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Showbiz Reporter
Preparations for Culture Month, which will run from May 1 to 31 under the theme “Promoting Cultural Diversity, Unity and Peace,” are well underway.
Event organisers, the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ), said the commemorations will provide an opportunity to showcase, strengthen and promote the diversity of the Zimbabwean culture encompassing both the indigenous and contemporary traits.
“The NACZ is already at an advanced stage of planning the commemorations. Stakeholders, practitioners and the general public are being called upon therefore, to be part of the 2023 Culture Month commemorations by participating in and initiating events to celebrate Zimbabwean Cultural Diversity, Unity and Peace,” NACZ said in a statement.
“Culture Month 2023 is coming at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has been successfully contained with the environment becoming friendlier for big events; hence stakeholders are called upon to craft events designed to attract physical participation in large numbers to showcase Zimbabwean cultural diversity.”
The Culture Month theme, NACZ said, is part of efforts of bringing about social cohesion and integration through the arts and culture and enhancing the growth of the creative and cultural industries in line with the National Development Strategy (NDS1) and Vision 2030.
Culture Month commemorations are an extension of the World Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development which is celebrated on the 21st of May that was set aside by Unesco in the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity in 2001. The NACZ expanded the day to encompass a whole month designed to promote, commemorate and celebrate Zimbabwe’s diverse cultures.
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