programme of events - Ake Arts and Book Festival

programme of events - Ake Arts and Book Festival

Theme: The Shadow of Memory
November 19-24, 2013
June 12 Cultural Centre
Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Children’s Art Workshop
Dance Workshop
Talking Drum Workshop
Tuesday
19 November
Book Fair
9pm
Stage Play:
Sketches from Alapata Apata
by Wole Soyinka
Directed by Tunde Awosanmi
Book Launch:
Power Hydropus and Other Toxic
Mutations by Wole Soyinka
Interventions by Wole Soyinka
Footsteps of the Shamans by Massimo
Baistrocchi
Nigeria Now Exhibition of Contemporary Nigerian Art
Children’s Arts Workshop
Read By Example: School Outreach Programme Day 1
Book Fair
Wednesday
20 November
8pm
7pm
6pm
5pm
4pm
3pm
2pm
1pm
12pm
11am
10am
9am
Monday
18 November
Film Show:
Pariah
starring Adepero Oduye
Nigeria Now Exhibition of Contemporary Nigerian Art
Children’s Art Workshop
Read By Example: School Outreach Programme Day 2
Masterclasses: Day 1 - Segment 1
Masterclasses: Day 1 - Segment 2
Masterclasses: Day 1 - Segment 3
Cocktails
(by invitation only)
Book Fair
Thursday
21 November
Nigeria Now Exhibition of Contemporary Nigerian Art
9pm
8pm
7pm
5pm
4pm
Masterclasses: Day 2 - Segment 3
3pm
2pm
12pm
11am
10am
9am
1pm
Masterclasses: Day 2 - Segment 2
Masterclasses: Day 2 = Segment 1
Film Show:
Pariah
starring Adepero
Oduye
6pm
Children’s Arts Workshop
9pm
9pm
7pm
6pm
Poverty Trending:
Writing to Right
Africa
Binyavanga
Wainaina, Doreen
Baingana, Michela
Wrong, Teju Cole,
Eghosa Imasuen
Moderator:
Ikhide Ikheloa
International
Magazine/
Journal Party
(by invitation only)
5pm
The Space In
Between: After the
Struggle, Before
Democracy
Kunle Ajibade,
Kayode Fayemi,
Ayo Obe, Ken Saro
Wiwa Jr
Moderator:
Olaokun Soyinka
4pm
Jewel or Jezebel:
Representations of
Women in African
Literature
Chibundu Onuzo,
Mamle Kabu,
Christie Watson
Muthoni Garland,
Doreen Baingana,
Monica Arac de
Nyeko
Moderator:
Nomboniso Gasa
3pm
Book Chat
Indigo by Molara
Wood and
Love is Power or
Something Like That
by A. Igoni Barrett
Host:
Ayodele MoroccoClarke
2pm
A View from
Outside In: Writing
About Africa from a
Distance
Christie Watson,
Precious Williams,
Keith Richards,
Marlon James, Tope
Folarin
Moderator:
Tolu Ogunlesi
1pm
Book Chat
Precious by Precious
Williams and The
Extinction of Menai
by Chuma Nwokolo
Host:
Molara Wood
12pm
The Future of
Genre Fiction in
Africa
Aita Ighodaro, Kaine
Agary, Lesley Lokko,
Ifeanyi Ajaegbo,
Bobo Omotayo, Yaba
Badoe
Host:
Kunle Kasunmu
11am
Book Chat
Open Cityby Teju
Cole and
The Spider King’s
Daughter by
Chibundu Onuzo
Host:
Wana Udobang
10am
9am
Exhibition of Children’s Art
8pm
Stage Play
The Secret Lives of
Baba Segi’s Wives
Adapted by
Rotimi Babatunde
Directed by
Femi Elufowoju Jr.
Nigeria Now Exhibition of Contemporary Nigerian Art
Re-stitching the
Patchwork: Realities
of Post-conflict
African Societies
Nasir El Rufai, Dele
Momodu, Sitawa
Namwalie, Syl
Cheney Coker, Kivu
Ruhorahoza
Moderator:
Patrick Okigbo
8pm
7pm
6pm
5pm
4pm
3pm
2pm
1pm
12pm
11am
10am
9am
Book Fair
Friday
22 November
9pm
8pm
7pm
6pm
International
Party/
Nigeria Now
Art Exhibition
Cocktails
(by invitation only)
5pm
4pm
3pm
In The Shadow of
Memory:
An Audience with
Wole Soyinka
(Four Under 21s in
conversation with
Wole Soyinka)
2pm
Reconciling Truths:
The Charge of
Socio-political
Reflections
Segun Adeniyi,
Nasir El Rufai,
Abrham Oshoko,
Dele Momodu,
Victor Ehikhamenor
Moderator:
Patrick Okigbo
1pm
Lest We Forget:
Post-Colonial
Narratives
Abraham Oshoko,
Abubakar Adam
Ibrahim, Ifeanyi
Ajaegbo, A. Igoni
Barrett, Lesley
Lokko, Tope Folarin
Moderator:
Ayisha Osori
12pm
Book Chat
One Day I’ll Write
About This Place by
Binyavanga
Wainaina and
The Book of Night
Women by Marlon
James
Host:
Eghosa Imasuen
11am
Hollywood in
Conversation with
Nollywood
Charles Novia,
Adepero Oduye
Host:
Funme Iyanda
10am
9am
Body of Mine: Sex
and Sexuality in
African Fiction
Monica Arac
de Nyeko, Aita
Ighodaro, Mamle
Kabu, Toni Kan
Moderator:
Ayodele MoroccoClarke
9pm
Music Performance
15 artistes
(Nigerian music from 1950 to present)
Nigeria Now Exhibition of Contemporary Nigerian Art
Book Chat
You Are Not a
Country, Africa by
Pius Adesanmi
and The Tragedy of
Victory by Godwin
Alabi-Isama
Host:
Patrick Okigbo
8pm
7pm
6pm
5pm
4pm
3pm
2pm
1pm
12pm
11am
10am
9am
Book Fair
Saturday
23 November
9pm
9pm
7pm
6pm
5pm
4pm
3pm
8pm
Palmwine and Poetry Night
Efe Paul Azino, Sitawa Namwalie,
Iquo Dianaabasi Eke, Peter
Akinlabi, Natalia Molebatsi,
Ololade Siyanbola, Akwaeke Zara
Emezi, Wana Udobang and Kivu
Ruhorahoza
Gala Lunch
2pm
1pm
Another Language,
Another Africa?
Lisa Teasley, Victor
Ehikhamenor,
Marlon James
Moderator:
Pius Adesanmi
12pm
Author/ Publisher
Speed dating
Three minutes
to pitch your
book to local and
international agents
and publishers.
(By registration only)
11am
Holding Back
the Years: The
Consequences of
Corruption in 21st
Century Africa
Michela Wrong,
Teju Cole, Tolu
Ogunlesi, Pius
Adesanmi, Ayo Obe
Moderator:
Wale Adebanwi
10am
9am
Beyond the Fringe:
New Nigerian
Fiction
Abubakar Adam
Ibrahim, Richard
Ali, Molara Wood,
Yewande Omotoso,
Eghosa Imasuen,
Rotimi Babatunde
Moderator:
Ikhide Ikheloa
8pm
7pm
6pm
5pm
4pm
3pm
2pm
1pm
12pm
11am
10am
9am
Book Fair
Sunday
24 November