Accra What's on
1-31 Oct 2006. Cold cast sculptures by Kwatei Nee-Owoo go on display at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra. Born in James Town, Accra, in 1942, Nee-Owoo studied art in Kumasi before moving to the United...
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17 Oct-18 Dec 2006. Alf Bremer, a German expert in photo digitalisation, editing and layout, leads a workshop in the identification, restoration and editing of selected photographs from the Bell Photo...
Accra What's on
21 Sept 2006. Participants in the Crossing Borders project read from their work on the theme of African proverbs and their meanings. Crossing Borders is a pan-African initiative organised by the Briti...
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Macmillan Writers Prize 2005/6 awards ceremony.
28 Sept 2006. Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa prize winners Elizabeth Irene Baitie and Enoch Yaw Mensah, both from Ghana, will receive their awards at a special ceremony at the British Council in A...
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Exhibition of painting and collage.
21-30 Sept 2006. Paintings and collages by Ghanaian artists Victor Massok and Isaac Awuley Addico go on show at the WEB Dubois Centre in Accra. The work on display dates from 2000 to the present. A gr...
Accra What's on
1-30 Sept 2006. Paintings and sculptures by Ghanaian artists Tei Huagie and Samuel Agbenyega are on display at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra. Tei and his group Not a waste recycle art use discarded...
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Lecture on democracy and governance.
31 Aug 2006. The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) is holding its annual democracy and governance public lecture on the theme The Global context of the Governance Agenda: Reflections. CDD...
Accra What's on
1-31 Aug 2006. The Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana (FCA) is promoting three exhibitions of work by Ghanaian artists in Accra over August. The first is an exhibition of painting and sculpture by...
Accra What's on
20 July-4 Aug 2006. The prizewinning entries in the 2006 World Press Photo contest are on display at the National Museum in Accra. This is the first time that the results of the prestigious annual pho...
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28 July 2006. The youth-based non-governmental organisation Foundation for Human Development is organising a discussion on the theme Facing todays challenges for tomorrows success at the British Counc...
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21 June-7 July 2006. Contemporary women artists from Ghana and Burkina Faso are at the Sand Gardens Hotel in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana for a two-week international art workshop orga...
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21 June 2006. Rex Omar, Newale Sounds and Megastar Band are among the line-up for the annual Fte de la Musique at the Alliance Franaise. The four-hour live music programme also includes a performance...
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Jacques-Greg Belobo in concert.
30 May 2006. Prize-winning bass Jacques-Greg Belobo from Cameroon performs in concert at the Alliance Franaise. Born in Yaound in 1971, Belobo studied at the Conservatoire National de Rgion de Nice an...
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27 May-8 June. Recent paintings by Fernand Nonkouni go on show at the Alliance Franaise in Accra. Born in Ivory Coast in 1968, Burkinab Nonkouni is a self-taught artist specialising in abstract painti...
Accra What's on
30 May-9 June 2006. Painting, sculpture, installations and mixed media works by Akindiya Rasheed Olaniyi, otherwise known as Akirash, go on show at the Goethe-Institut. For Akirash there is no such th...
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26-27 May 2006. Sapphire Entertainment presents the two-act play Death Warrant starring comedian and satirist Kwaku Sintim Misa (otherwise known as KSM). The performance is part of Sapphires stated ai...
Accra What's on
17 May-5 Aug 2006. Celebrated annually in Ghana since 1998, Emancipation Day on 1 August marks the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British empire in 1834. Each year starting in mid-May...
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Academy of Arts and Sciences lecture.
18 May 2006. Professor Ato Quayson of Cambridge University and an expert in African and post-colonial literature is at the British Council to launch a new series of lectures organised by the Ghana Aca...
Accra What's on
23 May 2006. Nkrumahndela by Nii Nukpa Okerchiri is back in Accra as part of a night of African theatre at the international conference centre in Accra to mark Africa week 2006. The Pan-African drama...
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Real Life Documentary Festival.
20-26 May 2006. This is the first edition of an annual film festival in Accra dedicated to documentary films exploring the history, people and places of Africa and the African diaspora. The programme...
