- Title
- Installation view: Chale Wote Festival 2018
- Creator
- Simbao, Ruth K
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147059
- Identifier
- vital:38589
- Identifier
- https://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/chale-wote-festival-accra-2018/
- Description
- The Chale Wote festival opened on the Day of Re-Membering (20 August), when the Nai Priest poured libations at Brazil House in order to invoke the ancestral spirits. Core events took place on the streets and at various public spaces in James Town from 25 – 26 August. A number of artists including Kiffouly Youchaou, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (crazinisT artisT), Charlotte Brathwaite, Percy Nii Nortey and the Ubulungiswa/Justice collective created works inside Ussher Fort and James Fort, which were built as slave forts by the Dutch and the British.
- Format
- 25 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Contemporaryand, Simbao, Ruth. 2018. Installation view: Chale Wote Festival 2018 (The 8th Chale Wote street art festival took place in James Town, Accra in Ghana from 20 -26 August 2018). Contemporaryand magazine. 10th September 2018. Available at: https://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/chale-wote-festival-accra2018/, Contemporaryand volume September 2018 number September 2018
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RU Department of Fine Art
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