Day 2 features several events, including:
9am: CYCC@LABAF @FP Lawn
Creative workshops and expressions continue
Mentoring by notable creative artists
10am: DEMAS NWOKO SYMPOSIUM @ Kongi’s Harvest
The Demas Nwoko Symposium
A 2-day symposium on the application of critical design and technology in practice and through education.
(Curated by Ayo Arigbabu for the New Culture Design Collective, Lagos)
2pm: BOOK PRESENTATION @Kongi’s Harvest Arts Gallery
Presenting the book, Victor Ekpuk: Connecting Lines Across Space and Time
(Ed. Toyin Falola, Phd.) The book captures the full essence of Ekpuk’s work as an artist of global reputation, “a master of mysterious scripts, and ancient signs and symbols. His messages, en-crypted in symbols and signs inspired by nsibidi, find expression in paintings, illustrations, car-toons and murals.
Presentation to be followed by a conversation featuring the artist and a few other art historians and curators.
Guest of Honour: Omooba YemIsi Shyllon, art patron/collector, founder of OYASAF
3pm: ART SEMINAR@ Esther’s Revenge
(Dedicated to Jerry Buhari@60 & Kunle Adeyemi@60)
Theme: Thirty Years of The Boom Dedicated to Jerry Buhari @ 60 & Kunle Adeyemi @ 60)
Session followed by Performance Art by
5pm; EXHIBITION OPENING; @Museum Building
Art Exhibition opening: AND THE CENTRE REFUSES TO HOLD: Homage to Things Fall Apart @ 60
A celebration of post-coloniality in Africa, with Things Fall Apart as the centralising spin-off, the exhibition is an eclectic collection including drawing, paintings in various media and technique, sculptures, installations and mixed media.
(Curated by Krydz Ikwuemesi for the Pan Africa Press & Sankofa Centre for Art and Heritage)
6pm: JOY OF READING @ Kongi’s Harvest
Readers’ Parliament: Theme: What’s Reading all About
A gathering of writers and book lovers on the importance of Reading — in homage to the written word.
7pm: THE POETRY OF ARRIVAL@ Food Court
(Coordinated by POETS IN NIGERIA).