Rail Park Mall hosts Arts Performance Night
WeekendLife
Rail Park Mall, one of the leading shopping centres in the capital city, with easily accessible shopping experience will host Arts Performance Night on the 3rd of May. The Arts Performance Night is aimed at raising the profile of Botswana’s diverse artistic talents. Rail Park Mall’s food court area will be a gathering place for a slightly different group of people who are Botswana’s creatives ranging from poets, musicians and dancers.
The art night will be hosted in collaboration with AFDA Botswana, a film and television Live Performance school. The Arts Performance Night is a platform where all art forms will be blended to cater for all art lovers featuring renowned poet, published writer and a women's rights activist, Gauta Eyman, renowned karaoke singer Fifi Afrika and Amogelang Moatlhaping and many more.
“This event is a first of its kind at Rail Park Mall and therefore the success of the upcoming event will guide us in deciding whether we will host it again next year. Our partnership with AFDA was simply inspired by the fact that the school continues to contribute significantly to the creative industry both locally and internationally,” Keletso Sebogodi, Rail Park Mall Marketing Executive told Weekendlife. “This event is about engaging young, fresh artists who are making their mark in the industry and assisting them to put their art out there even more.”
For her part, Rail Park Mall Centre Manager, Bonyana Masu also stated that Rail Park Mall’s aim is to start small and see how it can grow, so that a bigger platform can be created for more artists to be engaged and to make a sustainable living out of their talents. Masu noted that their partnership with AFDA as an Arts school will come in handy in making sure that the event looks artistic especially that they will be providing technical support and publicity. This will include performances and live streaming of the event on their sister company Maru TV.
“Rail Park Mall has successfully maintained its position as Botswana’s favourite destination mall for over eight years now, and throughout the year the mall hosts various activation events driven by the loyalty of its patrons,” she said. Rail Park mall is a local shopping centre which is wholly owned by Botswana Railways and was opened for business on the 20th October 2011.It was officially opened on the 23rd of April 2012.
It boasts of extraordinary features that make it stand out as one of the modern shopping centres in the capital city, Gaborone. Grandly sitting in the heart of the city, Rail Park Mall pulsates with exciting new energy every day to its sundry visitors. Strategically and superbly located next to the ever flourishing Gaborone Bus Rank and Station, Rail Park Mall continues to be a model attraction to pedestrians and the commuting public who augment the shopping mall’s 800, 000 foot traffic per month.
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