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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

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, Se...

SATURDAY 7TH FEB 2PM THE MOST PROVOCATIVE EXHIBITION OF THE YEAR Like a Virgin... Lucy Azubuike and Zanele Muholi. This is an unmissable exhibition of two rising African women artists who defiantly put sexuality and the body at the centre of their work and challenge stereotypes within a patriarchal society. PANEL DISCUSSION 2PM SAT 7TH FEB The panel discussion promises to be enlightening and at times controversial. But then what is Art about if it continues to reinforce taboos. We have an interesting and critical panel including exhibiting artist Lucy Azubuike, emerging South African curator Gabi Ngcobo (co-curator of Cape Africa in 2007), artist and art historian Ken Okoli from Ahmadu Bello University. It will be moderated by Hansi Momodu, CCA,Lagos . Cultural Stimulus with PAGES PAGES, is the confluence of literature, art works, comics and photography. This programme is designed to converge fictionist, poets and playwrights at the Centre for Contemporary Art,Lagos, to give litera...

29th January – 14th March 2009 Curator: Bisi Silva Curatorial Assistant: Hansi Momodu The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present the works of Nigerian artist Lucy Azubuike and South African photographer, Zanele Muholi in the exhibition "Like A Virgin…" . The works highlights women's experiences, identities, their bodies and sexuality, in a manner yet to be explored in contemporary Nigerian art. Since 1999, Azubuike has created a large, ongoing body of work of her menstruation cycle. These simple images of menstrual blood serve as a diary, a book of visual narratives containing insights into personal reflections and experiences such as love, hope, disappointment and friendship. In another series, Azubuike focuses on photographing trees. She moves from the autobiographical and the personal to the public and focuses on the way in which culture, tradition and religion, the embodiments of patriarchal society impact negatively on women. These manifest as ou...