James town Arts festival slated for April 8, 2017

The annual James Arts Festival organized by NGO, Act for Change is scheduled to be held at the James Town Community Theatre Centre, April 8, 2017.

The event will feature contemporary dance, traditional cultural performances, poetry, exhibition, live paintings and graffiti, short films by Jamestown residents and a range of artisanal clothing and jewellery will be on sale.

There will also be live band performances from various artistes including Afro-pop performers Yogendra and Pigoma, Neighbours Band.

James Town Arts Festival seeks to address twin issues, of unemployment and industry marginalisation, by celebrating the vibrant and innovative creative community of James Town as a centre for Arts and Creativity in Accra, Ghana and indeed across West Africa Act for Change (AFC) was registered as an NGO in November 2011, by a group of hard-working youth leaders from Ga-Mashie.

They came together to form Act for Change in response to the need they identified for a community-led advocacy and empowerment organisation, with a specific understanding of the issues faced in their home community, Ga-Mashie.

Act for Change focuses on using forum theatre as an advocacy tool in order to address the daily abuse of rights experienced by the youth in our community.

The mission of the organization is to effect behaviour change and improve the quality of life using the tool of forum theatre to communicate social developmental concerns.