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AEL as @ 6 February 2011
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Forthcoming events over the next two weeks

Fuller details and later events below. Events are in Harare unless stated otherwise.

DANCE
MUSIC

Book Café & Mannenberg (to 12 February)

Performing Arts Bulawayo [PAB] and the Academy [Bulawayo]

Petroc Trelawny talks about the Proms (8 February)
The Way We Live Now (10, 17 & 24 February)
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (18 February)

FINE ART & EXHIBITIONS

Artists in the Stream II @ Gallery Delta (from 8 February)
Renewables – Made in Germany @ four universities (to 17 February)
Pikicha Photography Competition (monthly – next closing date, 20 February)

DRAMA, THEATRE & SPOKEN WORD

Ganyu @ Theatre in the Park (to 26 February)

FILM
CRAFT FAIRS & OTHER FAIRS
WORKSHOPS & COURSES
CLUBS & SOCIETIES

Association of Complementary Health Practitioners (8 February)
Prehistory Society of Zimbabwe (16 February)
Tree Society (20 February)

CLASSIFIEDS: ARTY THINGS WANTED OR FOR SALE
EVENTS OUTSIDE ZIMBABWE

Arundel Voices of Harare, in London (9 February)

FUTURE FESTIVALS – 2011
NIAA Vocal and Instrumental Festival: 7–26 March <mailto:niaa@yoafrica.com>
Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa): 26 April – 1 May <info@hifa.co.zw>

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

DANCE

MUSIC

Book Café & Mannenberg (to 12 February)
Fife Avenue Shopping Mall (upstairs), cnr. Fife Ave. / 6th Street, Harare (access upstairs parking from 6th St)
Tel. 0914 435 272; e-mail: <mailto:pamberit@gmail.com>, Website: <http://www.zimbabwearts.org>

BOOK CAFÉ
MON 07, 7pm, BOOK CAFÉ OPEN MIC – All artists welcome!
TUE 08, 5.30pm, STORYTELLING OPEN MIC – Hear stories, see life! Free, All Welcome
TUE 08, 8pm, KUDZAI SEVENZO – hot off the press with her brand new CD 'Child of Afrika' – now the live experience, an Afro-centric vibe
WED 09, 8pm, AY BAND, Afro fusion in the new generation
THU 10, 8pm, ALEXIO KAWARA & SHADES OF BLACK – an explosive new show!
FRI 11, 5.30pm, MACINTOSH JERAHUNI: Mbira by 'The Peacemaker'
FRI 11, 8pm, NYAMASVISVA NeMAWUNGIRA ENHARIRA – mbira magic from Harare's legendary mbira ensemble
SAT 12, 2-5pm, SISTAZ OPEN MIC: Love and Black History: Sistaz this is your theme, your space, your time – song, dance, poetry, comedy: whateva you do come do it with us!! Guest divas leading the way into 2011! Come early and register with the MC.
SAT 12, 5.30pm, HOT YOUNG WOMEN ARTISTS featured here – details TBA
SAT 12, 8pm, (DETAILS TO BE ADVISED)

THE MANNENBERG JAZZ CLUB AND RESTAURANT
CLOSED SUNDAY & MONDAY
TUE 08, 8pm, 'Chilled Tuesday'- STAND-UP COMEDY with MICHAEL K: 'BACK TO THE MADNESS!!'
WED 09, 6pm, FREE FILM SCREENING from The Arts Factory: All Welcome! Details TBA
WED 09, 9pm, MIC-INITY - Roots Rock Reggae : Weddy Wednesday!!!
THU 10, 9pm, DUDU MANHENGA & COLOR BLU – A world class afrojazz adventure, with Dudu's special guest
FRI 11, 9pm, ANDY BROWN and The Storm, taking the Mannenberg by storm!
SAT 12, 9pm, 'SUKI AFRICA' - SUKIYAKI ALLSTARS meets AFRICA: South Africa–Tanzania–Zimbabwe- Swaziland : The African tour of four rising music stars from Africa and three leaders of Asian music renewal, who blend their individual creativity and musical traditions into one unique performance – an amazing and rare cultural fusion between Asia and Africa. Proudly featuring Zimbabwe's own CHIWONISO, with PETER SOLO (Togo), ERIK ALIANA and CHOUCHOU BASS (Cameroon), CHANG JAE-HYO (Korea), and SAKAKI MANGO and NDANA (Japan). (Advance Tickets: Book Café, Fife Ave Mall (upstairs), 0774 435 272 - Limited seating: Come early!)

THE ARTS FACTORY @ The Book Café – Books and CDs of Zimbabwean artists.
All proceeds from sales go direct to artists/publishers. Opens Mon-Fri 9am-5pm and Sat 9am-1pm.

Roll Over Beethoven @ Twin Rivers School (3–5 March)
The Barnyard Theatre production, Roll Over Beethoven, presented by Sound Event Management and proudly sponsored by BA Comair.
This is the best-selling and longest-running Barnyard Theatre show. Not to be missed!
Twin Rivers School, Avondale, 3–5 March. Tickets from $20.
Tickets available only from the Sound Event Management Box Office, which opens on 15 February. Please do not contact the school.
Bookings – Tel 706637/8, Cell: 0712-601107, 0772-238715 & 0733-0002342.
E-mail: <mailto:Boxoffice@dae.co.zw>.
Or call into the DStv Retail shop, ground floor PaSangano Building (next to MultiChoice), 20 King George Rd, Avondale.

NIAA Vocal and Instrumental Festival (7–26 March)
Venues: Prince Edward School Music Centre and Harare International School
Syllabus now available.
If you would like a syllabus emailed to you, please write to <mailto:niaa@yoafrica.com>.
Hard copies also available.
National Institute of Allied Arts: Tel. : 702989 (answer-phone).

The Marden Singers - Calendar of Rehearsals and Concerts for 2011
Easter Concert, 1 and 2 April.
"Glyndebourne in Harare": Opera Highlights at an open-air concert, 24 September. Rehearsals commence 11 May.
The Messiah, 19 and 20 November. Rehearsals commence 28 September.
Prospective new members of the choir welcome - please contact Julie Kuhn on <mailto:julz.kuhn@gmail.com> if interested in joining.

Performing Arts Bulawayo [PAB] and the Academy [Bulawayo]

Petroc Trelawny talks about the Proms (8 February)
Tuesday 8 February in the Robert Sibson Hall at 7.30 p.m.
After his appearances at last year's Bulawayo Music Festival, Petroc Trelawny is well known in Bulawayo. He is one of the regular announcers on BBC Radio 3 and has introduced dozens of Proms in recent years. His talk will cover his own experiences and some of the history of the Proms as well as excepts from particularly memorable occasions on DVD.
Admission: $3.00

The Way We Live Now (10, 17 & 24 February)
Thursdays 10, 17 & 24 February in the Robert Sibson Hall at 7.30 p.m.
This award-winning serial tells the story of a society in turmoil, where money, power and corruption are the order of the day. Set in the railway boom of the 1870s, it contains all the elements that made Trollope the most popular novelist of the day, the trials and tribulations of young love, the enduring values of honourable men.
Augustus Melmotte (David Suchet) arrives in London with his wife and daughter. he appears charming and as noble as ever, but a deceitful financier lies beneath the surface. Wasting no time in frivolous activities, he charms an unwitting Paul Montague into investing in one of his schemes. But as Melmotte climbs the society ladder, his web of deceit captures his own daughter Marie and her suitor Felix Carbury, son of the feckless novelist Lady Carbury. "...pacy and funny and beautifully acted." The Times.
Admission: $3.00 [$6.00 the series]

Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (18 February)
Robert Sibson Hall at 6.30 p.m. – with supper interval.
Offenbach's last and most ambitious opera links three stories with a similar theme, Hoffmann's unfulfilled love for, in turn, Olympia, who proves to be a mechanical doll, the consumptive Antonia, and.Giulietta, a Venetian courtesan, whilst a fourth tale, introducing another love, Stella, provides a framework for the opera. In each case Hoffmann's search for the ideal woman is thwarted by a diabolical character, Dr.Coppélius (a much less cosy character than in the Delibes ballet!), Dr.Miracle, the magician Dappertutto and Lindorff, and, in this striking production from the Paris Opera, all four villains are played by Bryn Terfel.
Admission: $3.00 [free to Red Carpet members]

Fallen Women and Virtuous Wives (28 February)
Monday 28 February in the Robert Sibson Hall at 7.30 p.m.
Petroc Trelawny, Graham Johnson and Ron Sandler are arranging a concert in London to launch the British Friends of the Zimbabwe Academy of Music. The main aim is to set up a trust fund for the Academy to help it expand and employ new teachers, but it will also support the 2012 and perhaps future festivals.
The Academy is arranging several events during the week to launch its own find-raising effort and to coincide with the London Concert itself, will be showing a recording of a recital Dame Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson gave in 2009 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their first appearance together. As the title suggests, the programme aims to entertain with music ranging from Haydn and Mozart to Kurt Weill and William Walton, from Schumann and Brahms to Noël Coward and Oscar Straus. There will also be a film called "My Own Country" which gives a fascinating glimpse into the richness of the song and poetry of the idyllic Sussex countryside where Felicity Lott has lived for many years.
Admission: $3.00

FINE ART & EXHIBITIONS

Artists in the Stream II @ Gallery Delta (from 8 February)
The Annual Young Artist's Select Exhibition of Drawings, Graphics, Paintings and Multi-Media Sculptures
Opening Tuesday, 8 February, at 5.30.p.m.
Previewing from noon that day. Exhibition duration until end February
Gallery Delta, 'Robert Paul's Old House,' 110 Livingstone Avenue/Ninth Street, Greenwood Park, Harare
Telephone/Fax: 792135; <mailto:artdelta@mweb.co.zw>; <http://www.gallerydelta.com>.

Renewables – Made in Germany @ four universities (to 17 February)
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, in conjunction with the British Council and the Zimbabwe German Society, will be hosting a month-long exhibition on renewable resources.
The exhibition, to be held from 24 January to 17 February, 2011, will be showcased at four different universities:

Chinhoyi University of Technology – 7–11 February
National University of Science and Technology – 14–18 February

The host universities will also be organizing plenary sessions on renewable resources and opportunities in Zimbabwe.

Pikicha Photography Competition (monthly – next closing date, 20 February)
The Zimbo Jam, in partnership with The Spanish Embassy in Harare, are running a photographic competition with a grand prize of US$1000. Professional and amateur Zimbabwean photographers are invited to enter.
The competition has monthly themes and monthly prizes and runs until June 2011.
Each month will have three prizes of $100, $50 and $25 for the top three winners.
An overall winner for the 2011 competition will be chosen after the six months and will receive a cash prize of US $1000.
Submissions must be made by the 20th of each month.
The themes are:
February: "Love"
March: "In the Eyes of a Child"
April: "Keep it Green"
May: "Albinos"
June: "Women by Women" (Women of Zimbabwe captured by other women)
The full rules of the competition can be found at: <http://www.pikicha.com/rules>.
More information can be found on <http://www.pikicha.com/>
Or contact Tendai/Fungai: e-mail <mailto:ipikicha@zimbojam.com>, Tel. +263-772-393863

DRAMA, THEATRE & SPOKEN WORD

Ganyu @ Theatre in the Park (to 26 February)
A thrilling afrobatics (style) theatre play fusing acrobatics and broad physical theatre
The Malawian boys will give you a rare showing at Theatre in the Park every day at 5.30 & 7.30pm until 26 February, except for Sundays and Mondays. Tickets: US$3 & US$2
"Bring your family and friends for unique over the edge entertainment".
"GANYU is a highly physical, humorous and energetic production and it consists of so much physics-defying shenanigans …"
<http://www.zimbojam.com>
Email: <mailto:media@rooftop.co.zw>. Website: <http://www.rooftop.co.zw>
For more info & bookings contact: <mailto:media@rooftop.co.zw>, Mobile +263 772 993 413

FILM

CRAFT FAIRS & OTHER FAIRS

WORKSHOPS & COURSES

CLUBS & SOCIETIES

Association of Complementary Health Practitioners (8 February)
Our talk and supper for February will be held on Tuesday, 8 February at 6.30 pm for 7 pm, at Highlands Sports Club.
Our speaker will be Marietta van der Werff, who is a trainer and teacher of the wonderful course on healing and self help, called "THE JOURNEY". It is described briefly in the short write up below. There is little doubt that most people who hear this talk will be encouraged to learn more about it, with the hope that it will help them and their friends and families to find a better way to improved health and well-being. Marieta will be able to demonstrate with an introductory video in which Brandon Bays explains the work, and what it has meant to her personally as well as many thousands of others.
The talk will be followed by a "Bring and Share" supper, which everyone who attends is asked to contribute to, just a plate of something tasty, buffet style,or a pudding which is always popular. The bar will be open. Everyone is welcome, and new members are invited to join us. There is a small donation requested at the door to cover the cost of hiring the hall and to offer a gratuity to the kitchen staff.

Work on yourself and others with The Journey (TM).
Journeywork originates from the personal experience of Brandon Bays. She was able to cure a football size tumor grown in her womb in less than six weeks. This experience led her to develop a method to access, release and heal old issues stored as cellular memory. The Journey has helped thousands of people worldwide free themselves from issues like fear, anxiety, stress, depression, low self-esteem, chronic anger, rage, physical illnesses and disease. It also has been used to deal with personal issues relating to addictions and unhealthy behaviours such as, sexual abuse, relationship problems and problematic career performance. <http://www.thejourney.com>
Presented by Marietta van der Werff - training Journey Practitioner, also an entrepreneur in the business of development, production and marketing of vegetable seed. Marietta was attracted by and has witnessed the transformational power of the Journey, on both business and personal level.

Prehistory Society of Zimbabwe (16 February)
There will be an illustrated talk on the rock engravings at the Twyfelfontein World Heritage Site in Namibia by Mr. Bill Kinsey.
Wednesday, 16 February, 5.15 for 5.30 in the lecture theatre, St. George's College, Borrowdale Road, Harare.
All welcome.

Tree Society (20 February)
Sunday, 20 February. Christon Bank. 9.30 a.m.
The next Tree Society Sunday meeting will be at Christon Bank Botanical Reserve. There is a great of variety of indigenous trees to be seen there.
Directions: Take the Mazowe Road out of Harare turning right to Christon Bank about 22. 5km from Harare. Follow the tarred road right down past the ZRP Police Station (on your right) ignoring all the various turn-offs to right or left. Continue to the end of the Tar Road about 7km approximately and park in the parking area on the right where the Botanical Reserve is situated.
Hope to see you all on Sunday at 9.30a.m. Please bring a packed lunch, a chair, a hat and water. Visitors always welcomed.

CLASSIFIEDS: ARTY THINGS WANTED OR FOR SALE

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EVENTS OUTSIDE ZIMBABWE

Arundel Voices of Harare, in London (9 February)
The Church of the Immaculate Conception
Farm Street (Mount Street Entrance) 114 Mount Street,
Mayfair, London W1K 3AH (opposite The Connaught Hotel)
Wednesday, 9 February, 7.00 p.m.
Tickets £10 on the door or book in advance by email: <mailto:contact@atoztrust.org>
See also <http://www.atoztrust.org/index.php?pageid=69>.

For ZIMBABWE INFORMATION see the large list of links on <http://www.twinarts.co.zw/ael/archive/index.htm>.

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