4/15/2023 0 Comments Upper volta on a mapSo there’s food, spoken word, games, literature, fashion and music, which all help to add a special verve to the occasion. After all, the Upper West is a land of many sides. They knew a centre like what they had in mind could help fix some of the problems, thus, the creation of the Centre for Textiles and Clay.ĭuring the Woori Festival, the conversation is not just about weaving and pottery. There were also no opportunities for staff development and for the children to practice what they had learnt from their trainers. They observed that institutions that trained weavers in vocational schools did not have enough facilities and resources to enhance teaching and learning. The officials convinced themselves to buy 10 acres of land to build a cultural centre. They admired several things about the place, including the abundant availability of clay for making pots for storage of alcoholic beverages, water and grain as well as the art of weaving which had been transmitted from parents to children for decades. Nubuke’s love affair with the Upper West started in 2010 when two of its senior officials visited the region. With that in mind, the centre launched and declared its resource centre of a library with books and materials for schools and weavers which is open to the community. This will help highlight the weaving traditions from the Upper West Region on a global stage and bring opportunities for exchanges of know-how and experiences for weavers within an international craft networks worldwide.Ī key aim of the Textile and Clay Centre is to encourage the Wa community to make use of its facilities. Nubuke is also now a member of the World Craft Council. To date, about 23 tourist sites, 200 weaving centres and 100 sales points and shops for woven fabrics in the region have been captured on the map. Nubuke also developed an easily accessible tourist map that visitors to the Upper West Region can use to easily reach weavers and notable tourist sites. It also relaunched a digital platform: with their Assemble UK partner in a British Council-funded grant which can be used to connect weavers in Upper West with clients who are not resident there. So the centre now has its own website, separate from the main web platform of Nubuke Foundation. For 2022, it built a new website for its Textile and Clay Centre. The Woori Festival usually recaps workshops, collaborations and activations Nubuke had executed in a specific year. “I am happy to say that since 2021, with support from European Union, Organisation of ACP States, Institut Francais and Centre Culturel Kore in Mali, we embarked on a grant programme which is enabling us promote strip weaving as one of the main anchors around which tourism is promoted in Nandom, Nadowli and Wa.” “Our work has also extended to the Wa Methodist School of the Blind and School of the Deaf,” she said, adding that through cooperation with some of their partners, they had helped weavers explore opportunities by connecting them to peer networks within Ghana, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire and other places. The outfit’s Director, Odile Tevie, proudly said at the opening of this year’s festival that almost 13 years after setting foot in the region, Nubuke Foundation had nurtured the talents of weavers through artistic interventions and skills upgrading workshops to bring economic transformation to them, their families and their communities. Founded in 2006, it serves as a connection for arts and culture across the country while supporting the artistic practice of young, mid-career and experienced Ghanaians. The Nubuke Foundation is a private visual art and cultural institution based in Accra.
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