The company has worked with a pool of experienced Artists, who lead an innovative style of creative programmes.

Workshops are open to community, corporate individuals and groups, mainly between 3 and 30 participants.

(Depending on programme, space etc.)

Here is a brief summary of the many glorious groups of people we have encountered, these include:

1989 - 1991 Mint St Adventure playground - Borough, London.
1993 - 1997 The Afrikan /Caribbean project @ Mind - Tower Hamlets, London.
1996-2000 Survivors Poetry, National.
1998 - 1999 The Bird in the Bush Community Centre. - Peckham, London.
2000 - 2005 Evwreni 'Black artists of excellence' - National and international.
2001 - 2007 Pandemonium Vizions. - Deptford, London.
2001 - 2004 S.I.M.B.A at the Maudsley Hospital - Camberwell, London.
2002 - 2005 Kumani, Afrikan/Caribean Youth Cultural Group - Bristol.
2003 - 2004 The Morpeth Refugee project - A group that finds schools for young refugees

(based inside Morpeth)

2005 - 2006 London Youth - Canary Wharf, London.
2004 - 2007 'Team Academy' leading' two youth groups with the Together in Waddon project, Croydon.

It was this latter project that led to Asafo being offered a poet in residence at Haling Manor secondary school (2006) and out of this, was created the book and CD 'Our Voices'. This project also included working with :

Norbury Manor Business & Enterprise College for Girls,
The Archbishop Lanfranc School,
CACFO - Centre for Afrikan Caribbean Family organisation, where we worked with Elders and excluded boys.

Artists & Workshops

Amanzi calls upon hugely experienced and talented musicians, dancers and poets to lead the creative workshops.

AHF also work with business professionals. Experienced AHF practitioners offer public and private-sector training in creative workshopping and teamwork skills, passing their expertise on to people who can further perpetuate their knowledge. Alongside running regular training sessions with the teachers from Kazimba Ngoma they have worked with, staff from the Hammersmith NHS (2001) and staff and teachers from the Tulip project 1999) They have run teacher training courses and icebreakers for 'Baraza Arts' in Dulwich woods Nursery (2006) Godolphin school and Caversham Nursery in Slough (2004) and co-facilitated a 3 month teacher training/mentoring programme with Cultural Co-Operation(2003)

All workshops and training schemes are supported by learning materials. Over the years, AHF has built up a considerable library of poetry and song books, CDs, DVDs and videos. Many of these were created by AHF's themselves, whilst others were created by participants of the company's ETAC programmes. All are used to spread a positive educational message.

Amanzi's ETAC work forms part of their long term ambition of creating a Global Curriculum. This vision - the brainchild of the organisation's director, Asafo Gyata - is to establish schools and centres of learning, particularly in Africa and Latin America, where a global curriculum would be taught - a curriculum which has at its core, the principle concept of educating through the arts. Until that goal is achieved, Amanzi leaders continue to strive hard to reach as many people as possible with their musical and rhythmical teachings.