Girl Child Creativity

The Mokador New Year Music and Poetry Extravaganza brings you a variegated taste of blooming and ripened artists. The Event is to celebrate the coming a prospective and thought to be progressive new year, as well as creating new spaces for the Zimbabwe Young Talent. We hope and believe in celebrating together with you on the night. We are having on the line the Ebony Sheik founder George Porgie, he once played with Don Gumbo and Busi Ncube, Edgar Langaveldt will be in the house at the master of ceremony, Rival Tribe a young Sungura outfit. Vibrant Afro soul young band the Laggards. Young female and male poets with their vibrant voices, Poets like Mwana Afrika, Dimitri, Carter, Dariius, Momo, Unique, Yvonne, Terry K, Chikepe, Zvevanhu, Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights, Dblok and many others. Not forgeting slo act of Mbira zdemutupo, Innocent Mupemba and his afrocentric artistic prowess. We will be bringing you the Program of the Event on the day. ...

The event is presented by Spoke-N-Heard and GirlchildCreativity. Celebrating culture and diversity through poetry, music and dance with Momo, DBLOK, Rutendo Machiridza, Savana Afros, So Profound, Vokal and other Amazing female and male artists. In the House will the Zimbabwe Poets for human rights, Mbiravolution  Exhibition. We are celebrating our cultural food, music, poetry and mbira as the year braces to the end. We have an amazing African menu - madora, matemba, mufushwa, derere, chimukuyu nedovi, traditional beer. So come and enjoy such a delicacy. Program /Mokador Cultural Fiesta 5pm- Arrival of Guests, Patrons of Mokador and Artists 5.30- Artists Briefing and Program distribution by Organizers 5.35- Welcome Remarks by Mokado Team / Hosts and Venue managers 5.45- Brief background of the program by Vokal[ Event Coordinator] and Mbizo [Marketing and Networking Adviser 6.00 pm-630pm Opening Act - Mhofu Mbira group 6.30 -640- Momo poet 6.40-6.50- tsitsi poet 6.50-7.00pm- Dariu...

The 17th of November was a day filled with creative and arts motivation at the bookcafe with a lot of activities lined up in celebration of art and creativity. We all gathered in the morning of this day waiting for the motivational speech by Seasone our guest a Zimbabwean born UK based Hip hop artist. She gave a lot of positive insight about how to balance arts with school, with work and with family chores. She illustrated on the issues of being committed, resilient and hardworking. The Artist/Motivator gave a long narrative of her life. She started her art and her singing during her school days at Queen Elizabeth high school in Harare. Her art is more based on childrights and she believes in meaning, purpose and a positive attitude. Participants at the seminar were quite touched this was realised during the brainstorming session and the comments they gave after the seminar. Seasone aka Pamela Mandaza is leaving for the United Kingdom after a 2 week stay in Zimbabwe. Under...

PROFILE: SEASONE. Who is a nurse, a wife, a music writer, a mother and a hip hop artist. She is born to Maxwell and Joyce Ndongwe, first of three children.In Harare, Zimbabwe. She is one of the first true Zimbabweans and not Rhodesian. She moved to the UK when she was 7 years old, and returned to Zimbabwe aged 14years. She went to Queen Elizabeth School and finished her A-levels there. It whilst she was there she met her now husband, Will M. Mandaza. Seasone is mother to three boys Naishe 9, Taro 7, and Tanaye 5. Her oldest son Tatenda passed away last year. At 18 years she returned to the UK to pursue a career in Nursing. She trained at City University in London. She has worked as a Nurse since 2002. PASSIONS: Seasone is passionate about music. She started rapping at age 12. She could often be found in her room listening to the likes of Patra, Lady Saw. She emulated the likes of Da Bratt, Queen Latifa, Mc Lyte and many others. To her surprise she was good at rhymin...

End of year detailed update of GirlchildcreativityProjects 2012 Introduction - Girlchildcreativity project continue to unbelt small but massive life changing, confidence building and talent development activities in Zimbabwe. We have moved a great stride though funding remain a hindrance. The project have so far generated a lot of interest across lifestyles, cultures and backgrounds including students, academics, school teachers, cultural groups, young girls and young female artists. We have so far covered much ground in a number of projects that include Zim-Nigeria literary exchange, Girlchild Voices Fiesta, Female Poets for Environment, Urban colleges Writers Prize and the newly initiated Artist in Residence Program. Projects GirlchildVoices Fiesta - the program is held on the 29 th of September every year in conjunction with the 100 thousand poets for change that is celebrated around the world yearly and is led by Michael Rothenberg. This ...

Girl Child Creativity: Presentation by Janet Goldner - New York based art... : Dear Writers, poets , Journalists and friends in creativity and arts Girl child creativity and First Floor Gallery Hara...

Dear Writers, poets, Journalists and friends in creativity and arts Girl child creativity and First Floor Gallery Harare cordially invites you to  a motivational seminar with Janet Goldner. A guru in Visual arts, writing, arts teaching, cultural diplomacy and research. This is a very big opportunity to be inspired and get motivated to do more work in your creative life. This is your chance to get knowledge from this arts guru whose practical resume covers 15 pages. Her entire life in shrouded in arts fellowships, artists in residence programs, arts fellowships, writing and other.  Janet is in Zimbabwe through the US embassy Full bright program and she have been running visual arts workshop in partnership with First Floor Gallery. Bio summary-Over 30 years as an active artist, Janet has shown her work in over 20 solo exhibitions, and nearly 100 group exhibitions throughout the US, as well as in Lithuania, Germany, Italy, Bosnia, A...