Chale Wote Street Art Festival

Chale Wote Street Art Festival Alternative platform for art and performance

03/08/2026

Coming to Chale Wote 2026

An American muralist known for colossal, Matthew Mederer's (Cool Disco Rich) signature works has traveled to Ghana for the first time to create a new piece . His distinctive style, characterized by monumental scale, vibrant color, and an improvisational blend of classical and contemporary techniques, is undergoing a cultural dialogue in Accra . His work is notable for incorporating Ga samai, the proverbial and philosophical symbolic language of the Ga people . This integration, alongside use of local patterns, reflects a deep engagement with Ghanaian visual heritage and transforms his massive murals into vessels of cross-cultural narrative .

10th-16th August

Black Star Square+ Nationalism Park

02/08/2026

Coming to Chale Wote 2026

In Richard Annor’s photographs, Ghana inhales and holds its breath. His signature high-contrast monochromes, pitch-black silhouettes against bleached-white skies, are routinely punctuated by abrupt, almost aggressive bursts of saturated color: a crimson orb a cobalt door, a taxicab with bright yellow sides, these chromatic jabs feel less like decoration than like suppressed emotion breaking through. Then come the tinted signatures, insisting on the artist's hand even as his subjects seem to drift into myth. Annor doesn't soften the sharp edges of memory, and desire,he polishes them until they cut.

10th-16th August
Black Star Square+ Nationalism Park

02/08/2026

Coming to Chale Wote 2026
Adrian's installation is a disarming paradox, a rugged wooden crate that cradles something profoundly fragile. Set up in a box enveloped by a constellation of glowing sigils and fragmented text, each symbol beaming with quiet intention. The wood grounds you in the tactile and ancient, while the light pulls you toward the ethereal and unknowable.

What lingers isn't the craftsmanship of the box, but the weight of the words suspended within. They feel less like language and more like incantations, spells waiting to be activated by your gaze. It's a meditation on how we contain meaning and how meaning, in turn, contains us. Unsettling, beautiful, and unforgettable.

10th-16th August
Black Star Square + Nationalism Park

01/08/2026

Every August, Chale Wote reminds the world: Our stories don't live in museums. This is a love letter to the streets.
Carnival of the Black Sun

10th-16th August
Black Star Square+ Nationalism Park

29/07/2026

Coming to Chale Wote 2026

Donna O'Neal's yarn portraits unravel the armour Blackness is forced to wear. Her tufted, woven figures don’t just depict softness, they insist upon it as a radical fact, not a fragile wish. In her hands, domestic craft becomes a sanctuary where tenderness is monumental, and rest is a form of historical correction.

10th-16th August
Black Star Square + Nationalism Park

Carnival of the Black SunTo a nation rewriting its own mythology in real time...Chale Wote 202610th-16th AugustBlack Sta...
26/07/2026

Carnival of the Black Sun
To a nation rewriting its own mythology in real time...

Chale Wote 2026

10th-16th August

Black Star Square + Nationalism Park

23/07/2026

Coming to Chale Wote 2026

Yanick Folly’s lens captures West African elegance with a quiet, cinematic power. His mastery of natural light sculpts rich, melanated skin tones, transforming everyday scenes into timeless portraits of dignity. It’s not just photography; it’s an intimate archive of style and soul. Folly doesn’t simply document culture, he frames a soft, radical perspective of the Black gaze. Authentic and essential.

10th-16th August
Black Star Square+ Nationalism Park

22/07/2026

Coming to Chale Wote 2026

The trumpeter Garshong plays for the Black Stars, he blows a a defiant horn, a brazen cry against the oppositional winds worldwide .His is an undying love, a breath that refuses to go away... Blowing above the fray with a magic that is pure grit. At Chale Wote, he and his band, Garshong Afros Band, will transmute that energy into a cathedral of sounds. Don't miss his performance.

10th- 16th August

Black Star Square + Nationalism Park

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32 Saka Tsuru Street
Accra

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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