Centres for National Culture - Eastern Region - Ghana

The Centre shares common boundaries with Ghateco Junior Secondary School to the South, to the North, it shares the boundary with the Achaa house. On the West it shares the boundary with the Regional Police Headquaters and to the East the main road from Koforidua to Accra through the Aburi side.

The Centre has a beautiful Administration block and is still battling to finish the auditorium and the art galleries which are just 200 metres from the Koforidua Mamfe road.

The Eastern Region Centre is one of the active regions in Ghana. The Centre has several educative programmes some of which are nearly ten years old.

The Centre has an annual Poetry and Drama Festival running for five years now. It is aimed to inculcate and develop the communication skills in the Youth. This programme is designed also to encourage the students to write their own poems and plays.

Bishop Palmer-Buckle with Participants at the CampThere is the Bishop Palmer-Buckle Vacation Youth Camp which is a two week programme for Junior Secondary School students. It is a non residential camp where subjects that are not on the Ghana Education Service (GES) Curriculum are taught. Personnel from West African Examination Council (WAEC), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Value Added Tax (VAT), CEPS, Red Cross, Health Insurance, Fire Service, Police M.T.T.U. etc are contracted to lecture the participants. Our cultural practices are also taught. Greetings and their responses, art and craft, drama music and dance are some of the subjects taught at the camp. This programme is eight years old.
The programme is designed to keep the student's busy during the holidays. Otherwise the devil gives them other assignments.

Men learning how to wear traditional clothTraditional Cultural School is another programme of the Centre. Personnel of the Centre are on hand to teach cloth wearing, basic traditional dance steps, greetings and responses, the art of public speaking etc. This school is ten years old and has recently gone international as students from Israel,
Germany, Holland, Sweden, Columbia, U.S.A. and Britain come to learn. Tuition in the school is free.

The three year-old Cultural Week is a mini NAFAC programme the Centre started. Seminars, Lectures, Craft, Traditional Medicine and the indigenous industry and technology are put on display during the two week programme. The Programme also tries to unearth new Tourism sites in the region.

Several institutions are roped into this programme as no institution in this country can deny not having an element of our culture as their backbone.

The Eastern Region Centre for National Culture has a powerful Research desk that works seriously into most of our cultural practices to preserve and document them for posterity.