10th lagos Book and Art Festival, Nov 7-9, 2008
10th Lagos Book and Art Festival, November 7-9, 2008
Theme:
Literacy and the Global Knowledge Society
DATE: NOVEMBER 7-9, 2008
Key Literary Events
Panel Discussions . Dialogues . Conversations . Arthouse Parties
Details on www.lagosbookartfestival.com
Physical; CORASECRETARIAT,
95 Bode Thomas Street, Suruletre, Lagos
Contact; Toyin 08057622415; Jummai: 08023683651
Marketing Consultant:
INSPIRO PRODUCTIONS
c/o AYOOLA SADARE 08023044806; inspiro77@yahoo.co.uk
Knowledge capacity of the people of Africa
Preparations for the 10 th Lagos Book & Art Festival, scheduled for November 7 – 9, 2008 , began on the last day of the 9 th outing. The key goal of this edition, which is slated to hold in the spacious Exhibition Hall of Nigeria's National Theatre, right in the heart of the city, remains two fold: (1) To help improve the African human capacity through encounters with The Book and (2) to provide a site for the most informed, robust debates on the literature of the continent.
In pursuit of the second objective for this edition we have detailed the programme content for the three days in this brochure. Conversation will focus on Africa in the Eyes of the Other; The Moonlight Tale in Emerging African Fiction ; The Growing Popularity of the Child Hero in the New African Novel and The Search For A Reading Market.
The first objective – to help improve the intellectual capacity of the people of our continent, -- is a work in progress. We continue to work with libraries, educationists, governments, private sector, brand specialists, communication solution experts, to find the formula to build the knowledge capacity of the African people. We are getting there: Last year we had, 1,600 children attending reading workshops, book debates, drawing experiments, craft practice. LABAF is not a Book Fair, it's a culture carnival with a high book content.
This booklet is a first call for participation: For registration as a trade visitor, to the festival, or as an exhibitor, please fill the form on this brochure and mail to our address, visit our website, or call 234 -8022016495. Thank you.
TOYIN AKINOSHO
Secretary General.
Join us at the Feast
The Committee for Relevant Art invites the public within and outside Nigeria, to the Tenth annual feast of the written word. For exhibitors from anywhere, this is a huge market. A hundred and forty million Africans inhabit some 960,000 sq km of space in Africa 's most populous country.
Over 60% of this population are young people between the ages of 18 and 25. Lagos, where the event is holding, is home to 10 million souls.
Every year the Lagos Book and Art Festival plays host to a stream of visiting writers coming to take part in some of the most insightful conversation on literature, literacy and the book market in Africa.
This year won't be different and if you are a writer, an intellectual, a student, a book enthusiast, and you want to participate in any of our programmes, please simply go o the registration page, do the needful and fax to us. We are as keen to have this party filled with Kenyans, Ivorian, Algerians and Mauritanians as we are interested in welcoming Sudanese, Egyptians, Zambians, Angolans and South Africans.
If you have a proposal to do anything that's outside the template that we've put on the programme page of this brochure, please send it to me at jahblak@yahoo.com, or call me on 234-8022016495.
Lagos is an exciting place to be. You're welcome to share the human energy that animates this city on the edge of the southern Atlantic .
(0)ARTHOUSE PARTIES
9am ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
(a.) Opening Reception- The Book In My Life- Funmi Iyanda
(b.)Presentation To Winners of The The Green Story Writing & Telling Contest
(c.) Presentation To Winners of The The Green Comic & Cartoon Contest
(d.) The Festival Tour (where kids and their teachers are taken round the grounds of the Fair).
(1)COLLOQIUM
12NOON ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
• Theme: Wars Without End: The Child Soldier As The New Hero in The Emerging African Novel
Reviews, readings and discussions of Novels, and Non Fiction Works including Ahmadu Koroma's Allah Is Not Obliged , Uzodima Iweala's Beasts Of No Nation; Helon Habila's Measuring Time, Biyi Bandele's Burma Boy
(2) INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE
2.30PM ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
• Theme: Challenges of Liberal Democracy In Africa
William Mervin Gumede, author of Thabo Mbeki and The Battle For The Soul of the ANC spars with Dare Babarinsa, author of House Of War
(3)YOUTH ON LITERACY
9AM ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
9AM ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Talking Books with Aunty Sola & Friends" : A roundtable discussion on Eddie Iroh's 'Banana Leaves', by upper primary and lower secondary school kids.
10AM ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
*Presentation of "The Green Book ", an anthology of environmental poems, prose, plays and paintings by children and young people of ages 7-15.
(4.) PANEL DISCUSSION
12NOON ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
• Theme: Africa In The Eyes Of The Other .
Reviews, readings and discussions of Novels, and Non Fiction Works including Paul Theroux Dark Star Safari , V.S Naipul's Half A Life , Shiva Naipul's North Of South, Gil Courtemanche's A Saturday At the Pool In Kigali, Karl Maier's This House Has Fallen.
ARTHOUSE PARTIES-Part 2
2-3PM Saturday, November 8,2008 .
Music, Wine and Dance
Party For:
* Ambassador Segun Olusola at 75,
* Jazz Promoter Tunde Kuboye at 60,
* Filmmaker Tunde Kelani at 60,
* Painter Kolade Oshinowo at 60 and the actor * Zack Orji at 50.
(More names of “birthday people”, who have made significant contribution to the growth of culture production in the country, will be added)
(4.)SYMPOSIUM
3PM ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
• Theme: Dijns,Ghosts, Ghomids and Magical Spells: The reappearance of the Moonlight Tale in the New African Novel
Zakes Mda's Heart of Redness , Andre Brink's Imaginings Of Sand , Ahmadou Koroma's Allah Is Not Obliged
2PM ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2007
ART STAMPEDE
When Is The Profitable Reading Market?
Andy Akhigbe, Toyin Tejuosho, Otunba Lawal Solarin, Muhtar Bakare, Bibi Bakare Yusuf
Moderator: Tolu Ogunlesi
Presentation of Awards for participation
* This will be the result of the Green Book Contest published to mark National Creativity Day. It will be a contest whereby notable environmental authors will participate by 'writing' the 'first paragraph' of a poem, story or play to be completed by school kids. 21 winners of the contest will have their works published and launched during LABAF 2008.
Paintings will also be sent in and the winning illustration will be placed on the front cover of the book.
Theme:
Literacy and the Global Knowledge Society
DATE: NOVEMBER 7-9, 2008
Key Literary Events
Panel Discussions . Dialogues . Conversations . Arthouse Parties
Details on www.lagosbookartfestival.com
Physical; CORASECRETARIAT,
95 Bode Thomas Street, Suruletre, Lagos
Contact; Toyin 08057622415; Jummai: 08023683651
Marketing Consultant:
INSPIRO PRODUCTIONS
c/o AYOOLA SADARE 08023044806; inspiro77@yahoo.co.uk
Knowledge capacity of the people of Africa
Preparations for the 10 th Lagos Book & Art Festival, scheduled for November 7 – 9, 2008 , began on the last day of the 9 th outing. The key goal of this edition, which is slated to hold in the spacious Exhibition Hall of Nigeria's National Theatre, right in the heart of the city, remains two fold: (1) To help improve the African human capacity through encounters with The Book and (2) to provide a site for the most informed, robust debates on the literature of the continent.
In pursuit of the second objective for this edition we have detailed the programme content for the three days in this brochure. Conversation will focus on Africa in the Eyes of the Other; The Moonlight Tale in Emerging African Fiction ; The Growing Popularity of the Child Hero in the New African Novel and The Search For A Reading Market.
The first objective – to help improve the intellectual capacity of the people of our continent, -- is a work in progress. We continue to work with libraries, educationists, governments, private sector, brand specialists, communication solution experts, to find the formula to build the knowledge capacity of the African people. We are getting there: Last year we had, 1,600 children attending reading workshops, book debates, drawing experiments, craft practice. LABAF is not a Book Fair, it's a culture carnival with a high book content.
This booklet is a first call for participation: For registration as a trade visitor, to the festival, or as an exhibitor, please fill the form on this brochure and mail to our address, visit our website, or call 234 -8022016495. Thank you.
TOYIN AKINOSHO
Secretary General.
Join us at the Feast
The Committee for Relevant Art invites the public within and outside Nigeria, to the Tenth annual feast of the written word. For exhibitors from anywhere, this is a huge market. A hundred and forty million Africans inhabit some 960,000 sq km of space in Africa 's most populous country.
Over 60% of this population are young people between the ages of 18 and 25. Lagos, where the event is holding, is home to 10 million souls.
Every year the Lagos Book and Art Festival plays host to a stream of visiting writers coming to take part in some of the most insightful conversation on literature, literacy and the book market in Africa.
This year won't be different and if you are a writer, an intellectual, a student, a book enthusiast, and you want to participate in any of our programmes, please simply go o the registration page, do the needful and fax to us. We are as keen to have this party filled with Kenyans, Ivorian, Algerians and Mauritanians as we are interested in welcoming Sudanese, Egyptians, Zambians, Angolans and South Africans.
If you have a proposal to do anything that's outside the template that we've put on the programme page of this brochure, please send it to me at jahblak@yahoo.com, or call me on 234-8022016495.
Lagos is an exciting place to be. You're welcome to share the human energy that animates this city on the edge of the southern Atlantic .
(0)ARTHOUSE PARTIES
9am ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
(a.) Opening Reception- The Book In My Life- Funmi Iyanda
(b.)Presentation To Winners of The The Green Story Writing & Telling Contest
(c.) Presentation To Winners of The The Green Comic & Cartoon Contest
(d.) The Festival Tour (where kids and their teachers are taken round the grounds of the Fair).
(1)COLLOQIUM
12NOON ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
• Theme: Wars Without End: The Child Soldier As The New Hero in The Emerging African Novel
Reviews, readings and discussions of Novels, and Non Fiction Works including Ahmadu Koroma's Allah Is Not Obliged , Uzodima Iweala's Beasts Of No Nation; Helon Habila's Measuring Time, Biyi Bandele's Burma Boy
(2) INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE
2.30PM ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
• Theme: Challenges of Liberal Democracy In Africa
William Mervin Gumede, author of Thabo Mbeki and The Battle For The Soul of the ANC spars with Dare Babarinsa, author of House Of War
(3)YOUTH ON LITERACY
9AM ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
9AM ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Talking Books with Aunty Sola & Friends" : A roundtable discussion on Eddie Iroh's 'Banana Leaves', by upper primary and lower secondary school kids.
10AM ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
*Presentation of "The Green Book ", an anthology of environmental poems, prose, plays and paintings by children and young people of ages 7-15.
(4.) PANEL DISCUSSION
12NOON ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
• Theme: Africa In The Eyes Of The Other .
Reviews, readings and discussions of Novels, and Non Fiction Works including Paul Theroux Dark Star Safari , V.S Naipul's Half A Life , Shiva Naipul's North Of South, Gil Courtemanche's A Saturday At the Pool In Kigali, Karl Maier's This House Has Fallen.
ARTHOUSE PARTIES-Part 2
2-3PM Saturday, November 8,2008 .
Music, Wine and Dance
Party For:
* Ambassador Segun Olusola at 75,
* Jazz Promoter Tunde Kuboye at 60,
* Filmmaker Tunde Kelani at 60,
* Painter Kolade Oshinowo at 60 and the actor * Zack Orji at 50.
(More names of “birthday people”, who have made significant contribution to the growth of culture production in the country, will be added)
(4.)SYMPOSIUM
3PM ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
• Theme: Dijns,Ghosts, Ghomids and Magical Spells: The reappearance of the Moonlight Tale in the New African Novel
Zakes Mda's Heart of Redness , Andre Brink's Imaginings Of Sand , Ahmadou Koroma's Allah Is Not Obliged
2PM ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2007
ART STAMPEDE
When Is The Profitable Reading Market?
Andy Akhigbe, Toyin Tejuosho, Otunba Lawal Solarin, Muhtar Bakare, Bibi Bakare Yusuf
Moderator: Tolu Ogunlesi
Presentation of Awards for participation
* This will be the result of the Green Book Contest published to mark National Creativity Day. It will be a contest whereby notable environmental authors will participate by 'writing' the 'first paragraph' of a poem, story or play to be completed by school kids. 21 winners of the contest will have their works published and launched during LABAF 2008.
Paintings will also be sent in and the winning illustration will be placed on the front cover of the book.
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