CHILDREN from all over Harare, Mazowe and Karoi are currently in camp preparing for one of the biggest events in the Children’s Performing Arts Workshop (Chipawo) calendar, its Christmas Stage Show, which takes place tonight at Theatre in the Park.
This year’s show, which is open to the public, is called An African Christmas.
It’s running under the theme What We Want.
Chipawo’s Christmas Stage Show is designed to provide an African/Zimbabwean Christmas experience for children.
For Chipawo, this is an important responsibility — ensuring that Zimbabwean children do not accustom themselves to looking up to foreign models and idiols, but instead relate to international and national events such as Christmas in their own languages and in the context of their own lives.
Children from other schools and even other countries are welcome to participate, along with disadvantaged children from towns and rural areas throughout Zimbabwe.
Performances can sometimes see more than 200 children on stage.
The Christmas show is filmed and will be broadcast by ZBC-TV on Christmas Day next year, while last year’s show will be broadcast on Christmas Day this year.
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Chipawo not only stands for Children’s Performing Arts Workshop, but embraces the meaning of the Shona word chipawo, to mean “please give” or “give also”.
It was founded 35 years ago in order for adult artists to share their knowledge and skills with the young generation.
Its core activity is its arts education for development and employment programme.
