Women’s Creative Entrepreneurship in Zimbabwe ResiliArt Accelerator
The ResiliArt Accelerator is an exciting new project hosted by Moto Republik in partnership with UNESCO and the Embassy of Japan. The project will train 5 women creatives from all over Zimbabwe over a 6 month period in the necessary soft skills to develop their creative hustles. The ResiliArt five will have coaching sessions by Zimbabwean experts, covering practical topics such as pitch, communications, marketing, financial planning, and legal affairs; and will be paired with regional women expert mentors for mentorship sessions. The beneficiaries will share their learnings with girls and young women in their communities through an outreach component, creating a positive cascading effect that promotes the creative entrepreneurship among the target groups.
ResiliArt Accelerator Mentees
Name: Nothando Chiwanga
Age: 25
Name of business: Nothandoarts
Area of specialisation: photography, performance,film and painting
Why you’re passionate about this area of specialisation: It brings back the lost memories, new and old .Also document long back stories and 21 century .Also our feelings ,moods and ideas into something palpable no matter what passions and professional backgrounds we have .
Short-term goal for your creative business:
- Organise workshops in Schools
- Solo show
- Collaborating with different artist
- Group show
Long-term goal for creative business:
- Open an art school for young kids
- Solo show in venice
- Zimbabwe venice pavilion
- Open a gallery space for digital artist
Relevant links to work:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTniaSMxGTU
- https://nothandochiwanga.blogstop.com
- http://www.instagram.com/notie_chiwanga
Six words to describe personality/approach to business:
- Create, experiment, read , pray, learn, curate
Name: Nasibo
Age: 32
Name of business: Music
Area of specialisation: Music performance
Why you’re passionate about this area of specialisation:
I believe in a world where we live together in harmony and sharing my personal experience and how we can build ourselves to a place where there is Ubuntu ,equality ,peace and harmony. With my talent I believe it’s my purpose to make the world feel the same as I feel and make it their own purpose too.
Short-term goal for your creative business: To tour around Africa
Long-term goal for creative business:
To reach every part of the world and to also win a Grammy
Relevant links to work:
https://youtube.com/channel/UCletWVgTg7IZxq1_pFBJ_fQ
Six words to describe personality/approach to business:
Practice, learn, try, perform, push
Name: Thandokuhle Sibanda
Age: 22
Name of business:
ThandoePoetry
Area of specialisation:
Poetry
Why you’re passionate about this area of specialisation:
Poetry is a form of art that heals, educates, it brings together very simple words to form a language that cuts across a lot of barriers and allows people to tap into spheres they otherwise wouldn’t be able to
Short-term goal for your creative business:
To improve on consistency, create networks and collaborate.
Long-term goal for creative business:
To grow my brand beyond the country and the continent
Relevant links to work: https://linktr.ee/ThandoeTinkie
Six words to describe personality/approach to business:
curious, calculate, calm, conscious, practice, learn
Name: Yolanda Ngwenya
Age: 27
Name of business: Bakhar
Area of specialization: Fashion Design
Why you’re passionate about this area of specialisation: It best defines who I am because it incorporates all of my passions in one. Those passions being Art, Music, Literature and History.
Short-term goal for business: To have a recognisable Bakhar Studio and to start exporting
Long-term goal for business: Bakhar Factories, studios and stores across the continent with African artisans working in them to further establish our African identity. My goal is to be recognised as a key player in the Creative Industry worldwide.
Relevant links to work:
https://instagram.com/bakharzwigshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
https://www.facebook.com/BakharZW/
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC9o51MgB5M4DlnhVT_Ed8zA
https://mobile.twitter.com/bakharzw
Six words to describe personality/approach to business:
pray, research, creative, eclectic, honesty, infuse
Name: Prudence Grace Nyahangare
Age: 25
Name of Business: GraceN Arts/ Maonero Arts Trust
Area of specialisation: Printmaking and philanthropy (Visual Arts)
I am passionate about Visual Arts as it gives me an open platform to express myself, tell stories about women in my country and as well as educate people from my day to day experiences and giving a sense of healing as art is also therapeutic
Short-term goal:
My goal is to have an art exhibition encouraging the girl child that one doesn’t need much to dream and women can also make successful projects even when they are a mother juggling both their career and a family
Long-term goal:
My long-term goal is to open a small space teaching art to less privileged people particularly single mothers and women interested in the arts because the industry has a small number of women participating in events and half of the women in the country are going through mental health issues I hope to open a platform providing both therapy and art education
Links to work :
Instagram: @graynyahangare
Facebook: @grayprudencenyahangare
Press: https://www.newsday.co.zw/2022/06/chitungwiza-exhibition-pays-tribute-to-ordinary-people/
https://fullcirclebylip.foundation/yao-metsoko-2
http://gallerydelta.com/exhibition/line-and-form/
Six words to describe personality/approach to business:
Professional, Skillful, Zealous, Playful, Creative, and Passionate