AWADGLOBAL
African Women’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Development Global
AWADGlobal is dedicated to African women’s cultural arts and heritage promotion and preservation. This is delivered through impactful cultural storytelling to ensure it is understood, valued and accessible to everyone. AWADGlobal promotes African Women’s arts and cultural heritage in a variety of ways including working collaboratively and in partnerships with other African and non-African community groups and various organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors regionally, nationally and internationally.
AWADglobal
AWADglobal
AWADGlobal is a platform that inspires, empowers, and motivates grassroots African women to adapt their cultural arts and craft heritage knowledge and skills for opportunities, especially in mainstream organisations including education, health and museum arenas needing to demonstrate high standard practice.
AWADGlobal is unique in that it has always been at the forefront of promoting and emphasising the critical role of African women’s arts and culture in global society. Similarly, as a leading registered charity for African women's arts and cultural heritage with a strong track record, AWADGlobal continues to spearhead the campaign for access to and utilisation of historical African artefacts in various mainstream sector archives, particularly in museums, institutions and industries.
Positive change
AWADGlobal carried out a variety of projects initiatives that built its distinctiveness from its beginning and has continued to do so in the UK and across Europe. AWADGlobal in its early years as the only African women lead organisation promoting arts and culture in England, especially in areas of this kind of work was not at all recognised or developed in the UK at the time. Today, most organisations and the general public have joined in promoting arts and culture in all areas of human and environmental sustainability and not just as an aesthetic.
HIGHLIGHTS
AWADGlobal has delivered groundbreaking projects that have influenced practices in mainstream public, private, and voluntary sectors, particularly in education, multiculturalism, diversity, environmental awareness, and health.
Key accomplishments include:
African Cultural Explainers (DFID)
Grundtvig Senior Volunteers for Intercultural Arts (European Funding)
Grundtvig Partnerships (European Funding, British Council Projects)
English Tea Heritage Project (Heritage Funded)
Ilera-Loro (African Women's Arts in Health) exhibitions and workshops in Manchester NHS hospital mental health wards
African Women's Arts Social Enterprise Training (European Social Fund)
International Cultural Exchange Training in the UK, hosting 12 African artists from Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Gambia (British Council and Arts Council funded)
Adire-Eleko (Yoruba Textile Arts) exhibitions at Bankfield Textile Museum, Liverpool Museum, and Quarry Bank Mill Textile Museum (Arts Council & Elephant Trust)