Culture To The World: Arts Exhibition, Food Competition, Still life Drawing, Drumming & Dancing were performed

Hello Guys it's another great day to share with you! This is a full package of Culture to the World. We want as a nation to inculcate and instill our culture to the younger generation. Before this can be done, it must start from the grass root level. That's grooming the young generation and teaching them the various cultural that our forefathers taught us. Lately, we have seen that culture which is the most precious history of our nation is lacking behind since the youth don't learn and put into practice.

Going forward, apart from home, the school session serve as the next socialization institutions for instilling the cultural attitudes in our younger generation. There, we have well trained personnel for teaching the younger generation all on all the various aspects of culture we can learn and adopt.

It's against this background that all the various Districts in the Country is organizing cultural competitions for our basic schools across the length and breadth of the country. This is the third term 5th week in the academic calendar in Ghana Education Service. Every District in the Country is performing the cultural competition as given to them.

It has actually taking our school for couple of days to train our Cultural troops especially those who talented and wish to join the competition. Even though no one was exempted from joining this year's competition, but there many students who have interest and wish to exhibit what is within them so that they can shine in future. But no all the students in the school have the passion to be a great Anthropologist in future. The basic things about cultural are learnt by all the students.

We were about 20 schools gathered here in Nsuta Presby Junior High School park, including primary schools and Junior high schools. Each school was fully prepared base on the itinerary of cultural display given to them. But it isn't compulsory for each school to perform all the cultural activities given to them. A school could at least perform two or three activities base on the strength of the school.

There were beautiful arts exhibition displayed by the various schools for awards. The arts exhibition ranges of from the design of a house using paper cardboards, aeroplane, sandals, coal pot, the use of beads for making bags and money box, using wood for sculpture and painting, portrait arts, using clay to mold stadium with a ball and player. The were many things that were made by these talented students from the various schools. I couldn't even captured everything displayed here. Some students even shown their talents in dress making by taking measurements of some of the students and sewing dress for them. This is very good perform and good initiative since the students can develop their talents from this vacation and build upon so that in future she wouldn't beg for job, but would through this career pathway and become successful in life.

Students were allowed to showcase their talents in food preparation either local or continental dish preparation. Who knows, right from basic level to second cycle they may get opportunity to work in restaurants, hotels or set up their own catering businesses. The various schools who wished to prepare food were allowed within 2 hours to prepare food in this competition. My school was able to prepare Tuozaafi & Ayoyo soup, Zoomkom and some desserts. Other school also prepared Tubaani, Awaakye, chicken grill and some plain rice and many more.

No caterer or well trained cooker was supposed to be around here to support these students. Since they had already been trained before coming. Failure to comply with this basic rule would lead to deduction of some marks.These talented students were left alone to cook.

The start of the food competition by schools in action. All the items for the food preparation were well organized and displayed on tables. Most of them used charcoal and gas cylinder to prepare the food. Since they were given time range to prepare the food. They made sure that all their items are well set.

Students were allowed to showcase their talents on how best they would able to draw the items displayed in their midst from their point of view. These items put before the participating students were a box of oats, one plastic bottle of fanta, 3 packs of tin sardine, one loaf of bread. These still life art drawing students were placed about 3m away from the items to be view and draw.

Most students did marvelously well scoring 45 out of 50 and 40 out of 50. Most students are very serious when it comes to drawing. We applauded them for their spectacular handiwork.

This is one area that most students like and wish to develop their talents. Especially upon watching television and seeing some legendary musicians like Kwadwo Antwi, Daddy Lumba, Sarkodie and Diana Hamilton displaying during stage performance, it boost their morale to also develope their talents and become like these Music Artists.

Each school came with at least one of their own drumming and dancing and the additional compulsory dance given to them to rehearse. The compulsory one was about Warrior Dance. Most of schools came by their local dance.

The Drum language, Drama and Poetry Recital also took part of the time in the cultural festivity. Actually the program was very successful, but it was left with the announcement of the winners in this competition, the downpour began. So, we had to the panel for Culture promised to announce the winners through the heads of the various schools. We ended the program when it was 4:30 pm. We had to organize all the students around to pick up the litters of rubbers around and properly dispose them.