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The Annual CHIPAWO Children's Christmas Show - Christmas Street |
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Christmas Show
This is a short notice to inform you of two things (details to follow):
- The CHIPAWO Children's Christmas Show is on Saturday 12th December at 2.30pm and 6pm. It is called "Christmas Street" and is based on the goings-on in a typical street in the high-density suburbs (or 'townships') of Harare.
Venue: Zimbabwe College of Music - The National Arts council of Zimbabwe has agreed that s from next year the annual Children's Christmas Sjhow will have national status.
Every year since 1995 the CHIPAWO community has presented a Christmas Show with a difference. The Christmas Show of CHIPAWO not only aims to provide an entertaining and enjoyable Christmas experience for its family audience, it also tries to do this by presenting the Christmas material with a difference - a Zimbabwean difference. Christmas and its stories are presented in an African
and Zimbabwean idiom.
For CHIPAWO this is a very important responsibility - to ensure that Zimbabwean children do not accustom themselves to always looking up to foreign models and idioms but instead relate to international and national events like Christmas in their own languages and in the context of their own lives.
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