2022 Chale Wote Street Art Festival launched
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- 08 Sep 2022
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The 2022 Chale Wote Street Art Festival was on Monday launched with a meditative procession through the streets of Jamestown, a suburb of Accra.
A traditional priestess with her acolytes, draped in all white linen and adorned with strands of purifying green leaves, led the pouring of libation to begin what was distinctly a spiritual undertaking.
Before the procession, a drum and dance ensemble from the Cultural Centre, in their traditional “Fugu” apparel, kept the ancestral memories of the people of Ga Mashie alive with ecstatic dance moves.
The procession, among other things, highlighted the complex history of Jamestown and its central importance to the making and development of Accra and the diaspora.
On a day like that, the history of the enslaved who had walked through the alleyways of Jamestown to ships on the shores, is remembered.
Thus, the long ceremonial procession, which had two-time Grammy nominee, Rocky Dawuni, and other diasporans partaking, moved all the way to the Ussher Fort – the ancestral home of the people of Ga Mashie – where some invocations and the pouring of libation was made.
Chale Wote Street Art Festival is an alternative platform that brings art, music, design, dance and performance out onto the streets.
The community-based festival is an annual event, which takes place in James Town one of Accra’s most historic communities and targets exchanges between Ghana-based and international artists creating and appreciating art together. Read More...
