RFI Discovery Award Sia Tolno to perform in Accra on International Women's Day

Every year the world celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8. This year, African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) and Alliance Francaise (Ghana) will celebrate the day with a series of activities including a concert with award-winning musician, Sia Tolno at the Alliance Francaise.

The celebrations start at 6.30 pm with an art exhibition and reception themed, “Young African Women, Inspiring Futures”, featuring Adowa Amoah, Co-Director of the Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA) and Fatric Bewong, a painter. Although Adwoa’s medium is primarily painting, she experiments with installations and photography, which extends her language of expression to reflect contemporary situations. Fatric is a contemporary artist whose work incorporates a multifaceted approach to the vibrant colours, textures and rhythms of Ghana’s social landscape.

This exhibition is followed at 8.00pm with a concert featuring Sia Tolno, an award winning musician from Guinea and RFI Discovery Award winner of 2011, as well as Lady Jay Wah of Ghana who will perform a medley of inspiring music, including ‘African woman’, a song specially commissioned by AWDF. Ticket sales for this event are GHC10, with sales and a portion of any art pieces sold supporting AWDF’s ‘Arts, Culture and Sports’ thematic area.