HARARE – Seven new categories have been added to the second edition of the Zimdancehall Awards set to take place at the Harare Exhibition Park on March 6. The new categories are the Best Zim dancehall Youngster, Best Conscious Song, Best Conscious Riddim, Best Collaboration Riddim, Zimdancehall Ambassador, Best Zimdancehall Artiste in Diaspora and the…
HARARE – Sistaz Open Mic, a platform for young women artistes to showcase their talents in song, dance, poetry and comedy and other disciplines, will celebrate its eighth birthday at the Book Café on Saturday. The gig, which falls under Pamberi Trust’s Female Literary, Arts and Music Enterprise (Flame), has helped to unearth many talented…
HARARE – Celebrated dancers Beverly Sibanda and Zoey Sifelani will be the star attractions tonight at the Super Label Night Club where the Dancers Association of Zimbabwe (Daz) will officially launch its 2015 calendar. The Super Label event, dubbed “2015 First Dance Clash”, will also feature David Machowa better known as Apama Styles. Daz representative…
HARARE – First Floor Gallery Harare opened its 2015 programme last Thursday with a unique international photography exhibition dubbed ‘You only look once.’ The travelling exhibition, which was curated by Christopher Hunt, showcased the works of three distinct artists Baoyang Chen (China), Rehan Miskci (Turkey) and Maggie Shannon (United States of America). Hunt hailed the…
HARARE – The Youth Cultural Festival (Yocaf) will this year honour the late iconic playwright and actor, Walter Muparutsa (pictured). Running under the theme I Will Act Now, the festival will be held from July 30 to August 1. Also introduced this year are two more accolades which are the Professor R Zvobgo and Doug…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) is partnering mobile service provider Econet Wireless in a bid to combat piracy through music mobile data bundles. There are two applications to be used which are the Zim Tunes and Mhanzi Apps, all available on the Econet mobile network platform. They are also engaging Logical Systems…
HARARE – Producers of popular comedy-drama Sabhuku Vharazipi 1 and 2, Ziya Cultural Arts, say they are hesitant to promote their forthcoming project Sabhuku Vharazipi 3 before it hits the market shelves owing to rampant piracy in the country. Wellington Chindare, who plays the roles of Chairman and Svari in the comedy-drama, told the Daily…
HARARE – Australia-based Zimbabwean hip-hop artiste Ba Junior has collaborated with controversial rapper Alishias “Maskiri” Musimbe on a song titled Nzenza. The provocative song basically unravels social issues and particularly focuses on how some young women have mastered the art of survival in these trying times through engaging in illicit sexual activities. “The single highlights…
BULAWAYO – Crispen Ndlovu, 24, a writer-cum-film maker has finished working on his third short film production titled Juju Wedding. The versatile artist, who has written at length on the infamous Gukurahundi atrocities, told the Daily News that the new project would premiere next month at a venue to be announced. “I am happy that…
HARARE – Property belonging to Miss Curvy, a local pageant targetting voluptuous women, will be sold by public auction on January 20 to pay off an unspecified debt owed to Treasure Point Travel Tours. The local pageant, which ran its last edition in August last year, is run by former model Mercy Mushaninga’s Zim Gossip…
