Online events to mark Culture Week

16 May, 2021 - 00:05 0 Views
Online events to mark Culture Week Prince Sivalo Mahlangu

The Sunday News

Life Correspondent
CULTURE Week kicked off across the country yesterday with various activities being held to mark the commemorations that will run for seven days.

Being held under the theme, “Resilience in Safeguarding Creativity and Cultural Diversity”, this year’s celebrations are running mostly online as the arts sector adapts to the ‘new normal’.

Food aficionado, Prince Sivalo Mahlangu is set to host an African Food Preservation event today (Sunday) exploring various modes preserving food that are used in the African culture. The Magriza Made Me Cook show host has gained popularity for showcasing a variety of African dishes on his online show.

Tomorrow Pumula Junction Dance Crew will also be going online with a variety of their performances. At the National Gallery in Bulawayo on Friday, there will be performances from Afro soul songbird Thandi Dhlana, Umkhathi Theatre Works, Thaluso the poet, Sithandazile Dube, visual artiste Marvellous Munashe Chitsa and Maskandi musicians Mkhuphuli and Yellow World.

National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) Bulawayo provincial arts manager, Cleopatra Dube said most events will be held online to ensure compliance with Covid-19 guidelines that prohibits gatherings of more than 50 people.

She said the global pandemic has certainly been challenging to artists but creativity has seen them persevering and finding to ways to continue surviving in the industry.

“We’ve also become aware of so much that is happening around us in other countries therefore we have diverse experience that influence our culture. We are proud of who we are as a nation and this year we celebrate to bring social cohesion and integration through the arts and culture in the face of Covid 19 and its associated lockdown measures. The week is a time to showcase and celebrate our culture that lives in all of us in everything we do be it our language, dressing, ornaments, architecture, crafts, music, dance and so much more. Culture is alive because we as a people are living it.”

She said the week is a time when every citizen and not just arts groups get a chance to showcase, dialogue and express our culture in our various localities. The week-long cultural fiesta will feature various online showcases including dance, music, film, theatre, visual arts, literature, poetry and comedy on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Tik Tok, YouTube, television and radio.

Culture Week is drawn from UNESCO’s 2021 Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, which in 2021 proclaimed 21 May as World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.

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