ZIMBABWE International Film & Festival Trust (Zifft) has launched its Narratives from Zimbabwe project to enhance Zimbabwe’s history and culture knowledge base, by recording on film Zimbabwe’s history, culture, and social foundation. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe has a strong heritage that is being lost because it has tended to rely on oral and unrecorded transmission, thus putting…
TELONE has announced the first local content catalogue on the DEOD (Digital Entertainment on Demand) platform which was launched in October last year. [GoogleAd] TelOne DEOD committed at launch that in addition to its base offering of international subscription and rental movie and series content, the addition of local Zimbabwean content was a strategic imperative….
JOE “Local” Nyamungoma, former Suluman Chimbetu publicist, will unveil his second studio album tonight at Red Cafe in the capital. Titled Kuseri Kwacho, the project is made up of seven tracks: Yave, Ndarova Smart, Peter Ndlovu, Makomo, Ndafara Chose, Kudendera and Mhoroyi. [GoogleAd] The event is expected to be graced by Chimbetu and Dancers Association…
ZIMBABWE’s oldest and largest arts, culture and heritage hub is launching a massive 10-day creative master class workshops camp at Amakhosi Cultural Centre to run during ZITF Bulawayo and Zimbabwe’s largest showcase. This is going to be an annual event for creative teenagers under Amakhosi’s Inxusa Festival brands. [GoogleAd] Dubbed “ZITF Arts and Culture Camp…
In the past week, three strong acts from Zimbabwe and South Africa have graced East Coast stages. We already reported on the Africa Now show at the Apollo Theatre, featuring Mokoomba, a young band from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. We were so impressed by their set — which presented high-energy electric songs from the band’s debut…
DENDERA musician Suluman Chimbetu has had his band members referred to as “Elliot” because of their white stage attire. The name Elliot arose from the alleged resurrection miracle at a church in South Africa by a Zimbabwean man Brighton Moyo who was donning white when the incident happened. Reports coming out of South Africa said…
CONTROVERSIAL singer Vimbai Zimuto, popular for posting her nude photos on social media, has lined up a photographic exhibition in Harare on a date to be announced “soon”. Zimuto confirmed the development to the Daily News. “We are planning a photographic art exhibition in Harare on a date to be advised. The exclusive event will…
SONGSTRESS Tasha Kays says she is blessed to have been born in a musical family. She said her father, Lorrence “Captain Loftaz” Kasinganeti played the saxophone in Thomas Mapfumo’s band and her uncle who is based in the United Kingdom is a music director. [GoogleAd] While her father played the saxophone, she is learning to…
NYAWO Lwami project carried out the first Training and Capacity Building Workshop on the 2003 Unesco Convention and the Inventorying process for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, with 22 participants last month. [GoogleAd] Funded by Unesco, the aim of the project is to enhance the capacity of communities to safeguard traditional dance expressions as…
WHILE last month the world celebrated International Women’s Day, it is interesting to note that women in the arts were celebrated less and more so those who hail from the City of Kings. [GoogleAd] Bulawayo has produced most of the female artists who are doing well in Zimbabwe and across the world; many of them…
