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Showing posts with label Creative Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creative Writing. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Up Next on I Am Arts Festival 2017 - Poetry
Coming up this Friday the 13th is Mask Fest + Poetry + Visual show. Be available as the fun of arts exhibition continues.
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
Companies who Participate in Promoting Nigerian Arts... Part 2
Etisalat
With the vision to be the leading and most admired telecoms company in nigeria and a mission to extend people’s reach by developing advanced networks that support people and allow them to develop, learn and grow - has become more involved in the promotion of Nigerian Arts and Culture. Sponsoring events as the:
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Call for Applications: Lagos International Art Programme
The Àsìkò
5th CCA, Lagos International Art Programme, is currently receiving applications
for this year's programme.
Tagged “The
History of Contemporary Art in Maputo in 4 weeks”, the workshop will last for
28 days, and will take the form of part art laboratory, part residency and part
informal art academy.
Focus will
be on methodology, critical thinking, technique, and the implementation of
conceptual ideas.
WHO CAN
APPLY
Art and
cultural producers interested in thinking through the conception and execution
of their practice, who are curious and interested in experimenting with modes
of practice and thought outside of the traditional modes of working but not to
its total exclusion.
Artists and
curators from Africa and the African Diaspora, who have been professionally
active for at least 3 years and with a visible commitment to their professional
artistic and their curatorial practice.
Artists can
be working in any media – painting, sculpture, textile, ceramics, photography,
video and new media, performance art and writing.
Application
Deadline: Monday, April 19 2015
Workshop
Dates: June 22 – July 18 2015
Visit CCA for more
information and to apply, or send an email to office.ccalagos@gmail.com
Credit: directly from Arty Living,
Goethe presents Perspectives of an Unpublished Writer
Goethe-Institut Nigeria and Kate Tales Foundation are collaborating for the April edition of Author’s Talk.
The theme
of the event is 'Writing Through the Perspective of an Unpublished Writer', and
it will be a platform for established and upcoming writers to present and discuss their works to an
audience of publishers, journalists, art enthusiasts and other interested
guests.
Featured
writers for this edition include: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Adebola Rayo, Basit
Jamiu, Celina Kile, Dami Ajayi, Gbolahan Badmus, Kingsley Iweka, Joe Dudun,
Enne Aig, Kate Ekanem, Miracle Adebayo, Musa Yunusa, Nseabasi Akpan, Saddiq
Dzukogi, Ukamaka Olisakwe and Toni Kan.
Date:
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Venue:
Goethe-Institut Nigeria
Time: 1PM
TO 6PM
FREE ENTRY!
Credit: directly from Arty Living
Saturday, 21 March 2015
The 2015 FARAFINA Creative Workshop
APPLY FOR THE FARAFINA CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
Many people have the ability to write, few have the ability to write creatively and for the few, here's a chance to put your creative mind to work, advancing it and learning more on creative writing.The Farafina Creative Workshop has brought the opportunity to you, with the aim of improving the craft of Nigerian writers and to encourage published and unpublished writers, bringing different perspectives to the art of storytelling. The workshop will take the form of a class where participants will be assigned to a wide range of reading exercises, as well as, daily writing exercises.
Farafina Workshop, which is organized by award-winning writer and creative director of Farafina Trust, Chimamanda Adichie, will be held in Lagos State from June 16 to June 26 2015. The workshop is sponsored by Nigerian Breweries Plc. Guest writers who will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie are the Caine Prize Winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, National Librarian of Norway Aslak Sira Myhre and others.
Participation is limited only to those who apply and are accepted.
To apply, send an e-mail to Udonandu2015@gmail.com
Your e-mail subject should read ‘Workshop Application.’
The body of the e-mail should contain the following:
1. Your Name
2. Your address
3. A few sentences about yourself
4. A writing sample of between 200 and 800 words. The sample must be either fiction or non-fiction.
All material must be pasted or written in the body of the e-mail.
Please Do NOT include any attachments in your e-mail. Applications with attachments will be automatically disqualified. Deadline for submissions is April 30 2015. Only those accepted to the workshop will be notified by June 2 2015.
Accommodation in Lagos will be provided for all accepted applicants who are able to attend for the ten-day duration of the workshop.
A literary evening of readings, open to the public, will be held at the end of the workshop.
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