Some 100 artistes within the performing and visual arts domains across the northern sector have been trained to improve their knowledge on existing policies and legal frameworks governing the culture and creative arts industry in Ghana. The two-day training in Tamale was to develop and implement a comprehensive programme that empowered artistes to cultivate cultural policy and legal understanding underlining their craft. It was also to provide them with the tools and knowledge needed to create high quality productions, with protection and freedom, that spoke to the times and reflected their cultural heritage, while addressing contemporary sociocultural issues.
The National Commission on Culture organised the programme, in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), as part of the UNESCO-ASCHBERG Programme for artists and cultural professionals. The training also offered an opportunity for participants to make contributions for consideration in the new cultural policy document, which is under review by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture. The policy is expected to consider better ways to enhance the status of the artistes, ensure freedom of creativity, protection of their rights and and works among other things to create a friendlier and more peaceful environment for creativity to thrive.
Nana Otuo Owoahene Acheampong, the Executive Director, National Commission on Culture, said similar training programmes had been sla.
