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The Committee For Relevant Art, CORA, in collaboration with the iREP Documentary Film Forum invites you to the ART STAMPEDE on the theme NEW TRENDS IN NOLLYWOOD. Scheduled for 3pm on Sunday May 22, 2011 at the Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos, the Stampede is to interrogate the new Nollywood through an interactive public forum involving the producers and directors of what is certainly the new narrative in Nollywood. The forum will assemble producers/directors of such new narratives as Figurine, Through the Glass, Reloaded, Tango With Me, Ije, Inale, Tenant, Bent Arrows, Champion of our Times, Bursting Loose, Holding Hope, Private Storm, Jungle Ride, In America, Anchor Baby, Mirror Boy, Alero's Symphony,Lilies of the Ghetto, The Child, and others. Many of these producers have affirmed the readiness to participate in this all-important discussion designed to examine the current challenges and prospects of the Nollywood industry, and pointing the way to a brighter and even more pr...

The Committee for Relevant Art, CORA, and Friends of the Arts (FOA) presents the ARTHOUSE FORUM in celebration of YENI ANIKULAPO-KUTI @ 50. Ms Yeni Kuti,choreographer of the Positive Band and Manager of the New African Shrine will be 50 on May 24. The Arthouse is only a prelude to the birthday celebration. Theme: FROM BODY GYRATION TO CHOREOGRAPHIC ART: EVOLUTION OF AFROBEAT & MUSIC BAND DANCE. The objective is to examine how the intervention of Yeni Kuti in Afrobeat Dance changed the dynamics and culture of Music Band dance in the last two decades. Date: Sunday May 22, 2011 Time: 12 noon Venue: Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos. Speakers are: * Dr Sola Olorunyomi (Author: Fela and the Imagined Continent); Lecturer at University of Ibadan, Lead Speaker * Mr Benson Idonije, Broadcaster, Music writer and first manager of Fela's Koola Lobitos band * Dr Eesuola, Lecturer on Polical Behaviour, University of Lagos, and scholar on Fela's politics * Latoya Julius-Ekemode ( Cu...

By Shaibu Husseini Born Paul Bassey Alpha Anansa Xhala Effiong Effiom but simply called Bassey Effiong, the theatre director was born in February 1955. Effiong would have 56 in February but he died a few weeks after his birthday. A native of Ikot Edem Ndarake in Akabuyo Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State, Bassey Effiong attended both primary and secondary schools in Lagos and crowned it with a second class upper division in Theatre Arts from the University of Calabar. He graduated in 1981 and through out his pre and post NYSC years, Effiong served either as director in several national stage production. Effiong's directorial skill at the interpretation of Wole Soyinka's The Road is still adjudged the best at the University of Calabar. His own play which he wrote and directed was also adjudged a master piece during his undergraduate years. He later served under the late Professor Ola Rotimi with whom his directorial and writing skills blossomed more. Effiong joined th...