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Presented by Embassy of Italy and European Union
Programme 1 – Stanbic Bank Day Thursday 29 April – 11.45 am to 12.45 pm,
Programme 2 – AON Zimbabwe Day 2 May – 4 pm to 5 pm
The Recital Room
Long-time Festival favourites and world renowned strong trio, Barbara Broz (violin), Giada Broz (violin and viola) and [...]

Italy – Zimbabwe collaboration
Coca-Cola Day, Saturday 1 May – 10 am to 11 am
BancABC Global Stage

Presented by the Embassy of Italy and the European Union
A musical conversation between Africa and Europe, classical music textures and +African rhythmic percussion, shared and differing identity and emotions…
Like a piano keyboard, contrasting colours and characters exist next to each [...]

You can now download a copy of the 2010 HIFA programme here.
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AON Zimbabwe Day, Sunday 2nd May – 1 pm to 2 pm
Telecel Main Stage

Presented by WBI in association with AON Zimbabwe
A unique collaboration that will see two diverse musical personalities cohabit in a concert pushing boundaries and marrying voices, melody and rhythms.
Winner of the Music Crossroads InterRegional Festival in August 2008 and stars of HIFA [...]

BancABC Day, Tuesday 27 April – 7.30 pm
Telecel Main Stage

Presented by the Embassy of Spain with OSISA, in association BancABC
A spectacle on a grand scale!
On 27 April the skies of Harare will light up and the balmy night air reverberate and resonate with a hundred voices and more, in a superbly exciting spectacle. [...]

La Fura dels Baus is a company in a permanent process of transformation that, since it was founded in 1979, has approached new challenges in the field of the perfoming arts. Its occasional shows and events have had an enormous impact on both international critics and audiences. It would be no exaggeration to say that [...]

Saturday 1st of May
Los Aslándticos is one of the best exponents of a popular music genre called “mestizaje” (fusion), which brings together rhythms and styles that go from Salsa, Reggae, ragga, reggeaton, funky, hip hop, and contemporary flamenco. This musical genre became particularly popular in Spain with the emergence of bands like Mano Negra, Manu [...]

by Fiksdal/Lie
Supported by Arts Council Norway, Fond for lyd og bilde, Fond for utøvende kunstnere
Choreography and dance by Ingri Fiksdal and Shi Pratt, text by Miriam Prestøy Lie, scenography and costume by Signe Becker, light design by Kyrre Heldal Karlsen, music by The Eskimoes, George Bruns, Ennio Morricone, Raymond Scott, Co-produced by Dance House Oslo.
GRUS [...]

Once you spread butter, you cannot ‘un-spread’ it.  Once a word is spoken, it cannot be reversed.
Wordsmiths from the South and from the North will be under one roof, celebrating the magic and wonders of the spoken word in varying styles and languages.
The venue for the daily performances is the intimate HIVOS Poetry Café, right [...]