Master Folklorist

Gift Amu Logotse: is an experienced creative and performing artist, established trading as

Amu’s Cultural Arts Services (ACAS) 2022.

Amu has collected over 500 traditional and new stories based on continental African concepts and values, observations, and social commentary. For the past 40 years from Ghana, London, Scotland, and mainly around Scotland UK, Chief Amu shared his stories, both illustrative, narrative and interactive, with participants from the nursery, primary schools, secondary schools, colleges, church groups, community groups, universities and corporate team building workshops.

Chief Amu was born and brought up in Accra in Ghana, but his cultural roots are with the Ewe village in the Volta Region of the country. He sees himself as a tradition bearer and his work as symbols of communication.

Since coming to settle in Scotland, he has been involved in many professional and community arts projects and classes, often working with local artists, dance, drama groups and musicians. He travels widely throughout Scotland and beyond, offering practice-based creative workshops in schools, youth centres, and community settings. Chief Amu’s work in formal education settings is designed to enable inclusive creative participation, engaging with cross-curriculum creative learning, from primary to higher education. Amu offers creative interactive storytelling, creative drumming and creative decorative arts & craft workshops, enabling all to take part and get creative.

• Chief Amu is passionate and able to connect as a team – player with other people in my core team.
• As a Creative and Performing Artist with some valuable experience in teaching, capable of mastering my brief, enabling and could inspire creativity by sharing my skills with people I will be working with.
• Happy to blend in with concepts and values that form the foundation of your establishment’s able and welcoming environment that invites individuals to share their ideas and learn how to bring their visions contributions to life too.
• Aware and willing to work alongside others who are equally knowledgeable teammates just as eager to share their skills as they are to learn more. Nothing gives me the pleasurable thrill of empowering a customer to create and confirm something wonderful by choice for themselves with my help in good faith.
• Confirmation of practical Key Skills.
• Able to facilitate opportunity, fostering a passion for recreational or education with the ability to instruct in a “hands-off” manner, letting users follow the activity or learn by hands-on personal exposure by doing.
• I have the ability to present by teaching materials, content to small groups, or coach multiple customers simultaneously.
• Tenacity to work with users until they truly become independent and able to create on their own. time constructively with pleasure.

Chief Amu is available for booking by appointment only From 2022 onwards directly

Activities on offer:

•  CREATIVE & DECORATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS
•  CREATIVE DRUMMING WORKSHOP
•  INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING / CREATIVE STORYTELLING
•  SESSIONS FOR ALL

Publicly published a sample of my work over the years before the pandemic

 

⦁ https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/chief-govan-amu-helps-scots-8933599

⦁ https://tracscotland.org/storytellers/gift-amu-logotse/

⦁ https://www.facebook.com/theafricanartscentre/photos/

 

Gift Amu-Logotse

chiefamu@acas.com
africanartscenter2022@aol.com
info@friendsofwumenucommunityfarm.org