(Pictured above is part of the crowd at Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights inaugural First Street Poetry Forum on 21 March 2009)
Lunch is ready! Harare International Festival of the Arts
By Tomson Phiri
Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights will this year take the Harare International Festival of the Arts into the First Street Shopping Mall from Wednesday the 29th to Saturday the 2nd of May during the lunch hour breaks. The vibrant and hard hitting arts platform shall seek to serve poetic meals spiced with issues to deal with press freedom and freedom of speech, youth and constitutional rights. “ZPHR draws pride from sensitization of masses on aspects pertaining to their rights in a simplified and enjoyable version as weapons of mass instruction” says the Programmes Manager, Robson Isaac Shoes Lambada. The cast includes among others Lexter ‘Shagada’ Mutasa, Jongwe Wezhira; internationally acclaimed and Award winning Julius Chingono; Michael Mabwe; Cynthia the Flow Child; Sister Fire and ERS Muchemwa.
The Harare International Festival of the Arts dubbed Enligh10ment will run from the 28th of April to the 3rd of May and what better enligh10ment than enligh10ing Harare’s first street shoppers and travellers alike. As one PSP ZION a poet from ZPHR avers, “There is a gun for every Catholic nun/And for every enligh10ing book a ban” so hooray to Enligh10ment.
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