The Book Café & Mannenberg, Feb 06–14
SPECIALS THIS WEEK
FRI 06, 6-7pm, BOOK CAFÉ HAPPY HOUR! All local beers ‘almost free’!
FRI 06, 10pm, F.L.A.M.E. BURNING for CLARE NYAKUJARA with THE OTHER FOUR - fresh new creative energy on the Zim afrojazz scene! Another exciting event from Pamberi Trust’s gender project - ‘Female Literary Arts & Music Enterprise’ - supported by Hivos.
SAT 07, 2-5pm, House of Hunger POETRY SLAM – Commemorating ‘International Mother Language Day’ (21 Feb) - Come Feel The Energy! All Poets Welcome. A Pamberi Trust Project supported by Hivos
THE ARTS FACTORY @ The Book Café is a new project by Pamberi Trust to support artistic development, and an alternative non-profit-making sales point for Zimbabwean artists’ CDs - HOT off the press! See below for fresh new music now in stock (all sales direct to artist). Read more
On The Zimbo Jam- Blame it On Us - By The ZimSwag BoyzIt's great that ZimSwag have apologised for the chaos at the stadium on Saturday. However, being an entertainment site, we were thinking that it would have been so much better if they were to release a musical version of that apology. We reckon it would sound very much like Akon's hit song Blame it On Me and would go something like this...
- Akon Show Organisers Issue ApologyZimSwag, the organisers of the Akon-Sean Paul Zimbabwe concert, have issued an apology for the chaos that reigned on the evening of the show and spoilt the experience for many who attended the event. "... we admit that there were a number of blunders on our side," says their statement in part.
- Optic Fibre Damage Causes Internet Downtime in ZimbabweInternet Service Providers in Zimbabwe are sending out notices to their customers about a major outage that has caused major Internet downtime in Zimbabwe and led to even slower connections than we are used to.
- Blame it On Us - By The ZimSwag Boyz