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Big 60 & the International Video Art Festival Lagos

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BIG 60 is a ‘lifestyle installation’ by a White Space that mixes up an explosive brew of fashion, art, music and lifestyle events over the course of 60 days. In partnership with White Space the Video Art Network will be hosting the International Video Art Festival Lagos running from 12th December 2013- 31 st January 2014 The purpose of the festival concerns the presentation, promotion and development of new media within the context of contemporary art practices in Nigerian specifically, but also globally. The need for such a project can be especially felt within Nigeria, wherein familiar art practices such as painting and sculpture tend to dominate the art scene. Because of this, the International Video Art Festival Lagos 2013 will provide new and alternative possibilities for local artists and cultural producers–in addition to functioning as a meeting point for emerging and established media artists from all over the world. Featuring work from: Anna

Puma Films4Peace kicks off in Lagos

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Catch screenings in Lagos at the following spaces: 19th-20th September: MDSA  214c Eti Osa Way, Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi  www.mdsanigeria.com ,  info@ mdsanigeria.com , 0809 999 6372 21st September: A White Space , 58 Raymond Njoku Street, off Awolowo Road, SW Ikoyi http://www.whitespace-ng.com ,   lagos@whitespace.ng.com , 01 736 8094 23rd-27th September: Goethe Institute , Lagos City Hall, Catholic Mission Street, opposite Holy Cross Cathedral, Lagos Island info@lagos.goethe.org , 01 774 6888

Puma Films 4 Peace 2013

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Films4Peace celebrates World Peace Day, 21st September 2013, with a unique global film project  For World Peace Day on 21 st  September,  films4peace, an annual, unique  short film commission by PUMA, again explores the subject of peace via the medium of film.  Now in its third year, the project is curated by Mark Coetzee, ex-Director of the  Rubell Family Collection ,  supported by  PUMA   and  produced by Shooting People.  It features some of today’s most innovative contemporary artists all of whom are asked to visually interpret the subject of peace.  These short films are released annually, on World Peace Day, both physically at cultural and educational venues globally, and online via websites, blogs and media channels.   The films are live screened at hundreds of cultural venues, from Human Rights Festivals to major museums public spaces, youth leadership conferences and new media centres, from Dakar, Senegal to Miami, USA to Kashmir, India - in 2012, screenings span

Do you Have A Website: African Arts Online

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