The French Schools Drama competition, now in its 30th edition, returns next month with regional finals slated for November 11.<\/p>\n
Organising Committee Chairperson, Poya Chapweteka, confirmed the development Tuesday, saying all was set for the contest.<\/p>\n
Chapweteka said the regional finals would be held in three regions at Mzuzu University in the Northern Region, Likuni Boys in Lilongwe in the Central Region and Jacaranda School for Orphans in Blantyre in the Southern Region.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, the competition is running under the theme \u2018Tout ce qui brille n\u2019est pas or\u2019<\/em>,\u201d Chapweteka said.<\/p>\n He added that 23 schools have expressed interest in taking part in the competition.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the Northern Region, we have Ekwendeni Girls, Luwinga, Marymount, Mzuzu International Academy, Nkhata Bay Secondary School, Nyika Progressive and Phwezi Boys and Girls,\u201d Chapweteka said.<\/p>\n The Central region contest is expected to have Darlo Girls, Chipasula Private, Dzaleka Secondary School, Likuni Boys, Lilongwe Girls, Robert Blake and Lilongwe Academy.<\/p>\n In the Southern Region, schools that will compete include HHI, Jacaranda, Lunzu, Malindi, Malosa, Mulunguzi, Police, St Patricks and Zomba Catholic.<\/p>\n \u201cMany students, teachers and school heads are interested in the competition and it seems that all the schools are eyeing the national finals, which will take place in Blantyre on December 2,\u201d Chapweteka said.<\/p>\n He said that eight schools would make it to the national finals.<\/p>\n \u201cWe also have exciting news from Total Malawi, who have sponsored t-shirts to be given out to all participating schools and our special guests starting with the regional level,\u201d Chapweteka said.<\/p>\n The French Schools Drama competition\u2014 which, among other objectives, seeks to promote the French language and unearth talent\u2014 is being organised by Jacaranda Foundation with support from the French Embassy in Malawi.<\/p>\n Chapweteka said, for the first time, the French Department at Mzuzu University (Mzuni) has offered them a hall that will host the finals in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are happy to have more partners and we are looking forward to further collaboration with Mzuzu University in promoting French. Mzuzu University and the University of Malawi\u2014 Chancellor College\u2014 have been key in training French teachers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Chapweteka also said that Chancellor College and Mzuni have offered them judges in the past.<\/p>\n The reigning champions are Stella Maris. They won the competition in 2015 and defended it last year.<\/p>\n But Chapweteka indicated that Stella Maris will not participate in this year\u2019s competition due to financial constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The French Schools Drama competition, now in its 30th edition, returns next month with regional finals slated for November 11. Organising Committee Chairperson, Poya Chapweteka, confirmed the development Tuesday, saying all was set for the contest. Chapweteka said the regional finals would be held in three regions at Mzuzu University in the Northern Region, Likuni […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55472,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55457\/revisions\/55472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}