KRTC, BLACKNOTE AMBASSADORS FOR BUSHFIRE SCHOOLS FESTIVAL

EZULWINI – Hip hop artist KrTC has been selected as this year’s brand ambassador for the MTN BUSHFIRE 2014 Schools Festival.

The artist, real name Thamsanqa Sibandze, will not only be the brand ambassador; he will also be the programme director for the festival scheduled for May 27 to May 29.
The festival was officially launched yesterday at the MTN Head Office at Ezulwini.

The artist is not the only one who has been given a role to play during the festival as poet Bonisile ‘Blacknote’ Nxumalo has been tasked to be an ambassador and to teach the pupils who will attend about arts.
The two artists were revealed during a press conference attended by Swazi MTN CEO Ambrose Dlamini.

Festival

 The festival will begin with a full day of professional development workshops by professional artists for 50 local teachers and facilitators, equipping them with skills they can use throughout the academic year.
This will happen on Tuesday May 27, 2014.

The next day will be a full day of workshops for up to 150 high school pupils from across Swaziland, exposing the them to workshops, performances and social behaviour change messaging.
The festival will come to an end with an exciting open day which was also added to the festival programme last year and hosts approximately 500 pupils from across the country.

This year, the open day will include performances by the 2013 winners of the schools culture competition in sibhaca, ummiso and drum majorettes, interactive arts workshops in hip hop music and dance, educational sessions by Lusweti and UNICEF on social behaviour change, and performances by the Pelepele Cultural Group and the Nomadic Wax Orchestra from the United States.

Sam Msibi, one of the festival’s committee members, thanked past facilitators for their contributions and continued support.
“Our MCs will be key communicators of the social behaviour change theme and festival mandate in the lead up to and during the festival,” he said.
He said for eight years, the MTN BUSHFIRE Festival has committed itself to the development of arts and culture in Swaziland.

“Launched in 2009, the MTN BUSHFIRE School’s Festival was created to counter the lack of a formal arts curriculum in public schools in Swaziland by presenting activities, workshops, educational seminars and interactive competitions for participants from high schools throughout the country,” he said. 

“The MTN BUSHFIRE Schools Festival works towards providing sustainable access to the arts sector and developing a unique platform of creative expression for young people in the country by exposing pupils and teachers alike to the many languages of the arts,” he said.

He said since the inception, the MTN BUSHFIRE School’s festival has hosted over 1 000 pupils, 150 arts facilitators and 70 arts educators.
“The MTN BUSHFIRE Schools’ Festival brings to light the importance of the arts as a means of expression, especially for the youth, thus underlining the boundless ways of using the arts as an educational tool,” he said.

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