Colours, culture on display as Victoria Island carnival lights up Lagos
By Prisca Sam-Duru & Onyeka Ezike Victoria Island Lagos’ daily activities, usually marked by deafening sounds from corporate engines, horrific traffic and noise from several commercial activities are being replaced by a different kind of vibe – entertainment. This is as Downtown Promotions lights up the streets of Victoria Island with its unveiling of the maiden […]
Poet Abubakar Othman takes on cupid
The April 30 edition of the highly-acclaimed Guest Writer Session, an initiative of the Abuja Writers Forum, now in its third year, features Abubakar Othman, a poet-academic and political activist. The event kicks-off by 4pm at the Pen and Pages Bookstore, White House Plaza, Plot 79, Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja.
ArtHouse expands auction market:…introduces Jacob Jari, Krydz Ikwuemesi, Obi Ekwench, Macia Kure, Sade Thompson
The fortunes of most Nigerian and West African artists will change for good as ArtHouse Contemporary Limited , a company that is committed to establishing regular venue for the sale of modern and contemporary Nigerian and African art offers for sale 101 works of paintings, sculpture, mixed media works, prints and photographs by well known and emerging artists
Art is the basis of education, says Prof. Ola Oloidi
Next week Thursday, April 28th 2011, Ola Oloidi, professor of Art History at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, will be delivering his inaugural lecture titled, “The Rejected Stone
NTN offers Rhythm of the Nation for Easter
As part of its mandate of producing theatrical works that meet national aspiration, the apex performing institution in Nigeria, the National Troupe of Nigeria will this Easter stage a musical chorale concert titled, ‘The Rhythm of the Nation’. The concert will be directed by Dapo Omideyi with the ethnomusicologist, Femi Ogunrombi providing support.
Diana Evans, Orange Prize novelist, for Fidelity Creative Writing Workshop
Diana Evans, winner of the inaugural edition of the Orange Prize for Fiction has been selected along with British-Sudanese novelist, Jamal Mahjoub to teach at this year’s edition of the International Creative Writing Workshop organized by Fidelity Bank Plc.
