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Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos in fulfillment of its objectives, has over the past 23months presented an innovative programme of exhibitions, talks, seminars, workshops and events reaching out to a local, African and global audience. We are pleased to present the 2010 programme, On Independence and The Ambivalence of Promise. We start this landmark year for Nigeria and the African continent with an ambitious and innovative Fine Art Photography workshop focusing not so much on technique but on methodology, critical thinking, conceptual ideas and their implementation. This project is open to artists in Nigeria and around Africa working in all media - painting, sculpture, textile, ceramics, photography, video and new media, performance art, writing, theatre and dance. The workshop will be an intensive 30 day programme facilitated by experienced local and international artists, critics, curators starting on the 8th of February till 6th of March 2010 The content of the programme will...

P.A.G.E.S Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009 Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm Location: Centre for Contemporary Art, 9 McEween Street, behind Domino Dinners, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos. P.A.G.E.S, the confluence of literature, art works, comics and photography brings together two patriots and compatriots in dialogue with their country - Nigeria with their art and literature. This programme is designed to converge fictionist, poets and playwrights, arts and literary lovers at Art Exhibition Halls around the world to give literary interpretation to the works being exhibited and dialogue around it at all time. We've in the pass hosted: Jude Dibia, a published writer with two books in an exhibition titled "Like A Virgin," Onyeka Nwelue, a young and dynamic young author in an exhibition tagged "The World is Flat," and Toni Kan, the author of many books in an exhibition titled "Trash-ing." THE EXHIBITION Identity: An Imagined State, brings together for the first time works by ...

Curated by Jude Anogwih and Oyinda Fakeye Opening: Saturday,31st October 2009, 3pm Exhibition continues till 28th November, 2009 Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present the first international exhibition of Video Art in Nigeria Identity:An Imagined State , which constitutes the final part of a year long focus on the medium. In fulfilment of our objectives to provide a platform for artistic diversity and experimentation, CCA,Lagos focused on a specific medium over a twelve month period hosting a one week video art workshop with One Minute Foundation and a two week workshop Linha Imaginaria conceived by Angolan Artist Miguel Petchkovsky and co-facilitated with Camerounian artist Goddy Leye and Brazilian Artist Eustaquio Neves. Identity: An Imagined State, brings together for the first time works by twelve established and emerging artists of different cultural, geographic and social backgrounds from Nigeria, Africa, and South America. The works consider from both local a...

The Swahili Fashion Week is a coming together of talented designers from across Tanzania under one stand to showcase their unique and truly African creations. This is not only a potential point for existing designers but also an opportune moment for upcoming aspiring designers in the country. The Swahili Fashion Week will take place from November 4th-6th 2009 in Dar es Salaam. As Part of the event a special workshop has been designed in order to engage futher with designers. Please find attached below a copy of the application form which must be filled and returned to info@daressalaam.goethe.org or info@swahilifashionweek.com by 23 october 09 GOETHE INSTITUTE & SFW in association with VODACOM & ZTE Questionnaire for Fashion Designers Workshop (Please fill this form online and send it back to info@daressalaam.goethe.org or info@swahilifashionweek.com the latest by 23 october 09) Questionnaire to apply for the Fashion workshop during the Swahili Fashion Week By and at the Goethe-...

an exhibition curated by Nwafor Uju Nkiruka Jane OPENING: THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2009 VENUE: UWC/ROBBEN ISLAND MUSEUM MAYIBUYE ARCHIVE (BESIDE UWC LIBRARY) Precedents and Currents Media reports have shown that demonstrations over poor public service in South Africa have soared since the past few years. In some of the protests, police fired rubber bullets at protesters who were demonstrating over the grim housing conditions they are forced to live in. Other upsetting riots, where foreigners were either killed or have their properties looted and burnt, featured recurrent elements of xenophobia. These instances of violent or sometimes peaceful protests inspired the theme of this exhibition. Precedents and Currents is an exhibition that intends to see how these recent occurrences relate to the violent protests that happened during the apartheid era. One may assume that many were hopeful for improved and positive change in their lives and living conditions with the new democracy but ...

Un échange transculturel autour de l’art, de la mode et du sport - Du lundi au samedi 11 H - 19 H - Galerie Le Manège - Entrée libre En partenariat avec le Goethe-Institut Vernissage le mardi 29 septembre à 18h30 Colloque le 30 septembre au Goethe-Institut de Dakar, à 18h30, en présence des artistes.(Point E, Rue Diourbel x piscine Olympique) Une réflexion sur la mode, l’identité, l’histoire et le mouvement à travers les œuvres de 15 artistes réunis à l’initiative de l’Institut pour les Relations Culturelles avec l’Étranger (IFA) lors d’un workshop organisé à Dakar en novembre 2008 dans le cadre des Semaines culturelles allemandes. La Galerie Le Manège est heureuse d’accueillir l’exposition Prêt-à-partager, proposée par le Goethe-Institut de Dakar. Cet événement marquera la deuxième étape d’une collaboration débutée en octobre 2008 avec l’exposition photographique Deutsche Vita de Stefan Moses, collaboration que Le Manège souhaite riche et pérenne. Regroupant 15 artistes et plus de ...

Centre for Contemporary Art,Lagos is pleased to present its public programme on Thursday 1st of October as follows Date Thursday 1st October 2009 Time 2pm (prompt o) Venue - CCA,Lagos 9 McEwen Street, Sabo, Yaba Artist Kainebi Osahenye talks about his exhibition Trash-ing with CCA,Lagos Director Bisi Silva. They are then joined in a panel discussion on the State of Painting in Nigeria by Uche Edochie and Jess Castellote 3.30pm - Refreshments 4. 00pm Talk by Giles Peppiat, MRICS, Director, Bonhams Mr Peppiat's talk will give an overview of the international auction house Bonhams as well as focus on the contemporary African art sales within an international context. Giles Peppiatt studied at St. Andrews University before joining Bonhams in 1989. In 1993 he trained as an auctioneer and conducted his first auction in that year. In 1997 he qualified as a ‘Chartered Arts & Antiques Surveyor’ with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Giles is also the world leading exper...

Join key figures from the world of photography. Including Jeffrey Boloten, Managing Director ArtInsight, Matt Carey-Williams, Christies European Private Sales Director, Zelda Cheatle, Tosca Photography Fund and Brett Rogers, Director, The Photographers' Gallery. The seminar is followed by a drinks reception and curator led tour of the exhibition André Kertész: On Reading. Tickets: £75.00 For more information and to book email Jeffrey Bolotenon on jeffrey@artinsight.co.uk 16 - 18 Ramillies Street London W1F 7LW Tel: +44 (0)845 262 1618 Fax: +44 (0)20 7836 9704 Email: info@photonet.org.uk www.photonet.org.uk

WIAIA COMES TO LAGOS CALL FOR APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: 20 SEPTEMBER 2009 From 27 October to 4 November 2009, SPARCK will host the first WiAiA: an international workshop dedicated to innovative writing and publishing about contemporary creation in the African world. WiAiA stands for Word into Art into Africa. WiAiA is designed to address the need, and to respond to active calls from arts practitioners with whom SPARCK collaborates, for (more) creative and (more) ethically engaged writing about the production of contemporary art in the African world – writing that addresses in original ways intersections between the arts and social, political and economic concerns in a globalised world. The goal of these workshops is to provide a platform for fostering such writing and to assist in developing a strong readership for it. In the middle and longer term, WiAiA’s aim is to connect, grow and sustain a community of young writers who will shape, share and propel the engaged discourse of the works...

11th-13th September 2009 Since 2003 the London African Music Festival has been at the forefront of new African music and this year is no exception, with the festival featuring true legends – Oliver Mtukudzi, Lord Eric Sugumugu, the leader of the mighty Master Drummers of Africa, who premiers his new acoustic group, and maverick jazz organist Ed Bentley who leads his new high energy group that fuses hi-life with funk and jazz solos. As always it features women leaders with this year’s stars including The Yoruba Women Choir, Uganda’s diva Rachel Magoola, contemporary jazz saxophonist YolanDa Brown and Hilary Mwelwa leads her remarkable group, Hil St Soul. For more info and full listings check out: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/festivals-series/london-african-music-festival

Opening: Saturday, 12th September 2009, 3pm Exhibition continues till 10th October 2009 Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present an exhibition of new mixed media and painterly installations by acclaimed Lagos based artist Kainebi Osahenye. With over twenty years of artistic practice, this current incarnation Trash-ing builds on the continuous process of experimentation which has pushed the boundaries of his painting. Trash-ing signals a new departure from his well-known large-scale neo-expressionist paintings towards the incorporation of more conceptual concerns through a format that increasingly borrows from an installation orientated process. Losing none of his gestural signature strokes, nor the luminosity of his colours or the edginess of his subject matter, Trash-ing highlights some of the issues that have pervaded his work for over a decade. In the recent works these existential, political, religious and everyday themes which habitually manifested with a degree o...

Six intensive weekend workshops led by artists renowned for their approaches to making, facilitation and participation. Artsadmin’s Weekenders are open to all practitioners regardless of level of experience; all that is required is an openness to meet, talk, play, perform and collaborate. Come to one or all – each Weekender operates as a stand-alone while the series as a whole offers an opportunity to work with an outstanding range of artists. Weekenders will be led by Graeme Miller, Stacy Makishi, Chris Goode, Lone Twin, Anne Bean and Blast Theory. Curated by the advisory team at Artsadmin, the series reflects a wide range of performance practices. The content of each Weekender will be unique to the lead artist, reflective of their practice and responsive to the group of participants. Booking : £60 per weekend Saturday & Sunday, 11am – 5pm Please be sure you can attend both days All places subsidised by Artsadmin Venue : Toyn...

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!!!!!! Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos has been running an innovative and dynamic programme focusing on art and ideas through dialogues, talks, fulfilling our objectives to galvanise the Lagos art scene with critical and artistic cultural programming. Since opening just over 18months ago we have presented the artistic, theoretical and curatorial practice of over 30 professionals. We are pleased to present the work of Anaele Iroh who will be speaking on his research led creative practice. He will discuss his methodology and the resultant artistic work. DON'T BE LEFT IN THE ARTISTIC WILDERNESS. COME AND BE COUNTED. TIME 2PM DATE SAT 29TH AUGUST VENUE 9 McEwen Street, Sabo, Yabo, Lagos Research Led Creative Practice: A Case for an Interdisciplinary Art Practice. Iroh will focus on the relationship between art and ethnography materialised in his visually led ethnographic research and creative practice project on Nigerian migrant families in Irelan...

DATE: Friday, August 21 to Sunday, August 23, 2009 and Friday, August 28 to Sunday, August 30, 2009 . VENUE: The Riverside Theatre, of the Riverside Church. 91 Claremont Ave. (120th), NYC Tel: (212) 8... www.theriversidtheatre.org Nearest subway: #1 train to 116th Street. Bus # M104, M4 or M60. DETAILS: The 4th Annual African Diaspora Film Series presented in collaboration with the Riverside Theater of Riverside Church opens a cycle of thought provoking films curated by the African Diaspora Film Festival team. In preparations for the 17th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival-Nov.27 to Dec.15- ADFF will showcase a total of 13 titles in different Manhattan venues. All screenings on the weekend of August 21 will be held at the Riverside Theatre of the Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Ave. at 120th St. "Gospel Hill," directed by Giancarlo Esposito, is a metaphor of America today as "greed and idealism collide" in a social environment where human tensions are high and...

Lagos Literary and Arts Journal publishes all genres of creative writing – including but not limited to poetry, fiction, essay, memoir , drama; political essays, satire, profiles, book reviews, anything to stimulate public interest in reading and writing. Online Journal All work for publishing on the web site should be submitted online . Do also take the time to complete your online profile form so that readers can track your submissions and contact you if necessary. For image Submissions - all visual art and photographic please possible limit the size of each images to 200k Print Journal Submissions should be made to editor@lagosliteraryjournal.com with your name, email address and phone number so we can contact you if you're work is accepted, also include a brief bio for us to post alongside your submission. Send all manuscripts as attached PDF files or Word Documents labeled manuscript and the author’s name. A Note About Submissions: Because of our small size and general lack of...

TC African Diaspora Cine-Club Teachers College, Columbia University 525 West 120th Street Train 1 to 116th Street - Walk up four blocks or Bus M4, M60 or M104 to 120th Street Photo ID required to enter building WHAT: FREE Friday screenings and discussions on films from Africa and the African Diaspora. Refreshments will be served. UPCOMING SCREENING: Friday, July 31 @ 6:00 PM CClogoTHE LEARNING TREE US, 1969, 107min, drama in English, Gordon Parks, Dir. Gordon Parks' adaptation of his autobiographical novel. The story centers on Newt, a sensitive and intelligent 15-year-old boy living in the South during the 1920s. An African-American with high aspirations in an age when segregation ruled, Newt's experiences with racism, sex, love, and loss help him develop into a mature individual. In contrast, Newt's friend Marcus is a sullen youth who seems to think only with his fists, and whose life is headed nowhere. But Newt's morality is severely tested when the wrong ...

30th, 31st July & 1st* August, 7.30pm * signed performance Director: Amani Naphtali, Designer: Rajha Shakiry, Lighting designer: Ian Saunders, Soundtrack: DJ Matman, Film-maker: Collin Hills, Movement: Kymberlee Jay Take the raw skills of 12 young performers. Mix with multi award-winning turntablist DJ Matman, digital artist Collin Hills and Krump Junkies’ Kymberlee Jay. Put in a bare studio for 4 weeks under the watchful eye of forward-thinking director, Amani Naphtali and the result? KRUNCH. Watch the temperature rise as voices find expression, energy collides, boundaries are pushed and new styles are formed. This is the changing face of London. Go with the flow! "This is our London, our voices, our stage." TYPT: 09 performer BOOKING INFORMATION Box Office: 0208 365 5450 www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk Tickets: £6/£4 concessions (students, senior citizens, jobseekers, people with disabilities, U16s, groups of 10 or more) Town Hall Approach Road, London N15 4RX Nearest ...

The many negative experiences of Nigerians at home and abroad have resulted in a detachment, mentally and emotionally from their homeland.. The 419Positive Project is an umbrella for a series of ‘Celebrating Nigeria’ projects strategically designed in response to the negative perceptions of Nigerians & Nigeria, internally and externally.. Our mission is to unearth and spotlight verifiable positive or unique attributes of Nigerians & Nigeria in an attempt to explore what it means ‘to be Nigerian’ and to reorient Nigerians’ mindsets on issues relating to self image, national loyalty and civic pride.. In July 2009, The 419Positive Project will unveil the first phase of her flagship project; a search for positive and unique attributes of Nigerians & Nigeria.. And we’re inviting all Nigerians and all friends of Nigeria to say something positive about Nigerians or Nigeria at http://www.419positive.org All the attributes you submit will be entered in a vote for the nation’s favour...

Newark Museum Unveils Installation by Yinka Shonibare MBE The Newark Museum, located in Newark, New Jersey, has commissioned a major site-specific installation by the internationally acclaimed artist Yinka Shonibare MBE to commemorate the Museum's Centennial. One of Shonibare's most ambitious works to date, Party Time: Re-imagine America is set in the mahogany-paneled dining room of the Ballantine House, the 1885 mansion and National Historic Landmark that is part of the Newark Museum campus, where it will be on view through January 3, 2010. The Newark Museum's Christa Clarke, Curator of the Arts of Africa and Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas, and Ulysses Grant Dietz, Senior Curator and Curator of the Decorative Arts are the co-curators of Party Time: Re-imagine America. Shonibare's longtime exploration of Victorian-era culture finds full expression in this theatrical sculptural tableau, which imagines the scene of a late 19th century dinner party ...

Date: Saturday 25th July 2009, 2pm – 4pm The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos has initiated a dynamic platform for visual art and culture since opening its doors in December 2007 engaging with artists, critics, writers, curators and art mangers. CCA,Lagos continues with its aims to build a strong discursive platform by actively encouraging debate and critical discourse that highlights topical issues that affect our society and the world in general. We achieve this by inviting local, African and international guest speakers to talk on a wide range of themes and issues concerning contemporary art and culture. In July 2009 CCA, Lagos continues its public programme with a talk by South African artist and curator Gabi Ngcobo originally schedule for the Like A Virgin... programme. Transition has its own constraints, life forms, threatening dynamics and consequences. During transition, the questions “who are we?” alongside “which options among the available ones are the right ones?” tend ...

by Taiye Tuakli-Wosornu culled from http://afropolitans.typepad.com/ It’s moments to midnight on Thursday night at Medicine Bar in London. Zak, boy-genius DJ, is spinning a Fela Kuti remix. The little downstairs dancefloor swells with smiling, sweating men and women fusing hip-hop dance moves with a funky sort of djembe. The women show off enormous afros, tiny t-shirts, gaps in teeth; the men those incredible torsos unique to and common on African coastlines. The whole scene speaks of the Cultural Hybrid: kente cloth worn over low-waisted jeans; ‘African Lady’ over Ludacris bass lines; London meets Lagos meets Durban meets Dakar. Even the DJ is an ethnic fusion: Nigerian and Romanian; fair, fearless leader; bobbing his head as the crowd reacts to a sample of ‘Sweet Mother’. Were you to ask any of these beautiful, brown-skinned people that basic question – ‘where are you from?’ – you’d get no single answer from a single smiling dancer. This one lives in London but was raised in Toronto ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be in Nigeria in July to promote her new book,The Thing Around Your Neck. Published locally by Farafina Books, The Thing Around Your Neck is a collection of short stories exploring the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie’s signature wisdom, the collision of cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.Award-winning author ofPurple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been described as “the 21st century daughter of Chinua Achebe.” Her much-anticipated public presentation ofThe Thing Around Your Neck will hold on SATURDAY JULY 11TH AT 3PM , at: THE SILVERBIRD LIFESTYLE STORE, SILVERBIRD GALLERIA, AHMADU BELLO WAY, VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS I have to confess I havent read for pleasure in a while, I will however be investing in this, Chimamanda is fantastic author! More on the author:...

Hey There Fancy Pants, photographed by Jason Evans, styled by Simon Foxton Following on from last year’s successful Fashion in the Mirror exhibition, The Photographer’s Gallery next week continues it’s annual exploration of fashion photography with an exhibition of shoots created by celebrated British menswear stylist, Simon Foxton. Following a career that spans the last three decades, When You’re a Boy is a presentation of some of Foxton’s greatest work photographed by the likes of Nick Knight, Jason Evans and Alasdair McLellan displaying some of his most fascinating displays of masculine fashion. When You’re a Boy: Men’s Fashion Styled by Simon Foxton July 17 – 4 October The Photographer’s Gallery 16 – 18 Ramillies St London W1

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I have been slow to upload resently andl here is why. I have aong with 2 co-curators been working towards a video art exhibition, which is to take place between October and November this year (2009). Please feel free to disseminate the info to relevant artists, critics or curators. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 20TH JUNE THANKS Identity: An Imagined State (Draft title) Video Art Exhibition Call for participation Following the implementation of two successful video art workshops, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos will be hosting the first video art exhibition in Lagos, taking the form of a three part project to be held in October/November 2009. The exhibition Identity: An Imagined State will cover themes that each takes a different perspective on notions of identity exploring issues of race, citizenship and migration. The exhibition aims to provide a platform in Lagos for emerging and established video artists. The exhibition, split into sections listed below will form the curatorial framew...

“She’s a phoney, but she’s a real phoney… Because she honestly believes all the phoney junk that she believes in...” (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) Real Phoney explores the delight in artifice and the surface image, the porous boundary between pictorial and physical spaces, and ideas of spectacle, submergence and superabundance. The show represents several departures for the artist, primarily her move away from representational signs and signifiers to an emphasis on pattern and layering. Tantra’s palette of ready-made industrial paints and plastics are also updated, with a variety of metallic, reflective and transparent materials included that enable the artist to investigate depth in new ways. Real Phoney 8 May - 21 June 2009 Gallery open late for first Thursdays - Thursday 7 May | with music and cocktails Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday 1-6/Sunday 2-5 or by appointment First Thursday of the month - gallery open until 9pm Closed Bank Holiday Sundays except by appointment

KINEMATHEQUE - a new bi-monthly strand between Curzon Cinemas and Second Run DVD to present specially selected world cinema screenings and events - presents two films by Marc Isaacs: LIFT and CALAIS: THE LAST BORDER + Director Q&A Curzon Soho, Sunday 14th June, 12 noon Kinematheque are delighted to present a special screening event to launch Second Run DVD’s release of the films of Marc Isaacs. From his debut LIFT onwards, Isaacs reveals a great capacity to empathise with the protagonists of his films. Never judging by appearances, Isaacs’ skill at getting to know the characters becomes part of the narrative of the film, and their (and our) prejudices and preconceptions are challenged by the reality he finds. Strong human characters are at the heart of all of Isaacs’ films and he has quietly built a body of work that puts him amongst most empathetic documentary observers we have of lives often overlooked. He creates a succession of deeply moving portraits, piecing together a...

CALL FOR RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS & NEW WORK SUBMISSIONS INFECTING THE CITY (the Spier Performing Arts Festival) is a theme-orientated festival that presents free site-specific and public performance works in inner city Cape Town, South Africa. Entering its 3rd year in this form, the dates for ITC 2010 are Saturday 13 Feb to Saturday 20 Feb. In 2009 ITC carried the theme ‘Home Affairs’ in response to the xenophobia that grips South Africa. For more information on the 2009 festival see our website: www.infectingthecity.com. The theme for Infecting the City 2010 is “HUMAN RITES” Here in South Africa – and in many countries in the region – we straddle an angry moment characterized by festering feelings and inflamed issues: betrayal, violence, hatred, powerlessness, inequality, greed, corruption, poverty, intolerance and desperation. Many African countries are grappling with the issue of social healing. In all its various forms, ritual has been used for millennia, across the world, to re...

Schwedenstrasse 16 13357 Berlin Germany Phone: 0049 30 46069107 Contact: transientspaces@uqbar-ev.de www.transientspaces.org Application deadline: 30 June 2009 Open Call for Applications (Deadline: 30 June 2009) Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome is an interdisciplinary project on the symmetries and asymmetries between contemporary tourism and migration, encompassing research, theory, practice, workshops, seminars, conferences and art exhibitions in Italy, Lithuania, Romania and Germany in 2009 and 2010. The Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp, 3 - 11 September 2009 An integral part of the two-year project Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome is the upcoming Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp held in Palanga (Lithuania), a renowned seaside resort on the Baltic Sea coast, from 3 to 11 September 2009. The Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp invites artists, architects, cultural producers, theorists, and academics to an interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange on new forms of mobility today, with a sp...