Arts Council to run Arts Festival :: Mmegi Online

The Minister of Youth, Gender, Sport and Culture, Tumiso Rakgare says the newly set up National Arts Council of Botswana (NACB) will run the National Arts Festival (formerly the President’s Day Competitions) once it is fully operational.

The Arts Council was established to coordinate governance, facilitate cultural exchanges with other countries and stakeholders, advise the government on matters relating to arts and culture, and encourage and facilitate the commercialisation of arts and cultural activities among others in Botswana.

Speaking during the National Arts Festival Awards ceremony in Gaborone during the President’s Day holidays, Rakgare said the ministry and the NACB are working on a proposed transition plan, which will see some of the programmes that had been run by the ministry now being given to the council to take charge of.

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