Upcoming at Hechtech Theater...
Ghana Must Go (and Come)
an evening of prayer, talk, music, dance and entertainment
Who can make a home in your neighborhood? And can you make a home in the neighborhoods of others? When you leave Ghana, do you lose your roots? Or does your family line (abusua) remain unchanged no matter where you are and no matter how long you are away?
Come ponder such questions at the Hechtech Theater in Osu, Accra. Meet foreigners in Ghana striving to build a life here among us. Your host recently made Ghana his home, having spent a lifetime trying to build homes in a dozen countries around the world.
Also, meet Ghanaians who left Ghana for to all different parts of the world, some who suffered and some who thrived. A lawyer will be here to explain the often-tricky rules of moving to a new country: getting visas, gaining citizenship. A local linguist will lay out customary law on what might happen to your property in your abusua when you leave Ghana. And what your obligations are to provide remittances while you are away.
Come listen to stories of exile: The Christ child was a refugee when he fled Judea to Egypt (Matthew 2:13-15). King David’s grandmother Ruth was an immigrant to Judea from Moab (Ruth 4:1,7; Matthew 1:5-6). A Fanti elder will reveal how the ancestral rock at Nananom Mpow in Central Region came to mark the Fanti’s new home after they migrated from Techiman in Bono East. A Ga leader will tell the story of Ga migration to Ga Mashie from Nigeria, and further back, from Israel. An African American will recount the ‘middle passage’ their forefathers embarked on from Ghana’s Elmina Castle and the obstacles they face now in returning.
And we’ll tell stories of Anansi the trickster spider, who journeyed to new lands and survived ordeals with sheer wit and cunning. There will be music and dance, tragedy and comedy, as we imagine new ways of journeying and belonging. You are invited to participate, whether you are going or coming.
@hechtech_osu Ides of March #performance at #hechtech #theatre #osu #accra #ghana, @Mizrama @Cadi🦋babe🥰💕@David ♬ original sound - hechtech
@hechtech_osu Nikolai Frank plays the piano while wearing shorts which offends Chango the god of fashion #Chango #pianogod #hechtech #accraghana ♬ original sound - hechtech
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Ides of March
(6pm this Friday 14 March)
hosted by David Hecht, Cyril the Sax on keyboard featuring:
Tiktok in Accra
Dancers Mizrama and Khadijah get electrocuted then somehow come back to life
Imam of Labadi
Rock of Islam Mosque Hassan Sinare Sowah and Deputy Imam Abdul Razak Adjei tell of the moon and recite Sura 91 الشمس
Astronomy in Accra
Coordinator at the Ghana Planetarium Sarah Abotsi-Masters will explain the lunar eclipse and other beautiful events we can currently see in the night sky, some of which may bring Armageddon. NOTE: If we are lucky, the planetarium will install a telescope on our roof top for us to look through.
Gospel in Accra
Lead worshiper from Ridge Church Henry Quist sings Redeemer which reveals “who showed the moon where to hide till evening”.
Ga tradition in Accra
Agban Nii Tetteh Ojetor Vth presents a talk drummer to talk about the burning down of Kantamanto market and the moon and stars
China in Accra
Singer and travel agent Anny Yiantian Cao: performing ‘Moon Represents My Heart’ 鄧麗君 -月亮代表我的心
Christianity in Accra
Evangelist Jim and Pastor Joseph Sai of Triumphant Tabernacle Church, will preach about the moon and pray
Julius Caesar in Accra
Scene II Act 2 – Caesar and wife Calpurnia. Feat: Gnima Edith Hecht singing Que sera sera
A unified theory of Accra
Social entrepreneur Suhaidatu Dramani explains the ironies of spiritual and political and family life
Acrobatics in Accra
who knows what they will do?
and more
inspired by guest of honour, opera director extraordinaire Julia Lwowski
Come spend an hour or two pondering the misfortune and doom that accompany March’s full moon. The month is named after Mars, Roman god of war and violence. “Beware the Ides of March” a soothsayer told an unbelieving Emperor Julius Caesar. Later that day his own senators stabbed him to death. One senator was Caesar’s best friend Brutus.
Just 77 years later, Judas would betray Jesus. The ancient world, governed by bickering deities and superstition, transformed forever. The Romans saw Julius Caesar as a god and crucified Christ but they came to embrace that crucifixion as the great sacrifice of One Being in Three.
Meanwhile back in Ghana 2025 AD, spiritual, cultural and moral battles are only just beginning. Here the math is also One makes Three, yet how many maketh the One? What powers do the moon and stars have upon our fate and the fate of our nation? What evil lurks in old traditions, and new? Que sera sera: ‘What will be will be’. But does God want you to stand idle? Ghanaians: defend yourselves against your doom.
Join us as we celebrate the survival of this year’s Ides of March and beware the next.
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