EARTH WORDS 2010 & Pictures of Our Firewood-Alternative Programme (Wa Chapter)

Time is flying by like the wind!
Next thing I know, I'm burping my 10th grandbaby on my shoulder!


You all know the coming weekend is the day of my NGO's annual Green (Renewable & Sustainability) event - for publicising to and mass educating the general public here in Ghana on Renewable Energy and Sustainable alternatives for energy, fuel, income, employment ... and also ways to protect the environment and harness a bright future for the little ones for whom we are working so hard (and building large egg-nests)!


So it's this weekend, 2nd October ... 3pm - 8pm, at the New Morning Arts Cafe Theatre in Tesano, Accra.
Here's the flier:

And here is the poster:

Please do spread the word ... we need as many eager and interested phenomenal people there, as can be possible.


We're going to have stage drama about our relationship with the earth, Spoken Word (poetry) by one of our best poets - DK Osei-Yaw, a pantomime on Sustainability & the Earth, live music of all genres, interactive moments with the audience whereby they ask anything and everything and get answered by the visiting Resource person on Environmental and Renewable Energy issues, and of course, lively moments where I and Bibie talk with the audience about issues as well!!


Tell your people in town ... they better book the date, mehn!


And for the whole story on my Wa trip, stay tuned ... but because I know y'all can't wait for the pictures, here it is! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=235017&id=561970996&l=d7ba7e380e


And this one is for Earth Words pictures : 
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=205418&id=561970996&l=27c25430a9


See the number on the flier and poster?
Ring it up if you want to get tickets or reserve seats, or want make enquiries concerning the programme.


Spread the word, and enjoy the pictures!


xxx

Miss me? This girl's been busy! Our 2nd year Green Night ... 1st update.

Peopleeeeeee!!
Girl's been busy as heck! Trying to be everything, do everything! Heck, this sh*t is hard. I love it!! Yes!!


I've not been quiet for lack of something to holler about, noooooo.
Been working towards our 2nd year Annual Green day event.


Last year, ESF (my foundation for Renewable Energy Development & Sustainable issues in Ghana) held its first ever Green Energy event, in the form of a fair. 
If you've been regular to my blog, you'd know about it ... it's still in the archives.
Gave me a heart attack, stroke, hernia, epilepsy, ulcer all rolled into one, it did! Lordy!
What a heartbreaker ... but what a miracle!


Yes! It broke my heart that it didn't manifest the way I dreamed it, but the roads it opened up to me publicly, with crucial individuals; the partners I made from that initiative, the lessons I learned about life and friends and love ... it gave me so much more than I thought I had lost.


I don't regret the bloody event one bit! It hurts, but I'd do it again if I had to ... made me better!


Now this year, all of a sudden ... whoa! ... October is here again? Well, nearly ... and we haven't even gotten started on planning our 2nd annual event yet. So swoop! I was up and talking ... running around, picking vibes with my invisible antenna ... and I found the most marvellous partners I could ever have thought of for this year's event!


Bibie Brew and her New Morning Artistic Centre, Beating Tracks of the UK (Asabaako fame), and The Okyeame Network of Ghana!
They've been phenomenal!!! Peopleeeeeeee, I love you!!


So I've been working on this event, it's coming on at the New Morning Cafe in Tesano, near Abeka Junction on 2ND OCTOBER ... save the lovely date, people!! Save it! 
3pm to 8pm, and only GH5 cedis at the gate or buy a ticket at same price to guarantee your seat.
It's called "EARTH WORDS : Touching you, touching me - creatively up close and personal with our environment" (will upload the flier soon!)


We're gonna see some phenomenal youth in action with a Global Warming piece of stage drama that will have you rocking on your heels; more youth in a short powerful pantomime on humans and their relationship with Mother Earth; Bibie Brew's New Morning band tying your guts up with live jazz, blues, good highlife, and groovy boogy; and some good crowd interaction where I jump on the stage and scream obscenities at y'all till you kick my butt offa the stage.


No, of course not ... more along the lines of a guest expert interacting with you about Green Energy alternatives and how to do it, make it a business, Recycling creatively - having you throw questions, opinions, suggestions, everything at me concerning Recycling, Energy options, Environmental Protection, all the things we'll do on this artistic night, and all that lovely muck! 


It'll be talking Green ... artistically, enjoyably, unforgettably.
If you'll be in town (Accra/Ghana) on the 2nd of October, or currently residing here, or know friends and family who do ... tell them about it, and let them save the bloody date. I mean, lovely date!


Peopleeeeeee!


Will tell you more about it, but in the meantime, I'm about to upload a few pictures of some of the moments of this planning, so far ... and THERE'S MORE TO COME, so check back here often. You won't believe what I'm going to show you next ... and no, it's not a marketing hype.


Love you, enjoy, and call me or hook up with me anywhere and let's be green lovers. Get me? ;-)
See you soon!

Bibie Brew & Golda

At New Morning Artistic center with some of the Ghanaian youth working towards
 2nd October night - EARTH WORDS

Me and the guys of the youth artistic group, under New Morning tutelage and
grooming (Bibie's Artistic Centre) towards Renewable Energy &
 Environmental Education via the arts.

Rehearsals at New Morning

Bibie taking the drama cast through some directives: working on the
Environmental play for EARTH WORDS

Rehearsals

Caught in action!

FREE CHARITY BALL!!!

Dear Members! Free Charity Cocktail Ball!

Pull dem dresses and suits out now!!!

After some strategizing and testing the waters ... I realised that the Charity Ball patronage will be low.

I had earlier decided to make a fiery presentation to the 4 Speakers and an empty room ... seeing as patronage would be so low for a paid event!

And also because, with an empty room, and the initial shock they would go through ... they would be aware that so much needs to be done here in Ghana.
And it is the first lesson we should have - the truth of the situation.

I intended to make this presentation on feasible, practical aspects of our Sustainable Waste Management initiative - which seeks to turn our terrible landfill sites into organized, compartmentalized sites where Sorting, Recycling, and Methane Gas (for communal cooking and elcetrical use) goes on.
Not only is this practical, but it is a direct source of Employment, a Curative Solution to our Health care system, and the best way to start educating the masses about non-littering ... with this practical example of community effort.

This was what i planned to present as part of my solo performance this Saturday, with the hope that after their anger dies down, these Speakers will agree that there is a valid point to this, and offer some of their influence and status to get things growing.

BUT I then thought ... if the room will be empty, why not make it free them, and still get some people to come?

Free?
I don't lose!!
So ... if you are in Accra, and have this dress or suit that you've been dying to wear ... take it out!!!

Be with me at 6:30 pm on Saturday at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, North Ridge ... and have a wonderful 2 hours meeting new people, collaborating, and talking about how we can also help CHANGE GHANA!

It's a cocktail event, with the hotel's bar serving drinks to those who want to buy!

What better than to do this with 4 prominent Ghanaians with the influence to make our suggestions happen?!!

If you are thinking yes ... I need to know! ... reply YES to this message, with your name now!!! I need you on this.

Programme is this very Saturday.

xxx, Golda Addo.