The Festival is a two-day fun-filled event whose main thrust is to promote Kalanga culture
has its roots in an international cultural marketing workshop held at the TGSCCC in 2016 and facilitated by an US Anthropologist
offers family friendly outdoor activities featuring top notch performing artists, dancers and storytellers
includes educational programming designed to raise awareness about our cultural and historical heritage
showcases cultural artefacts and handicrafts.

The festival this year will feature:

• 2 days full of a diverse selection of top notch performances
• Arts and crafts
• Events throughout including a fashion show, choral competition, interactive, educational outdoor entertainment
• Emphasis on local vendors but open to all
• Local, regional, national and possibly international participants

The villagers and children of Gala and surrounding communities will be the direct beneficiaries of this project.

Local farmers will have an opportunity to sell their produce while artisans and craftspeople of the area will also be able to sell their wares without having to travel to distant areas to find customers.

Some villagers will get the opportunity to host a visitor under the new concept of “VOTEL” – a village hotel where a visitor spends a night in his or her chosen village for a fee.

School children will participate in various competitions such as singing that will be scheduled and also learn from local, regional and international performers who will participate in the festival.

The festival will bring more attention and resources from the local, regional and national level to the infrastructure such as roads, water, electricity and more.

The TiBaKalanga/We Are Kalanga Festival will enable the Kalanga people to advance economically while at the same time sharing their rich culture with the rest of the world in a mutually beneficial arrangement

TiBaKalanga II Projections

The festival this year will feature:

• 2 days full of a diverse selection of top notch performances
• Arts and crafts
• Events throughout including a fashion show, choral competition, interactive, educational outdoor entertainment
• Emphasis on local vendors but open to all
• Local, regional, national and possibly international participants

The first TiBaKalanga/We Are Kalanga Festival will take place on 21-22 July 2018 at the TG Silundika Cultural Community Centre. The Centre is a newly established private social infrastructure located in Ward 6, Bulilima District in southwestern Zimbabwe. It is being built in the homestead of the late TG Silundika a national liberation hero whose surviving children have a vision to establish a standard of excellence in cultural heritage sustainability in southern Africa.