Zimbabwe Arts

The Zimbabwe Arts website is run by Pamberi Trust, a non-profit organisation based in Zimbabwe that seeks to promote the arts.

The website has the following features among others:

	Online Artist Directory This is a useful tool for both artists and fans. We encourage artists to ensure that their profiles are up to date. [Show me]
	Photo Gallery Our online collection of pictures from events at the venues we run. [Show me]
	Events Diary A weekly calendar of shows at the Mannenberg and the Book Café. [Show me]
	Useful Links Links to other arts and culture websites. [Show me]

Our Mission

Managing Creativity

Pamberi Trust is founded on the belief that the arts are critical in shaping values that reflect society.

Culture represents a multitude of diverse realities; it provides a medium for tolerance, enlightenment, joy and social cohesion. Individual artists stimulate, provoke, inform and make people aware.

Cognisant of the economic potential of the arts and the need to create free, diverse means of cultural expression; Pamberi Trust exists as an enabling facility, by which all performing artists and producers of culture may develop, promote and perform their works, and participate in building the nation.

Our mission is to manage over 500 creative events a year professionally.

Our activities are supported by the following partners:  

Our Staff

Board of Trustees

Chairperson: J.Kimeniah

S.Khoza, P.Brickhill , J.Cahi, V.Phiri, C.Gatsi, R. Katedza

Management

Managing Director, Steve Khoza

Creative Director, Paul Brickhill

Finance Manager, 

The Arts Factory

Arts Factory Projects Officer - Mandla Ncube

Media Development Officer, Rudo Chakanyuka

Assistant Media Development officer,

Arts Factory Assistant, Noreen Musasiwa

Our Facilities

The Book Café
Apart from hosting many public discussions and providing a facility for Pamberi Trust development programmes, The Book Café has live music poetry and other performances 6 nights a week and runs a popular cafe and bar. Above all, it has become where all ethnic groups and cultures mix freely, peacefully and comfortably.

The Mannenberg
The Mannenberg opened in 1999 as a jazz theatre club, next to The Book Cafe, with a debut Zimbabwean performance of the legendary Abdullah Ibrahim. Jazz has a fascinating history in Zimbabwe, and Zimbabwe has had a profound influence on “African Jazz”. The Mannenberg is at the forefront of the jazz renaissance of the 2000s, and also promotes four to six theatre productions annually.