African Community of Arts Educators (AfriCOAE), a community of practice for shaping art education in Africa, is inviting applications for its 2-week workshop residency program for art teachers and art teacher educators at a suburb of Accra in Ghana, from the 17th until the 31st of July 2008. If interested in taking part send your Curriculum Vitae/resume, and a statement setting out your interests in to africoae@gmail.com. An application received after the February 22, 2008 deadline may be considered if space is available. For more information: http://afropoets.tripod.com/eta
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THE KUMASI SYMPOSIUM: Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education Through Art
Department of General Arts & Art Education, College of Arts and Social Sciences
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana
July 31-August 14, 2009
Who Can Participate: Open to all. The event is designed to bring together Scholars, Educators, Curators, Practicing Artists, and interested others in Africa and the rest of the world for ideation and interchange on the topic.
Venue: KNUST’s Faculty of Fine Art and The University Museum for exhibitions, workshops and plenary sessions, and The GUSSS (International) House for Boarding and Lodging.
Programme: The focus is on tapping local resources for visual arts teaching and learning through cross-cultural collaborations and critical dialogues. Local resources include national human capital, natural resources, and man-made environment. Proceedings from the symposium will result to a publication. Accordingly, the symposium will open with workshops, followed by site-specific tours of Ghana, and closes with Panel Presentations. The University Shuttle will provide transportation. The final Banquet will require your national attire. A limited amount of space exists for commercial vendors’ displays/exhibits during the Conference. All abstracts and brief biographies should be submitted electronically to africoae@gmail.com
Barthosa Nkurumeh | 12 ago 2008