Dzimbanhete Arts & Culture Interactions - All Afrika Village

25/05/2026

Africa Day is not just a celebration for us. It is a reminder of who we are, where we come from, and the futures we still have the power to build.

At Dzimbanhete, we believe Africa’s greatest resource is not hidden beneath the ground, but lives within her people, her stories, her creativity, her memory, and her imagination.

From indigenous architecture to XR innovation, from elders to children, from oral knowledge systems to digital futures; we continue to build spaces where Africa can see herself, value herself, and imagine boldly again.

Today we celebrate an Africa that is rooted, dynamic, creative, resilient, and future-facing.

Our stories. Our voices. Our future.

Happy Africa Day 2026 🌍

21/05/2026

A Brotherly Salute from DACI to Zimbabwe’s Venice Biennale 2026 From the sacred grounds of Dzimbanhete Arts and Culture Interactions (DACI), we extend our profound, fatherly congratulations to the entire contingent of brilliant Zimbabwean visual artists who carried the spirit, the soil, and the visual sovereignty of our nation to the 2026 Venice Biennale.To see our sons and daughters stand on the grandest global stage and speak our truths in languages the world cannot ignore fills us with immense pride. You did not go to Venice to assimilate; you went to command space, to disrupt the "global sameness," and to anchor our indigenous narratives firmly in the contemporary lexicon. You have guarded our heritage well.
While we celebrate the collective triumph of the Zimbabwean pavilion, our hearts carry an extra measure of paternal joy for our own. To watch Franklin Dzingai, a young creative whose artistic footsteps we have long watched and nurtured within the DACI family, step onto that global platform is a profound milestone.Franklin, your journey from the studios of mentorship to the pavilions of Venice is a testament to what happens when talent meets relentless dedication to one’s roots and self knowledge. You have not just carved your own path; you have proven that our local spaces of creative nurturing are fertile ground for giants. Moving Forward, to the entire 2026 delegation: Your country welcomes you back with open arms and immense respect. You have shown the world that Zimbabwe’s visual sovereignty is non-negotiable.May this be but a single chapter in a long, continuous reclamation of our creative destiny..
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18/05/2026

There is something deeply comforting about sitting among elders as the mbira plays. ✨

A beautiful moment captured 📷 as our elders were joined by one of our cultural residency participants, blending into the ensemble so naturally and helping create music that felt calming, healing, and deeply nourishing. Some music is not just heard, it is felt. 🎶. We call it nourishing the spirit 🌱🌱🌱

17/05/2026

Rooted in community first. 🛖 🌱✨

Children from the local Somerby farming community enjoying traditional dance practice at Dzimbanhete. Culture lives when communities gather, learn, and celebrate together. 🪘

12/05/2026

What if one of the world’s greatest untapped knowledge infrastructures is sitting in Africa… hidden in oral systems, indigenous architecture, ecological memory, ritual, craft, language, and community practice?

At a time when the world is searching for new models of sustainability, wellness, belonging, climate adaptation, and human-centred innovation, Africa remains one of the most culturally resource-rich continents on Earth.

According to UNESCO, Africa holds over 30% of the world’s cultural heritage assets, more than 2,000 languages, and vast bodies of intangible knowledge systems passed across generations.

Yet much of this knowledge remains under-documented, fragmented, externally interpreted, or vulnerable to disappearance within a single generation.

At the same time:

The global wellness economy has surpassed $5 trillion.

Immersive technologies and XR are reshaping how humanity experiences education, memory, and space.

Climate displacement continues to rise globally.

Indigenous ecological knowledge is increasingly recognised as critical to future climate adaptation strategies.

Cultural tourism is shifting towards authentic, regenerative, and meaningful engagement.

The signals are clear:The future will not be built by technology alone.

It will be built by the societies that understand how to connect technology, memory, ecology, identity, spirituality, architecture, and community into living systems.

This is part of the thinking shaping Dzimbanhete Arts & Culture Interactions.

Through initiatives such as the Creative Village, the All Afrika Village and the AAVV XR project, we are exploring what it means to build cultural infrastructure that is not only preservational, but generative.

Not museums of frozen memory.

But living ecosystems where indigenous knowledge can interact with immersive technologies, contemporary creativity, research, architecture, education, and future economies.

We believe Africa must move beyond being primarily a subject of study.

Africa must increasingly own the platforms, spaces, technologies, and institutions through which its knowledge is interpreted, experienced, and transmitted to future generations.

The next major knowledge systems may not emerge only from laboratories, universities, or tech campuses.

They may also emerge from indigenous systems that have survived for centuries through memory, land, story, ritual, making, and collective experience.

That is not nostalgia.

That is future infrastructure.

17/04/2026

https://www.newsday.co.zw/life-amp-style/article/200051152/discipline-not-drugs-key-to-art-careers-visual-artist

01/04/2026

If you’ve walked with us over the last few years, you’ve seen the All Afrika Village (AAV) growing and breathing. It has been a profound journey of cultural preservation, yet for those of us at DACI who stood at the first turning of the soil, we have always felt a quiet longing for a missing resonance.

Many of you know our journey began with the visual arts the spark that gave birth to the AAV. For a long time, our cultural village and our creative output have lived like two hearts beating in separate rooms. While the village flourished, our visual arts projects waited for their own hearth, a dedicated home where they could truly settle and speak.

We are deeply moved to share that construction has officially begun on our first dedicated Art Gallery within the Creative Village.

These photos are more than a record of progress; they represent a homecoming. By laying these foundations, we are giving our visual arts programs a permanent place to anchor right at the heart of the complex where they have always belonged.As we raise the walls, we are mindful that a village is not built by hands alone, but by the strength of the relationships that sustain it.

The AAV has shown us what is possible when a community breathes life into a shared vision. Now, as we manifest the Creative Village, we invite our oldest friends and our newest collaborators to weave your strength into this momentum.

Whether through the wisdom of your advice, the bridging of resources, or contributions to the building fund, your presence ensures that this new limb of our village grows as vital as the first.

Thank you for recognising that Art and Culture are not merely adjacent; they are the exhale and inhale of our collective existence. Welcome to a home where we move as one, proving that "I am because we create together."

Much respect to Dr. Kristina Ziadeh, Engineer Nkosana Ndlovu, your hearts are large!

25/03/2026

Barricades can also be a sign of progress!

15/03/2026

𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭.
Last week we stood on the land and watched the earth being opened for soil testing in preparation for the Creative Village.

At first glance it may seem like a small technical step, but moments like these carry quiet significance. Before any structure rises, the land must first speak. The soil tells us what it can hold, what it can sustain, and how we must build so that what we create will stand for many generations.

As the excavation unfolded, we began to notice the different grains of soil beneath our feet. Among them was the deep red clay that many of us recognise from the landscapes many of us grew up in. Seeing it there was a reminder that this land has its own story and memory, long before we arrived with drawings, plans and ambitions.

The Creative Village is not simply a building project. It is a vision for a living cultural space where artists, thinkers, makers and communities can gather to create, learn and share knowledge. It is a place where culture is not archived behind glass, but lived, practiced and passed on. A place where the next generation can encounter their heritage not as something distant, but as something alive and evolving.

These early stages often go unseen, yet they are some of the most important. As a team we continue to sit together, debate, imagine and question. What materials should we use? How should the buildings sit on the land? And perhaps the most important question that keeps returning to us: how do we build in a way that allows us to coexist with the ecosystem rather than overpower it?

Watching the soil come to the surface last week reminded us that this journey is not only about constructing buildings. It is about nurturing a place where creativity, memory and community can take root and flourish for generations to come.

And this is only the beginning.

#𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲 #𝗗𝘇𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗲 #𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 #𝗢𝘂𝗿𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗢𝘂𝗿𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 🌍

11/03/2026

Makorokoto Moffat Takadiwa, keep marching on!