| FLAME Burning for Regional Divas |
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| News - The Mannenberg |
| Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:00 |
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The FLAME will be burning hot! at The Mannenberg Jazz Club on Saturday 30 May with two great women artists of the subcontinent sharing the stage for a unique, one-time-only exchange of the wonderful musics of Africa - Mozambique’s most prominent female artist ‘Mingas’, with Zimbabwe’s own highly acclaimed afro jazz diva, Dudu Manhenga.
Pamberi Trust is a registered arts organisation in Harare which exists to facilitate the arts, running development programmes for youth, gender, communications and HIV/Aids. The gender project ‘FLAME’ (Female Literary Arts and Music Enterprise) has been highly commended by women artists and partners alike, and encouraged to expand nationally and regionally. As a first step towards this goal, Pamberi Trust has welcomed the opportunity to invite MINGAS for a unique artistic collaboration in Harare. She will divert from her Mozambican tour at Chimoio and travel the few extra hundred kilometres into Zimbabwe and up to the capital. The idea for this collaboration was born from meetings with visiting artists and practitioners around HIFA 2009, including Mozambican promoters SonArte Management (www.fmmusic-moz.com) through the Zimbabwe German Society, and is one of the benefits of the strong network that Pamberi Trust enjoys with other arts organisations in Harare. A three-way partnership including Pamberi Trust’s South African counterpart African Synergy Trust, has produced the single performance of ‘Mingas and Dudu’ at The Mannenberg Jazz Club on Saturday 30 May. It supports the objectives of the gender project FLAME, promotes women artists in the region generally, and forms the basis of a strong regional network which will benefit women and all artists of both countries. It also promotes valuable south-to-south cooperation for the building of the region - a necessary and urgent development in light of the forthcoming 2010 World Cup Football finals in South Africa. Creative Director Paul Brickhill said “Pamberi Trust in association with African Synergy is proud to participate in the staging of this brilliant regional collaboration, and contributing towards growth and development in Zimbabwe.” Gender project officer Penny Yon is excited about the event. She said, “Women artists are ‘happening’ in Africa and in most cases, leading the way in artistic excellence and earning international acclaim and respect for women in music, for musicians of Africa. Of such are Mingas and Dudu. Their backing artists are gifted and highly respected musicians, and the show on Sat 30 will be a fantastic delivery of music from our part of the world, a meteor shower in the African sky. Definitely not to be missed!” _______ MINGAS (Mozambique) & DUDU MANHENGA (Zimbabwe)
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