{"id":346486,"date":"2017-08-20T18:52:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T18:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=346486"},"modified":"2017-08-20T18:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T18:52:33","slug":"chale-wote-art-gives-some-home-advise-to-husbands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=346486","title":{"rendered":"Chale Wote: Artist urges men to help at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 7th edition of the Chale Wote Street Art Festival has seen a lot of themes exhibited through different art forms and one of these themes is urging men to be more helpful at home.<\/p>\n<p>Nico, one of the many artists exhibiting at this 2017&#8217;s festival in Jamestown painted a muscled man carrying two \u201c Kufour gallons\u2019\u2019 full of water.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-346493\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chalewote2017-4.jpg\" alt=\"chalewote2017-4\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_346495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-346495\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-346495\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/f419740d-8481-45cd-8dd1-f829d161214a.jpg\" alt=\"Nico\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-346495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This, according to him, is to encourage men to help their wives with household chores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe theme of the street arts festival is WATA MATA and you can see a muscled man with gallons full of water just to portray that some men out there, strong enough to fetch water to help their wives in the house but they don\u2019t they just cross their legs watching TV allowing their wives with pregnancy to go out there to be carrying water and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea,\u201d he told citifmonline.com.<\/p>\n<p>Nico has several other paintings which include a painting of himself fighting life with brushes. His paintings\u00a0are inspired by his everyday life experiences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-346488\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chalewote2017-7.jpg\" alt=\"chalewote2017-7\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-346243\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chalewote-2017-5.jpg\" alt=\"chalewote-2017-5\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Chale Wote Street Art Festival, which started on Monday 14th August, 2017 is ending today, Sunday, 20th August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 festival marks the end of a trilogy that began in 2015 with African Electronics, a blueprint to access internal technologies and re-member organiser\u2019s multi-dimensional systems to create the impossible.<\/p>\n<p>The community-based festival takes place in James Town; one of Accra\u2019s most historic communities \u2013 and targets exchanges between Ghana-based and international artists creating art together.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Roberta Edem\u00a0Abbeyquaye\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7th edition of the Chale Wote Street Art Festival has seen a lot of themes exhibited through different art forms and one of these themes is urging men to be more helpful at home. 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