Are you as excited as we are about the upcoming Chale Wote Street Art Festival? Accra dot Alt has just published the schedule! In the interim, click on this link to see Obaasema activities at the 2014 festival.
Don’t miss out on some really cool events happening prior to this weekend. There’s one about women and sexuality hosted by co-founder of Adventures From the Bedrooms of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah – see details below!
NUBUKE FOUNDATION – Thursday, August 20th.
1pm – 2pm: Experimental Soul Design – Sound performance artist, Elsa M’bala (Cameroon), travels the tunnels of African Electronics sharing words + sounds on the theme for CHALE WOTE 2015 .
2pm – 2:15pm: Sophie
2:15pm – 4pm: Pan African Space Station – Stories About Music In Africa
4pm – 5pm: Boogie Electronicus Africanus – This interactive talk and DJ session with Temi Kogbe looks at highlife music in Nigeria and Ghana during the 1970s and 1980s as a way of engaging the politics of social life as a form of African electronics.
5pm – 6pm: CHALE WOTE Connect Hour – Temi Kogbe’s Sobolo Party Mixer.
6pm – 7pm: Queer Vibrations – Stories About African Women’s Diverse Sexualities. This Adventures From the Bedrooms of African Women conversation features a racy Q&A, discussion and readings by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (co-founder of the website), Nana Akosua Hanson (radio personality, writer + actress), journalist Ama Agyeman and writer Rafeeat Aliyu. Moderated by Paula Akugizibwe, Contributing Editor to Chimurenga.
7pm – 8:10pm: 100% Dakar – More Than Art (feature film)/ Q+A with the directors
8:10 – 8:30pm: Q+A with the director – Sandra Krampelhuber.
For the full festival schedule, click here: