Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You

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Whitney Houston - How Will I Know

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Top 10 Whitney Houston Songs

Top 10 Whitney Houston Songs

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iREP Documentary Film Festival; March 22-25; Lagos

Dear Friend  in film,

We formally extend invitation to you to participate in the 2012 iREP Documentary Film Festival, slated for March 22-25, 2012.  We invite you to propose any of your films that you deem related to the theme of the festival, Democracy and Culture: The Documentary Intervention for screening during the festival (see attached poster).

Conversation during the festival will also be focussed on this broad theme; and we request that you participate as a speaker/discussant.

Prof. Jean-Paul Colleyn, director of Institute of African studies, Paris, has agreed to give the KEYNOTE as well as conduct a MASTER WORKSHOP during the Festival.

The Workshop session and a segment of the Conference will, however, consider the potentials of the Nigerian films as presently constituted to -- in their production scheme -- explore and exploit the documentary format in its production virtues; hence the workshop is schematised under the generic theme, IS NOLLYWOOD DOCUMENTARY? The idea is also to explore the potentials and possibilities of theNollywood movies to spur the vocation of documentary film making in Nigeria.

The unfortunate situation in the Nigeria polity has grossly undermined the economic prospects of the country and consequentially frustrated our ability to raise fund for the purpose of the festival, but we are resolved to proceed with our plans even as we continue to strive to get the support of potential supporters for the project.

Kindly let us know if you would be available to participate at the festival on the mentioned dates.

Sgnd: FEMI ODUGBEMI

Executive Director, IREP

Further details on www.irepfilmfestival.com

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WordSlam... explosion of live poetry in Lagos

WordSlam... explosion of live poetry in Lagos
• Tomoloju headlines the explosion

(THE GUARDIAN, FRIDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2011)

BY ANOTE AJELUOROU FEATURES

It was by every measure a weekend the power of the spoken word took centre-stage and audience that had gathered savoured every bit of it.

But by far, the most humbling was when playwright, actor, singer and culture journalist and advocate, Ben Tomoloju, stepped up to the microphone and took the audience into the intricate resources of the rich Yoruba oral literary performances laced by his musical compositions. It all happened at Freedom Park, Lagos Island last Saturday. The theme was: Homage to the Environment

Although it had been long he performed in public, Tomoloju left no one in doubt that he is indeed a master of the performance craft. Also pairing affably with another exceptional performer, Yemi Oyewo, Tomoloju showed that he is in a class of his own both in verbal dexterity and musical gift.

For the benefit of the mixed audience, including both non-Yoruba speakers and foreigners, Tomoloju caused Oyewo to do an encore of an Ijala or hunter’s chant while he interpreted. His seamless interpretation while Oyewo chanted was a real fascination and could only have come from a master craftsman like Tomoloju.

Scenes from the WORDSLAM 5 on Sat. Sept 25, Freedom Park, Broad street, Lagos 3

Scenes from the WORDSLAM 5 on Sat. Sept 25, Freedom Park, Broad street, Lagos 2

Scenes from the WORDSLAM 5 on Sat. Sept 25, Freedom Park, Broad street, Lagos

iREP- GOETHE COLLABORATION TAKES OFF SEPT 17, WITH SCREENING OF VIVA RIVA

On Saturday September 17, the iREPRESENT Documentary Film Forum (iREP) and the Goethe Institut Lagos will formally begin a comprehensive relationship that will see the two organisations collaborating on a number of projects in the area of films. The projects will include a Monthly Film Screening session; Training and Capacity Building programmes; Festivals and others.

Sam Loco Efe... Theatre King Of All Time

As had been stated elsewhere, only the Drama king himself could have pulled off the wild, morbid drama that attended the announcement of his own passing last week. Confusion reigned for nearly the whole week about the true state of affairs concerning the status of the evergreen master of the stage and screen; and not even the various clarifications by members of his family and his younger colleagues with whom he had been working when death called, could douse the terrible mix-up about the true state of his passing.

Well, Sam Loco Efe, a grandmaster of the Acting vocation, transited to greater service last Sunday.

Agbeyegbe Sheer Madness Made Me Sustain Ajofest Theatre Series

The Guardian on Sunday, 24 July 2011

BY ANOTE AJELUOROU

.Mr. Fred Agbeyegbe, also fondly called ‘Uncel Fred’ in theatre cirlces, is a powerful voice in the Nigerian theatre. Although trained as a lawyer, his fame in the theatre far exceeds his involvement in the legal profession. Agbeyegbe turned 76 last Friday and had a big celebratory event in his honour yesterday at the National Theatre, where he was given the Grand Living Legend of the NigerianTheatre award, the first of its kind. His play BUDISO also enjoyed a command performance. Early in the week, ANOTE AJELUOROU sought him out on a revelatory journey into his first involvement in the theatre and how he was able to sustain it close to two decades with such impact. Excerpts:







What special feeling comes with attaining 76 years, sir?

Well, it’s been a long way coming. I thank God for everything; for being born, and for making us to realise that life is about doing it the way God wants it done. I have the good lord to thank for the way I am; that’s part of the gratitude I mentioned. In fact, people say I look well for my age, although people flatter a lot.

You actually studied law but your involvement in the theatre tends to have over-shadowed that. What informed the direction, or co-directions, in fact?

Between ‘Realism’ And Phantasmogoria: The Artistic Ideology Of Fred Agbeyegbe

(The Guardian on Sunday, 24 July 2011 00:00 Jide Ogungbade Sunday Magazine - Arts )

.Lawyer, poet an playwright, Fred Agbeyegbe was 76 on Friday. The Lagos chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners, NANTAP, set up a party in his honour with the staging of one of his plays, BUDISO, which he wrote and produced in 1986 to mark 100 years of the legal profession in Nigeria. The celebration billed for next weekend, ought to have happened last year to commemorate his 75th birthday anniverssary but had to be postponed till this year. In this piece, poet, theatre director and broadcaster, Jide Ogungbade, who directed Agbeyegbe’s plays in the 80s under Ajo Productions Company, examines the essences of Agbeyegbe’s plays.?The essay was originaly written for inclusion in the book of tributes, The Playwright and His Ideology: A Celebration of Fred Agbeyegbe, which will also be launched next week as part of the birthday commemoration.

The artistic ideology of any writer can be formally gleaned from the force of vision of society and individuals that is represented as the final positioning of the characters’ vision in subsequent and recurrent creative exercises (plays, novels, poems).

It is the intangible but stormy repetitions of the writer’s conclusions on conflicts as championed by characters who deepen or resolve such conflicts to emphasise their individual character reactions to other characters in the play and to the world around them.