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Lovers of Dance, Music and Drama this is your moment! The Society for the Performing Arts in Nigeria, SPAN presents its performing arts Festival called SPANFEST 2015! SPANFEST will host workshops and events using various tools of the performing arts including Dance, Music, Spoken Word, Visual art, Theatre and Comedy. The festival theme is titled:…
The British Library is celebrating Fela Kuti’s 77th birthday with a really impressive line up. Felabration marks the birthday of Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938-1997), the defining creator of the funk, jazz and rhythmic force that is afrobeat, which emerged in Nigeria in the 1970s. As well as a composer and multi-instrumentalist genius, Fela was a…
The Thespian Family Theatre & Productions with an overriding objective to be a change catalyst in our generation, in support of The Stand To End Rape Initiative brings to the stage, ‘Altine’s Wrath’ written by Femi Osofisan. This will be showing on Sunday 11th October and Friday 16th October at the National Theatre whilst the command performance…
Set in a land, not too far away from you. There lived a hardworking man, named Okonkwo, who never really had things easy in his early life, but worked his way to recognition. However, things took an unfortunate turn for Okonkwo; from a hero, he became the spite of Umuofia and was buried like a dog. What…
Great news! West Africa’s first international poetry festival will be making its debut in Lagos from the October 28th – November 1st 2015 with the Lagos International Poetry Festival. Headlining this year’s festival are some of the biggest names in the global literary space, poetry and spoken word, including Warsan Shire, London’s first young poet laureate, winner of…
Project Overview The Artists in Residency programme (AIR) has been designed to support and celebrate the achievements of artists from Africa who are provocative, innovative and highly engaged, both with social issues and their art forms. AIR works in partnership with residencies throughout the world to identify African artists and fund their airfare to the residency….
“The Butcher And The Bridge”, an electrifying musical on the power of faith and love in the face of debilitating terror. Following in the tradition of Spirit of David Gospel Dance Club’s powerful repertoire of 1st October productions, “The Butcher And The Bridge” is daring, radically different and wholly unorthodox! Billed to be Spirit of David’s most…
Kenyan visual artist Cyrus Kabiru fashions electronic trash into fabulously unique decorative eyewear. He openly speaks about his motivation to help the environment in a short AJ+ video and on his website. Read below; Cyrus Kabiru currently practices in Nairobi. He is a self taught painter and sculptor. …His sculptural work embodies his role as a “collector” of…
“If you didn’t understand the book, come and watch the play” – Brenda Uphopho (Producer ‘British Council’s Lagos Theatre Festival 2016/2017′) Madmen & Specialists is set in the aftermath of the civil war and the resultant debilitating effect on the citizenry as civilians or military. Bero a doctor left his practice to participate in the…
Nigerian producer, emcee and Dj, Kraftmatiks was tapped for the final leg of the BMX Flatland’s epic African journey, which continued to its third and last destination: Lagos, Nigeria. During the Nigerian performances, the team brought back the Bike N’ Mic concept that mixes BMX flatland with hip-hop music – both worlds are connected in…
The art project Whose Centenary? is a critical analysis of significant historical aspects of Nigerian social, political and cultural memory, with a particular emphasis on 1914. The exhibition will explore themes around the centennial commemoration of the amalgamation of the northern and southern regions of Nigeria and the multilayered nature and prevalent results of colonialism…
Madonna reinvented herself and her ”girls” on the cover of Interview’s Art Issue. The pop phenomenon born Madonna Louise Ciccone in Michigan in the year 1958 is a singer, songwriter, actress, filmmaker, and pure entertainer. Madonna was photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, she can be seen in the picture below with a daisy in…
The picture often referred to as the “Champagne Incident,” is Jean-Paul Goude’s picture, titled “Carolina Beaumont New York, 1976,”. The image is from the 1976 spread of Esquire Magazine called the “French Correction.” The aim of the spread was to play with the changing proportions of people’s bodies. Goude re-created this famous shot for the…
This year’s edition of the Lagos Jazz Series starts in 2 days. The event which will see headlining acts Ola Onabule, Orlando Julius and Lura getting support from other talented African artistes like Chocolate City’s MI, Jesse Jagz, Seun Kuti, Timi Dakolo, Ruby Gyang and many more others, promises to live up to its reputation….
Blackhouse Media and Mydream gallery today announced a one of a kind art exhibition titled Against All Odds. The exhibition will be showcasing the works of one of Nigeria’s most celebrated painters, Zinno Orara, in dedication to his Wife, Adaora-Zinno Orara, who is battling breast cancer against all odds. Billed to take place from Friday 5…
Eko Moves by Yetunde Ayeni Babaeko and dance by the Society for the Performing Arts of Nigeria (SPAN) Date: Sunday, November 30, 2014 – February 15, 2015 Venue: The Wheatbaker 4, Onitolo (Former Lawrence Road) off Gerrard, Ikoyi, Lagos
Over the weekend, the third edition of the Love Is Musical show held at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos, and was indeed a magical moment for the guests who had come out to experience the fun. The event, hosted by Andre Blaze, had celebrities includingMo Abudu, Yaw, Julius Agwu, Timi Dakolo, Yinka Davis and Noble…
This November, something fresh and unique will be hitting the Lagos art and entertainment circuit. Finding Home, a theater piece delivered entirely in spoken word poetry, and scheduled to tour across Africa, will make its grand debut at Terra Kulture on the 14th of November. Finding Home follows ten dynamic characters across Africa, abroad, and…
Snapping Cities is an opportunity for photographers of all abilities and ages, to capture through their own lenses, urban life in Africa. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) is seeking images that capture inspiring ways of tackling urban challenges in African cities.
This August, artists from across the continent and the world are meeting in Accra, Ghana for this year’s Chale Wote Street Art Festival. Over 200 of the city’s artist will be creating collaborative projects between the 19th to the 24th of August, 2014.
‘’I will not accept an inferior position in the art world. Nor have my art called African because I have not correctly and properly given expression to my reality. I have consistently fought against that kind of philosophy because it is bogus. European artists like Picasso, Braque and Vlaminck were influenced by African art. Everybody sees that and is not…
Leonard “El Dragg” Okwoju is a genius, a master painter; he is also an art lecturer at the University of Benin. Once a teacher, always a teacher, right? Here he shares pictures of his creative process in pictures.