Meli Creatives is an African interdisciplinary creative research cultural diplomacy organisation connecting arts, knowledge, heritage, and innovation to transform communities across Africa.
1. Omo Ghana
The music score of the documentary film ‘Omo Ghana Man For Chop’ produced at Meli Creatives is an extraordinary collaborative endeavour between two multidisciplinary artists Gameli Kodzo Tordzro of Ghana and Ben Liseche Mukabwa of Kenya. The film is a docudrama narrative produced at AI Media in Accra, reflecting on the expulsion of undocumented migrants including one million Ghanaians from Nigeria in 1983. The film among other things, promotes a positive narrative on migration.
2. No Borders
No Borders is. Sequel to Omo Ghana, with a concept and script development based on the ancestral links between people across Africa. It addresses the forgotten histories and connections that supersede colonial and state borders of present day state borders inviting Africans and African states to consider the possibility of a borderless African continent.
3. Music Across Borders
The Music Across Borders documentary film directed by Gameli Tordzro is on how music crosses various borders. It responds today’s migration debates and explores how music encounters and crosses borders to impact on people across the world.
Danish musician Katrine Suwalski, her band Another World, collaborate with Ghanaian musicians. The film treats music as language - it explores the musicality of language
NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND: Musical direction, devising, co-creation and Performance in Last Dream (On Earth) Presented by Kai Fischer in association with National Theatre of Scotland, Last Dream (On Earth) interweaves a driving music score with accounts of those who risk their lives for a distant dream. Won the CRITICS AWARD FOR THEATRE IN SCOTLAND 2015 Musing And Sound Category.
We have also worked on the following as consultants -
WRETCHED THEATRE LONDON: As Directors mentor for two collaborating directors, as and Script Consultants and Music Director for ‘On Missing’.
Music direction for the R&D of ‘A Dozen Things I Would Rather Do’ and by Nick Ishmael Perkins
This short film and its music created by Dr Gameli Tordzro is a Glasgow Museums Commission on Ghanaian Kete Wedding Gown ‘Obaa Sima‘ by Naa Densua Tordzro
The short film explores connections between Ghana and Scotland and how fashion and textile can be seen as a ‘bridge’ by which those connections can be lived and experienced. The 5-minute short film on fashion and textile links the sights and sounds of Scotland and Ghana with music composition for Ha Orchestra with the recording of Azorli Blewu and Desert Rain. Glasgow 2017.
A lively music making workshop for everyone.
AdinkraLinks International Network of Poets publishesI the Adinkra Anthology series and the Conversational Poetry Series
We facilitate artistic research through indigenous knowledge and multidisciplinary practice, in community theatre, radio, film, music, folktales and textiles and fashion. In this video produced at Meli Creatives, Dr. Gameli Tordzro - with support from the UNESCO RILA, - leads Ha Orchestra in a presentation at the European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2019. A University of Edinburgh Commission.