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By Spiked Lifestyle Poet Albert Nyathi has hailed Zim Talent Hunt for their new arts training initiative launched last weekend in Harare. The inaugural seminar held at Parkview Restaurant in the capital was well attended with the Zimbabwe College of Music tutor Walter Mujuru providing insight on how to compose a song as well as…
By Trevor Makonyonga The economic woes faced by Zimbabwe have forced many to get out of their ways and embark on life journeys that are more distressful than the act of merely breathing. As if struggling for breath is not enough, the rise of survival discrepancies in most Zimbabweans’ lives is alarming as they will…
By Kundai Marunya The third annual Let Them Festival will this year be held on 24 and 25 July at the Harare Showgrounds Fun Park area. The festival meant to celebrate and inspire creativity in children will feature an exciting lineup of theatre, dance and music. The Let Them Trust and festival director Chido Musasiwa…
By Spiked Lifestyle Zimbabwean born Godfrey Mangwiza is in the race to win the ongoing third Season of Big Brother Canada. Mangwiza, a student in his fourth year at the University of Toronto studying double major in Sociology and Psychology, is one of the most competitive housemates in the reality television series. The 22 year…
By Kundai Marunya Armed with a new album which was officially released during the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA), high-riding hip hop outfit The Monkey Nuts will grace the Mashoko Spoken Word and Hip Hop mini-festival this Saturday at Book Cafe. The group which often has the advantage of playing live instruments over…
By Kundai Marunya Widely travelled afro-fusion group Mokoomba will this Friday make a return to Misty’s after a heart-catching performance last month. The show will also serve as a warm up performance as the group is scheduled for a magical date with music lovers at the Miombo Magic Festival in Christon Bank the following day….
By Elia Ntali We now live in a global world in which Zimbabwe must start paying a significant attention to tracking her competitors in order to fully understand global markets and exploit opportunities. Given that we are trying to leverage our beautiful nation in the world of arts, craft and to larger extent tourism as…
By Kundai Marunya Stakeholders in the art and craft sector have reinforced the importance of education as a prerequisite of development if the nation wants to benefit from craft work. In an informative discussion during the Basket Trade Policy Dialogue Conference held at Rainbow Towers Hotel, stakeholders representing different groups including crafters, civic society, art…
Art is often seen as a window to better understanding of humans and their values. In many cases it is seen as the gateway to socio economic development. Though, government has acknowledged the importance of arts and culture by forming the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ), art funding has largely remained in the hands…
By Kundai Marunya Provincial preliminaries for Zimbabwe’s premier annual youth dance festival, Jibilika, will kick off this Saturday May 16 at the Charles Austin Theatre in Masvingo The festival which usually draws a great number of contestants battling it off in the preliminaries to book a place in the nationals is this year expecting an…
By Kundai Marunya Local blog, The African Hip Hop Blog continues to shine, this time on a continental level winning an award for the Best Blog About Africa at the second African Blogger Awards. The blog which was founded by a Zimbabwean, Ross Hagan in 2008 while he was a student at Rhodes University record…
Kundai Marunya Most people visiting Zimbabwe for the first time after over a decade of economic meltdown and political chaos come bearing this negative image of a nation of barbarism, widely underdeveloped, a notion often pushed forward by biased media reports. The same counts for artists staging in the country for the first time, and…
Celebrated South African group, Beatenberg has denounced xenophobia as a barbaric act by uncivilized South Africans. This comes at a time when Zimbabwean locals have threatened a boycott on South African acts at the festival. In an interview at the ongoing Harare International festival of the Arts (HIFA) the group said they represent a united…
Widely travelled theatre production Twenty Fifteen left a lasting impression at the ongoing Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA). Staging in a once off show at the ZB Reps Theatre this morning, the Kuenda Arts production was nothing short of amazing. The cast showed a very refreshing multi-role play, embracing different characters across genders,…
by Kundai Marunya Rural women who earn a living through arts and craft are well represented at the ongoing Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA). Their art is being exhibited at different stands in the British American Tobbaco Zimbabwe Crafts and Design Centre by different organisations notably the Zienzele Foundation, Step Zimbabwe Trust and the Lupane…
The National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ), Bulawayo branch is set to celebrate the country independence with an exhibition titled Phindu’phenduke. The exhibition which will run for 24 days will be a first of its kind at the arts hub. NGZ acting regional director and curator Cliford Zulu said the exhibition will mark the reopening of…
Rapper, Pee Kay (real name Patrick Kahari) has encouraged record companies and musicians to embrace new marketing methods instead of crying over piracy. The musician who is well known from his yesteryear hit Ma1 which features Peace Ndlovu a.k.a BaShupi said piracy is positive. “The only negative of piracy is to those stuck in old…
Accolade winners for the 14th National Arts and Merit Awards (NAMA) which were held at Rainbow 7 Arts Theatre in February will receive additional prices at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo. The winners who were not well rewarded for coming victors on the national award platform due to lack of sponsorship will…
The Monkey Nuts, Hip Hop alternative 3 member band is billed to launch their forth coming album titled Boom Bap Idiophonics at the Harare International Festival of Arts (HIFA) at the Hivos Poetry Lab on the 1st of May. Boom Bap Idiophonic, the 8 track album features other artists from different walks of life as…
Celebrated local artist, RayDizz who made his mark on the international scene when he represented Zimbabwe in Las Vegas for the Miller Sound Clash last year has strike again; this time with a high quality video befitting of international accolades, way above the local standards. RayDizz, real name Rayhaan Jassat, collaborated with fellow party stopper,…
The British Council, a longstanding partner of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA), has once again teamed up with the festival to showcase the best of British and local talent by bringing four acts to the HIFA stage. This year’s line up at HIFA includes a hip-hop dance performance by Bird Gang Dance…
Three-man group consisting of Harare born twins and a New Zealand national is set to light up the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) with a fusion of hip hop and other traditional and contemporary music influences. The trio, True Vibenation which is made up of Australian based twins Verbaleyes and Native Wit and…
Superstar Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi has castigated the xenophobic violence that has spread across South Africa claiming at least seven lives. Several thousands of foreign nationals, Zimbabweans among them have been displaced from their homes to find shelter at camps set up across South Africa in fear for their lives. In a media release, Tuku said…
Youth against Alcoholism and Drug Dependency (YADD), , an organisation that advocates against drug and alcohol dependency among young people has expressed concerns over the recent reduction of excess tax on alcoholic beverages from 45 to 40 percent by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development which has seen prices of alcohol beverages going down….
Following Bob Marley’s inaugural visit to Harare in 1980 when he performed at the independence celebrations at National Sports Stadium, reggae music has slowly grown to be a greater part of our city’s culture, some may argue that he sow a seed of reggae music culture following how the majority has grown to love the…
As the country’s capital, Harare receives many young people who flock in with a dream for employment and a better life having been frustrated by unemployment in different parts of the country. The current economic situation however, knocks them down to destitution and in the end, the streets becomes their home. Some people especially children…
