Other Arts & Culture Issues
Ten Zimbos Up for Africa Entertainment Awards USA
Ten Zimbabwean artists have been nominated for the Africa Entertainment Awards USA (AEA) along with some of Africa’s best artists.
Ten Zimbabwean artists have been nominated for the Africa Entertainment Awards USA (AEA) along with some of Africa’s best artists.
Ten outstandingcontestantsmade it to the finals of the Dream Star talent show after battling fierce competition from other acts at the Longcheng Plaza on Saturday, August15, 2015.
In the second piece in her series on Creative Entrepreneurship, Tariro neGitare explores the potential opportunities we have for upcycling and monitising our "old junk." Never one to say no to an opportunity, this creative entrepreneur explains the concept both practically and metaphorically.
Over the past 6 weeks, a group of 30 young Zimbabweans joined a group of 500 African leaders for the Mandela Washington Fellowship, also known as the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). The programme took these young achievers to university campuses across the United States, and culminated in a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama.
Zimbabweans know Tariro neGitare as the talented, hard-working singer-songwriter, guitarist, who has not only built a musical career, but through her brainchild, Acoustic Nights, has also created a platform for so many other musicians to find their voices in the Harare arts scene.
This year’s edition of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, which ran from July 29 to August 1, 2015, was a disappointment to many readers who attended.
Zimbo Jam turns 7 in November and the archive of arts and culture images and stories that are its foundation turns 11 during the same month.
This has been a hard winter for those in the arts. There’s a struggling economy, which leaves audiences or buyers of art with less disposable income to support the arts. We’ve also lost two fabulous performance venues in Harare – the Book Café and Misty’s.
Organisers ofthe annual Book Fair have challenged writers and educators to prioritize education as an economic resource.
For the past week or two, people have been wondering what caused the closure of Misty’s Bar/Restaurant located at Newlands shopping centre in the capital.