CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival

Learn the history and art of head-wrapping with Naa Dzamah Pobee (Ghana) @thecalabashhub at the CHALE WOTE SALON. Celebrating Our Crown is the initiative from personally wearing headwraps, conducting workshops and purchase of African print material. The project is designed to incorporate culture, education and information to promote natural beauty. Where participants will obtain practical advice, watch demonstrations and learn a new skill. August 21, 2019. 12-2:30PM. Email: [email protected] to sign up #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #ChaleWoteSalon #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2yKDhzK

Get a free color grading class at Chale Wote Salon with reps from grading software Davinci Resolve. 4 day colorist course led by Bobola Oniwura [Nigeria] sign up [email protected] #ChaleWote2019 #pidginimaginarium 16-20 August. — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2KBh6BJ

Screening at CHALE WOTE 2019: Azali by Kwabena Gyansah, (Ghana) @kwabena_gyansah AMINA,14, a native of Northern Ghana, has her whole life ahead of her until her mother makes a decision that changes all that. Faced with a choice of perceived hopelessness, marrying Amina to a much older man or sending her off to work in Burkina Faso, she chooses the latter. Which unknown to her happens to be a child smuggling syndicate. Amina together with the other victims are rescued and sent to an orphanage for resettlement to their various homes, but by some cruel twist of fate, Amina follows some child veterans of the home to Accra in search of a better life. Face with hopelessness ones again, will Amina find her way home?  #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2MLlVeb

Screening at CHALE WOTE 2019: The Robbery by Malaika Clements, Amina Daniels and Kameron Lemon (USA) @malaika.aminata "The Robbery" tells the story  of a poor adolescent attempting to improve his status by getting new shoes by any means necessary. Drawing from classic filmmaking techniques we created "The Robbery" to explore exaggerated emotions in a modern setting showing the conflicts teens face when pressed to fit in. August 14+15, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra. #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2ZE4iki

Screening at CHALE WOTE 2019: KUKUTANA by Romina Achatz (Vienna, Austria) Rukia Kurwa (Arusha, Tanzania) @danceintotheocean What experiences bind people across the world? What circles of thought do we imagine are unique to us but could be common to others? KUKUTANA (“​to meet” ​in Swahili) is a short film about the encounter between artists Rukia Kurwa of Tanzania and Romina Achatz of Austria. It shows a connection of minds, a correlation of stories across worlds and the shared urge to continuously challenge the social, educational, political, familial constructs and gender norms imparted on them – through Art. August 14+15, 7-10PM. Museum of Science and Technology, Accra. #ChaleWote #ChaleWote2019 #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2yJRBIK

Screening at CHALE WOTE 2019: Va-Bene: portrait of a Ghanaian artist. By Brenda Akele Jorde Va-Bene is a performance artist who criticizes and draws attention to the restrictive and religious approach to gender that is present in Ghanaian society. This portrait is focused on his performance of femininity, which seeks to challenge and subvert Ghanaian perceptions of what it is to be a woman. Va-Bene shows that you can be an ally through art, and fight for what you think is right. August 14+15, 7-10PM. Museum of Science and Technology, Accra. #ChaleWote #ChaleWote2019 #PidginImaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2ZHH8K0

Announcing the music artists gracing the @sabolairadio sound stage at CHALE WOTE 2019. Come and experience pidgin technologies and interstellar vibrations from galaxies of alternative and experimental sounds. Follow @sabolairadio for more updates. August 24+25, 2019. James Town - Accra. #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/31nCAIP

Announcing the selected films for the CHALE WOTE 2019 Film Labs. Come see 18 film from Ghana and beyond on music, art and pidgin technologies, over two nights at the Museum of Science and Technology, Accra (August 14+15), 7-10PM. Visit accradotaltradio.com for more details. #ChaleWote2019 #pidginimaginarium #ChaleWote — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2OCgSiS

Participating artists at CHALE WOTE 2019: Nyahan Tachie-Menson (Ghana) Nyahan @thankgodherself illustrates her dreams, visions and thoughts. Its really about the randomness of it all and random occurrences in life. In a day, our minds travel far and wide and land on horrible, funny, depressing, exciting and sad thoughts and it’s interesting what we choose to prioritize in term of mind space. By using fear as the main theme, Nyahan is able to converse with her’s; not necessarily overcome them or conquer them, but play with and entertain them in her everyday life in the same manner that she entertains her aspirations. She navigates these stories and expresses them using colors to depict mystical humanoid characters that visit her in her dreams communicates this by implementing both analogue and digital means of illustration. #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2T0UlL5

Participating artists at CHALE WOTE 2019: Gloria Godínez ( Spain) @perfocraze_international . Gloria Godínez is a researcher and a performance artist. Both in she artistic creations and in research works she reviews notions that concern the theory of dance, body, gender and border identities. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, (Norman Sverdlin Award 2003 for the best thesis in Philosophy), and an outstanding doctorate Cum Laude by unanimity in Literature and Theory of Literature from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2014). She has developed various artistic projects and choreographies in Mexico and Spain, as well as actions on the borders of Mexico / United States, Mexico / Guatemala and Senegal / Canary Islands with the "Mareas Migratorias" project together with Oscar Rodríguez. As a researcher and performer she has been in Cuba, Chile, Brazil and Switzerland. She is currently an independent researcher and develops a community dance project on the island of Gran Canaria. #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Kjvizd

Participating artists at CHALE WOTE 2019: A k u z u r u (Trinidad and Tobago) @akuzuru A k u z u r u has established a multi-faceted lexicon of performative works which include her Ak-tionisms, Spontaneous Art, Spatial Works, Gesture Works, Experiential Art, whether live or on film. With the natural world and metaphysics being central to her process, her performances are expansive encompassing vast landscapes, often involving a multitude of persons which she calls her co-performers, as well as deeply engaging solo expressions. An Environmental-Transdisciplinary artist, A k u z u r u has produced, presented and become known for her multi-genre works, her many performances and large sculptural-installations having been consistently presented worldwide including the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2LTMfU9

Participating artists at CHALE WOTE 2019: Naa Dzamah Pobee/ Sister E (Ghana) @thecalabashhub Naa Dzamah Pobee aka Sister E is a proud Ghanaian blessed with African roots and culture which led her to become the Culturepreneur of The Calabash Hub in 2009. As a graduate youth and come-unity worker she has coordinated educational development & mentoring projects in Europe, New York, Ghana and the Caribbean. She promotes the wealth of Ghana through sales of natural products, adornments, textiles and crafts in the UK. In addition to organizing grass-roots tours to several regions in Ghana. Her workshops are themed around culture and wellbeing that consists of head wrapping, natural product making, sister empowerment and personal development. She regularly adorns her natural afro with practical styles using African inspired patterns. For relaxation enjoys travelling, spirituality, holistic wellbeing and socializing – give thanks to the Ancestors for pathing the way of personal achievement and forthcoming journey. #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2K9LtQu

Participating artists at CHALE WOTE 2019: Richard Kofi (The Netherlands/Ghana) @richardkofiart Richard Kofi (1988) is a visual artist, artistic researcher and curator based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. He transforms academic ideas on contested heritage and issues of representation and memory into exhibitions and publications. His work explores stories of unfinished, interconnected histories ​and imagines their afterlives in the future. #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #PidginImaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2KgmlGI

Participating artists at CHALE WOTE 2019: Diego Crux (Brazil) @cruxdiego Diego Crux is a visual artist born in 1987 in Parada de Taipas, neighborhood on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil. He obtained a BA in film and multimedia, from Anhembi Morumbi University, São Paulo and since 2017, he participates in the Lastro group of studies - an important aesthetic and ideological landmark in his trajectory. Diego was awarded in 2013 with Jumping Walls Prize at the Latin America Memorial with the series "Desamparo" and in 2018 at the Ubatuba Visual Arts Fair with the project "Breu Preto". Wandering through an almost-place, looking for crevices at the crossroads between afro-diasporic bodies, peripheral absence-presence, marginalized subjectivities, displacements, miscegenation and black masculinities, he thinks about  imaginary construction and representations by stressing and revising the hegemonic context, having as main axes video, photography, appropriation, visual samples, word and intermedia. Diego Crux lives and works in São Paulo #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/32ZOZVf

Participating artists at CHALE WOTE 2019: Kristen Adele Calhoun (USA) @misskristenadele Kristen Adele Calhoun is a producer, artmaker and organizer. She is the founding Program Director of Arts in a Changing America, a national nonprofit based at the California Institute of the Arts and previously served as a consultant for the Arts & Culture portfolio of the Ford Foundation. She is a co-producer for InterFest, an intersectional arts and ideas festival that began at the Harlem School of the Arts and will have its Colorado premiere in Summer 2019. She is an assistant editor for the new edition of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color . Her play, Canfield Drive , about Ferguson, Missouri and the murder of Mike Brown (commissioned by 651 Arts in Brooklyn and The St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre) had its world premiere in January 2019 in St. Louis, MO and will be presented at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, NC later this year. Her additional writing credits include A Pocket Full of Dandelions (Denver Center Theatre Company), Quilombo (5280 Artists Coop), With These Hands (Black American West Museum), and Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody (NAACP). #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Yg9Pkt

Participating artists at CHALE WOTE 2019: Lucky Profit (Nigeria) @plucky.lucky He began his dance training at the age of 15 with D4C (October 2011) where he learnt his basic ballet techniques under the direction of Mr. Frank Robert. He continued his dance training with Spick Stars Dance Academy (August 2013) where he studied various forms of dance viz:  Hip hop, Ballet, Salsa, Contemporary Dance and Traditional Dance. He also joined Abehola Dance (September 2013) where he studied contemporary dance and contemporary ballet.In pursuit for a degree he moved to Ghana to further his education and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Mass Communication and Journalism at Sikkim Manipal University (November 2013) while in Ghana he joined in (February 2016) House of Fame Academy of Performing Arts to continue his dance career. In April 2017 He joined the professional training of Valérie Miquel (Artistic Director & Choreographer of GTCD / Ghana Theatre and Contemporary - Dance, Vice-President of the International Dance Council / CID-UNESCO) He was a Dancer-soloist in the Dance Company. #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/31eRgdz

Participating artists at CHALE WOTE 2019: Yohanna Marie (Brazil) @________________mar @perfocraze_international . Yohanna Marie is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in Brazil. She is a Master of Fine graduate from Performing Arts, UFBA. Her works investigate the relations between affection, care and harmony of the elements that compose the universe, through a poetic enactments. She is inspired by movements of the sea, and the flow of the human body. Participated in several collective exhibitions including Pisces, (Centro Cultural Ensaio, 2012); Atlas - Prints I and II (Ciranda Café Gallery, 2014/2015); Rain (Galeria Nilda Spencer, 2017); 3rd Graphic Show (MAM-Ba, 2017);; (Goethe-Institut 2017); How to resist in today’s world? (Galeria Cañizares, 2018 - part of the World Social Forum); both in Salvador. He held the individual exhibition "To unclog the lungs and respiratory; (Casa 14, 2015), in Salvador. It was selected at the 6th Ibema Print Award (2016), participating in a collective exhibition at the Printing Museum - Solar do Barão, in Curitiba / PR. Participated in the Mostra "Maré: Aesthetic Re-readings on the Sea & quot; (CCBM, Mexico City, 2018). #ChaleWote2019 #ChaleWote #pidginimaginarium — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2KgYCGp