Intwasa festival koBulawayo dates unveiled

The organisers of the multi-disciplinary arts fiesta, Intwasa Festival KoBulawayo, have unveiled the dates and the theme for this year as they made a call for people to support the event.

Intwasa is isiNdebele word meaning "spring".

Intwasa director Raisedon Baya said Intwasa 2012 will be an energetic, exciting, and joyous celebration of arts and culture capturing the spirit and mood of a season in bloom.

It will run from 18-22 September and there will be various events at seven venues around the city of Bulawayo.

"Intwasa means Spring — a season for new life, new beginnings, joy and fun. Spring is a season for blooming, a season for opening up and flourishing. A season in bloom exudes energy and radiates diversity.

"Blooming reflects freshness, vigour, and youthfulness. This is exactly what the 8th edition of Intwasa Arts Festival will be about," Baya said.

He added that this year the event would be about growing and opening up to new audiences, acts, and artistes, "opening up and embracing both the old and the new, the known and the unknown, local and international. It will be about encouraging intersexions between the arts, business and other sectors; growing new partnerships while strengthening old ones".

The festival which seeks to promote diversity, human creativity and African aesthetics will celebrate diversity embodied in the uniqueness and plurality of identities and cultural expressions of Zimbabweans and others that will gather for the arts feast.

"It will celebrate the blooming of life and business after the economic meltdown and global economic crisis of the past years," he said.

The festival, which runs as a trust, organises one of the biggest high schools drama competitions in Zimbabwe, in partnership with Plan Zimbabwe. The initial stages of the competition are run during the course of the year culminating in finals during the course of the festival.

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