adminThe Golden Awards were founded in 1995 to celebrate talent of young performing artistes and recognise organisations that supported art.
However, in 2006 the awards went into a five-year deferral due to economic challenges and were only revived last year.
Last year the awards brought together 24 young artistes in categories such as dance, music and modelling.
This year there will be two categories which are dance and music with 16 young finalists battling it out for honours.
The show will start at 3pm with Moyo presenting awards for the best in dance and music and after that giving a keynote address.
Executive director of Amakhosi Cultural Centre Cont Mhlanga said this year they had to remove three categories because the performances in the preliminary rounds were below par.
“This year we do not have categories such as modelling, poetry and drama. This is because the acts that we saw were not very good. They were below standard and we felt that they needed to be shelved for a while,” he said.
Mhlanga said finalists would walk away with a shield and a participation certificate that would be presented by Moyo. He said the 16 performers would entertain the audience after the awards ceremony.
“After the awards ceremony there will be performances from the finalists, set to wow the audience including the mayor,” said Mhlanga.
He said the object of the Golden Awards was to harness young talent and recognise their performances and give them encouragement.
“We want to focus on exposure of talent and use that to teach them the business side of the arts industry. It is to recognise the contribution the young artistes make and then award them for their hard work,” said Mhlanga.
He said finalists from last year’s Dreams to Fame would go to Masvingo for a private function as part of efforts to expose young artistic talent.
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