Ehalakasa

The Artists

Poets, storytellers, and slam champions — the voices of the movement.

Faiba Bernard

Faiba Bernard

FAIBA BERNARD
Spoken Word Poet
“All my womb of words birth multiple off springs of meanings, and to enjoy the listening, please push deeper” – Faiba Bernard

Faiba is a multiple award-winning Ghanaian Artiste whose Spoken-Word pieces are informative and distinctive in nature as they have constituents of in-depth knowledge into the subject matter.
He employs poetic devices in a way that projects his word play to scream out Loud which ends with a scar of smile on the face of your mind.

He is also an Actor + Playwright + Screenwriter + Theatre Director + Film Director

He is a core Poet of the acclaimed Poetry fraternity EHALAKASA. He currently holds the title as the Poetry Slam Champion.

He is one of the most sought after spoken word artistes when it comes to coperate events. He has had a good run of excellent performances at the various serial comedy shows in Ghana; Laughline, Comedy Fiesta, Romanus Incomplete. He is always called back because audiences speak highly of his exquisite delivery and unorthodox flow.

A fan professed; “Faiba is too good. he weaves words together colorfully, as though he is a Bonwire fashion designer; more like a Bonwire Words Designer”

He is a co-winner of the West Oakland-to-West Africa (WOWA) Slam contest that saw West African Poets from EHALAKASA beat Poets from West Oakland, USA.

He plied his trade at Ananse Entertainment as Lead Writer/1st Assistant Director. He is the recipient of AiF filmfest Best Actor award, two Best Writer and Two Best Director awards amongst others.

Berlene

Berlene

Berlene is an excellently versatile spoken word poet who believes in expressionism through literature.
Her works’ genre cuts across social, economic, domestic, cultural and of course, romance.
Given her versatility, she writes poems for publications and spoken word poems as well.

She finished as 1st runner-up at the 2019 Ehalakasa National slam Championship.
Also, she won the Poet of the year award at the GAW world Poetry Day event in 2018.

Her utmost quest as she states;
“I want to cut people deep with my narrative that they may bleed different different colours of emotional responses”

Grace Louise Wood

Grace Louise Wood

Grace Louise Wood is a British-Jamaican writer, artist, educator and curator.
She has been living and working in Ghana since 2018, running education programmes
for the UK Government, and writing poetry.

She is an alumnus of Barbican Young Poets, and performed at their poetry showcase in 2013.
Her poems have been published in ‘Human Parts’ on Medium, Drama Queens Ghana COV-19 Zine 2020,
and Tampered Press 5th Issue and 6th Issues in 2021.


She performs her poems at events in Ghana, including ‘The Offering’ at Greenleaf Café Tema,
‘Arts Nkwa’ at The Canvas Accra in 2020, Ehalakasa ‘Talk Party’ in 2021, and the
Tampered Press 6th Issue launch in 2022