From August 28 to 30, 2017, a regional workshop was held at CELHTO-UA in Niamey (Republic of Niger) on "partnership with civil society in the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions and the charter of African cultural renaissance: what challenges? what solution? ".

The official opening of the headquarters and the launch of the activities of the Regional Center for Performing Arts in Africa (CERAV / Africa) took place on Monday, March 29, 2016 in Bobo-Dioulasso, on the sidelines of National Culture Week (SNC). Several cultural actors attended this ceremony sponsored by Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thiéba. The first of its kind in Burkina Faso, CERAV / Africa aims to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions.

The Regional Center for the Performing Arts in Africa (CERAV / Africa) organized the official launching ceremony of its activities on Monday March 28, 2016.
This launch, which took place on the sidelines of the 18th edition of the National Culture Week, was attended by certain members of the Government, customary, religious, administrative authorities and eminent personalities from the world of culture.

Inaugurated under very regrettable conditions, further delay of Prime Minister Paul KabaThieba, I am afraid that culture is once again the least of the concerns of this government. This neglect of culture pains me a lot.

he opportunity is really good for us to meet again today, here in Bobo-Dioulasso, with the friends and partners of Burkina Faso, for once again, “to add earth to earth” (as one of our “Living Human Treasures”) for the construction of an Africa proud, united and strong of its heritage and its richness of its cultural diversity.