{"id":336211,"date":"2017-07-13T14:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=336211"},"modified":"2017-07-13T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T14:04:45","slug":"gcb-bank-to-support-this-years-panafest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/gcb-bank-to-support-this-years-panafest\/","title":{"rendered":"GCB Bank to support this year\u2019s PANAFEST"},"content":{"rendered":"
With barely two weeks to the opening of the 2017 edition of the Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival, (PANAFEST), GCB Bank Limited has joined the crop of corporate institutions determined to ensure that the 25-year-old Pan-African cultural forum regains its glamour with a donation of Ghc 75,000.00.<\/p>\n
Mr. Anselm Ray Sowah, Managing Director of GCB Bank Limited, Ghana\u2019s premier indigenous bank, today, paid in a cheque for Ghc 75,000.00 to the PANAFEST Foundation to help kick-start activities marking the 2017 edition of the Pan-African festival.<\/p>\n
Professor Esi Sutherland-Addy, Chairperson of the Foundation received the cheque at a brief presentation ceremony at the headquarters of the bank in Accra.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n PANAFEST, a biennial arts and culture festival has been celebrated in Ghana since 1992 as a platform for reviewing the historical experiences of African societies and addressing the inherent obstacles to progress and development. The festival applies African arts and culture to highlight and deal with the \u2018traumatic interruptions\u2019 which occurred in the natural evolution of African societies that have resulted in the sharp erosion of self-confidence and the freedom of self-determination among most Africans.<\/p>\n The much anticipated 2017 edition of PANAFEST will open on 25th<\/sup>\u00a0of July under the theme, \u201cThe Power of the Pan-African Culture\u201d and will run for nine days, featuring flagship activities like the reverential night and vigil, the grand durbar of Ghanaian Chiefs and people, exhibitions of African visual arts, inventions and cultural heritage, a Colloquium and the ever-popular international musical concerts.<\/p>\n