http://www.hosafa.com/ HOSAFA, a house of africanity, is a service for anyone to share, learn and invest in African life worldwide. en-us Fri, 01 Jan 2010 - Mon, 31 Dec 2012: Kumasi, Ghana: Our ARchiTecture (art+architecture) Residency Programme in the Ashanti Region of Ghana welcomes artistic persons in the fields of architecture, engineering and the arts that include visual arts, literary arts, performing arts, design, new media/ film production, arts history, arts criticism, arts education, arts administration and curatorship, and emerging others to apply for residence. Length of residencies is usually from 1 month to 12 months. The applicant’s project plan may be to design a... Nka Foundation Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:25:10 +0000 http://www.hosafa.com/story/182084 http://www.hosafa.com/story/182084 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 - Sat, 06 Aug 2011: Kumasi, Ghana: The 3-week event will focus on community arts practice, as a response to the growing problem of widening gap between contemporary African artist and the rural community.. We will use Kumasi City-Abetenim rural sites such as market places, local schools, village centers, and others as laboratories for workshops, artistic interventions, site-specific installations, lectures and other community-based approaches from around the world. Thus, we invite individual or group submissions for community... Nka Foundation Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:18:26 +0000 http://www.hosafa.com/story/182083 http://www.hosafa.com/story/182083 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 - Sat, 13 Nov 2010: Worldwide: CALLING ALL ARCHITECTS, ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGNERS, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS & IMAGINATIVE OTHERS: In West Africa, from the cities to the low-income villages, earth architecture is fast giving way to modern dwellings (made of cement-blocks and corrugated zinc-roof that are expensive and thermally and acoustically problematic). On the fringes of environmental issues and Open Source concept, we are developing a model arts village in the Ashanti Region of Ghana for replication in other parts of Wes... Nka Foundation Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:09:24 +0000 http://www.hosafa.com/story/182082 http://www.hosafa.com/story/182082