Day 4 four of the ongoing Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF) will continue on Thursday, November 7 with events including:
9am: CYCC@LABAF @ FP Lawn
Creative workshops and expressions continue
Focus: Finale of the CYCC activities – Do Your Own Thing(s()– competitions among the youths.
Adjudication and presentation of certificates and awards
10am: PUBLISHERS’ FORUM @ Goethe Institut
9th Publishers’ Forum, in association with Quramo Publishing Limited
Theme: How to Capture 200 Million Readers in Five Years
Publishers, writers and book enthusiasts and activists discuss emerging opportunities and stub-born challenges in the publishing eco-system
Special Feature: Nigeria Copyright Commission’s presentation on Digital Publishing and copyright imperative. The session is in continuation of the NCC’s Creative Industry-outreach programme in its 30th anniversary celebration
4pm: ARTHOUSE FORUM @ Kongi’s Harvest
(Dedicated to memory of Bisi Silva)
The Gatekeepers
Discussions around the impact of emerging Gallerists on the Visual Art ecosystem
Focus: SMO, BloomArt, Rele, Kavitas, and Mydrim as consciousness raiser as a pathfinder
Curator: Kennii Ekundayo
6pm: AUTHORS/READERS CONVENTION @Kongi’s Harvest
Theme: LAGOS_2070: TRANSCENDENCE
Writers, architects, technologists, scientists, economists, futurists, artists, urbanists and very well anyone who can imagine a positive outcome for the city of Lagos converge to unravel the mystery together through a series of reminiscences, from the points of view of some of the key players imagined to have enabled the transformation through their own agency, or the efforts of others.
(Curated by Ayodele Arigbabu for the Design And Dream Art Enterprise)
8pm: Music. Drama. Wine