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The Arts Calendar, This Week, Next Weekend, Upper Week
…Compiled by John O Goetzinger & Macson Obojemuinmoin
Contacts: info@bookartville.com; toyin@bookartville.com
June 16, 2022
MUSIC
KARAOKE Night, Live Band Performance
Prudence Band @ Shades Lounge
After three-hours of one of the best Karaoke sessions in Lagos, Prudence Band takes the stage for its weekly Thursday performance at the busiest indoor bar & restaurant on Victoria Island.
Date: June 16, 2022 Time: 7pm
Venue: Shades Lounge, No 1, Anifowoshe Street, VI
Contact: +2349085694327
June 16, 2022
MUSIC
OPEN MIC at Bogobiri
The Open Mic Night at Bogobiri House in SW Ikoyi is one of the oldest, consistent “parties” in Lagos. The next iteration of this event is:
Bogobiri Open Mic Night
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2022.
Time: 7 PM.
Venue: Bogobiri House, 9 Maitama Sule Street, Off Raymond Njoku street, Ikoyi.
RSVP: 07068176454
JUNE 18, 19, 2022
THE STAGE
The Two Both of Us, this month at Terra
Paul Ugbede’s The Two Both Of Us is on stage at Terra Kulture’s open air lawn, called the Garden. The current production opened on Saturday June 4, at 5.30pm, running every Saturday and Sunday in June 2022 (, 18th , 19th, 25th, 26th ) at 5.30pm and 7.30pm.
The Two Both Of Us stars Awesome Duru, May Okanigbe, Adetutu Adelanke Mogaji and Chioma Okechukwu. It is directed by Ifeanyi Eziukwu and Bunmi Awolowo.
June 17, 2022
MOVING PICTURES/ STILL IMAGES
Tam Fiofori @ 80
The arthouse crowd congregates to celebrate Tam Fiofori, iconic photographer, filmmaker and culture vulture, who turns 80.
A late afternoon of conversations, tributes, and concert, will hold June 17 at te Freedom Park, on Lagos Island
Confirmed Speakers include: Adewale Maja -Pearce (onsite), Juliet Maja Pearce (Virtual), Maxim Uzoatu (virtual), Don Barber (on-site), Femi Odugbemi and Toyin Akinosho.
June 19, 2022
MUSIC
SUGA’S Sunday Show @ Shades
Lagos City’s largest indoor Bar plays host to the widely acknowledged O’Suga Band this Sunday. The group christened: Sugarman &The Crossroad Band, is beloved in the barroom circuit for the extensive strumming antics of its acoustic guitarist. But the singers are also as comfortable with rendering afrobeats (Naija Hip Hop, Naija R&B) as the guitarists are adept at stretching the rock effect, so the band delivers a full bodied, diverse sound range, fit for the multiracial crowd at the Shades bar on Sunday evenings.
Venue/Dates/Show Time: Shades, No 1, Anifowoshe Street, Off Kofo Abayomi, Victoria Island: June 19, 2022. Time: 7pm.
June 22 -25, 2022
PAGES
WAHALA in Lagos
The Anglo-Nigerian writer Nikki May will be in Lagos from mid to late next week, reading from her novel, WAHALA. She will also do radio appearances and TV interviews. Born in Bristol, England and raised in Lagos, May ran an advertising agency before turning to writing. WAHALA, her debut novel (published in Nigeria in 2022 by Narrative Landscape Press), “was inspired by a long (and loud) lunch with friends” according to goodreads. It is being turned into a BBC TV drama.
Ongoing Show
IN THE GALLERY
kó Features ‘Austere Imaginary’
kó Art Gallery opens Austere Imaginary featuring works by Maryam Moma, Taiye Idahor and Mobolaji Ogunrosoye.
Austere Imaginary explores the delicate craftsmanship of paper assemblage through profiling the works of three Nigerian women collage artists.
Venue/Dates/Show Time: 36 Cameron Road, Ikoyi, Lagos Opening June 4- 4pm-8pm; Exhibition runs from June 4-18, 2022.
June 23 -25, 2022
PAGES
African writers pour into Ibadan
It’s been 60 years since that landmark African Literature Conference in Kampala, during which, among many incidents, Achebe discovered Ngugi. The Pan African Writers Association is facilitating the diamond jubilee anniversary of that epoch making literary gabfest at which, some say, the foundation floor of African literature-in -English was properly cemented.
Audience expected: Over 100 writers and literature enthusiasts from 40 countries.
Date: June 23-25
Theme: Literature Since Makerere 1962: The African Writers’ Pan-African Agenda For Peace, Security and Cultural Development.“
Hosts: Pan African Writers Association, PAWA/ Nigerian Academy of Letters, NA/ Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA,
Keynoters:
- Bernth Lindfors (Professor), renowned expert on African Literature,
- Ashraf Aboul-Yazid. award-winning Egyptian Journalist and Poet.
Lead Papers:
- Femi Osofisan (Professor of Drama and Nigeria’s most performed playwright)
- Virginia Phiri (Zimbabwean activist and writer, author of Destiny (Corals Services, 2006), Highway Queen (Corals Services, 2010), Desperate (Xavier F Carelse, 2002 & 2013))
- Sarah Anyang Agbor, (Cameroonian), Professor of African and Commonwealth Literatures
June 22 -25, 2022
PAGES
WAHALA in Lagos
The Anglo-Nigerian writer Nikki May will be in Lagos from mid to late next week, reading from her novel, WAHALA. She will also do radio appearances and TV interviews. Born in Bristol, England and raised in Lagos, May ran an advertising agency before turning to writing. WAHALA, her debut novel (published in Nigeria in 2022 by Narrative Landscape Press), “was inspired by a long (and loud) lunch with friends” according to goodreads. It is being turned into a BBC TV drama.
June 25, 2022
PAGES
Unveiling: The Strange Moon of Yenagoa’
Poet and culture producer Samuel Osaze, will unveil his new collection of poems ‘Der Falsche Mond von Yenagoa /The Strange Moon of Yenagoa’ to the public.
Date: June 25, 2022
Venue: Goethe-Institut Nigeria at 7b, Anifowoshe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Time is 12:00 prompt.
It is the author’s second collection.
Osaze’s book launch is also the inaugural edition of a new programme of the Goethe-Institut Nigeria, The Goethe-Institut Readers’ Corner.”
June 25, 2022
GABFEST
More than Hustle and Hustlers
Aduke Gomez has convened and will moderate a panel session, focused on the creative activities in Lagos, at the Lagos Studies Association (LSA) Conference.
Date 5:30PM – 7:00PM
More than Hustle and Hustlers:
Intellectual and Creative Activities in Lagos
Session 10H (June 25)
Please click the link below to join the session:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89746075452
Chair and Organizer
Aduke Gomez (Independent Scholar) adukegomez@yahoo.com
Discussants
Lawon Adams (Founder, Loving Lagos) lawonsdams@yahoo.com
Joke Silva (CEO, Glover Hall and Chair of Contemporary Center for Art) ajoke.mfv@gmail.com
Toyin Akinosho (Publisher of BookArtVille, and Co-founder of the Lagos Book and Art Festival) toyin@bookartville.com
Ongoing Show
IN THE GALLERY
Fragile by German Artist/Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, at Art Twenty-One, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Lagos.
“Following on stops in Kinshasa, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, Yaoundé, Accra and Abidjan, German artist Wolfgang Tillmans’ Fragile comes to Lagos. The work of Wolfgang Tillmans occupies a prominent position in the contemporary art world. His oeuvre encompasses pictures of club culture in the 1990s, abstract works based on extreme formal reduction, the beauty of the everyday and pictures of the sublime, a sensual gaze full of physical desire and an analytical perspective with great social and political awareness. His approach can be seen as an appeal for freedom and invitation to meet the other fearlessly and with open-minded curiosity. For Tillmans, acceptance of the fragility that determines us as individuals and that plays into our relations with each other is not a weakness – it is a great strength”-Art Twenty One Gallery.
July 10 & 11, 2022
THE STAGE
Cream Body, Kininso Productions
