Ghanaian Team to Participate In Denmark Art, Cultural Festival
A GHANAIAN delegation will leave for Denmark on July 28 to participate in the International Art and Culture Festival to be held in Rødby, Lolland, Denmark, from August 1 to 7, 2008. The festival is on the theme: “Global Warming, Our Future, Our Responsibility”.

A release issue by the organizers said founder of the festival, Bo Sigvardson of Kulturforeningen Art Vision & Gallery Sigvardson, had invited all artists in visual art, art and craft manufacturers, musicians, dancers, and associations, organizations and companies related to culture and the environment to the festival.

The International Art and Culture Festival will be supported by The Embassy of Denmark and the Lolland Municipality in Denmark.

The opening ceremony will be performed by Mayor Stig Vestergaard, Councillor Benny Damgaard and Henrik Høegh, the Member of Parliament.

The internationally acclaimed cross-cultural contemporary dance company in Ghana, Folkloric Selamta, will have the opportunity to perform during the opening ceremony, while a paper on: “Global Warming: Our Future, Our Responsibility”, will be presented by Mr Albert Adu-Acquah, the Business Development Director of Hospitality Excellence, Ghana, on behalf of the delegates.

Hospitality Excellence, Ghana, a destination marketing company that provides meaningful group travel opportunity and concert performance tours, has been appointed as the exclusive agent for the festival in Denmark. Hospitality Excellence networks with tour operators in the USA, the UK and European countries that target Ghana as their preferred tourist destination.

The festival will feature a myriad of multi-cultural displays, as well as live performance, films, lectures, workshops and exhibits. Artists will have their products exhibited in Gallery Sigvardson during the festival.

The festival is not a traditional exhibition where one hangs one’s paintings in a gallery. It is meant to be a meeting place for artists to meet and work together outdoors in the streets and squares.

The goal is to gather artists workers and environmental organizations to establish and maintain contacts, share experiences and views and work together. There will be an opportunity for artists to paint and decorate walls and facades during the festival week.

The festival, which has inspired more than 6,000 young people from more than 80 countries, will be the biggest international culture festival in Denmark and it will become a “mediated art experience” for millions more, filtered through a technological medium such as television, press, radio or Internet.

The Ghanaian participants will take advantage to market the numerous investment opportunities to the Danish community and also use the opportunity to woo tourists in the country, while establishing links and networks.

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                Daily Graphic             Monday, July 7, 2008                     Page: 20