Creative Arts Agency Archives

03 Apr

I Connected Spike Lee’s Team To The Creative Arts Agency – Director Of Diaspora Affairs

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The Director of Diaspora Affairs at the Office of the President, Akwasi Awuah Ababio, has disclosed how he facilitated an engagement between American actor Spike Lee and some institutions when the latter visited Ghana. Speaking to Kwame Dadzie on Showbiz A-Z on Joy FM, Akwasi said he let the Spike Lee’s team speak to the Director of Creative Arts, and they also expressed interest in meeting the Ministry of Tourism Arts and Culture and the National Tourism Authority. “We did know Spike Lee was coming to Ghana shortly before he came, at a very short notice. The American officials decided to inform…

Creative Arts Agency Drafts Policy Framework

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A policy framework is in the works by the Creative Arts Agency to establish a creative arts curriculum for Ghana’s education sector. Chief Executive of the agency, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo told JoyNews that the framework, once concluded, will be forwarded to Parliament for deliberations and subsequent approval. The Creative Arts Agency on Thursday met stakeholders to begin drafting a policy framework development to establish creative education in Ghana. This framework, according to the agency, if approved will be included in the educational curriculum across the country. “If you are an Olympic swimmer or scientist, you are taught to grasp it as early as…

I Decorated Tetteh Quarshie ‘Under Bridge’ With Personal Funds – Akufo-Addo’s Daughter

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Gyankroma Akufo-Addo, daughter of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has refuted claims that she received a US$25 million government contract to decorate some parts of the capital. In a statement released on November 2, 2022, she disclosed that all three art projects were executed through fundraising activities by the Creative Arts Agency, a company she heads. “For the avoidance of any doubt, it is important to state that these projects were solely conceived, managed, and financially undertaken by The Creative Arts Agency, through its own fundraising activities,” the statement noted. Out of the three locations where the painting and decorations…