Over 56 000 tickets were sold at HIFA 2009 the festival organisers have revealed to The Zimbo Jam. In a year which festival Founder and Artistic Director, Manuel Bagorro, has described as the toughest one yet, the festival still managed to draw big stars and huge audiences.

There were a total of 182 performances during the six day festival, of which 72 were international. To hold it all together around 400 school leavers and 61 street youth were given temporary employment in the run up to and during the arts showcase.

Other numbers are given below:

THE NUMBERS COME TO LIGHT
Number of tickets issued from the HIFA Box Office	56 528
Total number of performances	182
Number of local performances	110
Number of international performances	72
Number of First Street Performances	18
Number of collaborations with both international and local performers	9
Number of visual art shows/installations	9
Number of workshops held during the week of the Festival	42
Number of craft stalls	60
Number of week long intensive workshops (Circus Skills Workshop, Technical Skills Workshops)	2
Number of corporate sponsors	18
Number of international donors	15
Number of embassies that participated	19
Number of street youth trained and employed	61
Number of school leavers trained and employed	+/- 400
Number of orphans and vulnerable children that participated in the Festival	375
Number of outreach performances held in Chitungwiza	6
Number of outreach performances held in Mbare	1
Number of schools involved in the Schools Programme	19
Number of HIFA Amigos	1070
Number of tickets issued to the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe	1 100

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Gidza   |2009-05-30 16:04:16 56 000! Sounds like a lot of dosh that! Reply 0   0

Chingwa  - Which Local Perfomances?   |2009-06-06 18:46:43 Thanks to HIFA for being transparent and accountable. What bothers me though, is that besides Alick Macheso and a few other artists who perfomed at this year's festival,no feedback was given on how the 110 perfomances by local artists were received by the 56000 plus audience. Zimbojam; please assist on this issue. Reply 0   0

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