HARARE – South African band Mango Groove will headline this year’s Jameson Vic Falls Carnival alongside rising local group Mokoomba. Jameson Vic Falls Carnival is the country’s second largest carnival after the Harare International Carnival and the three-day events-packed showcase will take place in the resort town of Victoria Falls between December 29 and 31….
HARARE – Two plays — Water Games by Jens Vilela Neumann and The Taking written by Raisedon Baya and directed by Memory Kumbota — have been chosen to go on a national tour as part of Nhimbe Trust’s agenda to promote the expansion of the theatre genre. Dubbed “Cultural Decentralisation National Theatre Tour,” the initiative…
HARARE – Women from different career paths including dancers, musicians, poets, make-up artists, lighting technicians and designers, directors met in the City of Kings during the third edition of the Bulawayo Art and Culture Agenda open dialogue series. The discussion was part of the 16 days of activism against gender based violence and focused on…
HARARE – Zimbabwe should abolish the National Arts Council’s Festival Guidelines because they do not have any statutory basis, either in Statutory Instrument 87 of 2006 – National Arts. Council of Zimbabwe (General) Regulations, 2006 (CAP. 25:07) as read with its Amendment (SI 166 of 2009) or the regulations themselves. They have no force of…
HARARE – Artists and cultural experts are meeting for a round table seminar for the creative arts sector to be held in Harare from December 15 to 16 at Cresta Oasis Hotel in Harare where they will interact and share ideas. The gathering follows the successful hosting of the Civil Society Cultural Policy Review meeting…
HARARE – This year’s edition of the Zimbabwe Colour Run has been called off due to financial challenges. The colour run, which began locally in 2013, is a fun run or walk in which participants donning white T-shirts are splashed with vibrant, non-toxic colours as they make their way around the fun course. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Musicians Jah Prayzah and Suluman Chimbetu, rank among the top crowd pullers on the local showbiz but are becoming a bit greedy as witnessed on Saturday when they short-changed music fans by performing at three different venues each. Imagine that on this eventful Saturday Jah Prayzah first performed in Kadoma, then at the…
HARARE – Simad Entertainment director Simba Madziva says the Harare Lockdown Concert, which this year is featuring South African music stars Mafikizolo and Zambia’s Roberto, is expected to include more countries next year. The annual event began last year with a gig in which South African musicians Mafikizolo and Zahara shared the stage with top…
HARARE – Members of the Police Support Unit allegedly stormed a Zimdancehall birthday bash in Mbare on Sunday night and arrested 60 people after the event had exceeded the authorised 11pm limit. DJ Malovers, who hosted the contentious gig that featured Zimdancehall stars, including Killer T and Lady Squanda, told the Daily News yesterday that…
HARARE – Music legend Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi is a is a tough-as-nails artiste who has seen it all over the last four decades but he could not help shedding a tear or two when upcoming musician Gary Tight performed a song by his late son Sam at Maestro Restaurant on Thursday night. [GoogleAd] In honour…
