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It was a busy Saturday morning for Farai, the young director, and the crew of the CHIPAWO children's television show 'Nde'pi Gen'a' (What's up, gang?). They had to start off with the CHIPAWO@20 launch at Alfred Beit School then go on to the Dance Trust Outreach concert and end up with the finals of Jikinya, the National Arts Council's primary schools traditional dance competition. |
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I had the pleasure of attending two events on Saturday that that really should have been good fun for children. The first venue was Alfred Beit Primary School in Mabelreign. There the Alfred Beit CHIPAWO Centre held a mini arts festival where CHIPAWO children performed to a an audience predominantly composed of, well, CHIPAWO children. Schools and CHIPAWO centres from in and around Harare (Norton, Chitungwiza and Bindura) were represented. |
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This posting was a bit delayed because of the feverish preparations for "Christmas Street", the annual children's Christmas Show. Today is the party - nearly 200 children whooping it up after their great performances on Saturday, gorging themselves with goodies bought and donated to them by the Diplomatic Spouses - many thanks in particular to Sintia, the wife of the Ambassador of South Africa, and Evelyn, wife of the Ambassador of Greece! The details coming up soon. |
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The Annual CHIPAWO Children's Christmas Show - Christmas Street |
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The Annual CHIPAWO Children's Christmas Show |
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In September Deon, Tinevimbo, Belinda and Charmaine, four members of the CHIPAWO Youth Programme, attended a 10-day Umoja Cultural Flying Carpet music camp in Maputo along with young artists from South Africa, Mozambique and Norway. |
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 There have been heavy rains all over Zimbabwe for a few days now. The clouds are lowering outside. We sit round the dining room table in the gathering gloom, having an interview. Myself, a tallish slim young man, called Golden, and another young man in a blue overall and profuse dreadlocks. There has been no electricity since about nine in the morning - the power wasn't to return until the next day in the afternoon. Too light to light a candle, too dark to see easily without. |
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Secrets of a Woman's Soul |
Old Linga: My heart wept for my mother and all the women of her generation who had endured the ravages of ignorance and stigmatisation by a self-righteous morally bankrupt society.
The actresses come together behind Beata and do a choral performance of the following:
This closed cupboard of a society.
A door that opens onto a cavernous closet
Fetid with secrets and shame.
Mangled infants
Mutilated little organs
Little girls' screams
Muffled by outsize hands
Bruised lips shushed with sweets
Or threats of the cutting knife. |
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