IN what ostensibly should have been a conventional feature, the National Arts Council (NAC) held an arts consultative workshop at Mika Convention Centre in Chongwe, Lusaka Province – generally described as a mixture of success...

THANK you James Lungu of Kalulushi for closely following up this column – he wrote saying he greatly enjoyed the stories in which I have for the last two weeks been appraising the National Schools...

LASt week my columnist-neighbor, John Kapesa, who was reviewing a week-long gathering of theatre enthusiasts and other budding artists held about three weeks previously at Mansa Teacher’s Training College in Mansa, Luapula, made an interesting...

THIS week’s column takes a twist towards an examination of Zambia’s literary landscape. It calls to investigation the literary works that have taken place in Zambia, if any, particularly in major disciplines of theater, fiction...

NATIONAL Theatre Arts Association of Zambia (NATAAZ), after what appears like a magic charm, this year October 21 to 24 returns to the tourist capital, Livingstone for a national theatre festival at the renewed Maramba...

OUR point of departure for this week’s column is a slender volume of verse called ‘A Decade in Poetry’ produced and edited by Frank Chipasula and published in 1991, courtesy of Kenneth Kaunda Foundation. It...

IT was pleasant to notice that after a long spell, Nkana-Kitwe Arts Society (NKAS) resurfaced a fortnight ago with a play, a serious comedy ‘Husband for Breakfast’ which largely not only needed moral support, but...

By JOWIT SALUSEKI – THEATRE lovers who thronged Lusaka Play House were last weekend treated to Demolishing Democracy, a play that focuses on the problem of illegal settlements. With a cast of about five people...

A COUPLE of weeks ago, an assemblage of Lusaka-based theatre artistes teamed up to stage a Zimbabwean-themed play Washington Junction written by Tafadwa Muzondo Directed by the National Theatre Arts Association of Zambia (NATAAZ) national...

By GETHSEMANE MWIZABI – NDOLA residents will on Valentine’s night February 14, have a rare moment of laughter at Lowenthal theatre. In what has been dubbed a “Night of laughter” some of Zambia’s top comedians...