FRI 19, 3pm, Rastafari Zimbabwe (RASZ) presents “BLACK MY STORY”, a Black History Month discussion – ‘How Ethiopia liberated Africa from the Battle of Adowa to the Ashanti Wars and the 1st Chimurenga in Zimbabwe’.  FOLLOWED BY:

5.30-7pm, RASZ BLACK HISTORY CONCERT featuring CRUXIAL MIX, THANDA & DA IMANI TRODDAS, Poets: SISTA XAPA, ZION DAWTA, FOUNDATION CREW, RAS JABU, PSP, FLOWCHYLD, MUTUMWA PAVI, RAS TAWANDA and AMBUYA THANDIWE.

SAT 20, 2pm, BOCAPA XPOSURE OPEN MIC – A platform for aspiring artists to show off their talent and potential @ The Book Café.  (Bocapa Xposure 2010 – Season 1 registration now in progress, see Hector at The Book Café for more information).

 

SAT 27, 9pm, LINDSAY YON + SUBWAY, old school, soul, jazz, RnB party! @ The Mannenberg    A special performance to promote women artists, under Pamberi Trust’s gender project FLAME (Female Literary, Arts & Music Enterprise). 

 

SUN 28, 3-6pm, FLAME presents another exciting regional collaboration @The Mannenberg: THANDA RICHARDSON, ZIMBABWE (reggae Afro-fusion) with JAZZ P, SWAZILAND (afro raga hiphop) – an explosion of creativity and colour by young women artists of the southern African region!

 

 

 

THU 18, 8pm, ALEXIO & SHADES OF BLACK, with the album ‘Kana’ featuring hit songs “Shaina” & “Famba”.

 

FRI 19, 3pm, Rastafari Zimbabwe (RASZ) presents a Black History Month Special “BLACK MY STORY” DISCUSSION - How Ethiopia liberated Africa from the Battle of Adowa to the Ashanti Wars and the 1st Chimurenga in Zimbabwe.  FOLLOWED BY:

 

5.30-7pm, RASZ BLACK  HISTORY CONCERT featuring  CRUXIAL MIX, THANDA & DA IMANI TRODDAS, Poets: SISTA XAPA, ZION DAWTA, FOUNDATION CREW, RAS JABU, PSP, FLOWCHYLD, MUTUMWA PAVI, RAS TAWANDA and AMBUYA THANDIWE.

 

FRI 19, 8pm, MAWUNGIRA ENHARIRA – Mbira: always versatile!

 

SAT 20, 2pm, BOCAPA XPOSURE OPEN MIC – A platform for aspiring artists to show off their talent & potential.

 

SAT 20, 5.30pm, PFUMOJENA & MNANDI – great tunes from emerging artists of Zimbabwe, featuring their popular ‘Ndoda Mai Vanu’

 

SAT 20, 8pm, TRANSIT CREW – Reggae for the Soul, BIG TINGS ah gwaan!

 

MON 22, 7.30pm, BOCAPA XPOSURE 2010 Season1, The hunt is on for Zimbabwe’s next star - 10 exciting acts

 

TUE 23, 5.30-7pm, MINDBLAST discussion – ‘WHAT ARTISTS WANT IN THE NEW CONSTITUTION’.  FREE, All welcome

 

TUE 23, 8pm, HOPE MASIKE ne KAKUWE, a fresh fusion of traditional music from gifted young artists

 

WED 24, 5.30pm, ARTISTS FOR DEMOCRACY TRUST Discussion, FREE All welcome!

 

WED 24, 8pm, MOKOOMBA – Tonga Beats hit Zim Streets!  Music Crossroads 2008 Winners from Victoria Falls.  Back from their European tour and bound for greater heights!

 

THUR 25, 8pm, GENDER FORUM – ‘THE CONSTITUTION: WHY WOMEN SHOULD CARE’ FREE All welcome!

 

THUR 25, 8pm, ALEXIO & SHADES OF BLACK, with the album ‘Kana’ featuring hit songs “Shaina” & “Famba”.

 

FRI 26, 5.30pm, MCINTOSH – Mbira by ‘The Peacemaker’ - Bocapa Xposure 2008 winner’.

 

FRI 26, 8pm, MAWUNGIRA ENHARIRA – Mbira: always versatile!

 

SAT 27, 2-5pm, PFUMOJENA & MNANDI – great tunes from emerging artists on the scene, including the increasingly popular ‘Ndoda Mai Vangu…’

 

SAT 27, 5.30-7pm, JOSH MECK & MAWONERO - Pure afro-jazz!  Featuring exciting and gifted young artists on the jazz scene

 

SAT 27, 8pm, TRANSIT CREW – Reggae for the Soul, BIG TINGS ah gwaan!

 

 

THU 18, 10pm, JAMES NYAMANDI & THE FOUR BROTHERS - traditional, featuring the hit song “MaSalad”!

 

FRI 19, 6.30-9.30pm, JAZZ INVITATION & FRIENDS featuring PATIENCE MUSA –

Tru Jazz & the Best Live Old Skool!!  Let your hair down - Come out and enjoy!

 

FRI 19, 10pm, VICTOR KUNONGA & PEACE – timeless originals, always in demand!

 

SAT 20, 3pm, Magamba presents MASHOKO: THE SPOKEN WORD EVENT, a combination of spoken word poetry, hiphop and live music to feed the mind and ease the soul

 

SAT 20, 10pm, SAM MTUKUDZI – Come witness a Contemporary Zimbabwean sound in a new generation!

 

TUE 23, 9pm, BONGO LOVE – Eclectic, Afrocoustic!  Back home from their extended US tour.

 

WED 24, 6pm, Media for Development Trust present TWO short films, FREE All Welcome!

 

6.00-6.30pm - “RECLAIM THE CONDOM” - Young Agony Aunt Sheila is launching a campaign to “reclaim the condom” from the public health agencies. She reckons that condoms are best marketed and promoted as sexy contraceptives – not as weapons against HIV and other killer diseases. But many in Mozambique think she’s going too far.  (Duration: 25mins)

 

6.45- 7.15pm – “GRACE UNDER FIRE” - Obstetrician Grace Kodindo is known across the world for her fight to stop women dying unnecessarily in pregnancy and childbirth. The 2005 BBC film “Dead Mums Don’t Cry” filmed her work in Chad, on the Sahara’s edge. Now she’s travelled to north-west Congo to find that here, at the epicentre of Central Africa’s wars, there are still more harrowing challenges… (Duration 25mins).

 

WED 24, 9pm-12pm, MIC-INITY, Lovaz Rock Reggae! 

 

THU 25, 9pm, BOB NYABINDE “The Headmaster” & SAVANNAH DRIVE – the weekend township jazz groove!

 

FRI 26, 9pm, VICTOR KUNONGA & PEACE – timeless originals, always in demand!

 

SAT 27, 2pm, THE CIRCLE – Zim’s Hottest Hip-Hop MC battle. If U think U got Rap – Bring it!

 

SAT 27, 9pm, LINDSAY YON  & SUBWAY, old school, soul, jazz, RnB party!  - Featuring Lindsay and Comfort (vo), with Nigel Wyngard (keyb/guitar), Bob Savannah (drums), Joe Vas (sax/guitar), and Brennan Wyngard (bass) – Come out and party!   A special performance to promote women artists, under Pamberi Trust’s gender project FLAME (Female Literary, Arts & Music Enterprise).

 

SUN 28, 3-6pm, FLAME presents another exciting regional collaboration: THANDA RICHARDSON, ZIMBABWE (reggae Afro-fusion) with JAZZ P, SWAZILAND (afro raga hiphop) – an explosion of creativity and colour by young women artists of the southern African region!