
The Arts Calendar, This Week, Next Wr Week
…Compiled by Lucia Ikediashi (+2348023181844) & John O Goetzinger
Contacts: info@bookartville.com; toyin@bookartville.com
MARCH 16-19, 2023
MOVING PICTURES
iREP International Documentary Film Festival
Theme: Documenting the Underserved: Agenda for Nigeria 2023
Dates: March 16-19, 2023
Venue: Freedom Park, Bariga, Ajegunle, Ejigbo, Ikorodu
Time: 12noon to 10pm Daily
MARCH 24, 2023
PAGES
Book Reading
Okey Ndibe reads from the novel: “Arrows of Rain”.
Date: March 24, 2023
Venue: Alliance Fracaise
Mike Adenuga Centre (Library)
9, Osborne Road, Ikoyi
MARCH 25, 2023
PAGES
CORA BookTrek
Simon Kolawole reads and discusses his “Fellow Nigerians, It’s All Politics”, a collection of essays.
Date: March 25, 2023
Venue: Roving Heights Bookstore
Retail Boulevard, Landmark Events Centre
Plot 263, Water Corporation Drive
ONGOING CALL-UNTIL MARCH 31
MARCH 25, 2023
MUSIC
The Vesta Orchestra returns with The Afri-Classical Music Concert
Venue: Contact-08021034889, 08058696010 for details
Date: March 25, 2023
MARCH 25, 2023
IN THE GALLERY
‘Tie & Dye Classes’ in Bariga
Date: March 25, 2023
Venue: Art Factory, 32, Awofodu Street, off Pedro Road, Bariga
UNTIL MARCH 26
OPEN CALL
MOVING PICTURES
‘Her Intellectual Property Story’
Open call to Abuja young female visual story tellers
Submit bios and portfolios to: Nigeria.office@wipo.int
MARCH 26, 2023
IN THE GALLERY
‘The Finale’
Art Showcase, Exhibition & Display
Date: March 26, 2023
MARCH 26, 2023
IN THE GALLERY
Yinka Davies Winds Down ‘The Finale’
Date: March 26, 2023
Time: 7pm
MARCH 31, 2023
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Dramatists
Deadline: March 31, 2023
Submissions: www.thenigeriaprizes.org
MARCH 31, 2023
PAGES/BOOK LAUNCH
Akin Adesokan launches second, non-fiction book
Book Title: EVERYTHING IS SAMPLED-Digital And Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters
Date: March 31, 2023
Venue: Phyllis Klotman Room, Black Film Centre & Archive,
Wells Library Basement
Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
MARCH 31/APRIL 1, 2023
THE STAGE
Ornaments Production
Presents
The Witness: A Musical Stage Play
-A unique story of the trial of Christ, as told by CLAUDIA PROCULA, the wife of Pontius Pilate
Venue: TerraKulture
Date: March 31/April 1, 2023
Time: 3pm & 7pm Daily
Contact: paystack.shop/the-witness-a-musical-stage-play
MARCH 31, 2023
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Playwrights
Deadline: March 31, 2023
Submissions: www.jamesenehenshawfoundation.org
APRIL 9, 10 &15, 2023
THE STAGE
Steve James’ “Handcuff”
Directed by Segun Adefila
APRIL 13, 2023
IN THE GALLERY
‘Subtle Reflections’
Art Exhibition by Saga Adeoluwa, Raji Bamidele & Ken Nwadiogbu
Date: April 13-30, 2023
Venue: Omenka Gallery, 24, Ikoyi Crescent
APRIL 15, 2023
PAGES
‘Women’s Group Bookclub Meeting’
Book reading and discussion around Ayobami Adebayo’s A Spell of Good Things
Date: April 15, 2023
MAY 22, 2023
MOVING PICTURES
Documentary Film Screening
Title: Igbo Landing
Written by Ikechukwu Erojikwe, Ebube Eze, Promise Ifesoluchi John, Nnamdi Thadeus &Emeka Uba