Ashanti Region - champions in National Arts Festival

Kumasi, Sept. 15, GNA - The Ashanti Region emerged the overall champions in the seventh National Festival of Arts for Senior High Schools (SHS) held at Tamale in the Northern Region. The one-week festival, which had the theme; "Promoting Our Culture through Healthy Living", attracted participants from all the 10 regions of the country.

They competed in choral music, vocational and visual arts, sight singing, poetry recital, dance and drum language. Presenting the trophies and certificates to Mr Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, the Ashanti Regional Director of Education in his office in Kumasi on Friday, Mrs Georgina Acquah, the Regional Cultural Officer of the GES, said the Region came first in the choral music and placed third in poetry recital.

Additionally, she said the Region came fourth in four other disciplines including sight singing, dance, vocational and visual arts and drum language.

Mrs Acquah praised the resource persons and other stakeholders whose support and encouragement contributed to the region's enviable achievements.

She noted that for two consecutive years, the Region has maintained the overall first position in the National Festival of Arts, not only in the SHS level, but also in the basic education level. Mr Onyinah commended the officers, participants and all those who contributed to the achievement of the region. He promised to continue to offer all the needed support and encouragements to enable the region successfully defend its enviable position.

Mr Onyinah admonished other subject areas to emulate the feat of the cultural unit to enhance the region's image.