Chipawo to host Creative Corridors

Arts Reporter

In a bid to continue promoting arts and culture, Children Performing Arts Workshop (Chipawo) Trust in partnership with Shangano Arts Trust, are collaborating for the Creative Corridors project which will work with children and young people living with disabilities. 

In an interview, Chipawo manager Chipo Basopo said the initiative was meant to directly interact and interface with this target group whose talents, motivation and skills in most development sectors was yet to receive convincing recognition. 

“Creative Corridors has been pitched to foster the Zimbabwean society’s broader recognition and inclusion for children and young people living with disabilities,” she said. 

Basopo said the programme was set to end this November. 

“Creative Corridors will be rolled out in Hwange, Bulawayo, Harare, Masvingo and Chipinge and work within the cultural and creative industry,” she said. 

“Chipawo Trust, the lead partner, in the initiative being supported by the Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace Network Plus (CUSP), a research project that is funded by UK Research and Innovation via the UK governments Global Challenges Research Fund, will activate its infrastructure and experiences for a successful roll-out.” 

Basopo said a plethora of social developments, conflicts, challenges, excitements, skills, successes and social conflicts will be captured in digital-documentary. 

“We are motivated to working with children with disabilities in respect of its mandate of promoting children’s rights,” she said. “Creative Corridors will largely be working towards capturing village and community stories with focus on children and young people and extract realities. 

“The roll-out will directly work in marginalised communities and give opportunity of expression to socially excluded individuals found in urban and rural settings as a way of anchoring cultural and artistic organisations peace building contribution.” 

Asked how this works, Basopo said the Creative Corridors will build peace while mainstreaming the development and inclusion of those with disabilities.

“Chipawo by working with these children will be contributing towards national policies implementation, promoting United Nations Conventions on the Rights of Children and Sustainable Development Goals. Creative Corridors aims to work key targeted institutions in the selected six provinces; Harare (Emerald Hill School for the Deaf, Theatre in the Park and Above Boundaries), Bulawayo (King George School), Masvingo (Copota School for the Blind), Manicaland (Chipinge-Big Tree), Mashonaland West (Kadoma Jairos Jiri), and Hwange (Ward 10 Cinderella),” she said. 

Basopo said the main focus was to engage children and young people with disabilities, parents, guardians, school teachers and other stakeholders.

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