Vision
and Illusion art exhibition opens at the Hilton
By Tibebeselassie
Tigabu
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- Desta’s Hagos 40th exhibition
was opened on April 7, at Hilton entitled Vision and Illusion
in front of gathering that included politicians, ambassadors
and invited guests. Read
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Six
hands piano concert to stage at Italian Cultural Institute
By Tibebeselassie Tigabu
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- Six hands piano concert is going to be
presented at the Italian Cultural Institute from April 15 to
16 by Michela De Amicis, Rosella Masciarelli and Angela Petaccia
to mark the 150th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini -a famous Italian
composer and opera singer’s birth. Read
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 Israel
to come back in full swing
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The artist that is known for his
Amharic and English mixed ragga told SSI this week that he is
finalizing his new album ‘Kapo Israel’. Fusing his
style with reggae and dancehall he states that he has included
new Amharic and English dancehall songs on the up-coming album.
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 Chachi’s
homecoming concert gets cancelled
By Tibebeselassie Tigabu
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- A week ago we saw fliers, posters and
radios announcements talking about Chachi’s home coming
concert which was scheduled to take place on April 5, it was
a big event for her fans because Chachi is one of Ethiopia’s
most popular female singers, her vocal uniqueness made her to
be liked in many ways. Read
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Building
bridges through art
By Samson Haileyesus
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- An exhibition by artists from Sudan and
Ethiopia which was on show at the Addis Ababa Municipality closed
this week. Read
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 Sinkuf
to hit screens in Addis
By Tibebeselassie Tigabu
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- a suspense action film entitled
sinkuf is scheduled to be released this week in capital Addis
Ababa. Read
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Ethiopians
Artistes series II opens at Venezuelan embassy
By Tibebeselassie Tigabu
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopian artist seyoum Ayalew has opened
his painting exhibition at the premises of the embassy of Bolivarian
republic of Venezuela in the presence of ambassador Luis Mariano
Mata, ambassador of the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela to
Ethiopia and other invited guest on Wednesday March 26, 2008.
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 ‘Sea
Port’, new Ethiopian film releases
By Alemayehu Seife-Selassie
Directed by the renowned Ethiopian artist Tilahun Gugsa, a feature
film entitled Sea Port was released this week March 24, 2008.
The film that has 20 main characters whose script is based on
reseach made by Tilahun from different source such as BBC. The
BBC report stated that the African Rift Valley crack is widening
in the Afar region. And in the long future it will grow in to
one great ocean. Read
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Video
and performance Bonanza to stage at ASNI
By Alemayehu Seife-Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A video installation exhibition is going
to be staged at the ASNI art gallery tomorrow Saturday March
29th. The installation art is one of the few exhibitions of
its kind and features international artistes as well as local
talents. Read
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 Axumite
Heritage 2008 exhibition opens
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Artist Tadesse Wolde Aregay opened
a painting exhibition entitled “Axumite Heritage 2008”
at the Alliance Ethio-Française last week. The artist
has previoulsy presented his works at different local and international
exhibitions, and has presented close to 40 artistic pieces for
the current exhibition. Read More>>>
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“Gobedra”
Ethiopian suspense film hits screens
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - After eleven months in the making, the
new suspense film “Gobedra” hit screens this week
at Mati Cinema. The film has 31 characters and is booked to
be screened at Alem, Mati, and Cinema Empire strarting next
week. Read More>>> |
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 Former
beauty queen to star in film ‘About Love’
By Alemayehu
Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Miss Ethiopia 2007 Amleset
Muchi will appear in her film, Sile Fekir [About Love] at the
end of March. The beauty queen turned film actress previously
starred in Seifu Fantahun’s Yifelegal [Wanted]. But in
her upcoming film, she has taken the entirely different role
of an honest lover. Read
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 Ethiopian
cowboy film “Kekurbaw Bestejerba” hits screens
By Alemayehu
Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The Ethiopian cowboy genre
copycat film, “Kekurbaw Bestejerba” (“Behind
the Curve”), produced and directed by Nebyou Engdawork,
started premiering in Addis Ababa Tuesday at the Sebastopol
Cinema. Read
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 Italian,
French, and American music perform in Addis
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The renowned Italian pianist
Joe Diverio was in Addis Ababa for a splendid performance at
the Italian Cultural Institute this week. Diverio, who has specialized
in different musical styles, stunned the audience with his soothing
voice and piano, performing dozens of his hit songs. Read
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Joe
Thomas motorcade involved in accident in Zimbabwe
By Wilson Watson,
HARARE, Zimbabwe- A Mercedes Benz ML 320 that was part
of American pop singer Joe Thomas’s entourage when he
came to Zimbabwe two weeks ago was involved in an accident while
accompanying the singer in a suspected bid to injure the musician.
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 New
film “Albo” hits screens soon
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – With 90 percent of its
editing completed, the film “Albo” has a lot of
unique qualities that distinguish it from many Ethiopian films.
Edited by one award-winning editor Yared Shumete, and featuring
the legendary Kasa Tesema’s songs for the soundtrack,
the film is expected to be a hit. With only a little work left
for production completion, SSI had the chance to get a sneak
preview of the film. Read
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 Romantic
suspense “And Edil” hits screens
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
Addis ABABA, Ethiopia - A romantic suspense film by Spark Film
Production and Black Angel Films Production, “And Edil”
(“One Chance”), was released last week Saturday.
The film has regular screenings on Friday, Saturday and Sunday
at Alem and Empire cinemas.
Consuming a 190,000 birr in production, “And Edil”
is a low budget film, yet it contains travel and action scenes
from Addis Ababa to the cities of Lalibela and Dessie in the
north. Its appearance is similar to many highly-budgeted Ethiopian
films. Read
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Kids’
drawing contest on Arab-Ethiopian friendship in Addis
By
Alemayehu Seife Selassie
Addis ABABA, Ethiopia - An 800-child drawing competition
with the theme of Arab-Ethiopian Friendship will be held in
Addis Ababa. The competition, which hopes to entertain nine
regions from around the country, is organized by the Arab League
in Addis Ababa. Read
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 Mihret
Abebe wins Miss World Ethiopia 2007
By Alemayehu Seife-Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – At a beauty competition that was
held last Tuesday, Mihret Abebe a young
high school student from the town of Awassa won the Miss World
Ethiopia 2007 title. Read
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MultiChoice
Africa announces reshuffle of bouquet
By Staff writer
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- MultiChoice Africa has announced that
it would be undertaking a reordering of all existing channels
across the DStv bouquets. Read
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 After
the sandstorm at the Alliance
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – As the Alliance Ethio-Francaise
came out of its summer break and gets ready to celebrate its
100 years since its establishment in Ethiopia, it has brought
the exhibition of a Namibian photographer Helga Kohl. Focusing
on the interiors of abandoned houses flooded by a sandstorm,
the professional photographer has put her works on show this
week. Read
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 Ethiopian
cultural night to stage at exhibition
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A cultural night presenting different
Ethiopian traditions is going to be staged at the Addis Ababa
Exhibition center on September 15th, 2007 organized by Reli
Events, the show will be one of the first to be staged by a
Gebeta [Ethiopian chess] match between players and Azmaris (folklore
singers) competition. Also included is a competition of the
best style of traditional clothes among guests will be conducted,
where foreign nationals will be competing wearing Ethiopian
traditional clothes. Read
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Africa
Mosaique stages Millennium Fashion Gala
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Africa Mosaique a company founded
by former Ethiopian model Anna Getaneh, has its third fashion
extravaganza at the Sheraton Addis Monday of this week. Read
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Pre-millennium
Roots Rock Reggae bash to stage in Adama
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – the town of Adama/Nazereth (116
kilometers form Addis Ababa) is going to entertain international
and local artists from Jamaica, England, New York and Washington
and Shashemene next week Saturday September 8th. Read
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Makush
exhibits 13 Ethiopian women role models
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - UNFPA organized painting exhibition
that hopes to give recognition to Ethiopian women role models
opened this past Wednesday August 29th at the Makush gallery.
The exhibition that featured the women as ‘heroes of society,’
presents sculpture and painting art works that depict 13 contemporary
women role models. Read
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Cosmetic
show to stage in Addis
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Judy Ethio-Dream Modeling is going to
present a Cosmetic and Fashion show at the Free zone Restaurant
beginning this September. Organized by the young model Yodit
Mengistu, the fashion show stages Osman Mohamed’s “Ras
Africa” Collection and Mahlet Afework’s “Habeshigna”
design works. The organizer stated that she is working on adding
one more designer on the show. Read
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 Kistet
film releases
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A new film starring Fekadu Teklemariam,
Direbwork Seifu, Solomon Bogale, Seife Araya and Roman Befkadu,
was released on Tuesday of this week at the National Theatre.
A film by Yared Production, Kistet is written by the co-writer
of 11th Hour Eneyew Dechasa, and directed by Alemtsehai Bekele.
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Sidney
Solomon’s singles to release this weekend -Album’s
release scheduled for October
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Five years after the release of his
single Babylon is falling, Sydney Solomon has finished the whole
album Ethiopia is calling that is due to be released in October.
Two songs from the album Chicka [mud] and Shashemene HulGize
[Shashemene all the time] are going to hit radio stations over
the weekend. Read
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Canvas
on fish scales painting exhibition opens
By Alemayehu Seife-Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A painting exhibition that uses
fish skin as canvas opened yesterday at the National Theatre
gallery. Presenting 32 artistic pieces by the matured Ethiopian
artist Tadesse Teshome is the man responsible for making this
art a reality. Read
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Art
that lights hierarchy
Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The self-trained artist, Tewodros Mahteme-Selassie
has opened a painting exhibition at the Makush gallery Tuesday
of this week. The artist that has done previous group exhibitions
has the stage all to himself this time when he presented his
14 artistic pieces.
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Behailu
Daniel releases new album
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A former Hager Fikir musician
Behailu Daniel has released a musical album Beru Tekolifo, the
door is locked, on Monday this week. The artist that has released
a single Dinget Salasibew, suddenly, five years ago, has been
working on and off on his début album. And now that his
first album is completed, he says the road to the release was
a difficult one. Read
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 Tradition
comes on silver screens
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
- The director of Zema Hiwot has made a traditional film entitled
Yechereka Lekso [weeping under moonlight]. Having directed many
TV plays, Yared Gebresillassie is not new to making films, but
the five years research the film took, has made his recent job
harder than his previous. “This is the first Ethiopian
film made after conducting serious research on northern Amhara
traditions. “People have been complaining a lot on the
westernized films. And this film has that true natural quality”,
Yared said. Read
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 New
debut music album DIASPORA releases
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
- A new music album entitled ‘Diaspora’ was released
by Alex Olympia last Friday. The album that is distributed by
I.s Records has twelve new songs by the new artist Alemayehu
Tekle a.k.a. Alex. Read
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 3500
Judges to Vote for Miss Millennium Teen and Miss Millennium
Queen
By SSI staff writer
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- Organisers of The Millennium Festival
of Beauty announced that over 3500 “Judges” will
be specially invited to vote for the finalist of Miss Millennium
Queen and Miss Millennium Teen pageants next week, to give people
a say in the selection of the Ethiopian Queens of the New Millennium.
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 Music
Mayday brings Netherlands’s E-Team artists
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The Music Mayday Ethiopia team have
brought a dutch hip hop team “E-team” to Ethiopia
for a week long workshop and performance. The E-team are going
to perform their music and break dance at the Sebastopol Cinema
Hall the coming Monday. The break dance and music show is going
to be free for all interested. Read
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Black
Silver’s Ethiopian beauty show
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
Lili Assefa has been in the international fashion and beauty
scene for the past decade. Modeling and working as a beautician
she has gotten herself acquainted with the London fashion world.
But she said that it has always been her dream to take the Ethiopian
models dressed with traditional costumes and present a show
going around the world. Read
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“Yifelegal”
and “Sekaramu Posta” to hit screens in Europe
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- The Comedy film by Seifu Fantahun, “Yifelegal”
and Serawit Fikre’s recent production “Sekaamu posta”
are going to go out for a viewing in Holland and Sweden on August
2nd. Read
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Fund
raising walk to be held this month
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Organized by Admas University
College a fund raiser walk is going to be held on July 22nd.
Close to 10 kilometers will be covered by the walk that is expected
to be attended by thousands. Read
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 Martha
Noah wins Miss Habesha 2000
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A collection of five judges were
lined up last Sunday to pick which one of the 25 beauty queens
would best represent Ethiopia and the nervous contestants were
lined up some stuttering and others with clear confidence. As
the nationally accepted trend was taking its tone the show had
to start late. Read
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 The
age of the fusion Rapstafarians
Engarigna music
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Starting rapping on 1996 in Jamaica
where he spent most of his childhood there, Israel moved to
England in 2001 and met K and D from the Seriously Hectic group.
And his father Nkruma has produced the first video for the group
in 2004. Read
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Miss
Habesha 2000 to be crowned this Sunday
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Postponed from its original
due date, Miss Habesha Beauty pageant is to be staged this
coming Sunday afternoon at the Imperial Hotel. Read
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Behind
the tunes of Zema Lastas
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
At 30 this young music arranger has worked with many renowned
Ethiopian young artistes than many had done. But despite being
involved in the making of 14 musical albums, it was only this
year that he released his first solo music arrangement album
“Zema Lastas”. Read
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 Sekaramu
Posta new film releases
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Directed by Roman Ayele, written by
Serawit Fikre a comedy film “Sekaramu Posta”, The
drunk Mail, was released Wednesday of this week in the presence
of hundreds of movie watchers at the Addis Ababa Theater and
Cultural Center. Read
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 Côte
d' Ivoirian artist presents exhibition with Ethiopian
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A Côte d’ Ivorian artist
Pierre-Antoine Goho and his Ethiopian counterpart Bitsuamlak
Ashenafi this week presented their works to hundreds of audience
at the Ethiopian National Theatre art Gallery. Read
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Rushing
to the net exhibition stages
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Dozens of paintings by artist Teferi
Gizachew were staged at the National Theatre Gallery this week.
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 Evangadi
Collection hits streets
By
Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Following the success
of “Take five” and “Tarik Tesera”, a
third musical mix collection by DJ Danny, was released Tuesday
of this week. The album that features Alemayehu Hirpo, Kuku
Sebsebe, Nati and Getachew, presents nine singers.
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Pillar
art Exhibition to stage this June
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Over 50 wooden pillar artworks made
by eight young artists from the Gemini trust, is going to be
exhibited at the Habesha Gallery the coming Thursday. Read
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Wim’s
Holland Center opens
By staff writer
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- As an addition to the increasingly multicultural
face of the city, Addis Ababa has one new establishment to take
pride from.
A new center, that carries the name, Wim’s Holland Center,
opened its door to its customers on May 25 in the premises of
the Ethio-Djibouti Railway Station.
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local designers to compete with tibeb designs
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -Tibeb Fashion Show and Designers Competition
is going to be held at June 15th by Next Designing and Modeling
Institute. On a show aimed to be attended by 900 people, over
150 local Tibeb designs will be displayed. Presented by the
top students of the Institute, both men and women clothes will
be presented in the show that will be held at the Cloud 9 Terrace
5th floor the Getu Commercial Center. Read
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64
racing horses to be sold tomorrow
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – At a Horse racing evening that
aims to raise funds for the United World College students, feeding
the homeless and supporting the 3M orphanage of Addis Ababa,
64 horses are going to be sold tomorrow on television. The horse
race screening evening organized at the Armenian Club at 7:00
p.m. includes dinner with an entry price of 150 birr hopping
to raise funds between 30,000-40,000 Birr. Read
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 Masekela
and Burning Spear to jam on Kenyan Independence Day
By Kenneth Oduor
With the preparations for this year’s Sawa Sawa Festival
to mark Madaraka (Independence) day in Kenya in top gear, Jazz
and Reggae lovers in the country have something to smile about
and look forward to. Read
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Ethiopian film hits screens
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
522, a film that is made with a cost of 900,000 Birr (~102,000
USD) was screened for a large number of audiences on Monday
this week at the National Theatre. Read
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 Habesha
Art Studio to present 50 paintings
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -Featuring fifty artistic pieces from
Habesha Art Studio a painting exhibition is going to open today
at Jenife Petro and Elizabeth Namba’s Resident across
Burkina Faso Residence past Semien Hotel. The exhibition is
the first show by the five artists from the Habesha Art Studio.
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Pre-Millennium
Concert to stage this Sunday
By Alemayehu Seife
Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - One of the four major concerts by Yoha
Entertainment for the Millennium, Millennium 2000 concert is
going to take place at the newly renovated former Ambassador
now Dream Park this Sunday. Read
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 Anthony
Brown and Girma Yifrashewa perform classical pieces
By Alemayehu Seife-Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The internationally renowned US artist
and peace promoter Anthony Brown and Ethiopian respected pianist
Girma Yifrashewa performed twenty musical pieces at the Yared
Music School this past Tuesday. The artists presented their
charity show aiming to benefit women and children living with
HIV/AIDS. Read
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Ashenge
to hit screens the coming Saturday
By Alemayehu Seife
Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Directed by Paulos Regassa a period
film that depicts the 1940s Italian mustard gas massacre in
the northern Ethiopia’s Ashenge village, Ashenge is going
to hit screens the coming Saturday May 26th at the National
Theatre. Read
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Minute Break exhibition opens
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A five- day exhibition presenting
28 paintings and two poems “30 Minute Break” by
Esayas Kebede, opened yesterday at the National Theatre Addis
Ababa. Read
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 Designers
and Artisans Bazaar Vol.7 opens today
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Today at the Tropical Garden,
the seventh Designers and Artisans Bazaar is going to kickoff
with more than 70 known and unknown artists’ works. The
biennial show that is held every year for the last five years,
features local designs and crafts aiming to promote the producers.
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“Scientific
Village” Interactive exhibition to open tomorrow
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Presented by Cité des Sciences
et de I ‘Industrie- Paris, a Scientific Village exhibition
is going to open Saturday aiming high school students as its
main attendants, and science lovers as occasional visitors.
A four category interactive exhibition, Science Village will
have the touch and feel effect of the human body, Communication,
You and the Others, and Technology under its theme.
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Miss
Habesha 2000 to be crowned
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Organized by HA Advertisement and Promotion
the first of its title, Miss Habesha 2000 is going to be crowned
in three weeks time. On a competition that will take place at
Axum Hotel Addis Ababa, the beauty pageant is going to select
the finalists from a total of 40 plus registered contestants.
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Rasta’s
Paradise documentary to premier
By staff writer
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A documentary film by Parine Jaddo,
and produced by Ishac Diwan “Rasta’s Paradise”
is going to be aired at the Addis Ababa City-Hall Saturday,
May 5. Read
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