Accra hosted the primary go to of Professor Roy Horowitz, a distinguished Israeli actor, director, and dean of the theater division at Bar-Ilan College, making it a venue for cultural trade.
The week-long go to, held from January 25 to 29, 2026 below the auspices of the Embassy of Israel in Ghana, featured an intensive program of educational actions, cultural exchanges and public dialogue, and highlighted the rising cooperation between Israel and Ghana within the area of the humanities.
Professor Horowitz led a two-part theater workshop at two of Accra’s most necessary cultural establishments: the College of Ghana College of Performing Arts and the Nationwide Theater of Ghana. Every workshop consisted of formal lectures and hands-on sensible classes, with a complete of over 100 college students taking part.
Beneath the theme “Welcome to Theaterland – Israel’s Theater Scene As we speak,” Professor Horowitz launched attendees to Israel’s vibrant theater tradition, usually described as a inventive powerhouse with performances carried out each evening in Tel Aviv.
The classes featured video excerpts from Israeli performs, textual content readings with college students, warm-up workouts, interactive quizzes, and open discussions, creating an lively and immersive studying atmosphere.
Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day
A very poignant second throughout Professor Horowitz’s go to occurred throughout the commemoration of Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2026.
The ceremony was collectively sponsored by the Embassy of Israel in Ghana, the Embassy of Germany and the United Nations, and was held on the residence of the German Ambassador, and was attended by over 300 visitors from various backgrounds, together with lecturers and college students from Accra Ladies’ Excessive College and Achimota College, in addition to college students from the College of Historical past and Spiritual Research on the College of Ghana.
Along with the official remarks, a panel dialogue included Professor Samuel Adu Gyamfi, a Ghanaian professor of Holocaust research on the Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Know-how (KNUST is Ghana’s solely college devoted to Holocaust research), and Professor Horowitz, who spoke on “The Holocaust in Our Lives and the Israeli Theater.”
The dialogue was led by Roy Gilad, Israel’s ambassador to Ghana. The solemn occasion left a deep impression on the viewers with Barbra Streisand’s rendition of “Our Fathers, Our Kings,” music from Schindler’s Record, items by Vivaldi and extra carried out by the Accra Metropolis Singers and the Worldwide String Quartet.
Constructing bridges by way of tradition
The cultural dialogue continued at a dinner held on the Israeli ambassador’s residence, attended by Professor Horowitz and different key figures within the Ghanaian theater business, together with actors, administrators, and producers.
Contributors included James Ebo White, Latif Abubakar, Akofa Ejeani-Asiedu, Ajeti Anangu, Henry Herbert Malm, and others. The dialog centered on Israeli satirical theater and explored alternatives for future inventive cooperation between the 2 nations. Ghanaian theater professionals loved their time with Professor Horowitz and expressed their willingness to collaborate and collaborate with Israeli theater professionals.
“We’re already speaking concerning the (risk) of staging an Israeli play on the College of Ghana. Maybe co-directing it with somebody from the school or sending folks from right here (Ghana) to expertise the very wealthy and various theater that now we have. So the sky is the restrict so far as cultural trade is worried,” Professor Horowitz mentioned. “I can already see the frequent floor that we share the identical inventive outlook. The persons are heat and have a fantastic humorousness. It is a fantastic begin to a fantastic friendship,” he added.
Ms. Nitsa Gilad, Public Diplomacy and Cultural Affairs Officer on the Embassy of Israel in Ghana, thanked the varied events who took half within the knowledge-sharing session and referred to as for continued cooperation between Israeli and Ghanaian theater professionals.
“We wish to thank Dr. Sylvanus Kwasi Kwar, Dean of the College of Performing Arts on the College of Ghana, and Mr. Henry Herbert Malm, Performing Director of the Nationwide Theater, for his or her form cooperation. We additionally specific our deep gratitude to the Israeli Ministry of Overseas Affairs for his or her beneficial funding and unwavering help,” Mrs. Gilad added.
Professor Roy Horowitz’s go to highlighted the facility of theater and tradition as a bridge between nations, left a long-lasting impression on Ghana’s tutorial and inventive communities, and opened new avenues for cultural cooperation between Ghana and Israel.
