Thrills at Ayawaso Cultural Show
The St Kizito Parish Hall at Nima was the centre of attraction when over 700 schoolchildren from the Ayawaso sub-metro thronged to witness this year’s inter-circuit cultural competition.
The competition was organised by the Ayawaso sub-metro office for the eight circuits in the sub-metro to revive indigenous cultural activities that are under threat from foreign culture. The circuits competed in a fashion show, highlife dance, poetry recitals, quiz and storytelling.
As the performers of various circuits mounted the stage, the excited children cheered their respective circuits to put in their best.
But it was the highlife competition which attracted the loudest cheers as the competitors danced to indigenous highlife songs by Agya Koo Nimo, Nana Ampedu, A. B. Crentil among others.
As they bent, twisted, waved and moved to the rhythms of the songs by artistes they could hardly identify, the audience which included teachers and officers of the sub-metro cheered, hailed and applauded the children who performed exceptionally well in the highlife category.
Mrs Eleanor Swatson-Brown of the Ayawaso sub-metro education office in an interview, explained that her outfit found out that most of the children were loosing touch with their tradition and culture hence the metro’s decision to organise the competition to blend the past present and future.
”This programme is not to exhibit the better side of persons or circuit but to build the self-confidence, raise the level of self esteem of our pupil and highlight our culture which was the legacy of our ancestors,” she explained further.
At the end of the competition, circuit 17 topped in poetry and storytelling while circuits 19, 20 and 21 emerged winners in the highlife dance, quiz and fashion show respectively. They all took home story books, bags, exercise books and mathsets.
The competition was organised by the Ayawaso sub-metro office for the eight circuits in the sub-metro to revive indigenous cultural activities that are under threat from foreign culture. The circuits competed in a fashion show, highlife dance, poetry recitals, quiz and storytelling.
As the performers of various circuits mounted the stage, the excited children cheered their respective circuits to put in their best.
But it was the highlife competition which attracted the loudest cheers as the competitors danced to indigenous highlife songs by Agya Koo Nimo, Nana Ampedu, A. B. Crentil among others.
As they bent, twisted, waved and moved to the rhythms of the songs by artistes they could hardly identify, the audience which included teachers and officers of the sub-metro cheered, hailed and applauded the children who performed exceptionally well in the highlife category.
Mrs Eleanor Swatson-Brown of the Ayawaso sub-metro education office in an interview, explained that her outfit found out that most of the children were loosing touch with their tradition and culture hence the metro’s decision to organise the competition to blend the past present and future.
”This programme is not to exhibit the better side of persons or circuit but to build the self-confidence, raise the level of self esteem of our pupil and highlight our culture which was the legacy of our ancestors,” she explained further.
At the end of the competition, circuit 17 topped in poetry and storytelling while circuits 19, 20 and 21 emerged winners in the highlife dance, quiz and fashion show respectively. They all took home story books, bags, exercise books and mathsets.
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