Arts Events List

Starlight Dancing @ Ballet Centre -The Dance Trust of Zimbabwe's National Ballet will be staging its annual outdoor production, "Starlight Dancing" in the garden at the Ballet Centre, 109 East Road, Avondale 28 September - 2 October, 2011 nightly at 7pm. Entrance: Adults - $10; Children Under 12 and Pensioners - $5

Zimbabwe Open National Dancesport Championships @ Twin Rivers School (1 October) If you love Strictly Come Dancing – Don't miss this Fabulous Evening!

Grandstand Seating $10 per person For tickets, contact Kerry Nielsen 0772-515894 or e-mail kimberley_franklin@hotmail.com

BOOK CAFÉ THU 29, 5.30pm, MEDIA DISCUSSION – "Media Reforms and the Global Political Agreement", Discussing pertinent media issues in Zimbabwe with experts – All are welcome.

SAT 01, 8pm, Hokoyo naCHI!! Mbira star CHIWONISO MARAIRE in exciting collaboration with surprise guest artists

Calling All Singers: Handel's Messiah (Rehearsals begin 28 September)

The Marden Singers will once again be performing Handel's Messiah on 19 and 20 November. please contact Nancy on 0772 127214 or email: n-benham@dfid.gov.uk>

Gaabo Motho Tenors @ Borrowdale race course – Tenors live in Harare – One Night Only 30 September. Admission at gate from 6pm. Concert will begin at 7pm. Price: $15; Children Under 12: $10. Come early and enjoy sampling a selection of the finest South African wines. Wine and food Festival Admission from 4pm. Price: $25, (includes your glass and free wine tasting). Advance booking: 0772-238715, 0712601107

An evening of music @ Arundel Chapel All proceeds to Island Hospice.

Thursday, 6 October, Arundel Chapel 7pm. Tickets $5 at the door.

Also at Academy of Music, Bulawayo, Saturday, 8 October, 7pm, booking at the Academy of Music.

International Jazz Festival @ various Harare locations (8–15 October).

Brought to you by the Embassy of Italy and the National Arts Council

Infoline 0734 797 515

Saturday, 8 October: 7pm @ Rainbow Towers, Jacaranda Room "Italian Dinner" & Opening Ceremony Dudu Manhenga, Raffaele Casarano Apulia Jazz quartet

Sunday, 9 October: 1pm Lunch @ Harare Safari Lodge, Lake Chivero – free entertainment

Monday, 10 October: 9 pm @ the Mannenberg Prudence Katomene

Francesco Bearzatti Tinissima Quartet

Paco Peña @ 7 Arts Theatre (11 October) The Embassy of Spain has great pleasure in delighting audiences with a recital by the Spanish guitarist Paco Peña, one of the best internationally acclaimed Spanish guitarists. Entrance free. RSVP: romee.fisher@maec.es

Celebrity Subscription Concerts: Peter Martens (cello), Luis Magalhães (piano) (23 October) South African Cellist Peter Martens, with Luis Magalaes, playing Beethoven sonatas. Sunday, 23 October, at the auditorium of the Harare International School, starting at 4 pm with the box office open at 3.30 pm.

For more information, mike@sesani.co.zw>

Charity Concert by Phoenix and Harare Male Voice Choir @ Hellenic Sports Club (29 October) October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Early detection is the key to successful treatment and regular Mammograms are the most reliable way to detect Cancer before any physical findings. Saturday, 29 October, Hellenic Sports Club, 11.00 for 11.30am, Buffet Lunch and cash bar, Dress: Something Pink

Speakers: Dr Nancy Jonker, Dr Ingrid Landman and Mrs Rhona Martin

Charity Concert by Phoenix and Harare Male Voice Choir

Tickets are $25 and are available from: Well Woman Clinic, 18 East Road, Belgravia, Tel : 796492/3/4 Centre for Healthy Living , 5 Hurworth Rd, Highlands, Tel 481689, The Cancer Centre 60 Livingstone Avenue, Tel : 707444, 705522, 707673. secretary@cancer.co.zw

Performing Arts Bulawayo

I Claudius (29 September, 6, 13 & 20 October)

Smetana: The Bartered Bride (7 October)

No Man Is An Island: Arundel Choir (8 October)

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Liszt: A Faust Symphony (14 October)

Shades of Love (15 October)

Mayerling – Ballet, music by Liszt (21 October)

Peter Martens (cello), Luis Magalhães (piano) (25 October)

Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Mahler: Symphony No.7 (27 October)

Lagaan – Once Upon a Time in India (28 October)

FINE ART & EXHIBITIONS

Freedom Revisited @ Gallery Delta (to mid-October)

Exhibitions @ National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (October)

Blooming in Boston @ Reps Theatre (23 October)

Art Exhibition @ Wingate Park Club (30 October)

DRAMA, THEATRE & SPOKEN WORD

The People @ Theatre in the Park (26 September – 8 October)

Much Ado about Nothing @ Reps Theatre (5–15 October)

Rob Nairn, "Dealing with Radical Change": Talks @ Rokpa (5 and 12 October)

The Memory of Water @ Reps Theatre Upstairs (19– 29 October)

CRAFT FAIRS & OTHER FAIRS

Shopping under the Stars @ Old Georgian's (28 October)

International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF): 18–26 November (Harare); 1–3 December (Bulawayo) mailto:wfoz@mango.zw>

Fallsfest, Victoria Falls: 30–31 December mailto:fallsfest@yoafrica.com

© Twin Arts Trust. E-mail: ael@twinarts.co.zw

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