Tour Path Africa Photography Retreat
Shop at the Makola Market and take a breathtaking walk across the rain forest Kakum Canopy. Towards the end of your trip, experience the Chale Wote Arts festival.
It’s time to go back to Africa, it’s time to go home. This is definitely a trip that you don’t want to miss!
The CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival is an alternative platform that brings art, music, dance and performance out of the galleries and onto the streets of Accra.
The first festival took place in July 2011, following a series of discussions about creating DIY [do-it‑yourself] community projects
Our vision is to cultivate a wider audience for the arts in West Africa by breaking creative boundaries and using art as a viable form to rejuvenate public spaces. The CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival challenges both artists and community-based audiences to connect through art.
The festival includes street painting, graffiti murals, photo exhibitions, interactive installations, a food and fashion marketplace, live street performances, extreme sports, an African Cinema pavilion, street boxing, a fashion parade, a music block party, and design labs, and much more. More than 200 Ghana-based and international artists take part in the event every year.
Started in 2011, the festival has spread from the colourful, open-air art gallery in Accra’s historical Jonestown neighbourhood to established institutions like the Nubuke Foundation and the Museum of Science and Technology. Movie screenings, photography exhibitions, immersive installations, mural art, design labs, musical performances and panel discussions are just a smattering of activities in the festival’s jam-packed programme.
Each edition of the festival has a bespoke theme, one that brings into focus not only the eclectic nature of the festival itself, but the history of Ghanaian culture and more broadly, of the African diaspora. 2013’s theme was “Re-Imagining Africa Folklore” whereas 2015’s “African Electronics” saw the festival explore the way technology continues to revolutionise African life. Taking even more cues from Afro-futurism, the festival’s last edition took on the title “Stargate to Africa”, which asked the audience to recontextualise African supernaturalism and ritualistic beliefs within modern political systems. For a part of the world that is sometimes underrepresented in modern art, the Chale Wote Street Art Festival is clearly miles ahead of the curve when it comes to pushing these concepts into the 2020s and beyond.
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CHALE WOTE STREET ART FESTIVAL
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