Arts

When Chevron Festival Drama opens on Saturday, October 21 with Sefi Atta’s The Engagement, as part of MUSON Festival 2017 that begins today, Lagos’ audience will feel a special stage magic all the way from a Jos theatre company, Jos Repertory Theatre, led by Dr. Patrick-Jude Oteh.

Google yesterday celebrated the birthday of Nigerian former slave, Olauda Equiano, who supported the British movement to end the slave trade. The Nigerian author was born in 1945 and was enslaved as a child.

The 19th edition of Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF) 2017 that focuses on ‘Eruptions: Global Fractures and Collective Humanism’ will hold from November 6 through 12 at Freedom Park, Lagos.

The show attracted guests from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the art community, the academia, friends, family members and staff of NYSC Educational Development Group (EDG), who came out in their numbers to celebrate one of their own in an exhibition that was thrilling.

The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), promoters of the yearly Lagos Book & Art Festival (LABAF), has opened submission for entries in the yearly Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize For Book Review 2017.

Graig-Philips, a multimedia institute in Lagos, recently showcased and premiered the creative, theatrical works of students, who participated in a one-month intensive free programme, it organised at Cuba Libre Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The depletion of about one and half century-old-dynasty of carvers, the Fakeye, may be difficult to replenish. Within a period of eight years, three members of the dynasty - across two generations - Lamidi (1928-2009), Sola (1971- 2016) and Bisi (1942 - 2017) have passed on.

I cannot claim to have coined the ‘Siddon Look’ moniker for the 20-foot statue of Chief Obafemi Awolowo that the Lagos State Government (LASG) has plonked in an intersection of the road named after the late sage.

Given a few things that have happened lately around Nigeria and (popular) culture, I imagine I should write about something to do with fashion.

Not Nasty, but Feisty’ is a theme inspired by recent happenings in politics in America that brought about a new interpretation to the word ‘nasty.’

Art means many things to many people. To some it may be an investment; to others, it may be decorative, or a form of self or cultural expression.

The Swedish Academy stunned the world last year when it awarded the Nobel Literature Prize to US counter-culture icon and rock star Bob Dylan. This year, experts say, the laureate will be more conventional.