COMMUNITY ARTS...

In Kumasi and the Nearby Village of Abetenim in Ashanti Region of Ghana, from 16 July to 6 August 2011, there will be the a 2^nd Kumasi Biennial Symposium: Community Arts In Focus. This will be a 3-week event focusing on community arts practice, as a response to the growing problem of widening gap between contemporary African artist and the rural community. The event will use Kumasi City-Abetenim rural sites such as market places, local schools, village centers, and others as laboratories for workshops, artistic interventions, site-specific installations, lectures and other community-based approaches from around the world. They are now inviting individual or group submissions for community theatre, media arts, readings, film screening, slide shows, open studios, visual activism, musical performances, community design, social architecture and others to allow the rural community to become acquainted with international contemporary artistic practice. For additional information or registration, send an e-mail toinfo@nkafoundation.org and/or nkaprojects@gmx.com.