Things picked up pace on the second day of Zimbabwe Fashion Week, Thursday July 29, with four young designers showcasing their work. A show scheduled for the afternoon was cancelled so that a bigger show, featuring more designers could be held in the evening.

Starting this week The Zimbo Jam brings you "Teurai's Lists", a weekly column by Australian based Zimbabwean model Teurai Chanakira. Teurai will bring you lists of things that we all relate to as Zimbos, lists that will make you think, lists that will make you laugh and lists that will remind you that life is one long, er, list.

Multi award winning and nominated Israeli flick, Waltz with Bashir will officially open the inaugural Zimbabwe Festival of African Inspired Animation (ZIMFAIA) tomorrow, July 30, at the Alliance Francaise in Harare.

The first successful aeroplane, built by Wilbur and Orville Wright, took flight on  December 17, 1903. The duration of that first modern airborne adventure was twelve seconds- but it was a flight nonetheless. The first Zimbabwe Fashion Week (ZFW) was launched last night at a low key event at Harry Margolis Hall. It was not the huge  flight into fashion that the industry had hoped for- but it was a flight into fashion nonetheless.

The three young Zimbabweans; Cleopatra Ndlovu, Masimba Nyamanhindi and Sydney Chisi, who have played significant roles in Zimbabwean civil society covering a wide range of issues including civic education, youth empowerment, women’s rights, and civic activism will next week travel to the United States of America, along with over 100 other young leaders from around Africa, for the US President’s Forum with Young African Leaders.

The Zimbabwe Festival of African Inspired Animation (ZIMFAIA) 2010, which runs from July 30 - 31, will include a special focus on African animation dubbed, the African Animation Panorama. On this list is the iconic film, National Defence, Africa’s oldest known animated film, released in 1939.