Summary of Fees
     If you are coming to Zimfest, you need to register separately for each event you plan to attend (there is no ticket for the whole festival). All workshops cost $12 per hour. Evening concert tickets cost $12 for each concert in advance ($6 children 6-12), or $15 for each concert at the door ($6 children 6-12), or $30 for all three concerts in advance ($15 children 6-12). Afternoon concerts are free, no tickets or registration required. Community Conversations are free events, no registration required. Housing and meals at the Zimfest site require advance registration (see the Accommodations & Meals page for details).

Registration Directions
     To sign up for workshops, concert tickets, accommodations, and meals, please follow the instructions in the enclosed registration and accommodations forms. See Accomodations & Meals for more information and instructions on reserving accommodations and meals on campus.
     When registering for a workshop, please indicate a second choice for each workshop you choose. Also, be sure to read the information about participant playing levels before you choose your workshops. Do not sign up for any workshop that is beyond your level of experience.
     We will accept registration forms by mail only (no faxes), and they must be accompanied by payment. (No credit cards accepted.) You may also register on-line at www.zimfest.org, but we must receive and credit your payment first. It will help us if you mail your form early.
     All payments must be in US dollars. If you are sending your payment from outside the US, you must pay with a postal money order in US dollars. Even from within the US, please consider paying by money order or cashier’s check to expedite processing.
     All forms postmarked May 21 or earlier will be processed together. These will be randomized to ensure an equal chance at receiving first or second choices for workshops (the lottery). In mid-June, you will receive a letter confirming your workshop and accommodations reservations.
     Registration forms postmarked after May 21 will be gladly accepted and will be processed on a first come, first served basis. For registration forms we receive by June 30, you will receive a letter in the mail before the festival confirming your workshop and accommodations reservations. For registration forms we receive after June 30, pick up your confirmation packet when you arrive at the festival. Do not mail any forms or payments after July 16; bring them with you to the registration desk at the festival instead. Everyone can always go on-line to find out their own current enrollment and to check the status of each workshop (open/full).
     In addition to the usual mail-in registration procedure, we’ve added another option this year: on-line registration. You can register on-line for workshops, concerts, and accommodations. You can go on-line to register initially or to change your registration later. Go to www.zimfest.org and click the link to Registration. Follow the instructions to create your user name and password. You must create a separate user name and password for every person attending the festival. If you are registering for your child, please log in as that child when expressing preferences. The on-line system allows you to control your registration choices or enrollment. You must send payment in full by mail, in US dollars only. Please include a Payment Voucher along with your check so that we know who to credit for the payment.
     Before the lottery, you can register online, then mail us your check afterward. In order to be included in the lottery, your payment must be postmarked by May 21st and your payment must clear (not bounce) before we run the lottery (as with mail-in registrations).
     After the lottery has been run in early June, you can go on-line to find out what classes you are in, and you can make changes to your enrollment based on currently-open workshop offerings. After the May 21st postmark deadline, your on-line changes cannot exceed the amount you have already paid. After the lottery (for both mail-in and on-line registrations), we must receive and credit your payment before you can add any fee-based events. Allow up to 3 weeks for us to receive and credit your payment. You may go on-line at any time and make changes that do not exceed the amount you have already paid.

Festival Refund Policies
     Cancellation Refunds: Requests for refunds if you are unable to attend the festival will be accepted until JULY 15. NO FESTIVAL CANCELLATION REFUND REQUESTS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THIS DATE. Refund checks will be issued approximately one week after the festival, minus a $15 administrative fee (in US funds).
     Workshop Refunds: If you do not get into a workshop for which you have registered, we will give you credit toward another workshop that you can register for BEFORE or DURING the festival, as available. You may register for these additional workshops by mail or on-line, or you may wait until you arrive at the festival (though the choices will be fewer by then). If, by the end of the festival, you still haven’t used up your Zimfest 2001 credit, you may request a refund. We will place a refund box at the registration desk in which to place your request. You may also mail in workshop refund requests up until one week after the festival. WE WILL NOT ACCEPT CLASS REFUND REQUESTS POSTMARKED AFTER AUGUST 16. It’s our goal as festival organizers to offer you so many great workshops that you won’t need a refund!
     Housing Refunds: If you have reduced your housing cost and are entitled to a refund, please complete a Refund Request form at the registration desk during the festival. Refunds will be issued in the weeks following the festival.
     Workshop Withdrawals: There are no restrictions on workshop withdrawals before July 14. However, there will be NO REFUNDS FOR WORKSHOP WITHDRAWALS THAT OCCUR AFTER JULY 14. (If you request by mail to drop a workshop, the withdrawal date is the date we receive your request.) If, at any time, you cancel ALL your workshops, it will be treated as a cancellation refund and you will be charged a $15 administrative fee.
     Workshop Exchanges: Until July 14, you can change from any workshop(s) to any other workshop(s) whenever you want, as long as your balance due remains paid. AFTER JULY 14, NO WORKSHOP CHANGES ARE ALLOWED, but you can add workshops if space is available in them.

Special Note to Parents
     Several options are available for children present at this year’s festival. Please read below for details about children attending workshops and concerts as well as child care available during workshops. If you choose to bring a child to a workshop or other event, please understand that it is your responsibility, out of respect for the teachers and other participants, to leave with that child if his or her needs are causing a distraction.
     Workshops—Children as Participants: We are happy to offer several family or adult/child classes this year. We hope this will provide parents and children ample opportunities to learn and play Zimbabwean music together. CHILDREN AGED SEVEN AND UNDER MUST HAVE AN ADULT ATTEND THE WORKSHOP WITH THEM. BOTH PARENT AND CHILD MUST REGISTER AND PAY FOR THE CLASS. You may leave children 8 and older unattended at a workshop at your discretion. Please consider the child’s attention span and comfort level with this situation. Children, ages eight and over, are welcome to register for adult workshops provided they meet the prerequisites for the class. Exceptions may be made for younger children who have been studying in their communities—check with the Zimfest organizers. We hope these workshops will prove to be a wonderful family experience and will serve to encourage our children to join us in our love for this music.
     Workshops—Children accompanying you in which you are the participant: We would like to encourage you to use child care providers from our list for young children. If you prefer to keep your child close by during a workshop, the child must be prepared to sit quietly in the back of the room and be occupied with a quiet activity. The child may not participate in the class. If s/he needs your attention or distracts others, please temporarily leave the class to attend to his/her needs.
     Concerts: There is a room near the concert hall that may be used as a “bedding down room” for young children who need to be in your care during concerts. THERE IS NO STAFF OR BEDDING PROVIDED. You are responsible at all times for providing supervision for your child. (You may wish to arrange “kid-pooling” with another parent.)
     Child care during workshops: Child care facilities are not provided at CSUMB. Zimfest can provide parents with a list of reputable care providers in the area. If you let us know it’s OK, we can connect parents who may want to organize child care together. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN RECEIVING MORE INFORMATION ON CHILD CARE, PLEASE CHECK THE CHILD CARE INFORMATION BOX ON THE BACK OF THE REGISTRATION FORM OR SEND e-mail TO CHILDCARE@ZIMFEST.ORG.

Prefest: Thursday, July 26
     There will be a very simple one-day prefest with little scheduled. Zimfest attendees often complain that there’s not enough time to visit during the action-packed festival. Well, here’s your chance.
     Thursday afternoon from noon to 4:30 will be a rare opportunity at Zimfest for marimba bands to take workshops as a group. Let us know if your marimba group would like to schedule a lesson. We will help connect marimba bands with marimba teachers, schedule the marimba rooms, and have ensembles of marimbas in them. All financial arrangements are to be made by the group and teacher directly. With advance notice, the following marimba teachers are available on Thursday afternoon: Nathan Beck, Chris Berry, Michael Breez, Garadziva Chigamba, Farai Gezi, Stephen Golovnin, Clayton Gunguwo, Randy McIntosh, Sydney Maratu, Paul Mataruse, and Amy Stewart.
     We also encourage you to take private lessons in mbira and other musical arts on Thursday. However, Zimfest will not be involved in scheduling these lessons or dealing with payment. We think students and teachers will be able to connect spontaneously that afternoon, with little or no advance planning. A few classrooms will be available for impromptu lessons and there’s a lot of space outside. The following teachers are available Thursday afternoon (noon to 4:30) for impromptu private lessons: Erica Azim, Garadziva Chigamba, Musekiwa Chingodza, Joanne DelCarpine, Rujeko Dumbutshena, Ambuya Beauler Dyoko, Farai Gezi, Clayton Gunguwo, Forward Kwenda, Joel Laviolette II, Cosmas Magaya, Sydney Maratu, Lucky Moyo, James Mujuru, and Charles Mzite.
     We want the prefest this year to be a low-key, hangout and visit-with-friends kind of a day, as people arrive and get settled. We hope to see lots of clusters of mbira playing. Come early and visit!

Late Night Parties
     Mbira playing, singing, and partying into the early hours of the morning are a tradition at the Zimbabwean Music Festival. This year, we have a wonderful living room space, conveniently located in the University Center, next door to the evening concerts and other activities. The living room is a comfortable, furnished room that can accommodate nearly 100 people. It will be a nice place to hang out during the day too. There’s even a little courtyard with tables and chairs right outside.

The Market
     There will be a market at the festival this year (as usual) where you can purchase goods and talk to friendly people from non-profit organizations involved in Zimbabwe. If you’d like to set up a booth, keep in mind the following criteria: items to be sold should be made in Zimbabwe or, if made outside Zimbabwe, should be appropriate to the spirit and intent of Zimfest (instruments, music supplies, etc.). Vendor information and application forms are available on our web site. If you have questions about the market, e-mail market@zimfest.org.

Nyanga (Ngororombe) and Matepe Workshops
     Nyanga (also called ngororombe) is an amazing traditional musical art form of southern Africa. Everyone we know who has seen it has been stunned near disbelief. Unfortunately, nyanga/ngororombe has been a dying art over the past several decades.
     Nyanga music, as practiced by the MaNyungwe people of northeastern Zimbabwe and northwestern Mozambique, includes a set of 25 different panpipes. Each instrument plays a different interlocking part, and the players intersperse quick bursts of singing. The many melodic lines are thus formed by the hocketing of the whole group, both instrumentally and vocally. All this is accompanied by the musicians dancing with leg rattles.
     Last year Joel Laviolette lived for two months with the Cancune Nyanga Group in northwestern Mozambique. They taught him their craft intensively, and with the knowledge and desire that he would bring nyanga music to the United States. Joel has built two complete sets of 25 nyanga panpipes. At Zimfest, Joel will give a presentation about nyanga music as well as hands-on introductory nyanga workshops.
     Similarly, matepe mbira workshops will be offered by Joel at Zimfest for the first time.

VOLUNTEER: Help Make Zimfest 2001 a Success!
     Zimfest is made possible each year wholly by volunteers. If it were not for those who donate their energy before, during, and after the festival, there would be no Zimfest. We need volunteers to move instruments, take concert tickets, provide concert security, clean up after concerts, help in workshops, decorate, staff the registration desk, be a festival “go-fer,” set up before the festival on Thursday, and tear down after the festival Monday morning.
     We are asking that each participant donate two hours of time during the festival in order to make the festival happen. Working together is also a great way to get to know others in our music community. Please look over the list of volunteer opportunities on the Registration Form and choose the area(s) in which you are interested in helping for two hours during the festival. Someone will contact you to coordinate a volunteer time which is convenient for you. If you have any questions regarding volunteer opportunities, please e-mail us at volunteers@zimfest.org. We promise to do our best to make your volunteer experience wonderful; however, we cannot offer trades for your time.

CEUs and Academic Credit
     This year, you can obtain college credit for participating in Zimfest! The credit is available from Extended Education, California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). There are two options: continuing education units (CEUs) and academic credit.
     Continuing Education Units: It is possible to receive up to 1.5 CEUs for your active participation at this conference. Rate: $45.00 per unit (CEU). The full conference is 1.5 CEUs for $67.50.
     Academic Credit: One (1) semester unit can be earned with full participation at the conference. Rate: $114.00 per unit, plus $25.00 campus fee = $139.00. Academic Credit course information (from CSUMB Extended Education catalog):
     MPA 395X, Sect. 1 CRN: 35051 – Special Topics: Zimbabwean Festival, Music
     MPA 395X, Sect. 2 CRN: 35054 – Special Topics: Zimbabwean Festival, Culture & Dance
     Fees: CEU/Academic Credit fees are paid directly to CSUMB. These fees are in addition to the Zimfest registration fees.
     To obtain CEUs or Academic credit:
     1. Register for Zimfest workshops in advance (the sooner the better, so that you get into the classes you want).
     2. When you get to the festival, go to the CSUMB registration table on Friday, July 27, from 8:00–9:00 am or 10:15–11:00 am, and register for credit. Select the type of credit, complete the registration form, and pay fees.
     3. Attend Zimfest and turn in the required CEU evaluation form.
     4. Within 6–8 weeks, CSUMB will process and send you either a certificate of CEU completion or a grade mailer for Academic credit.
     Questions? Call 831-582-4500, or send e-mail to ExtendedEd@monterey.edu with subject: Zimfest July, 2001.

Festival Organizers
     The Zimbabwean Music Festival is organized wholly by volunteers, as a labor of love and service to the community of Zimbabwean music players. The festival moves each year based on which community offers to host the event and take on the huge task of organizing the festival. If your community is interested in hosting a future Zimfest, please contact Zimfest 2001.
     This year, we are a very small organizing committee in Santa Cruz, California. As we go to press, our core group is only three people: Larry Israel, Joe Keefe, and Angela Marie.
     We are extremely thankful for help from: Ross Thompson (database and registration), Teresa Bell (housing coordinator and site assistance), Dean Hodgkinson (core group assistance), Jean Marie Peterson (accounting), Marilyn Kolodziejczyk (Zimbabwean guest advice and assistance), Lynne Swift (market coordinator), Sheryl Karas (application forms layout), and Graham Burdekin (Registration Guide layout). Many others from the 1999 and 2000 organizing committees have also helped greatly with all sorts of information and advice. Others will likely join us in this creative endeavor before and during the festival.

Further Updates
     To be informed of further developments, changes, and festival news, check the web site (www.zimfest.org) occasionally and/or subscribe to the Zimfest e-mail newsletter (write to newsletter@zimfest.org).