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Artistes from different art disciplines will be honoured at the Nama awards to be held in Bulawayo in February next year.
In an interview, Nacz assistant director Nicholas Moyo said deadline for nominations is tomorrow and urged artistes to submit their works before the deadline.
“The deadline for this year’s nominations is 30 November and we are calling upon artistes who wish to submit their works to do so before Friday,” said Moyo.
The Nama awards are held annually to honour the country’s outstanding artistes.
This year, the Nacz scrapped several other categories and introduced new ones to ensure all arts genres are catered for.
The Outstanding Choral Music Award was scrapped and replaced with the Outstanding Choreographer and Online Media Awards Organisation’s award.
In theatre, an Outstanding Director category was also included, where an outstanding actor and actress will be honoured.
Outstanding Female and Outstanding Male Musician were also included in the music category.
An Outstanding Short Film Production has also been added in the Film and Television category.
Other categories include outstanding theatre director, outstanding choreographer and the latest being the Spoken word where the outstanding poet and comedian would be honoured as well as the Promoter of the Year.
Commenting on the preparations for the country’s premiere arts awards, Moyo said the preparations were well on course.
“We think things are in order as we have not yet encountered any red flag so far,” he said.
Nama, which has been running for 12 years, carried out extensive stakeholders’ consultation meetings in all provinces to establish any gaps in how the awards are run.
The Nacz management therefore drew a programme to engage various stakeholders throughout Zimbabwe at centrally organised meetings in Bulawayo, Harare and Mutare.
Participants at the meetings were drawn from across the creative industries according to disciplines given at Nama as well as those from heritage and promotion sectors with a number of renowned artistes also attending the consultative meetings.
The main objective of the outreach programme was to solicit public views in an open forum in order to make strategic changes to the Nama in as far as improving the awards is concerned.
The awards are open to any Zimbabwean artiste from any of the artistic disciplines and categories, who would have excelled during the given year,
Online Reporter