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Take Over The Town!
8 countries – concerts – comedy night – DJ parties – poetry slam – workshops  – debates –live graffiti – social media – conference – exhibition

The Take Over!
The Shoko Festival is back and taking over the town! Running from the 18th to the 23rd of September Shoko will feature artists from the USA, UK, Germany, Botswana, Kenya, South Africa and Malawi. Shoko is embracing even more art forms this year as it becomes a celebration of urban culture. The festival will feature live music, comedy, hip hop, neo-soul, dance music, house, spoken word, dub-step, reggae and much more.

Venues
King Pinn Main Stage, Chingono Stage & The Hub  – Alliance Francaise, 328 Herbert Chitepo
Vera Amphitheatre – Gallery Delta, 110 Livingstone Ave
Book Café 139 S. Machel Avenue
Glen Norah B Shop and Bus Terminus

Over the five years since inception Sistaz Open Mic has witnessed many success stories of Zimbabwean women artists who have come out of their shell to share their art with the world.  It has largely become a scouting ground for corporate and civic organisations who seek to engage young and upcoming women artists in their programming.  Pictured above is Nancy ‘Blackheat’ Mkondyo on trumpet, a spoken word artist who now fronts the band Blackheat, they play a fusion of poetry with mbira and other traditional sounds.

Sistaz Open Mic happening this Sat 8 Sept, Book Cafe from 2-5pm.

Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you’ll make it prestigious. Plenty of things we now consider prestigious were anything but at first. Jazz comes to mind—though almost any established art form would do. So just do what you like, and let prestige take care of itself. Prestige is especially dangerous to the ambitious. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with prestige. That’s the recipe for getting people to give talks, write forewords, serve on committees, be department heads, and so on. It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn’t suck, they wouldn’t have had to make it prestigious.
Paul Graham

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Selfish is easy. It’s sharing that takes courage.
- Simon Sinek

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