Thus to add value to the Fontomfrom music and dance in Ghana, the Centre for National Culture celebrated the first Fontomfrom festival in the country so far on 8th September, 2006.

 

Initially the programme was billed for three days, but due to financial constraints it became a day’s affair. Even so, the programme drew one of the biggest crowds ever to the Regional Centre.

 

Four performing groups were on hand to add colour to the programme. A former Senior Lecturer at the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana. Legon Mr Kofi Duodu now resident at his hometown Kukurantumi was present and gave an elaborate lecture on how to preserve and protect Fontomfrom to be a foreign exchange earner for Ghana. Mr. Kofi Duodu did not only Lecture but backed his words with intermittent demonstration dances and the explanation of the various gestures, some of which are solely for our traditional rulers.

 

The audience was very warm and really enjoyed the demonstration dances and the performances by the performing groups present.

 

The Eastern Region Centre for National Culture this year adopted a strategy to involve that category of people who are usually not part of the Centre’s Cultural activities. Thus the students of the All Nations University and the Koforidua Regional Police Training School formed a third of the audience with some of their Lecturers. These students are surely going to work in various cultures other than theirs after their training. Hence, the Centre has decided to target such institutions, get them orientated well so they do not become Cultural misfits in those societies after school.