{"id":144883,"date":"2015-08-20T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=144883"},"modified":"2015-08-20T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T09:56:07","slug":"chale-wote-arts-festival-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=144883","title":{"rendered":"Chale Wote Arts Festival begins today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The much-anticipated\u00a0Chale Wote Street Art Festival will begin today [Thursday] at James Town in the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The festival is scheduled to take place from 20<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 23<sup>rd<\/sup> August, 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Produced by ACCRA [dot] ALT, the arts festival will bring together industry players including artists, musicians, community activists, writers, designers and students to showcase and discuss ways to develop the arts industry.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144887\" style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/chalewote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-144887 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/chalewote.jpg\" alt=\"chalewote\" width=\"622\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/chalewote.jpg 622w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/chalewote-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernard Avle [2nd from right] with organisers of the Chale Wote Streets Art Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year\u2019s edition which is the 5th in a row is on the theme, \u201cAfrican Electronics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the organisers, this year promises other exciting side attractions such as: series of conversations on arts; historical tours; The Open Runway; The HighLife Music Caf\u00e9; High energy processions as well as The Nubuke Hub.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On display will be the works of Ghanaian artists including; Bright Ackwerh, Benjamin Okantey, Adjo Kisser, Faustina Nsoh and Nana Oforiatta Ayim. Also on display will be the works of international artists like JHB Massive \u2013 a multidisciplinary group of 15 South African artists, Elsa M\u2019bala (Cameroon), Temi Kogbe (Nigeria), Sandra Krampelhuber (Austria) and Kenturah Davis (U.S.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/chale-wote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-143409 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/chale-wote.jpg\" alt=\"chale wote\" width=\"536\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/chale-wote.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/chale-wote-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The Chale Wote festival is supported by Citi FM, REDD KAT Pictures, Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana, Dr. Monk, Afro Gallonism and No Limit Charity Foundation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CHALE-WOTE-2015-Festival-Program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to programme outline<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-anticipated\u00a0Chale Wote Street Art Festival will begin today [Thursday] at James Town in the Greater Accra Region. The festival is scheduled to take place from 20th \u2013 23rd August, 2015. Produced by ACCRA [dot] ALT, the arts festival will bring together industry players including artists, musicians, community activists, writers, designers and students to showcase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":144884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,6],"class_list":["post-144883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}