Institutions

Arts Collaboratory

Arts Collaboratory (AC) is a translocal ecosystem consisting of 25 diverse organisations around the world focused on art practices, processes of social change, and working with broader communities beyond the field of art.

In our ecosystem knowledge and strengths are brought together and harvested in processes of collective organisation. It is a radical experiment in exploring the potentiality of art and social transformation.

Assemble UK

The Centre collaborated with Assemble UK on the British Council Digital Collaboration Fund (2022). Assemble is an art studio and collective working across art, architecture and design, based in London, UK. Assemble delivered a diverse and award-winning body of work while retaining a democratic and co-operative working method that enables built, social and research-based initiatives at a variety of scales – from furniture and textile objects to buildings and art exhibitions. Assemble was awarded the Turner Prize in 2015.

The University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria)

The University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria) and the Nubuke Foundation (Ghana) have been working together for years in a spirit of fruitful partnership. This cooperative relationship is based on shared appreciation of diverse cultures, active interest in various traditions and forms of practice, active interest in storing knowledge, in perspectives and visions, as well as the joy we have in learning together – from each other and with each other – with a view to contributing constructively and collaboratively to solutions of current and future problems.

The team of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, under the direction of Barbara Putz-Plecko and Christoph Kaltenbrunner, found tremendously active, visionary and reliable partners in the team of the Nubuke Foundation, and in particular in Odile Tevie and Kofi Setordji. The University is pleased to be able to pursue, step by step, the objectives set forth in the memorandum that both teams jointly formulated. In February 2018, the University of Applied Arts, Vienna team organised a dyeing workshop with the Centre. It was facilitated by Ladji Barry, a dyer and artist from Mali, was part of the team that participated in the 2023 Woori: A Festival of our Weaving Tradition.

Producer Enterprises Promotion Service Centre (PEPS-C)

The Producer Enterprises Promotion Service Centre (PEPS-C), a not-for-profit organisation established in February 1986 by the Brothers FIC, has been supporting the Centre by donating yarns and looms. In addition, it has been offering technical support during Woori: A Festival of our Weaving Tradition.

Our mission is to promote viable producer enterprises towards sustained employment of the skilled for the development of the individual and north-western Ghana. This is to ensure total sustainability of all enterprises being promoted.

To mobilise students being churned out from vocational/technical schools (Nandom Technical, St. Agnes, St. Basilide, and St. Clare’s Vocational Schools) for self-sustainable employment. To help curtail the immigration of the youth drifting from the northern part of Ghana to the southern part in search of non-existent jobs. To improve the living standard of people by creating more employment opportunities thereby enhancing the income levels of the rural poor, particularly in the north-western part of Ghana.

We offer skills training in business management, marketing, costing, book-keeping, ICT, leadership training, etc. Provision of start-up capital in a form of a revolving loan. Input credit particularly tools, equipment, building and weaving materials. Provision of office spaces, workshops, and residential accommodation.

PEPS-C operates in 5 zones (Wa, Tumu, Hamile, Nandom, Jirapa-Nadowli), all located in the Upper West Region.

Centre for National Culture Upper West Region

The Centre for National Culture has been providing technical support during Woori: A Festival of our Weaving Tradition. The Centre for National Culture was created out of the then Arts Council of Ghana, now National Commission on Culture and established its branch in the Upper West Region in 1983. The main function of the Centre is Cultural Administration. It initiates the implementation of artistic and cultural programmes in the region using the district cultural centres as focal points.

Upper West Ghana Tourism Authority Regional Office

The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) was established by the Tourism Act 2011 (Act 817). The GTA is the main governmental agency under the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture responsible for promoting sustainable development of the tourism industry both locally and internationally. The Upper West Ghana Tourism Authority Regional Office was created in 1994.

As the implementing agency of tourism policies, the authority regulates tourism enterprises such as accommodation, food and beverage, travel and tour and charter flight operations through registration, inspection, classification, and licensing.

In addition, the GTA Regional Office promotes and markets tourism both in and outside the region through publication of tourism promotional materials, participation in fairs and exhibitions and organization of special events. It is also the role of the GTA Regional Office to carry out research and studies on trends in the tourism industry both at tourist sites and accommodation establishments to aid decision-making.

Our vision as an Authority is to be the main driver for the growth of tourism and to see Upper West Region become the leading sustainable tourist destination in Ghana by 2026. The Ghana Tourism Authority is committed to service excellence, building a highly motivated and dedicated staff, responsible tourism, fairness, transparency and accountability, stakeholder partnerships and the preservation of our cultural heritage.