Shakespeare Schools FestivalMALAWI
(The Virtual Festival)
The Fourth Festival - 2020
Welcome & Takulandirani to our Fourth Festival!
This year - like many other Festivals around the world - our proceedings are perforce virtual. We hope you will enjoy the following productions, which were filmed on location at participating schools in November 2020. Some two hundred and thirty young people and their teachers, from eight schools (including two deaf) and two youth groups, are involved.
Plays will become available at the stated time (CAT) and will remain online after the Festival. (Click the window to open and enlarge.) Each is introduced by a Sonnet read by a member of the Kamuzu Academy Drama Club. (Click the separate link.)
Your host is Mr. Peter Phiri, alumnus of All Saints' Mtunthama CDSS and Director of WashBetter (Malawi)...
Click here to download a copy of the Festival poster (.pdf).
Chilembwe (00:51), the Roan Antelope of Gule Wamkulu (the Great Dance of the Chewa People of Malawi), consecrates the beginning of each recording.
1.00 p.m.
1.30 p.m.
2.00 p.m.
2.30 p.m.
3.00 p.m.
3.30 p.m.
4.00 p.m.
4.30 p.m.
5.00 p.m.
5.30 p.m.
Saturday, 28th November6.00 p.m.
Mr. Richard L. Hewitt (Director) concludes the Fourth Festival here (04:55).
Chilembwe (00:51), the Roan Antelope of Gule Wamkulu (the Great Dance of the Chewa People of Malawi), consecrates the end of each recording.
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A proportion supports also the work of WashBetter (Malawi), which, in this time of ongoing pandemic (2020), extends materials and an educational programme in sanitation to participating schools.
Mr. Peter Phiri, your host, offers a short account of existing work by WashBetter funded through the Festival here (1:51).
Après-Festival
The Festival was taken to pupils of participating schools on dedicated visits in early December. Films were shown, certificates and books presented, and cold drinks enjoyed.
(Right) Mr. Peter Phiri presented certificates. Ceremonies are photographed alongside.
Report
The Director's report on the Festival is available here (.pdf).
Contact & Cetera
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Zikomo kwambili
(and Baie dankie, Spasibo bolshoe, Many thanks)...
... to the following who have supported our Festival:
Kamuzu Academy, Malawi and the Shakespeare Schools Festival - South Africa
Russia and South Africa: Ms. Kseniya Filinova-Bruton
United Kingdom: Mrs. Karen Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Hewitt, Prof. Maurice Hindle, Miss Alisoun Probert and Mr. Glynn Ridge
Chayamba Secondary School rehearses As You Like It (November 2020).
Shakespeare Schools Festival - South Africa
In September 2020 the Shakespeare Schools Festival - South Africa celebrated its own virtual Festival.
Click here to see what was achieved (.pdf)!
(Right) Emmanuel Sogolera (Kamuzu Academy Drama Club) represents Malawi with his own Chichewa version of 'All the world's a stage' (As You Like It) as part of a 'lockdown' project (April 2020) of the South African Festival to collect versions of this speech in as many languages of the world as possible.