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The Arts Calendar, This Week, Next Weekend, Upper Week

…Compiled by Lucia Ikediashi (+2348023181844) & John O Goetzinger

Contacts: info@bookartville.com; toyin@bookartville.com

JULY 30, 31

MOVING PICTURES/PAGES

Film Screening of the movie JAPA and Book Launch of The Nigerian Dreamers

JAPA is a film exploring the current trend of emigration and immigration in the Nigerian society.

The Nigerian Dreamers is a collection of stories which provide a front row seat on the experience of being a Nigerian

Venue: The British Council, 20 Thompson Avenue, Ikoyi

Ticket: Entry is free if only you register: tix.africa/refined.

July 30, 2022

THE STAGE

OSHARE: Problem No Dey Finish

A comic stage play directed by Jude Orhorha

Date: July 30

Venue: Muson Centre

Time: 3:00pm, 6:00 pm 

Tickets: ₦2,000 – ₦50,000.

JULY 31, 2022

PAGES/BOOK READING

July 29, 1966: Causes, Course & Consequences

A discussion of the book: Hubris: A Brief Political History of the Nigerian Army

Featuring the author Major General (Rtd) Akintunde Akinkunmi, in conversation with Tunji Ajileye

Venue: Onikan House, 23, Miltary Street, Onikan, Lagos Island Nigeria

Time: 5pm WAT 4pm GMT/ UTC 11am EST

Presented by Loving Lagos Ltd &Yxora Resources

Bookings: For Physical or Online attendance please contact +2348152475525

HAPPENING NOW

Call For Entries

AFRIFF 2022

Theme: Indigenous for Global

To take place November 6-12, 2022

Submit Film at http//filmfreeway.com/AFRIFF

For enquiries call +2348188005934.

HAPPENING NOW

Call For Entries

19th Abuja Film Festival

To take place October 31-November 1, 2022

Submit Film at http//filmfreeway.com/AbujaInternationalFilm Festival

For enquiries call +2348188005934.

HAPPENING NOW

Call For Entries

Eastern Nigeria International Film Festival

To take place November 16-19, 2022

Submit Film at http//filmfreeway.com/eniff

For enquiries www.eniff.com

JULY 31, 2022

MUSIC

Afrobeat acts: Kofo “The Wonderman” & His “The Daylight Stars” return to the big at the Freedom Park on Lagos Island on July 31. Show starts at 6pm. Ticket is ₦1,000.

ONGOING

July 15-August 31, 2022

IN THE GALLERY/FASHION

Dress Fela Fashion Competition

Towards Felabration 2022

Submission Opens July 15, 2022, Closes August 31, 2022.

JULY -31, 2022

IN THE GALLERY

ARTSPLIT Private Viewing

A Modern and Contemporary Nigerian Arts exhibition titled Ode to Mastery, featuring five prominent Nigerian artists t: Abiodun Olaku, Duke Asidere, Edosa Ogiguo, El-Dragg Okwoju and Oliver Enwonwu. 

JULY 31-AUGUST 7, 2022

IN THE GALLERY

IN BETWEEN-An Exhibition of Art & Craft

Presented at ART FACTORY, 32, Awofodu Street, Bariga

IN BETWEEN opens on July 31, 2022, prefacing and running through a weeklong festival of Drama, Masquerade Parade, Dance, and Seminar, christened EKO Theatre Carnival. 

Venue: Bariga Waterfront, Crown Art Factory, Bariga Precinct

Date: July 31- 7th August, 2022

Time12Noon Daily.

AUGUST 1-30, 2022

Olaosupa Art and Culture Training Academy

OACTA Summer School 2022

Venue: St Francis Oloyede Layout

Behind Urban Day School

Modakeke, Osun State

Contact: Oluseyi Ogunjobi, Ogunonire777@gmail.com

+2347039336310.

AUGUST 1- 7, 2022

CARNIVAL

EKO Theatre Carnival: Crown Troupe at 26

A weeklong festival of Drama, Masquerade Parade, Dance, Art Exhibition and Seminar, will run at the Crown Art Factory on the Bariga waterfront an s well as the Bariga culture precinct. Its a this culture enclave erected on the dream and vision of Segun Adefila, the crown head of the Crown Troupe experiment, which has spawned a factory of talents and creative effort producing a variety of culture products in the vicinity of the University of Lagos in the north of Lagos.

The Festival is essentially a fusion of street culture and high art.

Venue: Bariga Waterfrontt, Crwon Art Factory, Bariga Precinct

Date: 1- 7th August, 2022

Time: 9am till sunset.

AUGUST 4 -30, 2022

The Onobrakpeya Carnival: August Slice

 Bruce Onobrakpeya, patriarch of all of contemporary arts of Nigeria, is 90 in August 2022. The entire year has been dedicated by sundry organisations to commemorate the milstone. In August, the month of Onobrakpeya’s birth, the following events stand out in the year long calendar.

Conference: 60 YEARS OF CREATIVE GENIUS

Keynote Speaker: dele Jegede, artist and Professor of art

Speaker: Perkins Foss, Professor at Penn State University. Penn State University. Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Date: 4th – 6th August 2022

Venue: Onobrakpeya Art Centre, Agbarha -Otor, Delta State Sponsors: Urhobo Historical Society Urhobo Studies Association Contact: G. Darah, Professor, 0803 603 8913 3

Art Workshop: 24th Harmattan Workshop August Retreat

Date: 7th – 20th August, 2022

Theme: Bruce at 90, Probing Art on the flip side

Venue: Onobrakpeya Art Centre, Agbarha -Otor, Delta State

Supported by the Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation Contact Person: Sam Ovraiti 0803 307 2334 4

Church Thanksgiving Service and Reception Special Thanksgiving Service

Date: 30th August 2022.

Venue: All Saints’ Anglican Church, Montgomery Road, Yaba

Reception: Nikoms Event center also in Yaba, Lagos.

 Contact: Oghara Adebusuyi: 0809 992 3448 5.

Bruce Onobrakpeya: a long time coming

AUGUST 6 &7, 2022

MENACE

A stage play based on real events

Written by Benny Akinyemi-Finisher,

Directed by Moshood Fattah

Time: 3pm, 7pm

Venue: Lagos Oriental Hotel.

AUGUST 6 & 7, 2022

THE STAGE

EMIR SANUSI: Truth in Time is a stage play that dramatizes the life of Khalifan Muhammadu Sanusi, the 14th Fulani Emir of Kano. The play is written and directed by Ahmed Yerima and will be premièred in two cities across the country (Lagos and Abuja) on the same day: August 6, 2022.

Produced by Joseph Edgar’s Duke of Shomolu Productions, the details of the opening shows are:

LAGOS Venue: Agip Recital Hall, Muson Centre, Lagos

Date: 6th & 7th August, 2022

Time: 4pm and 6pm (2 shows daily)

ABUJA Venue: Musa Yaradua Centre

Date: 6th August 2022

Time: 4pm

Enquiries: Joseph 09096325791.

AUGUST 7, 2022

PAGES/Book Party

The 13th CORA-NLNG Book party for the shortlisted authors for the Nigeria Prize for Literature (NPL) will hold at Eko Hotel from 3pm on August 7, 2022 at Eko Hotel in Lagos. It is in honour of the 11 poets shortlisted for the 2022 edition of the NPL. They include Augusta’s Poodle – Ogaga Ifowodo, 2. Coming Undone As Stitches, Tighten – Iquo DianaAbasi, 3. Dispossessed – James Eze, 4. Ife Testament – Olusegun Adekoya, 5. Memory and the Call of Waters – S. Su’eddie Agema, 6. Neglected – Lucy Chiamaka Okwuma, 7. Nomad – Romeo Oriogun, 8. The Lilt of the Rebel – Obari Gomba, 9. The Love Canticles – Chijioke Amu Nnadi, 10. Wanderer Cantos – Remi Raji, 11. Yawns and Belches– Joe Ushie

Details here

August  12-14 2022

MOVING PICTURES

Film Festival at POP WKNDR

This Film Festival is part of a series of activities set to take place all weekends of August and September 2022 at Pop Beach in Ilashe, off the Lekki Expressway in the east of Lagos. It is part of a summer camp tagged: Pop WKNDR.

.Venue/Dates/Show Time: Pop Beach, Ilashe Beach, August 12-14, 2022.

AUGUST 17, 2022

PAGES

Managing Book Clubs in Libraries in Nigeria

A discussion featuring, Felicia Etim (Professor) and Professor Veronica Chinwe Anunobi (Professor & National Librarian). Lead speaker: Nkem Osuigwe (Ph.D, Library Studies) and Dominic Omokaro (Pastor, & President Nigerian Library Association)

Event hosted on Zoom by Richard Mammah, (President, Network of Book Clubs and Reading Promoters in Nigeria)

Date: August 17, 2022

Time: 4pm.

AUGUST 19-27, 2022

MOVING PICTURES

Realtime International Film Festival

Moments in Time.

August  19 2022

IN THE GALLERY

Art & Craft Festival at POP WKNDR

This Art &Craft Festival is part of a series of activities set to take place all weekends of August and September 2022 at Pop Beach in Ilashe, off the Lekki Expressway in the east of Lagos. It is part of  a summer camp tagged: Pop WKNDR.

Venue/Dates/Show Time: Pop Beach, Ilashe Beach, August 19-21, 2022.

AUGUST 27, 2022

MUSIC

Irie Vibes Fest

Irie Vibes Fest is a reggae concert for cervical cancer awareness. As you enjoy the music in the picturesque seaside atmosphere, you have the opportunity to determine how healthy you are via free medical tests. The fee for attendance is 40,000Naira. For boat/Cabana/Room, call 08023131844.

Venue/Dates/Show Time: Pop Beach, Ilashe Beach, August 27, 2022. Time: 7pm

SEPTEMBER 17 2022

Lagos Comic Con

www.comicconventions.com.ng

Landmark Centre, Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos.

DECEMBER 2-4, 2022

Hausa International Boks & Arts Festival

Theme: Being and Becoming

2-4 December 2022.

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