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Arts Correspondent

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in partnership with the Environmental Management Agency of Zimbabwe will next month host an exhibition titled “Tavatose/ Sisonke Annual Children’s Exhibition”. Running under the theme “Waste no Waste, Trash is Treasure” the exhibition’s official opening has been slated for July 9.The gallery’s information and public relations officer Zvikomborero Mandangu said the exhibition was meant to create a platform for school children from across the country to add their voices on the problem of waste management.

“Tavatose Sisonke Annual Children’s Exhibition 2016 is an initiative by the National Gallery in partnership with Environmental Management Agency to create a platform for school children from across the 10 provinces of Zimbabwe to lend their voices through visual art to the discourse of resolving the problem of waste management in towns and rural areas,” said Mandangu in a statement.

He said by engaging the youngsters for the exhibition, it was an effective way of creating awareness to the urban and rural communities to adopt to other methods of waste management.

“The exhibition aims at creating awareness for communities to develop proper methods of managing waste by recycling and greening the environment,” he said.

Meanwhile, the gallery will host another exhibition titled “Oly Ible” on the 8th of next month.

The exhibition is from a movie titled “Oly Ible” that will also be released sometime this year.

According to the event coordinator Amanda Makombe, the exhibits include portraits and artefacts from the movie set.

“Art lovers have the opportunity to view the works of Karen McBirds and proceeds from the event will go towards the movie’s production,” she said.

She is looking forward to the event that is likely to boost their finance ahead of the final movie release.

“We have to fund the movie and one way to raise the funds is to hold the exhibition.

“We are optimistic that people will come and buy the works,” she said.