9am: Opening of GREEN FESTIVAL @Food Court
(Celebrating 20 years of the founding of Children and the Environment, CATE)
Every year, hundreds of pupils and students from as many as 50 schools — public and private – from around Lagos converge on the festival ground of LABAF to participate in the “Feast of Life and Ideas”. There have been 13 annual editions already, and this year is the 14th, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the CATE, and thus have a robust programme line-up. The Green Festival often enjoys the collaboration of the Lagos state Ministry of Education.
11am: The BOOK IN MY LIFE @ Food Court
A well-known public intellectual/actor/writer/filmmaker……cerebral celebrity, mentors students on importance of reading and education. Session is also called MY ENCOUNTER WITH BOOK.
Mentor: Monalisa Chinda, actress, film-maker
1pm: SYMPOSIUM @Kongi Harvest’s Art Gallery
Theme: EMERGE: Breaking into the NEW
Keynote: AWAM AMKPA, Global Professor of Social and Cultural Aesthetics, NYU USA
3pm: COLLOQUIUM @Kongi’s Harvest Art Gallery
Theme: Literature and the Return of Hope
Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There, by Rutger Bregman
Afonja: The Rise, by Tunde Leye
We Were Eight Years in Office? by Ta-Nehi Coates
Moderator: Kayode Komolafe, Dep. MD, ThisDay Newspaper
5pm: READERS’ ASSEMBLY @Food Court
Theme: Obstacles to Emergence
The Old Drift, by Namwali Serpell
Why Not- Citizenship, State Capture, Creeping Fascism and Criminal Hijack of Politics in Nigeria, by Pat Utomi
Do not Die in Their War, by Dele Farotimi
Moderated by Reuben Abati; anchor, Arise TV The Morning show (Tentative)
7pm: KEN SARO WIWA PRIZE FOR REVIEW….
- Afonja The Rise, by Tunde Leye
- Three Women, by Bunmi Oyinsan
iii.Where are you from, by Lola Akande
Contestants to review the three books
Guest of Honour: The 2019 winner of the Nigeria Literature Prize
7.30pm: SPECIAL ARTHOUSE FORUM @ Amphitheatre
Theme: Performed Readings of Afonja: The Rise
8pm: JAZZ’n CONVERSATION @Food Court
A night of Jazz, highlife and afrofusion
(Produced by Peter Fisher for the PF Music Group)