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Gambian Arts & Culture Exhange Wales

Gambian Arts and Culture Exchange Wales is a newly emerging organisation that offers a comprehensive range of African Arts, Cultural Workshops and Performances.

These hands-on and exciting presentations are extremely well placed for inclusion into the national educational curriculum or community projects as it can be seen to offer children and adults alike an inspirational taste of African life and how the people of The Gambia utilise art and craft as the ‘tools of life’ and representations of African cultural history and tradition.

Our primary objective in Wales is to provide this African experience to the community is echoed with returning trips to Gambia. We are equally motivated to forge links to enhance cultural exchanges between Welsh and Gambian schools, colleges and other community projects and to provide Gambian families with money making ideas and opportunities.

We have interest from Gambian Councils for the schools, hospitals and civic institutions to receive our expert European perspective on safety, health, environment and sustainability matters via site audit and summary presentations. These audits and presentations are also available for UK organisations and can be easily and rewardingly provided in conjunction with the African experience.

Our Aim: “The exchange of knowledge between The Gambia and the UK to improve the quality of life for both”.

Gambian Arts and Culture Exchange Wales are resident at the following address:

204A City Road
Roath Cardiff
CF24 3JG

Cultural Exchange trip to The Gambia March - April 2011

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The participants from Wales and UK will gain an understanding of the ethos of Global Education and gain experience that will assist the individual’s development and share knowledge.

The opportunities for international skill development and work experience in the Gambia will help their education, understanding of cultures and practical work experience in a developing world.

Already 25 University Students from the UIWC with 17 Artists, professionals and Craftsmen from Wales have been registered for the events.

Presently we are looking for collaboration links with individual, professionals and organisations in UK.

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Current School Projects

West African Family Tree Totem Pole Project.
Fitzalan High School
Lawrenny Avenue.
Leckwith, Cardiff

www.fitzalan.cardiff.sch.uk

Project Details:

The preparation, design and manufacture of a West African Dragon Totem Pole is a project that will both inspire a positive team work ethos and challenge the individual to develop hand skills, creativity, environmental awareness and sense of purpose. These positive benefits are then interestingly and rewardingly displayed for others to experience thereafter.

The project group should as far as possible attend all of the workshops to obtain a basic understanding in West African history, culture and art. With this background the students are then encouraged to input their ideas to complete the Totem Pole design, learn the physical controls required to work the wood into its final form and benefit the personal achievement found by the successful project completion of the team.

The aspects of the Totem Pole design has been summarised into four steps and can be seen by following the more information link belwo.

For detailed information about this project and the Plan of Action to complete the West African Family Tree Totem Pole Project, click here >>

Sowe Family Arts and Cultural Promotion (SFACP)

Established in 2009, this Educational and skill development charity operates in both the Gambia and Wales UK.

The [GACEW} work and support the aims and objectives of the charity with a view to assisting disadvantaged Gambians in their quest to obtain a quality, relevant education in order to ensure that they are in a position to become global citizens and a competitive, productive element in the local and international job markets. We work for Skills development objectives for an educated nation, which in turn leads to a progressive and a skilful nation that is in a position to sustain economic growth. Both organisations strive to create links between schools in UK and The Gambia.

For more information about this charity, click here