AEL as @ 29 January 2012
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Current and forthcoming events to 9 February
Fuller
details and later events below. Events are in Harare unless stated
otherwise.DANCE
MUSIC
- National Institute of Allied Arts Vocal and Instrumental Festival (deadline for entries: 1 February)
- Alexis Golovin (piano) @ HIS (4 February)
- Celebrity
Subscription Concerts (Celebs) Membership
Performing Arts Bulawayo [PAB] and the Academy [Bulawayo]
- An Evening of Ballet (2 February)
- "I Remember, My Love, I Remember" (3 February)
- Thunderwater (4 February)
- Alexis Golovin (piano) (7 February)
- David
Copperfield (9 February)
FINE ART & EXHIBITIONS
- Art Talk by Lionel (Spud) Murphy @ Hellenic International Academy (9 February)
- Exhibition of paintings @ The Gallery
- Exhibitions
@ National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (January/February)
- Sunday
Night Live! @ Reps Theatre Upstairs (29 January)
CRAFT FAIRS & OTHER FAIRS
- Farmers'
Market @ Arundel Village (4 February)
CLUBS & SOCIETIES
- Harare City Library AGM (30 January)
- Zimbabwe German Society (January/February)
- Tree
Society of Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE-RELATED EVENTS OUTSIDE ZIMBABWE
- Between
the Sheets: Artists' Books exhibition in Western Australia
(to 5 February)
Future Festivals – 2012
National
Institute of Allied Arts Vocal and Instrumental Festival (Eisteddfod): 5–24 March <mailto:niaa@yoafrica.com>Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA): 1–6 May <mailto:info@hifa.co.zw>
Bulawayo Music Festival : 23–27 May <mailto:music@gatorzw.co.uk>
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CURRENT and FORTHCOMING EVENTS
DANCE
MUSIC
National Institute of Allied Arts Vocal and Instrumental Festival (deadline for entries: 1 February)
The 2012 syllabus for the National Institute of Allied Arts Vocal and Instrumental Festival (Eisteddfod) is available now from the NIAA office at Flat A5 Northern Heights, 5 Josiah Tongogara Avenue.
Office hours are Tuesday and Thursday 9.15am - 12.30pm, and Monday and Wednesday 2-4pm.
Entries must be in by 1 February (open all day), and the festival commences 5 March, finishing with the Final Concert on 24 March.
National Institute of Allied Arts
Flat A5 Northern Heights, 5 Josiah Tongogara Avenue, Harare
Phone 702989 with answerphone. Phone/Fax 250921
Alexis Golovin (piano) @ HIS (4 February)
Alliance Française proudly presents Alexis Golovin, the famous Russian pianist, in Harare for a unique concert
Saturday, 4 February, 4pm, Harare International School Auditorium, Entrance at the end of Rivonia Drive, off Moorgate, Mount Pleasant, Harare.
Tickets available in advance at Alliance Française (328 Herbert Chitepo Avenue)
Free entry to Celebrity Subscription Concerts members – present last year's membership card at the door.
More information from: 04-704801; 04-704795
Golovin began studying the piano at the age of 5 with Anna Artobolevskaya at the Central Music School of Moscow and later at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied both the piano and musicology. He completed his studies at the Geneva Conservatory , where he won first prize with distinction, for virtuosity.
A prizewinner at the Casagrande Competition in Terni and the Busoni Competition in Bolzano, he has given concerts in Europe, Asia, North and South America as well as at the most prestigious festivals. He has played in duo with Martha Argerich and has given world premieres, including those of Ginastera's Second and Third sonatas. He has maintained close connections with his native country and regularly performs in Moscow's most important concert halls, including the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory ; he also performs with the State Philharmonic Orchestra.
Golovin dedicates much time to teaching – he is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory – and some of his students have won first prizes in various international competitions. His prolific discography includes works by Chopin and Schumann, Rachmaninoff's Etudes Tableaux, works by Scriabin, Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, B minor Sonata and Mephisto Waltz, chamber music, and the piano concertos by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Nikolai Tcherepnin, and Rodion Shchedrin. Golovin has given many master classes including at the Internationale Summeracademy Mozarteum in Salzburg, Manhattan School of Music, Conservatory of Buenos-Aires, Conservatory of Moscow, Oxford Philomusica Summer Academy and Canton International Summer Music Academy.
Programme:
1st part: F. Chopin
Ballade No. 1 (G minor) op.23
Two Nocturnes (F minor & E flat major) op.55
Polonaise (A flat major) op.53
Scherzo (B flat minor) op.31
2nd part: F. Chopin - F. Liszt
Chopin
Six polish songs :
1. The Maiden's wish
2. The Spring
3. The Ringlet
4. The Bacchanal
5. Ma Joys
6. Return Home
Liszt
Three Nocturnes (Love-Dreams)
1. Great Love
2. Hero's Death
3. O Love
Mephisto Waltz No1
Celebrity Subscription Concerts (Celebs) Membership
Celebs subscribers are invited to renew their membership for the current year 2012, and regular concert-goers are invited to consider taking out a subscription. Celebs relies very heavily on having a solid subscription base to enable the organisers to budget for the visiting artistes.
There are two levels of subscription:
1) Red Carpet Membership: RC subscribers have their own pre-allocated seat at every concert promoted by Celebs and are invited to the after-party to meet the artiste(s) at every concert.
2) Ordinary Membership: this gives subscribers a free pre-allocated seat for four concerts of the year, thus saving $10.
We have kept the subscriptions at the same levels as in 2011 and they are as follows:
RC: $100 per individual subscriber and $180 for a couple; Ordinary Members: $30.
Please contact the Membership Secretary, Véronique Wakerley at <mailto:vwakerley@zol.co.zw>, for further information.
An exciting and varied programme has been lined up, beginning in February, including the following:
February 19: Jeanette Micklem (Piano)
March 11: Libor Novacek (Piano) (EXTRA CONCERT)
May 20: Performer to be advised, ex Bulawayo Festival
July 8: Tenor, Soprano and Pianist from Italy. Opera. (EXTRA CONCERT)
September 2 : Andrew Sherwood (Violin)
October 21 : Konstantin Scherbakov (Piano)
December: To be advised. (EXTRA CONCERT)
Dates and programmes will be confirmed nearer the time.
Celebs: Jeanette Micklem (piano) @ HIS (19 February)
We are pleased to announce our first concert of this season on Sunday, 19 February at 4 pm at the Harare International School Auditorium.
Entrance at the end of Rivonia Drive, off Moorgate, Mount Pleasant, Harare.
Jeanette Micklem will present a rich and varied programme of piano masterpieces:
Beethoven: Sonata no.31 in Ab major ( Opus 110)
Ravel: Mirroirs
Liszt: Benediction de Dieu dans la Solitude
Scriabin: Sonata no. 5 in F# major
Tickets at the Spotlight or at the Hall on the day from 3.15 pm onwards at US$10, 00 each. Students in uniform will be admitted without charge.
Jeanette Micklem obtained an Honours Degree in History at London University and was awarded a four year scholarship at the Royal College of Music, studying under Bernard Roberts.
Returning to Zimbabwe , she made her name as performer, accompanist and teacher within the Southern African region, partnering many international musicians.
She has made successful tours to the United States, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Russia as well as Australia and New Zealand.
Performing Arts Bulawayo [PAB] and the Academy [Bulawayo]
An Evening of Ballet (2 February)
Thursday 2 February in the Robert Sibson Hall at 7.00 p.m.
A Russian weekend begins with an evening of ballet, both on DVD and in live performance. The DVDs will include the Moscow Ballet Theatre "Osmoi Div" on tour in grand homes of England and Scotland with excerpts from "Giselle", "Le Corsaire" and other original classical ballets by Bulawayo-born Krystina Cameron Davydova as well as Act III of "Raymonda" from the Bolshoi. After the interval there will be a glimpse of scenes from the newly created ballet "Thunderwater" to be seen in full on Saturday.
Admission: $3.00 [free to Red Carpet members]
"I Remember, My Love, I Remember" (3 February)
Friday 3 February in the Robert Sibson Hall at 7.00 p.m.
An evening of Russian music and song by Boris Akimov based on the life and poetry of Sergei Yesenin, filmed at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow with the 60-strong Nekrassov Orchestra of Russian instruments and opera soloists from the Bolshoi and Stanislavsky Theatres.
Admission: $3.00 [free to Red Carpet members]
Thunderwater (4 February)
Saturday 4 February in the Robert Sibson Hall at 7.00 p.m.
The première of the new full-length African ballet created by Krystina Cameron Davydova to music by Sibelius, Smetana and Liszt. Choreographed in balletic style, it tells the romantic tale of a young hero who calls up the Spirit of the Falls and saves the people from the evil Crocodile God.
Admission: $5.00 [NO concessions]
Alexis Golovin (piano) (7 February)
Presented by the Alliance Française
Tuesday 7 February in the Robert Sibson Hall at 7.30 p.m.
Alexis Golovin has given concerts and recitals throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, has played in numerous well-known music festivals and has recorded numerous records and CDs. His programme consists of music by Chopin and Liszt, including several of Chopin's best-known and greatest works followed by Liszt's transcriptions of six of his songs and Liszt's "Liebestraum" and "Mephisto Waltz". Admission: $10.00/$5.00 [free to Red Carpet members and subscribers]
David Copperfield (9 February)
Thursday 9 February in the Robert Sibson Hall at 7.00 p.m.
Dickens was born 200 years ago on 7 February 1812 and this is a BBC production of what is perhaps his best-known novel and his own "favourite child". It is a book in which he revealed the most about himself and, in particular, his early life but in which he also created some of his most famous characters, Mr.Micawber, Betsey Trotwood, Uriah Heep, Steerforth, whom, in Chesterton's words, "we would not forget if we could, we could not forget if we would, who are more actual than the man who made them."
Admission: $3.00 [free to film members]
The Eighth Bulawayo Music Festival (23 to 27 May)
Musicians will include Juliette Bausor (flute), Morgan Szymanski (guitar), Leslie Howard, Coady Green and Leigh Harrold (all pianists!), Njabulo Madlala (baritone) and both the Odeion and Junior Odeion String Quartets as well as Petroc Trelawny and Richard Sisson and others from the BBC!
The festival will include a performance of Carmina Burana and the first performance of a major commission from Richard Sisson, The Song of the Carnivores. In addition to the usual concerts, there will be a daily series of concerts of different types of music and dance (pop, jazz, folk, ethnic, etc.) featuring local performers and involving the visitors in some "crossover".
The more traditional repertoire will include a Schubert concert (Fantasy in C for violin and piano, Variations on Trockne Blumen for flute and piano, Wanderer Fantasy and Death and the Maiden Quartet), a concertos concert (C.P.E.Bach: Flute Concerto in D minor, Mozart: Piano Concerto No.12 in A major, K414, Vivaldi: Guitar Concerto in D major, RV93 and Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals), several piano quintets (Dohnanyi: No.1, Schumann, Shostakovich and Leslie Howard), the Mendelssohn Octet - and a good deal more!
There will also be a late-night cabaret evening, silent films with live accompaniment, a semi-staged performance of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale and a sing-along with Leslie Howard as pianist!
Further details and booking arrangements will be available early in the New Year.
Michael Bullivant <mailto:music@gatorzw.co.uk>
FINE ART & EXHIBITIONS
Art Talk by Lionel (Spud) Murphy @ Hellenic International Academy (9 February)
Hellenic is pleased to announce that the first Art Talk of 2012 will be given by the well-known and multi-talented Mr Lionel (Spud) Murphy who will be talking on the interesting and unusual subject of animation.
Mr Murphy is the co-owner of a video production house and a seasoned advertising practitioner. He is involved in producing, directing and occasionally camera work, mostly for the advertising and documentary industries, both of which make extensive use of this art form. He will give a general outline on its beginnings and its advance through feature movies on film, through to its penetration into virtually all media particularly in the digital age. Lionel is also an artist, and has studied Industrial Design and has been involved with a reality series for Animal Planet and has appeared on National Geographic. He has made models and also worked with models makers and produced animated advertisements for TV.
His talk will be illustrated with digital images and models. This promises to be a highly unique talk not to be missed!
Thursday, 9 February, at 5.30 in the Art Room, Hellenic International Academy, 42-26 Basset Crescent, New Alexandra Park, Harare.
Refreshments will be served. No tickets required (voluntary donation at the door).
Annual Summer Exhibition @ Gallery Delta (to 31 January)
Paintings, Graphics, Sculpture, Ceramics and 3-Dimensional Objects including works by established and young artists.
For the special gift that will be treasured give original Zimbabwean contemporary art to your loved ones and dear friends and encourage artistic creativity and help sustain the artists and the Gallery.
Gallery Delta, 'Robert Paul's Old House,' 110 Livingstone Avenue/Ninth Street, Greenwood Park, Harare
Telephone/Fax: 792135; <mailto:artdelta@mweb.co.zw>; <http://www.gallerydelta.com
Exhibition of paintings @ The Gallery
For the serious and discerning collector of art there is always an exhibition of interesting and different paintings to be seen at
The Gallery, 80a Broadlands Rd West, Emerald Hill, Harare.
For all enquiries, call Kate on 04 302683 or 0712 734718.
Exhibitions @ National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
Weya Art: East Gallery
Young Artists show: Ziva kwawakabva - Interrogating the past, negotiating the future: South Gallery
Narrative Vessels: North Gallery
Rashid Jogie solo exhibition: Opening 9 February, Courtauld Gallery
For more information contact Rutendo Mutadzapasi, Information and PR Officer, <mailto:leslierue@yahoo.com>
DRAMA, THEATRE & SPOKEN WORD
Exclusive performance of The Gospel of Othello (29 March)
Fundraiser for the Harare City Library
The British Ambassador is hosting a Black Tie, Venetian-themed Champagne Dinner and Theatre, with an exclusive performance of The Gospel of Othello with Patrice Niambana (Royal Shakespeare Company) and talented Zimbabwean artists, at her residence on 29 March 7pm. Tables of 10 and limited numbers only.
For more details contact Nancy Benham <mailto:n-benham@dfid.gov.uk> or 0772 127214
FILM
Rokpa 3-day film festival: Exploring Consciousness (2–4 March)
When: Friday, 2 March to Sunday, 4 March from 10.00am to 7pm. Four showings per day
Where: Rokpa Centre, 34 Quendon Road, Monavale. Parking for US$1 at the Italian Club across the road.
What: Over 15 films, including Elizabeth Kubler-Ross on 'Facing Death', Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen, Mother-Daughter Wisdom, A Celtic Journey with John O'Donahue, The Joy of Stress, and more!
Cost: US$5 per movie with a number of specials - the more movies you see, the less you pay
Food and drink, cafe style, will be available throughout the 3 days. Full programme forthcoming.
For more information, contact the Rokpa Centre at 304202, mornings only.
CRAFT FAIRS & OTHER FAIRS
Farmers' Market @ Arundel Village (4 February)
The monthly Arundel Village Farmers' Market resumes on Saturday, 4 February.
Our fruits and vegetables come straight from the garden to the market so you are assured of finding the freshest fruit and veg in town.
Also on sale is a wide selection of handmade crafts, gifts and art. This is the ideal place to shop for that unique Valentines' gift!
The food-lovers are not forgotten - freshly prepared food of different kinds of cuisines will be on offer to tantalize your taste buds.
We have lots of entertainment lined up including a fashion show and a live performance from a popular jazz artist…See you there.
Saturday 4 February, 9am- 3pm
Venue: Back Car Park Arundel Village Shopping Centre, Quorn Ave, Mount Pleasant
For more information, call Abigail Makwalo: 369018/9, e-mail: <mailto:marketing@ximex.co.zw>
WORKSHOPS & COURSES
CLUBS & SOCIETIES
Harare City Library AGM (30 January)
The AGM will be held at the main library at Rotten Row on Monday 30 January 2012 at 15:00hrs.
All subscribers are encouraged to attend. Subscribers unable to attend the meeting may exercise their votes by a proxy who need not be a subscriber.
The agenda of the AGM is as follows.
1. Report from the Chairman of the Management Committee on the Operations of the Library in 2011.
2. Presentation of Financial Statement for 2011 and Budget for 2012.
3. Election of three Management Committee members.
For questions on the duties and responsibilities of the Management Committee, kindly refer to Mr. T. Dube at the main library at Rotten Row.
Dr Petina Gappah, Chairman, Management Committee
Zimbabwe German Society (January/February)
Kaffee Deutsch
Tuesday, 31 January, 15.30 to 17.30pm
Come and relax with a nice cup of coffee and some delicious cookies in the warm afternoon sun and chat with your fellow German speakers (and you don't have to be fluent!) about topics of your choice - like what you've been up to for the Christmas holidays – and why not stay for the movie afterwards? ?
Language and Membership fees Increase
With effect from January 2012, language and membership fees have been increased as follows
Language fees per term for German, Shona and Ndebele: $120
Individual Membership per year: $20
Family membership per year: $45
Student Membership per year: $10
Notice of Annual General Meeting (18 February)
Saturday, 18 February,14:00 hrs in the Zimbabwe-German Society / Goethe Zentrum Gazebo.
For individuals wishing to register or renew membership, you can come do so at our premises in Milton Park.
One is required to have legitimate paid-up membership in order to participate at the Special or any other General Meeting at all times.
Zimbabwe-German Society/Goethe-Zentrum Harare
51 Lawson Avenue, Milton Park, Harare
796836; 704045; 0773 222 314, <mailto:zgs@zgs.co.zw>.
Tree Society of Zimbabwe
Membership of the Tree Society is open to all who have an interest in trees and who wish to know more about their identification and distribution.
Informal visits are organised both into the bush and to interesting town gardens. Members are shown how to recognise the many different trees, as recognition is the first step in encouraging an interest in conservation.
We usually have two monthly outings, held on the 3rd Sunday and 4th Saturday of every month.
Details of the outings are sent to members by email, on the website and are also listed in the monthly newsletter.
Please contact us if you would like to know where we are meeting next.
For any information please contact the Secretary, Mr J-P Felu, e-mail: <mailto:uvevane@gmail.
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ZIMBABWE-RELATED EVENTS OUTSIDE ZIMBABWE
Between the Sheets: Artists' Books exhibition in Western Australia (to 5 February)
The following Zimbabwean artists are participating: Arthur Azevedo, Virginia Chihota, Tafadzwa Gwetai, Masimba Hwati, Helen Lieros, Wallen Mapondera, Gina Maxim, Munyaradzi Mazarire and Gareth Nyandoro
The exhibition, held in partnership with the City of Swan, is to be held in two locations concurrently:
94 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle, Western Australia 6159
Midland Junction Arts Centre (MJAC), 276 Great Eastern Highway (Cnr Cale St), Midland
Daily 10 am – 4 pm. The exhibition runs until 5 February.
<http://www.swan.wa.gov.au
Although there are major exhibitions and collections of artists' books internationally and in the Eastern States of Australia, Between the Sheets, will be the first comprehensive exhibition of its type created and held in Western Australia. Forty-three artists from Europe, the UK, Africa, the USA, Singapore and Australia have created fifty-seven works for this exhibition.
Between the Sheets: Artists' Books 2012, is the second collaboration between Gallery East and the City of Swan and builds on the successful partnership that brought the paintings and drawings of Indonesian artist, Pranoto, to a wider Western Australian public through an exhibition of his work held concurrently at the Midland Junction Art Centre and at Gallery East, North Fremantle, in June 2011.
Artists' books challenge our notions of the traditional book. Books as art objects become more than containers of information, but works of art in themselves. While many artists are concerned with content, whether it be images, ideas or inventions, others use a huge variety of media, shapes and structures to create books the like of which we have never seen before.
Artists' books attract printmakers, photographers, wordsmiths, textile artists, painters, sculptors and digital artists. They appeal to many kinds of artists with many different styles and purposes, representing both traditional and contemporary art practices. To make a book takes many dedicated hours, a high level of craftsmanship, a love of materials and a vivid imagination. What artists' books have in common is the energy, innovation and the 'edge' found in art works that inspire and captivate the viewer.
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