Girl Child Creativity

Press release The Goodnews Electronic Academic Solutions is a project founded by a young team of Zimbabwean graduates from the esteemed academic institution the University of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is a country endowed with creativity, innovation and academic excellence thus Mr. Tinashe Chikoko and Mr. Samson Mujakwi   who are products of this excellence have initiated and invented an electronic academic solution in all high school academic subjects using recorded DVDs /video lectures, to promote smart, fast and effective learning solutions to enhance the keenness and the willingness to learn in high school students and to complement the ZimAsset value addition cluster through educational solutions and strategies such as electronic and visual learning. Statistics prove that most students are failing through print and manual classroom lectureship hence visuals can complement such and results might improve and remove the country from mediocrity, redundancy and deficiency ...

Like Zimbabwe, most states in Africa are endowed with creative acumen and literary prowess. Zimbabwe, the country north of the Limpopo and south of the Zambezi, exudes both talent and natural endowment, while the country is faced with unending political paradoxes, social and economic ironies. Arriving at the Road and Air Ports in the pockets of Harare, your face is smashed with horrific print headlines yawning of corrupt technocrats and political stalwarts under suspension and investigation. Your ears are choked with radios belting out chimurenga hit songs and the sanctions rhetoric. The Television news bulletins belch out fat ministers signing cultural, educational and financial treaties in the Far East, accompanied by excess baggage – their delegations gobbling up what’s left of the corruption-roasted national purse. Where are the pen pundits, where are the scribes, poets, writers and their swords? The myth of censorship puts writers and poets in despair, the f...

December is a very busy month for poets and creative arts organizers. This the time when poets and artists  showcase their solidarity with women ,girl empowerment organizations and other community development project  to realizing the resilience displayed  by these organizations in fighting  against gender based violence/16 days of gender activism, resilience against HIV/AIDS pandemic/World Aids Day, Conservation of environment/National Tree Planting Day. Women have played a very scintillating role in defending the lives of their communities through various activities. A group of poets  both male and female Poetic License 365  are complimenting the excellent and  resilient work women are doing with a  well packed , iconic poetry evening, a volcanic mixture of known and unknown voices. The event will take place at the book cafe  on the 6th of December 2013 from 5.00-730 pm. The  Program  Poetic Lice...

byKundai Marunya   Girl right advocate organization Girl Child Creativity (GCC) last night closed its week-long mentor ship program with their Voices Fiesta at the First Floor Gallery. More than 30 people, including school children, educators, artists and art lovers, attended the event. Students from Vainona High, Budiriro 3 Primary and Vista Vision College showcased their talents along the theme of promoting the rights of girl children. Students from Vista Vision College staged a mini theatre play, outlining how issues that affect women are often handled by men who do not understand them. Their performance, which was filled with humor, managed to bring the audience’s attention to things that are often overlooked. Budiriro primary school students brought to the table what they had learnt from legendary writer Aaron Chiunduramoyo. Their presentation of poetry and short stories in both English and Shona caused celebrated writer and journalist Tinashe Muchuri to br...

DAY 3- Public Press Update with Zanele Mutema and Mbizo Chirasha GirlchildVoices Fiesta100tpc 2013 season. Our program began at 1130    am at the First Floor gallery   facilitated by   Zimbabwean Poet and Coordinator Mbizo Chirasha and Zanele Mutema taking the Vision College Students and other participants through    a journey of   visual arts   creations . She have done a lot exhibitions in Harare    and outside Harare. She is into mixed media. Students got much inspiration from her exhibition that is currently running at the First Floor Gallery. She answered a lot of burning questions from eager students . Questions on art and community development, Questions on art and sustainability, Questions on art and survival. Then Mbizo   Chirasha gave a participatory intervention   on how to grow ideas into works of arts. He touched    on the development of    literary arts and literacy in Zimbabw...

GirlchildVoices Fiesta -100TPC 2013 Season Thursday the 4 th of October saw a delegation of highly talented young Zimbabweans. Kresiah Destiny Mkwazhi [ Photographer and Visual Artist], Mbizo Chirasha[ Coordinator and Project Curator ],Robson Shoes Lambada[ Prominent  Young Poet ,  writer and Coordinator of Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights ],Kudzai Mutiti[ Assistant Coordinator ] arriving at Vainona high school  during mid day to meet their host Ms Synodia Masinyani  the patron of the Writers Club at Vainiona and  12 female participants  to take part in Photo –Poetry-Writing  Skills  and motivational workshops  facilitated by  Shoes Lambada and Kresiah Mkwazhi. Upon arrival Mbizo Chirasha narrated the important of the mission and the whole scope of the project. Shoes Lambada  gave a classic lecture and presentation on issues that have to deal with  poetry composition ,  aspects of poetry writing , cli...

Day 1 GirlChildVoices Fiesta  Activity Update Shona Literary legend , Novelist , Writer ,Poet  , Filmmaker and Dramatist Aaron Chiundura Moyo   opened  the   Girl child Voices Fiesta – 100TPC 2013 with a bang at Budiriro3 Primary school in the high density suburb of Harare ,Zimbabwe  today from 215 pm to 430 pm. The 2013 program is hive of activities with the theme Defining girlchildVoices through Artistic Fusion , shaping artistic skills and development girl child talent in schools and bring them for final day to celebrate what they created in workshops and receive certificates to motivate and inspire them horning their creativity. Chiundura opened his facilitation by saying “ndainzi Matanda  mufirim u ndabvez era” .He acted in1989 with the Great Ambuya Mlambo. He told    participating primary school children that the role of the writer, poet and actor is to expose community rot , corruption , child abuse and...