Zimbo Jam

Students toast to the girl child in a scene from one of the plays that have made it to the finals of the Intwasa Arts Festival's Plan High Schools Drama Competition.

A number of Bulawayo arts managers gathered recently at the Unlimited Connect Centre in the city for a workshop conducted by internationally renowned creative entrepreneurship trainer, David Parrish.

Rapper POY has caused excitement on Facebook after the release of pictures from the video shoot for his track Mabomba, off his new album Babylon System.

Legendary Township Jazz group, Bulawayo Kwela, performs in Harare this evening with a guest appearance by Albert Nyathi in an intimate outdoor concert that will chill the summer heat- especially if you’re sipping on a cold one while you tap your feet to the music.

Royal Sunflower in Bulawayo has been famous for about twenty years now for its greasy french fries, chicken and russian sausage. Bulawayans all over the world talk passionately about queueing up for chips as teenagers many years ago at this fast food joint located in Robery Mugabe Way in the CBD of the City of Kings.

A newspaper vendor sells the Chronicle, Bulawayo's leading daily paper, in the township of Nkulumane. Along with it, he sells an array of other daily and weekly titles.

Bulawayo artists have set up a task force to make sure that the proposed hosting of the 2013 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMAs) in the city takes place.

This week Zimbo Jam heads to Bulawayo for a catch up tour of the city’s cultural scene and an interesting schedule of social media and photography training for some young people from Mpilo Hospital.

Next week Bulawayayo blossoms into an artistic spring as the Intwasa Arts Festival comes to life. The varied programme features everything from theatre to dance, to poetry, workshops, book launches and art exhibitions.

Sulumani Chimbetu stole the show at this year’s National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) held at the Large City Hall in Bulawayo on Saturday, February 16, 2013 by scooping three awards- Outstanding  Male Musician, Outstanding Album and the People’s Choice Award.