By JOWIT SALUSEKI – SOME creatives, who recently attended the National Arts Council of Zambia (NAC) and Hivos organised workshops aimed at helping artists think of new critical ideas for sustaining themselves in the arts,...

By JEFF KAPEMBWA – Promoting and marketing of products using artists has become the new norm by Zambia’s largest and longest service pensions body –NAPSA.The organisation is using the arts to market or sensitise citizens...

AS Africa Magic, in association with MultiChoice, announces the call to entry for the prestigious eighth edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCAs), Zambians are encouraged to submit their own.As may be clearly...

GOOD plays will usually raise a variety of concerns, public or private and provide a variation of hypothesis; some open-ended resolve, while other conclusions the audience would require to decipher and infer. Historically, plays have...

IT is recognised statistically, that in the literary domains, particularly in literature; script writing, short and long workshops and other trainings significantly sharpen the ability of participants’ outward performance. This is why at nearly all...

In this month’s continued celebration of a year’s criticism particularly in African Literature, and more so poetry, we have been examining with the critic’s lens what made this column a success it has been in...

Dear ardent readers, as observed in the last week’s column, we are celebrating a year’s anniversary of hard work in creative reflections of poetry from various parts of the world. Apparently, I am writing to...

IN 1997, NATAAZ made history by sending a group of theatrical artists; Butondo Secondary School from Mufulira, Kitwe Little Theatre and a community popular theatre ensemble from the Zambia Popular Theatre Association (ZAPOTA) to the...

SAMUEL Kasankha, the principal adjudicator during the recently held Mwansabombwe theatre festival justly stated: “Much as the themes of the plays were too obvious to miss, it was the manner in which the groups tackled...

Dear ardent readers of ‘Poets and Poems’ column, I did not know and I guess you too did not know that at Makerere University in Uganda, Kampala, 700 people recently met with an addition of...