The Department of Creative Arts,University of Lagos came alive last week when it hosted the eleventh edition of Art Is Everywhere (AIE) workshop.

National Gallery of Art will today at the Margret Ekpo Cultural Centre Complex Calabar, Cross River State flag off its two day flagship programmes; National Symposium on Nigerian Art and its Annual Distinguished lecture.

Beginning from 6th December, 2012 to 12th January, 2013, lovers of African art will have swell time at the renowned Sokoto Gallery in the United States of America, where Egyptain artist, Sylvia Iskander will flag off her solo exhibition titled Mother Earth.

With the new provisions in the new proposed draft bill of the National Commission for Museums and Monument (NCMM), the commission is now empowered to prosecute those that have violated the nation’s heritage resources as well as artifacts’ looters.

The man Professor Ben Enwonwu, (Member of the British Empire), almost two decades after his transition remains an icon and a reference point in the annals of Visual Arts in Nigeria. Under him I first worked when I left Zaria. Indeed he was truly a mentor and a man whose influence on me remains till today. Through his mentoring, I came to realize the importance and power of mentoring in the lives of young protégés.

The present state of Nigeria’s high rate of unemployment and its resultant increase in dubious crimes committed by young people and children as well as the tendency by Nigerians to pass blames on one another makes Chile Ndukwe’s 35 Years Old Never A Fool At Forty a timely publication.

Obiageli’s Choice is the second novel of Katya Samuel-Anyagafu. The novel narrates the story of Nkiru and Obiageli who though are blood sisters, have two conflicting characters. The choices they make early in life which are clear portrayals of their natural behaviours are seen as responsible for shaping their future.

“Justice has been kidnapped in my country and nobody is willing to pay her ransom, she was absent at the tribunal when the verdict was given, so the marauders were declared winners even though the votes were phantom…”

WEAVING is an ancient craft of man dating to the early new stone age when he learnt to make a rough kind of clothing from the fibers of flax plants. Weaving is described as the orderly interlacing of fibres and pressing them together to make the cloth.

15 track gospel compact disc titled; Song of Unity from the porch of St. Michael Catholic Choir, Enyigogu Mbaise is a worthy re-invention of the dwindling Catholic Church music being continually threatened by modern day Pentecostal church songs.

With the recent publication of my first novel, Wings of the Night, on the Amazon website, I developed more interest in the Amazon Best Sellers Rank, an automated system that ranks every book sold through the website according to the volume of sale.

I thought Chinua Achebe has rattled Nigerian sensitivities with his recent book, ‘There was a country’ until I read Emmanuel Osuchukwu’s ‘1966 Crisis and the Evolution of Nigerian Politics’. The book is insightful and did not spare any punches in discussing vital aspects of Nigerian history and politics.

This book has 105 pages and it’s a Step Out of Creative publication based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. This is the first book by Mercy Tola Ojumu. From the beginning of the book, it is obvious that the author has great burden for women.

Dubbed the biggest cultural Picnic in Africa, the 14th Lagos Book and Art Festival(LABAF), which commenced on the 12th November, 2012, came to a memorable close last Sunday at Freedom Park, Lagos.

As it continues its tour round countries , culture lovers in Nigeria will enjoy yet another opportunity of cultural extravaganza as Lagos State hosts the 2013 Lagos Black Heritage Festival (LBHF).