BRING YOUR FIRE 2020!

MBABANE - Bring your fire zone applications are now open MTN Bushfire is calling for applications from artists, community-based organisations, NGOs and IGOs to activate in The Bring Your Fire Zone.

This Zone is a physical manifestation of MTN Bushfire’s call to action for positive social change, #BRINGYOURFIRE.
This is according to a press statement released by the festival’s Communications Officer, Phiwokuhle Dhlamini.  According to the statement, MTN Bushfire consciously celebrates diversity and amplifies the spirit of social inclusion which pierces through differences, weaving all into one unified body.

From this close-knit fabric comes the #BRINGYOURFIRE mandate which challenges the organisation to ignite social change and inspire an environmentally sustainable lifestyle through specifically curated program streams, zones, and activations throughout the festival weekend.

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Speaking to the Communications Officer, she said the Bring Your Fire Zone was an interactive and creative space located at the very heart of the main festival arena and over the years, various partners had activated on various #BRINGYOURFIRE themes and encouraged discussions on key social issues through one-on-one interactions, educational activities and talk-shops.

Dlamini further highlighted some of the main focus areas in this space included minority rights and gender diversity, environmental sustainability, education, sexual and reproductive health, sustainable development, equality and empowerment, entrepreneurship as well as child social protection.  “MTN Bushfire is more than simply a music festival.

As one of Africa’s largest and most inclusive festivals of music and the arts, MTN Bushfire also offers a safe space for robust conversations around real and relatable issues that affect our lives on a daily basis.

Tens of thousands of people from over 60 countries gather in the festival’s unique atmosphere of tolerance and diversity to revel in the eclectic music programme and to celebrate the colour and magic in our differences under the festival mandate, #BRINGYOURFIRE,” she said.

She also revealed that in the year 2020, through their selected theme, they’d celebrate the unique, positive and intangible energy that manifests during MTN Bushfire, best described by Festival Director Jiggs Thorne as The Juncture of Hum.

Further explaining the theme, she said poetically it illustrated the sound of the spirit created at the confluence of people, cultures and their stories.
Lastly, she urged all interested partners to send an activation proposal to projectmanager@bush-fire.com before February 8, 2020.

She highlighted that only shortlisted applicants would be notified a week after the deadline and invited to a meeting to discuss their activation plans.
For more information on the kinds of activations in this space, please visit our website at www.bush-fire.com .

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