9th LAGOS BOOK AND ART FESTIVAL 2007: FINAL PROGRAMME

9th LAGOS BOOK AND ART FESTIVAL 2007




Theme: Literacy As Democracy Dividend

DATE: NOVEMBER 9-11, 2007

VENUE: NATIONAL THEATRE, IGANMU, LAGOS

KEY LITERARY EVENTS

PANEL DISCUSSIONS. DIALOGUES. CONVERSATIONS. ARTHOUSE PARTIES



8am: Exhibition opens

9am: Children Programme Opens

9am: Cartoon and Comic carnival Opens

10am: ARTHOUSE PARTIES 1


Opening Reception - 50 Years of Things Fall Apart


* Ground-breaking prelude to the series of worldwide events starting January 2008. (Talks, Dramatisations, Excepts Reading etc)


12 noon: COLLOQIUM



Theme: Constructing a Nation: 40 Years after the


First shot in Biafra.

Reviews, Readings and discussions of Civil War

Literature; Novels, Drama and Non Fiction Works

including:

_ Cyprian Ekwensi's Divided We Stand


_ Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset At Dawn


_ Chimamanda Adichie's Half Of A Yellow Sun


_ Dulue Mbachu's War Games


_ Benjamin Adekunle's The Nigeria - Biafra War Letters - A
Soldier's Story (Vol. 1)


_ Eddie Iroh's Toads Of War; and


_ Rasheed Gbadamosi's Echoes From The Lagoon




3pm: PANEL DISCUSSION


Theme: MENDing the damage: Literature and the Niger
Delta Crisis

A panel discussion on Literatures borne out of the Niger Delta crisis


Discussants include:

_ Oronto Douglas (Where Vultures Feast)


_ Ken Wiwa (In The Shadow Of A Saint)


_ Ahmed Yerima (Hard Ground)

¥ Kaine Agary (Yellow Yellow)
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* SPECIAL: Presentation of DAGGA TOLAR's book in honour of Ken
* Saro-Wiwa and the Niger Delta Struggle




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DAY 2: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2007

8am: Exhibition opens

9am: Children Programme continues

9am: Cartoon and Comic carnival Continues



10am: BOOK PRESENTATION


Newly published abridged version of Wole Soyinka's
Ake - Years of Childhood


The following youngsters discuss Literature of Childhood:

_ Oruomen Igbokwe (13)


_ Leke Olaleye (15)


_ Isaac Onoh (14)


_ Seyi Akogun (14)


2pm: ARTHOUSE PARTIES-Part 2


Music, Wine and Dance for:

_ Fatai Rolling Dollar at 80


_ Femi Asekun at 75


* Bruce Onobrakpeya at 75


_ Tunde Oloyede at 60


_ Yemi Ogunbiyi at 60.




Bandstand:

¥ THE STEVE RHODES ORCHESTRA

¥ Seyi Solagbade,

¥ Adunni Nefretiti





3Pm: SYMPOSIUM


Theme: Writing In - Tales from the Diaspora (THE EMERGING Nigerian literature outside the borders of Nigeria).

Keynote by Akin Adesokan (Associate Professor, Indiana State University, USA)

Features discussions of:

_ Segun Afolabi"s Caine award winning short story 'Monday
Morning'


_ Biyi Bandele's The Street


_ Chimamanda Adichie's 'The Thing Around Your Neck'


_ Diana Evans' 26A


_ Helen Oyeyemi's Icarus Girl; and


_ Diran Adebayo's Some Kind of Black




DAY 3: SUNDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2007

10am: Exhibition opens


10am: Children Programme continues

10am: Cartoon and Comic carnival Continues


12 NOON: DOKUMENTA 2007:

Nigeria & The Age of The Mega-Shows

A panel of Visual Artists and Art Historians discuss possibility of Nigeria's own Biennale

* Moderating: Chuka Nnabuife
* Remarks: Arne Schneider, Director Goethe Institut, Lagos
* Programme is courtesy GOETHE INSTITUT LAGOS


2PM: ART STAMPEDE


Topic: The Myth and Realities Of A Golden Age of Culture Production


Was the era of the 'Mbari generation' the golden age of culture production in Nigeria? Was more happening then than now - the 'CNN generation'?

The following participants in the work of culture production and promotion across generations of Nigerian art discuss the issues:

_ Segun Olusola


_ Segun Bucknor


_ Aderemi Adegbite


_ Andy Akhigbe


_ Segun Adefila


_ Tosyn Bucknor


_ McPhilips Nwachukwu