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ZCCD 







ZIMBABWE CULTURAL CENTRE IN DETROIT’Smission is to educate, archive, & promote the arts & culture of Zimbabwe. We continuously strive to encourage strong ties between culture-producers & residents in Zimbabwe, Detroit, & abroad, acting as catalysts for critical artistic production as well as cultural exchange between communities.



 
ZIMBABWE CULTURAL
CENTRE DETROIT






WRITERS EXCHANGE

THE DETROIT WRITERS /
LYNN CRAWFORD
TOM CLYNES
CHRISTINE HUME
KATIE GRACE MCGOWAN
TOM MCCARTAN
STEVE HUGHES
The first ZCCD Wrietrs Exchange was at Public Pool for the Kumusha exhibit.  ZCCD invited Steve Hughes with the Good Tyme Writer's Buffet (Detroit) and Tawanda Mudzonga (Harare) to both curate in writers from their respectful regions to read each other’s
writings. On October 5, 2013, Detroit writers read the works of the Zimbabwean writers in Public Pool.
THE HARARE WRITERS /
TENDEKAI TATI
JERRY MUGWENI
BATSIRAI CHIGAMA
TAWANDA MUDZONGA
NGONIDZASHE TAPIWA
Then on January 31, 2014, Zimbabwean writers read the work of Detroit writers at Delta Gallery in Harare seen live through skype in Detroit at ZCCD during the Kunusha exhibit in Zimbabwe.


   

Then on January 31, 2014, Zimbabwean writers read the work of Detroit writers at Delta Gallery in Harare seen live through skype in Detroit at ZCCD during the Kunusha exhibit in Zimbabwe. Above Chirikure making opening remarks for the Kuusha exhibit.


▲ Tawanda Mudzonga introducing the writers exchange at the Kumusha exhibit at Delta Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe 2014.


▲ Lynn Crawford reading from the first published ZCCD  literary ezchange af Simone’s Gallery, Detroit, MI April 2018