Bushfire Schools
Festival
Light Your Fire
Bushfire strongly advocates for the youth's early exposure to the arts, encouraging creative self-expression and active participation in their communities.
Occurring the day preceding the main festival, the Bushfire Schools Festival programme reinforces the national arts curriculum in Eswatini's public schools by presenting creative performances, workshops and interactive outreach programmes in collaboration with local high school learners and teachers.
Vision
The Bushfire Schools Festival works towards providing sustainable access to the arts and developing a unique platform of creative expression and dialogue for young people in the country. Each year the Festival has a specific theme, chosen in collaboration with key stakeholders, that is used to impart positive social messaging around youth skills development and other pertinent social issues to learners and teachers, using the arts as a vehicle.
Mission
The fundamental aims of the Bushfire Schools Festival are to support, facilitate and develop arts education in Eswatini, support arts curriculum implementation in schools and increase the participation of local arts facilitators, allowing them to inspire and impart their skills to Eswatini's youth.
Primary Schools Festival
Through the #GREENYOURFIRE call to action, Bushfire has actively and consistently committed to encouraging and normalising an environmentally sustainable lifestyle for all. The festival intensifies the collective fight against plastic pollution by discouraging the persistent use and importation of single-use plastics in the festival's trading spaces, camping areas, and activations.
The Bushfire Schools Festival
From inspiring performances to moments of creative discovery, the Bushfire Schools Festival celebrates the talent, imagination, and voices of Eswatini's young people. Each edition offers a glimpse into the transformative power of the arts.
