October 10, 2015 marked the start of something special. Buoyed by the indomitable industry of TheNakedConvos – one of Nigeria’s foremost communities where frank conversations around adulthood, relationships and sexuality can be had – we began the march to #breakthesilence on sexual violence and rape. This was a collaboration unwittingly seeded by the original decision […]
Read More...#NigerianTheatre is experiencing a resurgence now and in no other month is this more evident than in October where there is a strong line-up of original plays celebrating Nigeria’s diversity, her history, her diversity and her coming-of-age. Bode Asiyanbi‘s Shattered which is one in Nigerian theatre’s OctoberFest, as we’re dubbing this month’s collection of stage […]
Read More...“I’ll paraphrase Hemingway. There is nothing to writing or the arts. All you do is sit down at a typewriter or workstation, and bleed.” – Bode Asiyanbi October 2015 at TerraKulture is a pivotal month, as Theatre@Terra hosts an award-winning but also poignant stage play written by Bode Asiyanbi – Shattered. Shattered is […]
Read More...August in #NigerianTheatre is a month on bountiful harvest. It features theatre production royalty as well as up and coming discoveries. From thought-provoking subjects like child-trafficking and the political landscape to a peek into the lives of Africa’s most populous city, August’s theatrical fare is anything but meagre. We’ve selected a few of the August […]
Read More...Are you a playwright or dramatist? Do you write dramatic literature or drama to be performed by actors? To support young playwrights, the Lagos Theatre Festival 2016 is seeking submissions of scripts for the Festival. The topic of the play should reflect the experiences of young people living in Lagos today. Shortlisted plays will be selected by […]
Read More...Performing Arts Workshop and Studios (PAWS); a theatre production outfit, with outstanding performances such as Camwood on the Leaves, The Wives, Rubiewe, Shattered, and Death and the King’s Horseman, amongst others brings to the stage one of Soyinka’s most powerful dramatic statements titled ‘Madmen and Specialist’ to TerraKulture this July. Madmen & Specialists is set […]
Read More...The past week has been one of intense experiences, from the macro to the micro. But none so profound as the exhibition that has been put up by the delightful Chinedu Ogakwu at TerraKulture. He’s calling this one Illimité: a call-to-arms for artists to use their unlimited creativity as a tool to influence their world. […]
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Read More...CapitalSquare’s Demo Day #5 on the 2nd June 2015 promises an interesting line-up of exhibitors. Afro: Initially called Afrocab, they’re a taxi booking service that is trying to play in an increasingly crowded space inhabited by Uber and EasyTaxi. Afro swears that their USP is that the pricing is driven by the customer. Soup to […]
Read More...Theatre@Terra this May features a poignant piece, a delicate glance under the covers of the Nigerian polity. Dear Country, an Ikenna Jude Okpala (Wazobia Theatre) production, promises to take the audience on a light-hearted journey of the Nigerian state from its expedient inception by its colonial founding fathers to today’s cacophony of arrested development and effervescent promise. It embodies romance, hope and […]
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