Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Tsumeb concert to address social issues

Tsumeb concert to address social issues

In response to pressing social issues such as passion killings, prostitution and child exploitation, the Arts Performance Centre (APC) in Tsumeb is set to host a music concert tomorrow.

 The event titled ‘True Love Can’t Be Bought’ concert, will feature an evocative blend of music and drama designed to foster remembrance and inspire impactful change.

Gideon Eibeb, the spokesperson, told VIBEZ!  music has the ability to inspire people, guide their actions and aid in the formation of identities. 

He said the concert would help heal a ‘sick nation’ by reviving true love within societies, which can’t be bought by money or wealth.

“Attendees can expect a live musical journey to a different musical world, where everyone present will be graced with a variety of musical sounds and pieces they have never heard and experienced before. This will be a night every attendee will find new music to love. Performances will be from students and teachers from the Arts Performance Centre in Tsumeb, with instruments such as harp, violin, cello, marimba, piano, trumpet, traverse flute, drum and many more,” he said. 

Eibeb said the concert aims to share awareness, and express through music that true love can’t be bought, but it is earned. 

Moreover, the concert aims to create an intimate setting, where they will speak to the audience through musical performances, as music is a love language that instantly changes moods, human emotions, and views.  He added that through such concerts, they aim to help evolve societies to better the men.

“As an arts and music institution based in one of the towns of Namibia, Tsumeb, we believe in addressing social issues and matters our communities are facing, thus we have placed our attention on speaking to the nation at large, looking at the accelerating high rate of passion killing, killing in general (murder) where it seems there is no existence of ‘True Love’ among humanity as if life doesn’t hold any value anymore,” he said. 

Eibeb said the centre has groomed many artists over the years and some have started music schools, while several others have joined the police and navy bands. 

“APC’s string band performs at all types of events. Students are educated at APC by volunteers, mostly from Vienna and Zürich. Music has the ability to create a sense of belonging between individuals, and it is linked to forming both social closeness and familial bonds. “When a subject listens to music that gives them the chills, it triggers a release of dopamine to the brain,” he said.

-priscillamukokobi@gmail.com