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Les cours artistiques au CIAMO
Le Centre CIAMO donne gratuitement des cours artistiques aux écoliers de Ouidah et d’ailleurs. Cours de Guitare, de Batterie, de Piano, de Danse, de peinture, de Dessin, de Photographie etc….
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CIAMO et les Visiteurs
Le Centre CIAMO reçoit assez de visiteurs, parce que son expérience est unique au Bénin et en Afrique. Les Fondatrices, Ambassadeurs, Artistes internationaux, les responsables politico-administratifs du Bénin, des touristes, les télévisions
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Coup de peinture au CIAMO
Les volontaires vennant d’ailleurs servent le centre dans une multitude de capacité. Un volontaire americain et une volontaire anglaise ont travaillé avece l’equipe pour embellir notre batiment en faisant la peinture.
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Help CIAMO to get needed supplies!
(Voyez la version en francais en bas.) CIAMO needs your help! Two school-years have passed, and our supplies are dwindling. Your summer months will likely conclude with the purchase of school supplies for your children and grandchildren. Think about helping out CIAMO’s children too. If you have supplies you’d like to donate, you can: 1. […]
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The French Ambassador visits CIAMO
On February 7th, 2012 the French Ambassador to Benin, Jean-Paul Monchau, made his first official visit to our center. He was accompanied by a delegation of French diplomats including Patrice Leroy, special counsel on culture, and Remy Secret, head of the Institut Français (formerly CCF). They got to see CIAMO’s CM1 class in action, as […]
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International Voodoo Festival
CIAMO students represented well at the International Voodoo Festival held in Ouidah on January 10th. Led by instructors Sim and Romain, a group of festively costumed CIAMO children performed traditional dancing before a crowd of hundreds of people at the Point of No Return on the beach of Ouidah. Numerous dignitaries, including the ambassadors of France […]
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Performance at Sogbadji
Students at Sogbadji Elementary School performed this week in a pre-holiday concert highlighting their progress in courses at CIAMO. They impressed teachers, parents, and classmates with their new skills in percussion, traditional and contemporary dance, and trumpet. CIAMO continues to expand its influence in the community, reaching out to students of as many local elementary […]
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Festival Kaleta
This weekend, CIAMO students were featured at the annual Afro-Brazilian mask festival Kaleta, held in Ouidah and organized by cultural promoter and CIAMO administrator Wilfrid Houndje. The Kaleta festival is an event that draws from the masked carnival dances performed by African slaves in Brazil, who would use such carnival events as a way to […]
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Women’s Groups at CIAMO
This past weekend saw our first women’s group project here at CIAMO. We partnered with a NGO Impact by inviting mothers and their daughters here for a Saturday morning workshop to make books together. Eight mother/daughters teams (and even a few sons) attended. Lydia led the group in techniques for making accordion fold books, which […]
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Minicamp
This weekend CIAMO hosted a Minicamp for students of two area elementary schools. This exciting event coincided with the visit of CIAMO founder Sarah DuPont and artist-in-residence Leni Stern. Leni offered music workshops in collaboration with percussionist Paul Abikoye and trumpet player Magloire Ahouandjinou, drawing heavily from the local Fon musical tradition. On Sunday, the […]