{"id":542068,"date":"2010-04-23T14:21:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2010-04-23T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:21:49","slug":"british-council-holds-%e2%80%98-i-rep-africa%e2%80%99-festival-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542068","title":{"rendered":"BritisH Council holds \u2018 I Rep Africa\u2019 festival in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10129\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/wapi-poster-final-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"wapi poster final\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/>The British Council will conclude its Words and Pictures (WAPI) series with a festival dubbed \u201cI Rep Africa\u201d at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel courtyard on May 8. The festival is a celebration of what it means to be young and African in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. It\u2019s an event for Ghana\u2019s established stars to come together with the stars of tomorrow, to have fun and network.<\/p>\n<p>There will performances by R2Bees, alongside Ghana\u2019s best young WAPi artists, underground Ghanaian musicians, a fashion show and spoken word. Other activities will include: expert discussion panel for young creatives to learn from the professionals; plus acting workshops, spoken word, craft fair, and much more.<span id=\"more-10128\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is also a chance for the best artists to win star prizes by showing how they \u2018Rep\u2019 Africa in their chosen art form. If you are a visual artist, musician, spoken word artist or photographer, you stand a chance to win a place on the British Council\u2019s Creative Entrepreneurs Training scheme, worth GHC1800. All entries in visual art and photography will be judged before the event, with spoken word and music battling it out on the day.<\/p>\n<p>There will be an opportunity for young, upcoming creatives and artists to network with the experts in the field. A panel of professionals in journalism, broadcasting, photography, music and advertising will also be there to share their experience and give tips on how to survive in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s gonna be great to come here and see all the young up-and-coming artists playing the fresh sounds of tomorrow. It\u2019s important for us to support up and coming artists because they are the future of the Ghana\u2019s music industry\u2019, says R2Bees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Council will conclude its Words and Pictures (WAPI) series with a festival dubbed \u201cI Rep Africa\u201d at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel courtyard on May 8. The festival is a celebration of what it means to be young and African in the 21st century. It\u2019s an event for Ghana\u2019s established stars to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}