Gertrude Ankrah, daughter of the late Ghanaian army general and head of state, General Ankrah, expressed her strong disapproval of the ChaleWote Festival, describing it as Rubbish.
During an interview at the recently concluded festival at Independence Square, she criticized the event for promoting excessive drinking and inappropriate behavior.
The CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival is an alternative platform that brings art, music, dance and performance out of the galleries and onto the streets of James Town, Accra.
The first festival took place in July 2011, following a series of discussions about creating DIY [do-it‑yourself] community projects by participants at our Talk Party Series. Our partners for the festival include Redd Kat Pictures, Dandano, Mumble, Chaka Orleans Heritage and Gamashie Development Agency.
The main vision of CHALE WOTE is to cultivate a wider audience for the arts in West Africa by breaking creative boundaries and using art as a viable form to rejuvenate public spaces.
The CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival challenges both artists and community-based audiences to connect through art.
The festival includes street painting, graffiti murals, photo exhibitions, interactive installations, a food and fashion marketplace, live street performances, extreme sports, an African Cinema pavilion, street boxing, a fashion parade, a music block party, and design labs, and much more.
More than 200 Ghana-based and international artists take part in the event every year. In 2018, over 100,000 people attended CHALE WOTE.
This year’s event commenced on the 20th August and its supposed to last till 29th of August 2023.
However, it seems Gertrude Ankrah is not happy about how things turned out at the event. She condemned the youth drinking and engaging in immoral activities.
Watch the interview below;
Gertrude Ankrah, daughter of the late Ghanaian army general and head of state, General Ankrah, expressed her strong disapproval of the ChaleWote Festival, describing it as Rubbish.
During an interview at the recently concluded festival at Independence Square, she criticized the… pic.twitter.com/ckkfO9rl6H
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