Ghanaian Theatre Practitioner leaves for seminar in the United States

Genre : Training/workshops
Principal country concerned : Column : Intercultural/migrations
Release/publication date : February 2014
Published on : 02/07/2014
Source : www.artsghana.org

Abdul Karim Hakib, a theatre for development practitioner, who specializes in the use of the creative arts for development, will on July 26 leave for the United States for a 10 day seminar on Creative Community Fellowship.
 
Presented by the National Arts Strategies and University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice with support from the Kresge Foundation, the creative community fellowship aims at providing new tools and knowledge that will help push projects forward, expand a growing community of allies while assisting in the cultivation of habits of resilience and reflection as required in effective leadership.
 
Participants will receive training from professionals and experts to accelerate development of their ideas. Customized coaching and mentoring support will also be available to help build professional roadmaps while having access to a diverse practitioners and peers coming from both the social and cultural sectors.
 
They will also meet a team of organizers who will make special contributions. These include Sarita Alami (Culinary Designer for Creative Community Fellows Impact House),
Kate Canales (Director of Design and Innovation at Southern Methodist University),  
Gail Crider (Vice President and CEO at National Arts Strategies) and Peter Frumkin (Professor of Social Policy and Faculty Director for the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at University of Pennsylvania).
 
The rest are Cosmo Fujiyama (Experience Designer for Creative Community Fellows Impact House), Dallas Shelby (Director at National Arts Strategies), Scott Sherman (Co-founder and CEO of Transformative Action Institute) and Sunny Widmann (Director at National Arts Strategies).
 
A product of the University of Ghana, Hakib, who is also the Deputy Chairman of Arterial Network Ghana, has been engaged in a number of works with organizations like Environmental Protection Agency of Ghana, Theatre for a Change, Africa Adaptation Program on Climate Change and UNESCO. He has also done mainstream theatre and dance productions in Ghana.
 

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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