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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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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUBk1w_yKns)

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The idea is to invade spaces, especially in settlememts like Greater Accra where there are just a few open 'venues' for socially-conscious performers to connect with the people on the ground who need the essential vocal therapy. Here, we storm Abelemkpe, meet us at taxi rank 3-9pm ..and be ready for a free show for a random gathering near you! Let's go.. @m3nsa @wanlov @fotombo @simpoltinz @joeylesoldat @blebrave @djvimtinz !

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@freestyle233 doing the #AdinkraSoup graffiti. The skies so emotional. #AdinkraSoup #AdinkraPoetry #chalewote2015

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#AdinkraSoup #performance #wordart #graffiti #dance #jazz #vibraphone #painting #royalhartigan #hitomitonoka #bettysturmer

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Mood. #AdinkraSoup #AdinkraPoetry #chalewote2015

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#AdinkraSoup #AdinkraPoetry #chalewote2015

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#AdinkraSoup #AdinkraPoetry #chalewote2015 #workshop ! Thanks to @accradotaltradio for the opportunity

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Interview with Ben Cohn and Kwame Ohene of Da-what dot com, an American music research/documenting outlet. The Adinkra Soup workshop is today 2-3pm at Brazil House, Jamestown, as part of #chalewote2015 ! Let's meet in our numbers and share on thought-provoking issues, socialize and build together. Bring a friend or two. Chale vim 👊 follow @inkfluent

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Adinkra Soup is a 2-hour artistic fusion in the form of a vocal, musical, body flux and graphical African history installation fusing poetry, jazz, dance and live graffiti on the subject of Adinkra. This rare experience will happen at the Chale Wote Festival this Sunday 23rd August at 5-7PM at the High Life Cafe, Mantse Agbonaa, Jamestown 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 are artists Betty Sturmer, Trez, dancer Jude Kurankye, etc  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. #chalewote2015

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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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Strollballing into the future

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#AdinkraPoetry

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Once there's love in the air, you catch it while you're there. #Arts4Change with team @4changeinitiative at Mephibosheth, Apam

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Shouts to the @4changeinitiative #Arts4Change group. Mephibosheth Apam was a great experience!