News

27 October 2008

PAMBERI TRUST PRESS RELEASE:

THE 'FEEL-GOOD' POETRY SLAM

The Book Café, Harare, Sat 1st Nov 2008, 2-5pm

Harare's Book Café will be blazing hot on Saturday 1st November with the monthly 'House of Hunger Poetry Slam' from 2-5pm, giving poets a platform to express themselves freely and explicitly through the spoken word.

The theme for November is 'Giving each other a boost' – poetry that feels good and leaves the listener with renewed energy to embrace each day, despite the mad man-made challenges Zimbabweans are facing as a people. Life is tough, times are terribly hard and we need to give each other aboost; to celebrate the love and strength we give to each other in ourdaily lives.

Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism. We are an organization that believes in the arts as a vital tool for nation-building, and work constantly to empower artists to produce their best work. We call upon all poets to come out and join the freedom train, a train that moves freely and has no limits.

The House of Hunger Poetry Slam is a Project by Pamberi Trust that runs development programmes for music, poetry, theatre, information technology, gender and literature.