MAUN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL BACK WITH A BANG!

The annual Maun International Arts Festival (MIAF) will take place in Maun from this coming Thursday (24 November) to Sunday (26 November). The event is hosted by Poetavango.

The week-long festival will feature various activities taking place in the town of Maun, spanning across performance, literary, film and the visual arts. One of the main objectives of the MIAF is to promote arts and culture, particularly the arts and culture in Botswana and Africa. According to the organisers, as much as the festival seeks to foster arts creativity and instills a sense of cultural pride, it also seeks to brand the country of Botswana as a first-rate tourist destination area. “The festival takes place in the Northwest region, an area of the country which is immensely rich in both culture and wild nature. However, there hasn’t been much effort targeted to underpinning the dense cultural wealth of this region. With a diversity of unique ethnics co-existing in the northwest region, this area is composed of multicultural, polyglot societies stitched in a vibrant quilt that displays a serene and peaceful social milieu.” “The festival also helps preserve and promote local cultures by showcasing traditional/ cultural elements of Botswana, such as dance, song, and cuisine.”