Welcome to the 7th edition of the

CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival

For the second time in a row, we unveil

The Open Gallery, a special
collaboration with key arts and
cultural institutions in Accra during
CHALE WOTE week.

This year, we include 15 creative

spaces with events and exhibitions
that speak in new and exciting ways
to WATA MATA, the theme for the 2017
festival. The CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival is an
independently run, community-based
Step into the flow of all there is to initiative produced by ACCRA [dot] ALT and
experience during CHALE WOTE REDD Kat Pictures in association with more
than a dozen organizations across the city.
this August 14-20th.
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7th Annual CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival August 15
THE OPEN GALLERY AT A GLANCE Open Surgery with the Aidoo Centre: FICTION
Creative Writing Lab with Nii Ayikwei Parkes
August 14 20, 2017 Ama Ata Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing
Accra, Ghana
Hosted at Brazil House, bottom floor
August 14 *open to 8 selected writers through an open call
process
Cocktails & Hip Hop Mondays 2 4:30pm
Tea Baa, Osu
1 10pm Dolezalism and Jollof Rice
Lecture/Q+A with April Bey (U.S.)
Historical Photos + Narratives from Gold CHALE WOTE feature participant
Coast to Ghana with a special focus on National Theatre, Folkspace
the life and times of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah 6 8pm
Exhibition and Talk
Deo Gratias Studio, James Town
3 4:30pm

Day of ReMembering: August 17

Opening CHALE WOTE 2017 Ceremony
ACCRA [dot] ALT DISPERSED
Brazil House, James Town The Black British Female Artist Collective (BBFA)
5 7pm Hosted at Nubuke Foundation
Lome Close, East Legon Accra
Artist Talk: Is there such a thing as a womens art
August 16 perspective or is art just art?
2 3pm
DeVerb
Performance by Elisabeth Efua Sutherland Wata Poetry, Wata Song
Terra Alta, Abelemkpe Junction Tea Baa
6 7pm 7pm
Wata BamBam: Game Nite at the Baa
Tea Baa
7pm
August 18

Roots and Soul

King Solomon Garden
Dansoman (behind Keep Fit Club)
Wata Mata Graffiti, Film Show
and Reggae Night
2 11pm
Africa Actualized
Thought We Had Something
Going(TWHSG)
Creative cultural conversations August 20
Hosted at Republic Bar + Grill, Osu
4:30 7pm Shifting the Center
Album release party for Elizabeth Moreau Kallop
Chocolate Meets Tea ANO Institute of Contemporary Arts
Tea Baa 8 10pm
7:30pm
The Jam Down
Hang Out after CHALE
WOTE 2017
Tea Baa
8pm

August 25
The Post-CHALE WOTE Open
Gallery Experience
August 19 8pm
We Were Queens and Kings SMOKE
An exhibition and performance by Zohra Opoku An Accra House Music event
The Neem Grill
ANO Institute of Contemporary Arts Mama Adjele Road
1 Lokko Road, Osu Accra Off Spintex Road,
7:30 10pm behind Hypermarket Palace
 The Nima Street Art Tours
EXHIBITIONS, EXPERIENCES + TOURS with Nima Muhinmanchi Art (NMA)
M-Thu, 10am-2pm

Mohammed Awudu Gallery Visit + Tour

M-Sun, 11am-5pm

A Celebration of Indigo: Designing Culture

Studio One Eighty Nine
Osu, Accra
August 14 20
11am 7pm Orderly Disorderly
blaxTARLINES: Dept. of Painting and
Sculpture K.N.U.S.T.
Museum of Science and Technology, central Accra
DISPERSED Open until September 1st, 2017
The Black British Female Artist Collective (BBFA) M Sun, 8am 5pm
Nubuke Foundation, East Legon
August 16 22
10am 5pm

James Town Walking Tours

ACCRA [dot] ALT
Brazil House, James Town
M Sun, 11am 5pm Twists, Turns and Broken Doors
An exhibition by Dorothy Amenuke
Nubuke Foundation, East Legon
Open until September 10, 2017
M-Sat, 10am 5pm
Sun, 12noon 4pm
NicoWayo Art and Adverts
Oxford Street, Osu
(near Photo Club)
M Sat, 8:30am 5pm
OPENING EVENTS August 14 We explore the trilogy
in performance with the
Volta Regions Hutor
Day of ReMembering Adzimashie Bali and the
Hu-Koku Associations
piece entitled, Badboy
BODY Electronics
Monday, August 14 (interpreting the 2015
festival theme: African
ACCRA [dot] ALT Electronics). Then we
Brazil House, James move to the 25-member,
Town all-women performance
5 7pm of ...k3 yei... by Tifali
Cultural Consults
(interpreting the 2016
This opening event for theme: Spirit Robot) and
the 7th annual CHALE we end with a spoken
WOTE Street Art Festival word exhibition by Aboa
highlights the vast history K)t)(interpreting the 2017
of James Town and its theme: Wata Mata).
central importance to the
making of Accra, Ghana as Samoa Kpakpo-Mark
a nation and the Hansen (a James Town
development of the resident and a CHALE
African diaspora across the WOTE Logistics
world. With this opening, Coordinator for the last 5
we recenter the history years) also shares an
of the enslaved, many of exciting talk on this
who walked through the years theme and its
alleyways of James Town connection to the space,
to ships on the shores, people and cultures of
propelled into an unknown James Town. Following
and torturous fate. We this, we walk together in
examine the many ways a ceremony of
we wade through the remembering, a
waters returning through procession from Brazil
the Doors in defiant House to the Oyenyi
creative manifestation. Note: We encourage the public to attend and ask that
participants in this ceremony wear white in solidarity and Gardens of James Fort.
recognition of this sacred process.
Dolezalism and Jollof Rice
Tuesday, August 15
Lecture/Q+A
with April Bey (U.S.)
National Theatre, Folkspace
6 8pm

Rachel Dolezal was president of the National

Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) chapter in Spokane,
Washington, from 2014 until June 15, 2015,
when she resigned after it was revealed that
she had lied about being African American,
many other aspects of her biography, and
alleged hate crimes against her.

In June 2015, Dolezal came to media

attention when her European American
parents stated publicly that Dolezal was a
white woman passing as Black. Dolezals
critics contend that she has committed
cultural appropriation and fraud; Dolezal and
her defenders contend her racial identity is
genuine while not based on biology or
ancestry. Her deceptions have acted as a
catalyst to debating race in the U.S. and the
aesthetics we use to determine authority and
race.

Jollof Magazine is a new series lecturer and

artist April Bey has begun which focuses on
fictitious magazine covers and movie posters
representing the hypocritical and racist
tendencies in the U.S. starting with a key
figureRachel Dolezal.
The Open Gallery
August 14 to 20
The Open Gallery returns this year
and features a collaboration with
15 key art and cultural institutions
across the city during CHALE WOTE
Week between August 14 - 20th.

Witness visual exhibitions and artist

conversations, partake in interactive
lectures and workshops and
electrifying historical tours, taste the
best food and drinks the city has to
offer, connect with old friends and
create experiences with new friends.

Open Surgery with the Aidoo Centre:

FICTION Tuesday, August 15
2 - 4:30pm
Brazil House, bottom floor
James Town Accra
This Fiction workshop explores elements of
Ghanas rich and sometimes forgotten heritage
and also taps into the unconscious. Working with
8 writers selected through a submissions process,
award-winning author and Director of the Aidoo
Centre, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, will critique the work in
an open forum, using the participants work as a
platform from which to discuss general principles
and elements of better, more effective writing. The
workshop will also use some published examples Ama Ata Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing
allowing the wider audience to learn from the @AidooCentre
critique process and ask questions.
ANO Institute of Contemporary Arts WEanWERE QUEENS AND KINGS
exhibition by Zohra Opoku
curated by Nana Oforiatta Ayim
1 Lokko Road
Osu Accra Saturday, August 19
7:30 10pm
[email protected]
020 644 3066
@ano_ghana Zohra Opoku interrogates the
@ANOghana presence of collective modernities in
Ghana through fabrics, symbols, and
postures to unravel how they are formed
and evolve over time. The installation
includes a moving performance from
Osu Castle to ANO. Following the
performance and exhibition, there will be
an after party.

Elizabeth Moreau Kallop: Shifting the

Center Album Release
Sunday, August 20
8 10pm
Elizabeth Moreau Kallop, a Brooklyn-based singer
and songwriter of 17 years, releases her first
album in Accra. Pursuing her passion for music
and its ability to tell stories and process life, Kallop
made the bold choice to focus more seriously on
music after chancing upon a hotel lobby piano
during a recent work trip to Marrakech, Morocco.
Seven songs and many stories later, the intimate
crowd encouraged her to dedicate more time to
her music and to record. Travel, love and self
with this album, Elizabeth shifts the center.
August 16 22
10am 5pm @bbfacollective The Black British Female Artist Collective (BBFA)
Exhibition open @bbfcollective
to the public @BBFAcollective DISPERSED
Hosted at Nubuke Foundation
Lome Close, East Legon Accra

The first art event of its kind exhibition opens the artists
to take place in Ghana and will meet for the first time
in partnership with Nubuke to discuss their practice
Foundation, DISPERSED and journeys as female
facilitates a cross - cultural artists. This conversation
exchange between black alongside the exploration
women artists. The of the water theme will
Thursday, August 17 exhibition brings together 3
UK female artists from the
inform a collaborative
artwork. The making of
2 3pm Black British Female Artist which takes shape over
(BBFA) Collective with 3 the days between their
Ghanaian female artists. initial meeting and the
Artist Talk: Is there such a thing as The artists will work exhibition opening.
a womens art perspective or is art just art? together to create a one of
a kind artwork especially The participating artists
Panelists: for CHALE WOTE. are:
Gyankroma Akufo-Addo A week before the
(Director, Creative Arts Council Ghana)
Odile Tevie (Director, Nubuke Foundation) Ghanaian artists: BBFA artists:
Dr. Dorothy Amenuke (Artist) Dr. Dorothy Amenuke Adelaide Damoah
Arlene Wandera (BBFA artist) Latifah Idriss Arlene Wandera
Chair: Adelaide Damoah (BBFA artist) Samira Saidi Enam Gbewonyo
 Deo GratiasHighStudio
Street
James Town Accra

Monday, August 14
3 4:30pm
Exhibition and Talk

Historical Photos + Narratives from Gold Coast to Ghana with a special focus on the life and times of
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
The oldest photography studio in Accra, Deo Gratias Studio, opened in James
Town in 1922. Like no other collections, J.K. Bruce Vanderpuijes photography
archives documents in exquisite and varied detail what life was like for Ghanaians
during the colonial and Independence periods of the country.

This special exhibition and talk with Kate Tamakloe, the Studio owner and
granddaughter of Vanderpuije, will share captivating images of the life and
leadership of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as the Gold Coast transitioned into Ghana and
became a beacon for Africans across the continent and world.
James Town Walking Tours blaxTARLINES Dept. of Painting and Sculpture K.N.U.S.T.
ACCRA [dot] ALT
Brazil House
James Town Accra
Orderly Disorderly
Museum of Science and Technology
[email protected] Central Accra
026 877 7706
James Town Walking Tours Blaxtarlines Kumasi
@blaxtarlines
M Sun, 11am 5pm
Unlock the fascinating history of
James Town, the center of the M- Sun, 8am 5pm
Ga Mashie. Learn about life from
the perspective of everyday Open until September 1, 2017
people and experience what its
like to call James Town home This completes the trilogy of
firsthand from the people who large-scale end-of-year exhibitions
live here. held in Accra and features more than
90 works by fresh graduates, alumni,
Tours are available for and guest artists (living and dead).
individuals, small and large
groups and run for an hour long. Orderly Disorderly shares and
Tours also run all year round. celebrates the political vision of artist
and educator Professor Ablade
Glover who mobilized artists toward
Nicowayo Art and Adverts economic emancipation within a
hopeless artistic milieu in the early
Oxford Street, Osu Accra 1990s when Ghanas cultural
@nicowayo Near Photo Club institutions had been famished of
domestic and international support.
Nicholas Wayo M Sat, 8:30am 5pm The exhibition invites the audience to
Nicowayo Art and Adverts is a studio space and gallery run deal with the contradictions that are
by Nico Wayo, one of Accras most prominent self-taught constitutive of their everyday lives.
visual artists. During the Open Gallery, Nico Wayo will
display work highlighting a range of styles from street signs
to handcrafted imaginative movie posters and surrealist
paintings from over twenty years of practice.
The Nima Street Art Tours NMA Tours
[email protected]
024 471 2563
Nima, a majority Muslim working class (email or call to book an appointment)
community, is home to some of the most M Thu, 10am 2pm
exciting visual street art in Accra. This is also
home to Nima Muhinmanchi Art
(NMA, headed by Aminu Larry), Nico Wayo Visit community murals, artist studios,
and Mohammed Awudu, some of the most community Chiefs palace, Nima Market, the
prominent graffiti artists and painters in newly built Central Mosque and the
Ghana. This one-hour walking tour will take Nima-Maamobi Community Library. 30ghc
visitors through the community to witness per person, 15ghc additional for lunch
more than 6 murals live and up close. Learn featuring a variety of local dish options.
more about what its like to be a
contemporary artist living and working in
Nima today.

Mohammed Awudu Gallery Visit + Tour

@mohawudu [email protected]
024 340 3991
(email or call to book an appointment)
Meeting Point:
Nima 441, Hot Coffee
(near the ATC Roundabout)
Mon Sun, 11am 5pm
Nubuke Foundation
Twists, Turns and Broken Doors
An exhibition by Dorothy Amenuke

Open until September 10,2017

M Sat, 10am 5pm
Sunday, 12noon 4pm
Lome Close, East Legon Accra
027 744 5596
nubukefoundation
@InfoNubuke
Fabric plays such an integral part in
the cycle of life in Ghana. From the first
public ceremony of the outdooring
of a 7-day old baby, traditionally hand
woven textiles and stamped wax prints
inscribed with meaning mark
significant stages in a lifes journey.
Dorothy Amenukes use of fabric and
material in her sculpture work brings Thought We Had Something Going (TWHSG)
them into 3-dimensional planes - Creative cultural conversations
staging situations and associations Hosted at Republic Bar + Grill, Osu
whilst inviting viewers or participants to 4:30 7pm
engage with pertinent social issues in
our society today. Africa Actualized
Friday, August 18
Dorothys current body of work deals
largely with freedoms experienced Join TWHSG, a South Africa-based collective culture
within societal boundaries or borders. of young minds, rethinking African youth culture.
Not limited to physical limitations, Trying to create an original African creative
Dorothys premier solo exhibition at imagination. They will build conversation, calling on
Nubuke explores ways to deal with all African provocateurs to question Africas current
issues that bring about exclusions and cultural/creative capital. Lets change the
notions of otherness in society. conversation, change everything.
 Roots and Soul
King Solomon Garden,
Jerry Hansen Street
Dansoman, Accra
(behind Keep Fit Club)
054 078 3009, 024 712 3162
rootsandsoul
M Sun, 5 11pm
Roots and Soul is one of a few
vegan restaurants available in
the greater Accra region. We also
host film screenings, open mics,
discussions, listening sessions
and concerts. Our restaurant
serves fresh juice, smoothies,
beer, tea and a delicious variety
of snacks, plant life meals and
hot dishes.

Friday, August 18
2 11pm
2 5pm: Wata Mata Graffiti Session
featuring artists from the festival

5 8pm: Film Screenings: Open to

interested filmmakers

8 11pm: Reggae Night hosted by

musician Oga Chux
 Studio One Eighty Nine
12th Lane, Osu Accra
020 305 1793
[email protected]
@studiooneeightynine
magazine.studiooneeightynine.com

A Celebration of Indigo: Designing

Culture
August 14 20
11am 7pm
Indigo Fashion Art Installation /
Indigo dyed cloth has been in existence for more than 1,500 Dyeing workshops / Curated Pop Up
years and dates back to Egypt, Peru, East Asia, India, Africa and / Cocktails
enslaved Africans in the Caribbean. We celebrate indigo because
of its spiritual and healing powers. It recalls water coming from Jeans have been an important part of
the earth and returning to the earth. Natural indigo is a gift of modern culture for the past 140 years.
nature and holds with it the past and tradition. Through the art Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss have been
works we create we seek to preserve it and the nature guardians credited for inventing jeans in 1873. They
/artisans that are protecting this plant in places like the north of were first work clothes, then became
Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali and the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria. symbols of anti-establishment an
eventually became a coveted fashion
The indigo exhibition draws connection with the importance of item and symbol of establishment.
water and takes us on a journey from the plant through to final
works of art. Guests will be invited to see art that weaves yarn Originally jeans were dyed with natural
into fabric and objects and explores the relationship with culture indigo and now they are mostly dyed with
specifically the role African indigo has played in the development synthetic indigo except in Japan where
of denim culturean aspect that is often times omitted in the some premium jeans still use natural
history of denim as an art form and as a cultural signifier. indigo.
 Tea Baa Thursday, August 17, 7pm
10-12 Klanaa Street Wata Poetry, Wata Song
Ako Adjei, Osu Accra
Poet and artist, Hondred Percent,
050 104 3642, 020 912 7305 gets together with friends to cele-
(WhatsApp) brate the
@Teabaagh evolution of poetry in Ghana.
@Teabaagh
Tea Baa Gh Friday, August 18, 7:30pm
Chocolate Meets Tea
Monday, August 14, Join Tea Baa and 57
1 - 10pm chocolates for an evening of
tasting delicious Ghana Made
Cocktails & Hip Hop Mondays chocolates and Teas
(non-alchoholic and Tipsy).
Strictly Hip Hop, burgers and Tickets are available at Tea Baa
cocktails at Tea Baa. A place or slide into our DM for more info.
to be for Hip Hop heads and
lovers.
Sunday, August 20, 7pm
Wednesday, August 16, 7pm The Jam Down
Wata BamBam
Game Nite at the Baa The CHALE WOTE 2017 after
party begins here at Tea Baa. DJ
Join us for a fun night of games Sessions digs deep into the old
like Ludo, Oware, Snakes and school to uncover the covers.
Ladders, Scrabble, Jenga, Taboo, Back to back sounds of old and
Connect Four and Dominoes. This new skool. If you love music,
is a good time to meet and youll love this event. Great food,
mingle with new people, enjoy music and Iced Teas will be on
great cocktails and good food. deck as usual.
Lots of fun prizes on deck.
 Post-CHALE WOTE Open Gallery Experience
The Neem Grill
Mama Adjele Rd
Off Spintex Road,
behind Hypermarket Palace
020 050 9320

@theneemgrill
@AccraHouseMusic

Friday, August 25, 8pm

Terra Alta SMOKE

Abelemkpe Junction, ACCRA HOUSE MUSIC headed by
Next to Lucas College JasonKLEATSH and
024 500 6185 Steloolive - kicks off their
Fall/Autumn/End of Rainy Season
@terraltagh @efuasutherland Residency at The Neem Grill with
[email protected] a SPECIAL ART & SOUND themed
event titled SMOKE & FUNK.
Deverb
Wednesday, August 16, 6 7pm
SMOKE is, and has always been an
element in creating the mood for
House/Techno/Electronic music
This work in progress presentation by artist moods ... especially very intimate
Elisabeth Efua Sutherland follows her residency at the special vibes... be it smoke
Villa Empain in Brussels, Belgium. Deverb is a sound and machines, cigarette smoke, or
video experiment using womens song traditions of Fanti natural mist. In other words, Smoke
culture as a sonic base to explore the role and has always been a part of the
importance of woman as griot in Akan society. FUNK.Well celebrate this
relation via imagery, mood setting
Note: Terra Alta is a non-smoking outdoor facility. and sound.
#CHALEWOTE2017 WATA MATA Flows: August 17 - 20
#WATAMATA The LABS @ CHALE WOTE 2017
@accradotaltradio, chalewoteofficial
@accradotalt, chalewotefest Thursday, August 17 @ Terra Alta
accradotaltradio.com
Friday, August 18 @ WEB DuBois Centre
12noon - 9pm
The LABS is a 2-day mix of artist talks,
film screenings, special workshops, DJ
mixers and performances. This event
explores the festival theme WATA
MATA in depth with intimate
conversations and connections with
artists participating in CHALE WOTE 2017
who share with audiences about their
creative process, projects and
collaborations.

CHALE WOTE 2017 in James Town

Saturday, August 19 -
Sunday, August 20
1 - 10pm

200+ Ghana-based and international artists

10 locations to witness visual arts exhibitions + installations
4 music and performance stages
Accra Cookout - 30 vendors in delicious food and drinks
Oblatsoobi Market - handmade fashion, design and crafts
WATA MATA Fashion Circus featuring 15 designers
Live historical tours of James Town
Graphic Designer: Rhesa Adjoa-Boatemaa Anokye Extreme Sports Stunt Park
Images by Nii Nikoi Kotei at CHALE WOTE 2016 AND SO MUCH MORE