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LitFest International Literature Festival runs 26 - 28 November 2015
LitFest Harare, the international literature festival, will run in the last week of November, 2015.
This year will mark the first full scale edition of the festival, after its inaugural run last year
as a series of events. The festival activities will be run at selected venues in Harare. It will
feature writers, critics, readers, performance poets, theatre artists, musicians and journalists
drawn from Zimbabwe and abroad.
Running from 26 to 28 November, this unique festival will feature a package that´s not only meant
to celebrate literature, but also to consolidate the bridges between artists and the lovers of art,
while engaging the mind in a stimulating environment. The programme is designed to involve a range
of participants, across age, gender and other social dimensions. It is also consciously designed
with the broad spectrum of arts consumers and audiences that characterise the Zimbabwean social
set-up.
The broad range of sessions and activities will kick off with a key-note address by Barbara
Mhangami Ruwende, a Zimbabwean writer and academic based in the USA, who also works as a
practitioner in women´s health and safety. After this presentation, the programme will roll on,
featuring such sessions as panel discussions, one-on-one interviews, poetry performances, a theatre
production, a slide show, as well as book launches, quizzes and live music and dance.
The participants and performers will include veterans as well as young, up and coming
practitioners. Those coming from outside Zimbabwe include writers Han Lynn (from Burma) and
Elisabeth Beanca Horverson (from Norway).
Locally based participants will include writers and critics, Memory Chirere, Shimmer Chinodya, Dr
Ibbo Mandaza, Pathisa Nyathi, Kizito Muchemwa, Shepherd Mutamba, Joyce Jenje-Makwenda, Cynthia Marangwanda, Tendai Maduwa, Ray Mawerera, Isabella Matambanadzo, Lawrence Hoba, Fungai Machirori, Biko Mutsaurwa and many more.
Music performances will be by Gary Tight, Jairos Chabvonga, Ticha Muzavazi, and others.
Poetry/spoken-word will be delivered by Cynthia Marangwanda, Linda Gabriel, Philani Nyoni, and
some of the visiting writers. Radio personality, J-Boss (Jabulani Hove) will lead a session in
which he will be discussing lyrical content with some musicians.
LitFest went into partnership with Theatre in the Park, which will see the premiere and running of
a play by the Norwegian writer, Elisabeth Beanca Horverson. The play, "Guinea Fowl" is based on the life of the late great Zimbabwean writer, Doris Lessing. It will feature a Norwegian and Zimbabwean cast and production crew. As indicated above, Elisabeth Beanca Horverson will also be one of the festival participants.
As part of it´s community development initiatives, LitFest will also run a workshop for high school
students. The workshop will focus on the craft of storytelling, hip-hop, poetry performance and
social media. It will culminate in the recording and uploading of the students´ works and
performances on various social media platforms. The objective of the workshop is not only to
develop skills, but to also encourage students to use social media platforms in a more meaningful
way. This workshop will be run in partnership with the British Council.
The festival activities will be run at the University of Zimbabwe, SAPES Trust, Theatre in the
Park, the British Council and at Gallery Delta. The detailed festival programme will be available
online and at the venues.
LitFest Harare is headed by its Director, the poet and writer, Chirikure Chirikure. Its board of
trustees is chaired by Dr Edgar Nhira Mberi, a writer, critic and lecturer at the University of
Zimbabwe.
The LitFest team and Board of Trustees acknowledge, with many thanks, the support of the Zimbabwe
Germany Society/Goethe Institute, Sylt Foundation, Culture Fund of Zimbabwe, British Council,
Pamberi Trust, University of Zimbabwe, the Meikles Foundation, Alliance Francaise, Theatre in the
Park, SAPES Trust, Gallery Delta, Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe and other well-wishers, that has enabled this edition of the festival to be
held.
As Chirikure Chirikure says, "We realised the need for a platform to celebrate literature and to
engage minds in a stimulating environment. Zimbabwe has produced a lot of high-class literary
materials that are recognised the world over. We need to applaud this and we need to help cultivate
more works. As such, LitFest will bring together local and international players annually, to
honour our local achievements as well as to open windows for the growth of our arts."
(Issued 17 November 2015, in Harare, by LitFest)
END
Contacts for LitFest:
Chirikure Chirikure
Phone: +263-772-335040
Email: chirikure.chirikure@yahoo.co.uk
Elizabeth Muchemwa
Phone: +263-773-255694
Email: ersmuchemwa@gmail.com
Margaret Ling
25 Endymion Road
London N4 1EE
Tel +44 (0)20 8348 8463
margaret.ling@geo2.poptel.org.uk
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LitFest International Literature Festival runs 26 - 28 November 2015
LitFest Harare, the international literature festival, will run in the last week of November, 2015.
This year will mark the first full scale edition of the festival, after its inaugural run last year
as a series of events. The festival activities will be run at selected venues in Harare. It will
feature writers, critics, readers, performance poets, theatre artists, musicians and journalists
drawn from Zimbabwe and abroad.
Running from 26 to 28 November, this unique festival will feature a package that´s not only meant
to celebrate literature, but also to consolidate the bridges between artists and the lovers of art,
while engaging the mind in a stimulating environment. The programme is designed to involve a range
of participants, across age, gender and other social dimensions. It is also consciously designed
with the broad spectrum of arts consumers and audiences that characterise the Zimbabwean social
set-up.
The broad range of sessions and activities will kick off with a key-note address by Barbara
Mhangami Ruwende, a Zimbabwean writer and academic based in the USA, who also works as a
practitioner in women´s health and safety. After this presentation, the programme will roll on,
featuring such sessions as panel discussions, one-on-one interviews, poetry performances, a theatre
production, a slide show, as well as book launches, quizzes and live music and dance.
The participants and performers will include veterans as well as young, up and coming
practitioners. Those coming from outside Zimbabwe include writers Han Lynn (from Burma) and
Elisabeth Beanca Horverson (from Norway).
Locally based participants will include writers and critics, Memory Chirere, Shimmer Chinodya, Dr
Ibbo Mandaza, Pathisa Nyathi, Kizito Muchemwa, Shepherd Mutamba, Joyce Jenje-Makwenda, Cynthia Marangwanda, Tendai Maduwa, Ray Mawerera, Isabella Matambanadzo, Lawrence Hoba, Fungai Machirori, Biko Mutsaurwa and many more.
Music performances will be by Gary Tight, Jairos Chabvonga, Ticha Muzavazi, and others.
Poetry/spoken-word will be delivered by Cynthia Marangwanda, Linda Gabriel, Philani Nyoni, and
some of the visiting writers. Radio personality, J-Boss (Jabulani Hove) will lead a session in
which he will be discussing lyrical content with some musicians.
LitFest went into partnership with Theatre in the Park, which will see the premiere and running of
a play by the Norwegian writer, Elisabeth Beanca Horverson. The play, "Guinea Fowl" is based on the life of the late great Zimbabwean writer, Doris Lessing. It will feature a Norwegian and Zimbabwean cast and production crew. As indicated above, Elisabeth Beanca Horverson will also be one of the festival participants.
As part of it´s community development initiatives, LitFest will also run a workshop for high school
students. The workshop will focus on the craft of storytelling, hip-hop, poetry performance and
social media. It will culminate in the recording and uploading of the students´ works and
performances on various social media platforms. The objective of the workshop is not only to
develop skills, but to also encourage students to use social media platforms in a more meaningful
way. This workshop will be run in partnership with the British Council.
The festival activities will be run at the University of Zimbabwe, SAPES Trust, Theatre in the
Park, the British Council and at Gallery Delta. The detailed festival programme will be available
online and at the venues.
LitFest Harare is headed by its Director, the poet and writer, Chirikure Chirikure. Its board of
trustees is chaired by Dr Edgar Nhira Mberi, a writer, critic and lecturer at the University of
Zimbabwe.
The LitFest team and Board of Trustees acknowledge, with many thanks, the support of the Zimbabwe
Germany Society/Goethe Institute, Sylt Foundation, Culture Fund of Zimbabwe, British Council,
Pamberi Trust, University of Zimbabwe, the Meikles Foundation, Alliance Francaise, Theatre in the
Park, SAPES Trust, Gallery Delta, Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe and other well-wishers, that has enabled this edition of the festival to be
held.
As Chirikure Chirikure says, "We realised the need for a platform to celebrate literature and to
engage minds in a stimulating environment. Zimbabwe has produced a lot of high-class literary
materials that are recognised the world over. We need to applaud this and we need to help cultivate
more works. As such, LitFest will bring together local and international players annually, to
honour our local achievements as well as to open windows for the growth of our arts."
(Issued 17 November 2015, in Harare, by LitFest)
END
Contacts for LitFest:
Chirikure Chirikure
Phone: +263-772-335040
Email: chirikure.chirikure@yahoo.co.uk
Elizabeth Muchemwa
Phone: +263-773-255694
Email: ersmuchemwa@gmail.com
Margaret Ling
25 Endymion Road
London N4 1EE
Tel +44 (0)20 8348 8463
margaret.ling@geo2.poptel.org.uk
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