by chipawo.admin | May 10, 2022 | News
CHIPAWO (Children’s Performing Arts Workshop) is performing arts organization that was established in 1989 as a trust with the aim of producing a performing arts education based on the idea of exploiting the traditional performing arts of the people of Zimbabwe and of Africa. Founders of CHIPAWO were convinced that it was necessary to promote a performing arts education that while using a pedagogy that is driven by indigenous cultural values of Ubuntu, it can be applied in the formal education system. CHIPAWO has participated in many international festival since 1992 to date. CHIPAWO this year has been invited to take part in the World Festival of Children’s Performing Arts in Toyama Japan, from the 30th of July to 3rd August 2022. The aim of this Festival is to promote mutual cultural exchange and friendship among the participants, through various kinds of artistic performances, seminars, and workshops in which the invited groups commit to participate with both the children and the group’s leader. CHIPAWO will perform a play entitled “MAIMBODEYI” a play that tackles issues affecting the girlchild from early child marriage, deprived education, child labour, poverty and family discrimination. CHIPAWO is there for seeking for your assistance as we fundraise for the CHIPAWO group air tickets of $ 22 000 USD to Toyama Japan to participate in the festival. The children will be expected to leave Zimbabwe on the 28th of July and arrive back on the 3rd of August 2022. This trip to Japan will give the Zimbabwean children the opportunity to be exposed internationally, to make new friends, learn new cultures while sharing the Zimbabwean culture...
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