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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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