byKundai Marunya
Girl right advocate organization
Girl Child Creativity (GCC) last night closed its week-long mentor ship program
with their Voices Fiesta at the First Floor Gallery. More than 30 people,
including school children, educators, artists and art lovers, attended the
event.
Students from Vainona High, Budiriro
3 Primary and Vista Vision College showcased their talents along the theme of
promoting the rights of girl children.
Students from Vista Vision College
staged a mini theatre play, outlining how issues that affect women are often
handled by men who do not understand them.
Their performance, which was filled
with humor, managed to bring the audience’s attention to things that are often
overlooked.
Budiriro primary school students
brought to the table what they had learnt from legendary writer Aaron
Chiunduramoyo. Their presentation of poetry and short stories in both English
and Shona caused celebrated writer and journalist Tinashe Muchuri to break out
in applause from the audience.
Muchuri said: “These children have
showcased great talent especially the young girl who read to us a Shona short
story. She was so good in using similes, imagery and metaphors that I will rest
assured our language is in good hands.”
From Vainona High came students who
recited poetry that tackled the decline in education standards at their own
school, largely due to an unappreciated staff and naughty students.
The students, who had earlier in the
week received mentoring from popular poet and human rights activist Robson
‘Shoez’ Lambada and celebrated photographer Kresiah Mkwazhi, really got the
audience excited.
Vainona High student Rutendo
Masunda, who was among the performers, said: “We had a great time during the
mentorship program. We learnt a lot, including how to express ourselves using
different mediums of art.”
Founded in 2011, GCC is aimed at
mitigating the under-representation of young female artists and young girls in
areas of creativity, creative writing, performance arts, readership and
literacy cultural development.
GCC director Mbizo Chirasha said:
“We have not made our programming as big as we would have wanted due to limited
resources but we hope to grow as we continue to work with the girl child.”
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