-founder of Pan African Network for Investment and Development (PANfID).
Lastly, she is the CEO for the newly founded Simanye mobile clinic.
Athi founded Arushvest Capital in 2017. He has a total of 10 years’ experience in financial markets, including fund management, stockbroking, real estate investments and the hospitality industry.
His role within Simanye Clinic as Chief Operations Officer is to provide the broad strategic support to the CEO, assist with access to new markets and strategic partnerships, locally and across the globe through his vast network nurtured over his career in financial services.
Prior to forming Arushvest, he was involved with CTI as a Politics and Development Studies Lecturer, an equity derivatives trader at BNP Paribas Cadiz Securities, fixed-income analyst and assistant PM at Vunani Fund Managers, Global Markets and Investment Banking Consultant at Aperture and Expand Africa, Investment Analyst at Rebosis Property Fund and most recently Chief Operating Officer at Housing Development and Finance Corporation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Athi is a Member of the Institute of Financial Markets of South Africa, a Level 2 candidate in the CFA Programme with Honours in Economics (Investment Analysis)
Born in Johannesburg South Africa and raised in the close-knit community of Merebank in KwaZulu-Natal, Nepheritie Jade, drew upon inspiration from her great grandparents in aspiring to connect her passion for social community and her love for art to make a change in society.
“I began to be more intentional around transforming the art industry almost four years ago upon concluding business dealings with David, my now social development business partner. I was instantly drawn to challenged artists and discovered that I was able to use my skills in the field of Neuro Linguistics and Behavioral Programming to help them become even better versions of them self.”
This was the beginning of her introduction of the concept of giving back and through it the Red! Gala Charity Auctions was birthed.
She elaborates; “We have an auction every three months. They’re generally a win for everybody, especially the buyers,” she says. “Giving younger collectors, first time buyers and art enthusiasts an opportunity to acquire art at a good deal.”
A portion of all RED! The Gallery auction proceeds always go to a charity since Nepheritie has been involved.
These have included The Roxy Davis Foundation, The Hein Wagner Academy - for the blind, The Spirit Foundation, which raises money for educating underprivileged children
Mudiare Onome Onobrakpeya is the Director of Art and Culture and Head Curator at the Harmattan Gallery and is an advocate of artists and a curator of African Art and culture. He is a valiant steward of the visual arts and creative industry with over 30 years of involvement in various aspects of modern and contemporary African Art development in Nigeria and the US.
Mudiare opened his first gallery in the famous Newberry street in Boston, U.S.A. in l990 and since then has been associated with several platforms of expression for artists, which has fostered enduring relationships in the arts across several countries.
Mudiare is the publisher of “Adumadan Arts Beats”, a specialized newsletter in the arts established in the late 90s and was an early pioneer in deepening and accentuating the discourse on the true earning potential of the creative industry by being an advocate for innovative and modern art business thinking.
As an Art ambassador at large, Mudiare took modern Nigerian Art to the international stage, including countries like Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, U.K. and the U.S.. Thanks to his innovative leadership and outreach the Nigerian art community has achieved new successes defined by his meticulous eye for cultural and artistically inspired works.
Mudiare is an avid Art collector and Custodian and takes an interest in world Art in all its forms. With broadened awareness and appreciation through commitment to art education and scholarship Mudiare has ultimately enriched the earning power of many players in the creative industry.
Mudiare attended the prestigious St Gregory’s College Lagos and went on to attain an MBA from Xavier University USA. He was conferred with the honorary degree of Doctor of Science, (Honoris Causa) by the African American University for contributions in Art Business and Entrepreneurship in the creative industry In Oct 2019.
RED! The Gallery is a dynamic art gallery situated in the Constantia winelands area in Cape Town, featuring work from South Africa’s best contemporary and emerging artists including Andrew Cooper, Michael Waters, David Kuijers, Derric van Rensburg and Junior Fungai to name a few.
Alexandre is a French entrepreneur, activist and humanist. For the last 18 years, Alexandre has been managing and advising emergency programmes for major International Humanitarian organisations like the Red Cross, Oxfam, the UNs in more than 30 disaster-prone countries across the world. Through his career he helped thousands of people be prepared to cope with and respond to disasters.
He worked 5 years in Haiti where he miraculously survived the massive earthquake in 2010. This experience had a major incidence on his life and his vision about life.
While he was in Haiti, Alexandre fell in love with Haitian art and built a collection of over a hundred artworks.
In 2016 Alexandre started a new venture, to share his passion for Haitian contemporary art and support living Haitian artists sell their art.
He imported over 200 artworks which he showed successfully in more than 20 exhibitions and art fairs in London.
He founded AYITI Gallery -a fine art and social enterprise-, developed a large network of artists, art lovers, collectors and investors; and built an ecommerce platform (www.ayitigallery.com) that sells the works of 7 artists he currently represents.
Alexandre is now focusing on the growth of the business to transform it into an innovative and immersive global platform to bring visibility and empower thousands of talented underrecognized artists in the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania.
Cameroonian-native, now residing in Toronto, Nancy Banyong is the founder of The Afrikan Experience, an online platform focused on bringing diversity, literacy, representation and exposure to unknown African Authors, culture and creativity to the world. The Afrikan Experience has become the fastest and easiest channel to find African literature for children and adults in North America.
Nancy is a dynamic and bilingual Financial Analyst with over 13 years of progressive international experience in Finance, Investment, International Payments, and Remittances.
Exposed to the cultures of Africa, North America, Europe and the Middle East, with in-depth awareness of cross-cultural diversity, creativity, marketing, strategy and innovation. She is passionate about books and wishes to see more African authors read and celebrated globally which is the reason why she is into book publishing. She loves music, movies, dancing and fashion.
Nancy is always on the lookout for African publishers/published authors who write children stories, adventure, comic, graphic, sci-fi, romance, fantasy, folklore, futuristic stories in Africa
Dr. Bholla is a Molecular Epidemiologist with 20 years of health-sector experience in Eastern Africa. She managed the Medical Laboratory at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi for 11 years. During this time, her technical focus was on HIV diagnostics and in the later years on tuberculosis in children. She is therefore specifically qualified to do the much needed COVID-19 molecular test.
She currently consults in the Health Sector in East Africa and has relevant networks in the public and private sectors. Part of her portfolio in the Health industry includes market research and data analysis for pharmaceutical and health insurance companies, bringing together expert panels on cancer, advice on medical and paramedical projects, supply chain logistics and supervision of postgraduate students.
Dr. Gerald J. Maarman is a lecturer and biomedical scientist at Tygerberg Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, where he trains medical students/future health professionals and conducts biomedical and clinical research. He has approximately 37 publications and has supervised multiple post-graduate students. Dr. Maarman has significant experience in teaching academic writing to postgraduate students and health professionals. His degrees include BSc, BSc. Hons (Med), MSc, Ph.D. and accreditations with the USA National Institute of Health for Human Subject Protection and Good Clinical Practise.
Dr. Maarman also holds several research grants to the value of millions of Rands and is a NRF rated researcher with multiple awards.
