Phil Chard 8/28/26 Phil Chard 8/28/26

GZE Returns With Gotora

Zimbabwean hip hop veteran GZE (Chekera) marks the return of his signature Freestyle Fridays series with a new standalone single, "Gotora,"

Phil Chard 8/27/26 Phil Chard 8/27/26

Thukuthela, Jazzworx, Sykes ft. Major League DJz - uMA weNGANE (HALU! Afro-Tech Bootleg)

Phil Chard 8/21/26 Phil Chard 8/21/26

Tony Award-Winning Director Rebecca Taichman Joins Almasi Collaborative Arts in Harare Ahead of Africa Voices Now! 2026

Almasi Collaborative Arts today announced that Tony Award-winning director Rebecca Taichman is in Harare, leading an intensive directing programme with the directors of all three plays in this year's Africa Voices Now! 2026 festival. The intensive runs until 25 August.

Phil Chard 8/16/26 Phil Chard 8/16/26

HALU! Live at KAOS

KAOS is one of Zimbabwe’s largest and fastest-growing dance music events. At their last concert, HALU! brought the house down with an incredible set at sunset that features music from his latest EP titled KUMBA that is quickly rising on the charts

Phil Chard 8/16/26 Phil Chard 8/16/26

The Festival That Never Was

Phil Chard is also the co-host of the highly successful and long-running podcast, 2 Broke Twimbos. The podcast also has a deep dive newsletter where Phil expounds on the topics he discusses on the podcast. Below is a copy of the latest newsletter where he discusses why HIFA 2026 may not have happened

Phil Chard 8/11/26 Phil Chard 8/11/26

Almasi Collaborative Arts Announces the 2026 Edition of Africa Voices Now!

Almasi Collaborative Arts, Zimbabwe’s leading dramatic arts organisation - today announced the 2026 edition of Africa Voices Now!, its annual festival of new African plays, returning to the Jasen Mphepo Little Theatre in Harare from 17 October to 6 November 2026.

Phil Chard 7/13/26 Phil Chard 7/13/26

Almasi to Host July Workshops with Scott Miller and Stephen Belber Ahead of Africa Voices Now! 2026

International theatre and screen professionals are in the country to lead intensive training in Harare as part of Almasi’s year-round arts development programme

Almasi Collaborative Arts is hosting two international workshops in Harare from 13 to 25 July 2026, bringing acclaimed theatre and screen professionals Scott Miller and Stephen Belber to Zimbabwe as part of its lead-up programming for Africa Voices Now! 2026

Phil Chard 4/21/26 Phil Chard 4/21/26

Client Work - Jameson #BuyOriginal 2026 Refresh

Phil Chard 12/7/25 Phil Chard 12/7/25

Oscar-Winner Ezra Edelman Acclaims Zimbabwean Filmmakers Following Landmark Almasi Arts Workshop

Phil Chard 10/22/25 Phil Chard 10/22/25

AFRICA VOICES NOW! FESTIVAL OPENS TO A SOLD-OUT STANDING OVATION AS "CAN WE TALK?" CAPTIVATES AUDIENCE

Almasi Collaborative Arts’ Inaugural Festival Launch Transforms Jasen Mphepo Theatre Into Electric Hub of African Theatre Excellence

Mayuyuka Kaunda 10/2/25 Mayuyuka Kaunda 10/2/25

HALU! & Skai! Eyethu EP Launch Event Recap

Phil Chard 9/29/25 Phil Chard 9/29/25

Almasi Collaborative Arts Presents the Africa Voices Now! A festival to Showcase New African Plays in Zimbabwe

Almasi Collaborative Arts, a leading arts organization, is proud to announce the inaugural Africa Voices Now! A Festival of New African Plays, a three-week event showcasing brand-new Zimbabwean plays from a new generation of artists

Mayuyuka Kaunda 9/26/25 Mayuyuka Kaunda 9/26/25

Skai and HALU! Soundtrack Homecoming On Their Eyethu EP

Skai and HALU! Soundtrack Homecoming On Their Eyethu EP.

Mayuyuka Kaunda 9/11/25 Mayuyuka Kaunda 9/11/25

Skai and HALU! Release Afro-House Single “Kumba” - A Sonic Homecoming

Enigmatic producer HALU! and vocalist Skai present ‘Kumba’, taken off their collaborative EP Eyethu - out on all digital platforms 26 September 2025. In the context of Eyethu, a genre-bending body of work that reclaims the meaning of home and identity through ancestral echoes and futuristic soundscapes, Kumba acts as a central pulse.

Phil Chard 9/10/25 Phil Chard 9/10/25

The NACZ July/August 2025 Newsletter Issue 11

Point Black is pleased to present the July/August 2025 edition of The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe newsletter. This newsletter is prepared by the amazing team at the NACZ and edited and designed by Point Black.

Read and download the new edition below