HARARE – Chitungwiza Harmony Singers (CHS) choir won the regional finals of the Old Mutual Choir Festival held in Limpopo, South Africa last week. The victory at the regional finals was the fifth for the decorated choir. The Chitungwiza choir won the choral competition in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2011. CHS marketing manager Peter Thole…
HARARE – Zimdancehall star Shinsoman says his 15-track third album to be released at the end of this month will once again demonstrate his enduring quality. The Tasangana Zvidhakwa singer, who last released an album two years ago, laughed off claims that he is now lagging behind fellow Zimdancehall stars like Killer T, Soul Jah…
HARARE – Award-winning Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong’o will star in Danai Gurira’s theatre play titled Eclipsed scheduled to start showing in New York at the end of next month. Gurira’s play, to run from September 29 to November 8, will be directed by Liesl Tommy, a theatre director originally from Cape Town, South Africa. Like…
HARARE – For the greater part of this year veteran American drama teacher and director Julia Wharton trained eight Zimbabwean theatre directors under the ‘Mentor-Director Staged Reading Series’ organised by Almasi, a Zimbabwean-American dramatic arts organisation, co-founded by Zimbabwe-born Hollywood actress Danai Gurira and film director Patience Tawengwa. A stage reading is a form of…
HARARE – Magical Charly Black! That’s the best way of describing the effervescent visiting Jamaican who performed in Harare on Saturday and saved a potentially-riotous situation. A few minutes earlier there was total chaos inside Longcheng Plaza arena as patrons ran for cover fleeing missiles. Charly Black has the crowd in frenzy on Saturday night….
HARARE – Music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi and Dendera musician Suluman Chimbetu will share the stage at Kadoma’s Odyssey Hotel tonight in one of the biggest gigs in Zimbabwe this weekend. Before performing in Kadoma, Sulu will first perform at the HICC where he will share the stage with Jah Prayzah. Tomorrow the Sean Timba singer…
HARARE – Hollywood actors Tongayi Chirisa and Danai Gurira are among several Zimbabwean artists in the running for the African Entertainment Awards to be held in the United States of America on October 31. The other nominated Zimbabwean artists are Brian Soko who produced Beyoncé’s song Drunken in love, songbirds Tinashe Kachingwe and Selmor Mtukudzi,…
HARARE – Internationally-renowned stone sculptor Dominic Benhura’s upbringing as an orphan has opened his heart to helping his peers and other disadvantaged artists whom he has helped in building their artistic careers. While over the years, he has engaged disadvantaged children at his Dominic Studios in Greendale, Harare and taught them how to sculpt, this…
HARARE – Despite the unparalleled levels of competence in reading and writing, Zimbabweans are among the least motivated readers, a Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) lecturer said. Godwin Makaudze of the Department of African Languages and Literature made these remarks at the just-ended Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF). “Zimbabwe currently boasts of one of the highest…
HARARE – Jamaican international artiste Charly Black is expected in Harare today in the afternoon for a once-off performance on Saturday at Longcheng Plaza. Chipaz Promotions, organisers of the concert’s director Partson “Chipaz” Chimbodza, confirmed the development. “Charly Black is arriving at 1430hours by South African Airways. There is a welcome party at Dandaro Inn…
