National beauty/dance competition in Upper
East
Artists urged to
educate people on environment through works
National beauty/dance competition in Upper
East
Bolgatanga (Upper West Region) 06 June 2000
From Ho to Koforidua and Wa, the Club Pleasure 2000 train made its fourth stop at the Bolgatanga Catering Rest House on Friday night.
It was a night of entertainment and fun, as 18 dancers and 14 pretty ladies vied for the opportunity to represent the Upper East at the 2000 Miss Ghana and National Dance competition to be held in Accra later in the year.
At the end of it all Miss Nina Bruce Asafo-Adjaye, a 19-year-old student, came first in the beauty pageant. She took home a cash prize of 500,000 cedis.
Miss Ama Brefi Agyemang and Miss Diana Sarfo won the second and third positions and received cash prizes of 450,000 and 300,000 cedis respectively.
The dance competition this year was split into two different categories - highlife and free-style.
Twenty-year-old Liman Ayinbilla came first in the highlife segment, with 23-year-old Abass Mohammed establishing his dominance in free-style.
In addition to a cash prize of 400,000 cedis each, the two dancers would also represent the Upper East in the national dance finals.
Hajia Fati Seidu, Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, and Miss Ghana 1999, Mariam Sugru Bugre, joined the Regional Minister Alhaji Amidu Sulemana on stage to crown and congratulate Miss Upper East 2000.
The event was organised by Media Whizz Kids and sponsored by Club Beer, with support from other business organizations.
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Artists urged to educate people
on environment through works
Wa (Upper East Region) 06 June
2000
Artists have been called upon to
use their works to sensitize the people on the need to protect the environment.
They are to portray scenes of the
extent of soil erosion, deforestation and water pollution and their effects on
the ecology.
Mr. Yao Dzamefe, Director of
National Art Galleries of the National Commission on Culture (CNC), made the
call at a day's workshop organised by the commission for various categories of
artists in the Upper West Region on Monday.
It is a prelude to a national
exhibition of the works of "unknown artists" scheduled for July 5-9
for the southern and northern sectors in Accra and Kumasi.
It is under the theme "The
Eyes of the Artist to See Through the Third Millennium Threshold".
Mr. Dzamefe stressed the need for
the Ministry of Tourism to realise the immense contributions artists could make
towards the tourist industry, saying that, without the culture and monuments
and artistic works, the country would not be able to attract any tourist.
He expressed regret that the
commission has no art gallery and said plans were therefore afoot to establish
national art galleries in the regions to honour deserving artists.
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