Tatenda Naomi Matsvai

05/02/2024

✨🦩 Event Announcement! 🦩✨

Monument. You, me and all these memories.

🎟 tix for this + all other acts @ FemFest 2024: https://www.femfestbrighton.co.uk/tickets

Explore double Offie-Nominated playwright and poet Tatenda Naomi Matsvai’s (they/them) latest work-in-progress ‘Monument’. A tender exploration of connection, family and memory through poetry, archival films and live looping. Monument asks what we return to for comfort during loss.

❓Who? Tatenda Naomi Matsvai
📆 When? 8pm - 8th March 2024
📍Where? The Actors - 4 Prince’s St, Kemptown. BN2 1RD

ID: Pale pink background with speckles. Text on the post reads: Tatenda Naomi Matsvai. They/Them. Friday 8th March. 8PM. Monument. Spoken Word Theatre. On the left hand side of the image is an photo of two empty park swings with a street in the background. Overlaying the image is a faded photo of tatenda. Tatenda has thick purple braids, they look straight at the camera thoughtfully. To the right of the image is a scan of a hand which is in black with pink nails. On top of the hand sits the FemFest 2024 logo: A traditional black and white drawing of a Flamingo with an exaggerated beady eye. Collage style cut and pasted (in pink, brown and red) text reads "FemFest 2024". A botanical drawing of a green and white flower sticks out of the Flamingo's back.

03/02/2024

02/02/2023

Amazing to be sharing some of the new version of Dark Matter in Bristol with the DM Team

Hope to see some awesome Bristolian friends down there

Monday 6th February don't miss MILK POETRY - Poetry and spoken word with Zimbabwean multi-dimensional storyteller, Tatenda Naomi Matsvai, as special guest https://thewardrobetheatre.com/livetheatre/milk-poetry-ft-tatenda-naomi-matsvai/ Poetry

12/08/2021

Tonight we go again
‘Dark Matter’ as pictured by my director/dramaturgy/sister

So much love n warmth in my heart charging me from last night

23/07/2021

*portal password activate*
That’s on fam 🥶🤬🤬🤭

Loved every second of the Empathy and Resilience programme with
I am eternally grateful to have spent the last 3 months working with and meeting so many incredibly talented artists. I can’t wait to stalk them all in to their future successes

Dis lil cluster above are the bestest bunch of humans in the entire worldsarah Stage design writer n performer sound designer
director
@ me lol writer n performer

16/07/2021

Me n mum shared some work at this Wednesday.
Something I been wanting to manifest for some time now, can’t wait to take this show home to Zim, n bring mumma’s stories to the whole world.

(Also big gas to have shared space with loads of African diaspora artist I been looking up to since 1st yr @ uni)

Big love
Hope ur having a dope ass week u gawjus hoomans

03/12/2020

Had a lovely time talking about my artistic journey so far with
n the full interview is now up on their website!
https://www.thegallyry.com/post/meet-tatenda-the-multimedia-creative-in-love-with-dialogue
Love

17/04/2020

Here is something from the archive, a poem about being frassed and feeling aimless
Video edited by the phenomenal