These items will be in the silent auction at the 21st Annual Anansi Auction on Saturday, October 4 (click here for event details). 1. Sankofa Bird From the Ashanti (Akan) People of Ghana, 22″ x 16.5″ Starting bid $100 Buyout $350 2. Awole Game Starting bid $15 Buyout $50 […]
Please join us at the 21st Annual Anansi Auction for dessert, West African art, and to learn about Anansi’s latest news! Below is a preview of the live auction items and three museum-quality pieces from the personal collection of Kathryn Roe. There will also be additional items priced for direct sale, and some silent auction items. Saturday, October […]
These three items from the personal collection of Kathryn Roe will be for sale at the 21st Annual Anansi Auction on Saturday, October 4 (click here for event details). Kathryn’s appreciation of West African art is what first brought her to Cote D’Ivoire and then Ghana, years before founding Anansi Education. Since the first Anansi […]
An update from Anansi founder Kathryn Roe: Greetings from Ghana. This report is an attempt to bring those of you who have been involved in our (as Bob McDonnell calls it) Ambitious Project up to date. I’ve been here in Mpeasem, Cape Coast, Ghana now for about a month and one half. Here is what […]
Christine Myers, a longtime friend of Anansi, recently visited Ghana and helped tutor in the Host & Teach workshops held for Anansi students. She wrote and shared the following essay about her experience. Thank you, Christine, for your energy, time, enthusiasm and generosity for Anansi Education and all our students. Ghanaian women in head […]
“Wie war’s in Ghana?” (written for German readers with little familiarity with Ghana) After my four-week stay in Ghana in December 2021, this short, friendly question was one I frequently heard. Answering briefly is, however, not easy. This would perhaps be my short answer: I encountered people who were for the most part dignified […]
Bob McDonnell is a long-time Anansi sponsor and supporter. He recently visited Ghana with a new friend to Anansi, Linda. He wrote this summary of his visit. Ghana, August 27-September 8, 2019 Last month I enjoyed a marvelous, deeply enjoyable trip to Ghana and Anansi Education. It fell naturally into three parts—before the Anansi academic […]
Matthew Wilkinson is an amazing seventeen year old American high school student who is spending this school year in Ghana via the YES international exchange student program. Just recently Matthew’s family moved to Bellingham. He and the other five YES students in Ghana helped the Anansi staff with their home visits for their next year student selection. […]
The following items will be for sale at the Anansi 14th Annual Auction to be held at the Mt. Baker Theater on May 12, 2018 beginning at 5:30 p.m. To buy on line or for more information about these items contact roekathryn@gmail.com before May 10. Yacouba Dancing Figures These small brightly dressed and colored figures are […]
Live Auction: The following items will be auctioned off on May 12th at the 14th Annual Anansi Auction to be held at the Mt. Baker Theater in Bellingham, WA beginning at 5:30. Proxy bids may be emailed to: roekathryn@gmail.com at least two days before the auction. Cote d’Ivoire Hippo. This lovely carved hippo, made from […]