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LOMAGUNDI COLLEGE presents

The Matters That Count Arts Festival

What we
needed
to say.

A generation finds its voice through art.
A community learns how to listen.

A schools arts festival connecting creative expression, meaningful conversations and youth mental wealth.

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HARARE, ZIMBABWE · FIRST TERM 2027

Visual artMusicTheatreDanceFashionFilmSpoken wordCreative writing

The learner behind the results

Some things are easier
to show than to say.

Behind the marks, the matches and the carefully composed smile is a young person navigating a complicated world.

Pressure. Friendship. Belonging. Life online. The future. The Matters That Count invites students to explore those realities through art, with trusted adults and clear creative boundaries.

Then it invites schools, families and partners to listen—and turn what they understand into practical support and action.

See our Theory of Change

The inaugural edition

Three days of art.
A longer story of change.

Preparation begins in schools. The festival brings the work into public view. Its meaning continues in what people do next.

30

Schools to bring together

The target founding cohort, joined by an Open Pod for individuals and community youth groups.

3

Days in Harare

Planned for the First Term 2027 mid-term break. Exact dates will be announced.

1

Shared invitation

Listen to young people. Make room for their creativity. Help their ideas travel further.

Concept illustration of young creatives carrying flowing banners in an inclusive arts procession

The opening ceremony

We begin
with a declaration.

Young people matter. Mental health matters. Schools and youth carry that message together through art, music and movement.

Meet the opening procession AI-generated concept illustration · Route and timing to be confirmed

Step inside the festival

Work that moves you.
Moments that stay.

Explore every component
01 / Exhibition & live arts

A gallery. A stage.
A generation with
something to say.

Ideas in motion

Green Badge Fashion Show

Fashion and wearable art give identity, belonging and self-expression a visible form.

What continues through us

Remembrance & legacy

Shared remembrance, a Memory Gallery and creative tributes explore the qualities we choose to carry forward.

From a creative moment to a possible future

Creative Futures Exchange

Mentors, portfolio conversations and verified education and industry pathways connect creativity with future opportunity.

Four experiences to carry with you

01

Wall of Remembrance

Shared loss, acknowledged with care.

02

Memory Gallery

Public legacies, interpreted through art.

03

Green Badge Fashion Show

Wear the message. Value the listener.

04

Mental Wealth Walkway

Try a practice. Choose a useful next step.

A rhythm a school can keep45–60minutes

At least once
every three weeks.

Listen · Create · Reflect · Act

The Mental Wealth Hour

Make space.
Without losing the rhythm.

The conversation needs a home in the school timetable.

Start with a class, club, sports team, dorm or year group. Use time already in the calendar for a guided conversation, then turn anonymous shared themes into art. Your whole school does not have to stop.

Schools agree the wider rehearsal and training commitment before joining. Young people never have to disclose a private story to take part.

See how the school rhythm works

How creativity becomes a continuing practice

Make it. Share it.
Carry it forward.

01

Listen & create

Protected time, trusted adults and meaningful briefs help students explore the questions they care about.

02

Share & understand

Curated art and performance invite families, educators and the wider community to see, hear and respond.

03

Act & continue

School commitments, daily practices and clearer support routes give the conversation somewhere to go.

Our aim: stronger voice, connection, help-seeking and sustainable learning. These are outcomes to examine, not results already claimed. Read the Theory of Change to see the pathway and its assumptions.

The Participation Studio

Find the question
you want to carry.

Explore a creative brief, try a timetable that fits your group and leave with a practical starting plan.

Enter the studio

Presenting Anchor School & founding institutional host

Lomagundi College

Helping bring schools, creative practice and student voice into one shared undertaking. Owned and architected by Pamumvuri PVO.

Meet the people shaping the festival

Find your place

Different contributions.
A shared purpose.

Bring a school. Enable an experience. Share a skill. Begin with the route that fits you.

01 / Schools & families

Give student voice
a place to grow.

Explore the school journey, timetable fit, creative opportunity and safeguards.

Explore school participation 02 / Sponsors & funders

Make something
meaningful possible.

Fund a defined part of the programme with clear scope, recognition and reporting.

Explore sponsorship 03 / Partners & contributors

Bring the skill
that moves it forward.

Arts, wellbeing, research, careers, media, logistics and community support all have a role.

Find your contribution

Begin with a conversation

A place for your voice. A role for your contribution.

Join the waitlist for school participation, the Open Pod, sponsorship or creative contributions.

Join the waitlistNo payment. No commitment. A conversation comes next.