EHALAKASA is a straight talk, 

street philosophy poetry and music performance event.

 

Eha means Song in Ewe,

La means Sing in Ga Dangbe
Kasa means Talk in
Akan (Twi).

 

These separate words are combined to form 

EHALAKASA; and the audience response is: 

"It lives in us"!!!  

 

 

EHALAKASA is a concept created by Sir Black and musician/poet Nii Lantey in 2007, simply to bring poetry from the page to the stage. The basic Intent for EHALAKASA is to address and deal with issues relevant to our time as a people, whiles projecting Ghanaian values. EHALAKASA has evolved out of the response of artists and art lovers' desire for the awakening and recognition of spoken word performance, live music and  poetry in Accra and Ghana.

 

The past 6 years has been highly successful with projects and events like, Ehalakasa Slam,Ehalakasa Talk Party, the annual Ehalakasa Int. Poetry Day, Ehalakasa in Senior High Schools (workshops), Ehalakasa @ NAFAC,

Ehalakasa Flash Mob, Ehalakasa Fiesta, Ehalakasa Mega Fest and now Ehalakasa Festival amongst others.

 

These events were organized in collaboration with Alliance Francaise, Goethe Institut, Nubuke Foundation, Writers Project of Ghana, Ghana Association of Writers, Cultural Education Unit of Ghana Education Service, Ghana Culture Forum, Foundation for Contemporary Art - Ghana, National Theatre - Ghana, etc. 

 

The EHALAKASA Venue is @
Nubuke Foundation located at #7 Adamafio Close, East Legon,
near Mensvic Grand Hotel.

 

Please contact 0234258007 or 0202290073 for more info

 

 

 

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