Inkfluent

      Inkfluent is a talent factory with focus on Poetry and Spoken Word Events. Publishing. Recordings, Music & Art Archiving and Journalism, Writing Activism. Children's Literature, Creative Writing and Art Workshops, etc. Inkfluent has collaborated with Ehalakasa on several projects and events including the regular open mics, flash mobs, slams for World Poetry Day workshops with school children in rural communities. Inkfluent is the producer of the much talked about series of spoken word compilations Vocal Portraits; which features word artists around the world. Inkfluent aims not only to bring the artist’s products to the table of consumption but concentrate on the quality, development of the artist and target market as well as trigger appreciation by the consumer.  

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https://soundcloud.com/kwamewrite/african-woman-prod-yungfly-mix-drum

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Nectar of you

La pulpe de ses lèvres, rappelle la chair du fruit. Tendre. Orangée.

Elle défait les maux qui s’envolent, résonnent en de stridents échos.

Au loin la désillusion s’égosille. Amère. Orangée. 

Le fruit est mûr.

Elle tâte le souffle chaud qui sort de sa bouche, croque un peu dans la chair du fruit. Le sucre est fruité, il est bon et vaporeux. Un goût frais germe sur les pores de sa langue. Le ciel d'ambre, luit sur sa peau sombre au reflet cuivré.

Elle est là.

La réalité béante, est prête à l’assommer.  

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TROTRO TELEPORT THEORY

DATE: 25th Jan., 2017 TIME: 7-9:30PM VENUE: La Paillote Takpekpe at Alliance Française Accra GATE: GHc10, GHc5 for af members, FREE for those under 16 RSVP [email protected]/ Whatsapp [phone]  

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TROTRO TELEPORT THEORY

The write experience 3: TROTRO TELEPORT THEORY maps shared histories of language, spirituality and creative cultures in West Africa. The festival takes us on a mobile(traveling) artists residency from Accra through Aflao and Lome to Togoville. Artists from several parts of West Africa will connect to work on an experimental video that fuses folk storytelling poetry, music and vodou dance . The project culminates in a concert on the 25th of January at Alliance Française Accra (Amphitheatre) where we show the experimental video and stage live performances of folk poetry, a dance installation, contemporary jazz and Porpor music by Nii Noi Nortey and the Accra Trane Station band from 1968 La Drivers Union Porpor music group. 

TROTRO TELEPORT THEORY CONCERT: DATE: 25th Jan., 2017 TIME: 7-9:30PM VENUE: Alliance Française Accra (Amphitheatre) GATE: GHc10, GHc5 for af members, FREE for those under 16 RSVP [email protected]/ Whatsapp [phone]

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EVENT PRESS RELEASE:

Last year, THE WRITE EXPERIENCE had a strong message about the essence of appreciating our environment through a fusion of poetry, live jazz music, graffiti and contemporary dance. By popular demand, Inkfluent brings you the second edition, dubbed: “Healing Handicapped Homes”.

The event explores how art can be used as a tool to heal and keep us aware in the midst of society's drag. This is another kwame write concept composed of an animated collage of film, poetry, live music and contemporary dance featuring a collaboration with artist Serge Attukwei and performances by Rewrite Crew, Jude Kurankyi, poets from Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin, as well as a live music session by Humble International Band(an extraordinarily talented team of persons with blindness) aside a few surprises.

The fusion is based on Africa's intrinsic visual and oral context and the dynamism of body, action, space, time and energy, also using technology as an innovative means to explore the realities of displacement due to natural or artificial effects. The result subtly creates the awareness of fragility of existence and the concrete belief in transformation when a collective of broken societies merge.

THE WRITE EXPERIENCE is a long-term project aimed at bringing together artists from different parts of Africa for cultural exchange and social activism; reflecting on the Scramble for Africa(the artificial drawing made among European powers which started with the Berlin Conference of 1884–85) and its after-effects due to the creation of African political boundaries. We combine history and trajectory of contemporary experimental forms mixing local, anglophone and francophone dialects.

This particular edition remarkably involves persons with disabilities in performances to express individuality and the limitless healing abilities of the human touch. Even as a continent, made up of independent but handicapped bits, how does our connectedness aid our growth?

Don't miss out on the THE WRITE EXPERIENCE II

VENUE: La Paillote Takpekpe at Alliance Française Accra DATE: 27th January, 2016 TIME: 7:30 - 9:30 PM GATE: GHc5/GHc3 for AF students/Free for those under 16

CONTACT:

Alliance Française Accra Liberation link (behind Opeibea House), Airport Residential Area P.O. Box CT4904, Cantonments Accra – Ghana www.afaccra.org

Facebook: AllianceFrancaisedAccra

Twitter: @AF_Accra

Instagram: af_accra

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Inkfluent and The Piano Bar in conjunction with mpmRekords present SUMSUM Jazz & Verses: A concert of Jazz, Folk Music & Poetry this Saturday, 22nd August, 2015 8PM at The Piano Bar, Greda Estate, Teshie. Gate is a cool GHc10

Don’t miss this rare experience with the KNUST sumsum Jazz ensemble featuring:

vibraphonist Hitomi Tono'ka pianist Abraham Kokuro saxophonist Joseph Appiah bassist Junior Affreh percussionist royal hartigan with word artist kwame write

Also featuring is the talented folk guitar musician Ras Bomba!

The group plays music in the African and African American jazz traditions, expressing the personal, cultural, and spiritual search for the beyond: space is the place, inspired by the heritage of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Kofi Ghanaba, and the drummers and dancers of Ghana. Join us on our journey.

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REMINI(SCENE) CHALE WOTE 2014:

There was also the Poet Procession Performance through the streets of Jamestown which saw more than 20 poets participating and performing at 3 different vantage points, speaking about tough social issues. "We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society” - Angela Davis 

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REMINI(SCENE) CHALE WOTE FESTIVAL 2014:

Inkfluent also curated the Because Ancestors Live workshop headlined by renowned poet Nii Ayikwei Parkes and author Mariska Darko. We had  installation artist Ibrahim Mohammed and other artists passing by to share from a creative heart.

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Aside the vast beach space where one could catch some air and sun and less vehicular traffic due to the fact that motorbikes(zemejan) are the more preferred, Lome, Togo can boast of a generation of vocal seekers, visual code pioneers and street philosophers. Inkfluent visits every now and then to share and collaborate with artists there and they as well visit Accra sometimes to interact- a progressive artistic education culture merging these vibrant communities.          

With the changes and advancements in technology, such as Internet availability enabling social media, file sharing, email and video-conferencing, collaboration has become a more productive way since our process of engagement is mediated by some of these networks to facilitate things since we cannot meet in person to work every time.        .

Collaborations and streets art interventions between Inkfluent and artists from Lome include The Write Experience I, Jeudi Je dit, Tsalekema Festival, etc  and these sessions have brought together artists from diverse genres.

The collaborative art we engage goes to raise the visibility of both groups, promote the social integration and strengthen the progress of members. The idea is to allow the possibility of providing a body of knowledge and tools that should enable us to identify and critically position regarding social constructions. 

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TEEN SLAM GHANA FINALE ON WORLD POETRY DAY!

Teen Slam Poetry Competition is produced by @theatregh in partnership w/

@inkfluent & @Mode_Conceptz !

Finale is on Sat. 21st March, 2015 (3pm) at Folks Place, National Theatre of Ghana featuring winners of Accra Zone; Kinbu Senior High, Presec Legon and Accra Girls High School, and winners of Tema Zone; SOS HGIC, Temasco and Tema Presec.

The previous winners were Nana Yirenkyi, Koo Kumi and Adelaide Asiedu. They look to pass on the crown to this year’s winners who will go through 3 grueling rounds for outstanding prizes in the end. The event will be hosted by kwame write. Laud de poet of Mode Conceptz will be there in full support. Other poets who will be present to support include ozionn, tiffany howard, bentino amongst others!

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Top 3 of yesterday(20th February)'s Teen Slam Ghana competition were Kinbu Senior High School, Presec Legon and Accra Girls Senior High. In attendance were over 300 people, mostly Senior High School students including those from Jacques Prevert French School and Osu Presec! ‪

Kudos to the planning team; National Theatre Ghana, Mode Conceptz and Inkfluent. Every contestant got gifted with an Inkfluent bandana and Vocal Portraits 1 CD. Kudos to Yom Writer Poet, Ozionn and Koo Kumi for being present and ensuring a fair competition with unbiased judging.

Next, we visit Tema on the 13th of March, 2015 for the Tema Zone Slam. Temasco and SOS Herman Gmeiner have already confirmed that they would want to participate. We await about 10 more schools to give us a nod. Laud de Poet is the co-ordinator of Tema Zone, as kwame write is the same for Accra Zone. The co-ordinator's work is to submit invitation letters to the schools, do follow-ups to grant a positive response, help pick the contesting poets and groom each of them to make them prepared enough for the event day as well as MC the shows.

The finale will be on the 21st of March, 2015 at Folks Place, National Theatre where the qualifiers from each zone will clash for enticing awards like laptops, Indomie cartons, books etc!

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TEEN SLAM GHANA (ACCRA ZONE) PRESS RELEASE:

SLAM at a jump Drum out the sun Rhyme or free verse Dream out your words Teens will employ Poems just for joy Sun out the drum Jump at a SLAM   !!!

IT’S HERE AGAIN! The National Theatre in collaboration with Inkfluent and Mode Conceptz invite you to the TEEN SLAM GHANA competition(ACCRA ZONE) coming up at 3:30pm on Friday the 20th of February, 2015 at National Theatre (Folks Place); an artistic showcase of competitive performance SLAM POETRY/ SPOKEN WORD for Senior High School wordsmiths!

IT'S HERE TO STAY! This maiden encounter precedes the TEEN SLAM GHANA (TEMA ZONE) event which will be help at TDC CLUB HOUSE on the 13th of March, 2015.  TEEN SLAM GHANA brings together 1, 2 or 3 poets of the age range 13 through 19 years old representing private or government Senior High Schools to compete with original poems with the hope of impressing judges randomly selected from the audience in 3 hot rounds! After which winners will be seeded to clash in the TEEN SLAM GHANA FINALE at National Theatre on 21st March, 2015 (WORLD POETRY DAY) for mouthwatering prizes and awards!

It will be a spectacularly euphoric thought-projecting meeting as the young creatives take to the microphone with rapturous poetic expressions! Don’t miss out!

For more information, follow @slamghana on TWITTER and 'like' https://www.facebook.com/slamghana on FACEBOOK. RSVP: kwame write – 0243470344, Ashong – 0270698917, Laud de Poet - 0262612299

TEEN SLAM GHANA (ACCRA ZONE)

DATE: FRIDAY, 20TH OF FEBRUARY, 2015 (3:30PM)

GATE: GHC 5.00

VENUE: NATIONAL THEATRE (FOLKS PLACE)

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PRESS RELEASE (EVENT): THE WRITE EXPERIENCE

The Write Experience is a 2 hour 30 minutes package of seamless stirring poetry and graffiti aside an intimate jazz trio thrill by saxophonist and composer, David Bindman; percussionist and pianist royal hartigan and bassist Wes Brown. They’ve performed, given workshops, and recorded throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, West Asia, and the Americas in a bigger renowned group called the Blood Drum Spirit Ensemble.

(www.royalhart.com , www.blooddrumspirit.com)

The event is produced by Inkfluent and powered by Alliance Francaise d’Accra (La Paillote Takpekpe), directed by kwame Write and focuses on environmentalism awareness.

Graffiti artists Trez & Baby and poets Efy & Julio Teko from Togo will join Ghana’s Apiorkor & Akosua Hanson, Duafe & AndyonAndy, Ozionn, kwame Write & Namoji, Slim 1 & Wolali for captivating collaborative performances. There’ll also be live reggae folk music by Ras Bomba as former Artist-in-Residence at Vienna’s Kunsthalle Exnergasse and afrogallonist Attukwei flaunts some engaging plastic art installations. Be there!

RSVP: E-mail [email protected] or phone: [phone]

  VENUE: Alliance Francaise d’Accra (La Paillote Takpekpe stage), Behind Opeibea House, Liberation Link, Airport Residential Area.

DATE/TIME: 28TH JANUARY, 2015/7:30 PM Prompt

GATE: 5GHC and 3GHC for AF Students & Members (Free for Kids Under 12)

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VOCAL PORTAITS LIVE : VOCAL PORTRAITS 2 POETRY ALBUM CELEBRATION

Fact is this special live POETRY and MUSIC event goes to celebrate #VOCALPORTRAITS2 artists. Also concrete that you'll find some of the most talented poets in Ghana featured aside the alloy of intelligently unconventional instrumentalists and vocalists!

Last year's was amazing! Thank you for supporting!

Join us again this WEDNESDAY NIGHT at THE REPUBLIC BAR..

date: 12th NOVEMBER, 2014 doors OPEN AT 8:00PM venue: THE REPUBLIC BAR [NEAR FRANKIES], OSU gate : GHc10.00

stage: POETRA C-REAL DZYADZORM GOLOKAL KWAME WRITE SIR BLACK LAUD DE POET ACHIEBOLD KWAKU RAP NII AYI SOLOMON YOGENDRA & the PIGOMA NEIGHBOURS RAINERS BAND & MORE     ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE ARTISTS Housed by ONE REPUBLIC #OneRepublicEntertainment . Powered by INKFLUENT. Call 0502177113

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GUEST LECTURING AT MEST, GHANA

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” - Philip Pullman

When Emily Daher (friend of mine and fellow at http://meltwater.org/) declared to me that she'd like me to lecture the E.I.Ts(Entrepreneurs in Training) of her class on storytelling I was genuinely excited!

She'd seen me perform poetry at Ehalakasa and other venues several times and might have noticed a distinct aspect of my art that emit storyline vibes.

I prepared my presentation slides on the topic "THE ART OF STORYTELLING AND THE IDEAS MARKET." To me.. digital art, design, entrepreneurship, tech, etc have a source embedded in the fountain of ideologies and stories always bring out the emotional side of business and connect marketer to client most effectively.

Fast forward..it was a great experience! Very interactive from start, the students added an amiable touch, contributing and questioning. Yogendra, the young passionate folk reggae guitarist backed me as we closed off with two poetry pieces which had story-lines.

I believe such revolutionary methods of tuition would efficaciously plaster the dents the conservative style of pumping literature down the throats of learners leaves.

Anyways, we're having the biggest poetry festival West Africa knows this weekend so follow the fun and ehalakasa !

On Nov 7, Phreak Out Live is on at Alliance Accra though..Let's meet.. https://www.facebook.com/events/780946418611076/