The Lagos Weekender : January 2017

Friday, January 27, 2017

THANK GOD IT'S FRIYAY!!

Friday 26th

IWALEWA

EKO ART EXPO

Saturday 28th

SILENT DISCO

ONE NITE; LIVE AND UNPLUGGED

FASHPA SAMPLE SALE

ITAN THE STORY

Sunday 29th

PAINT THE NIGHT SIP AND DIP

Let's unwind Lagos!!

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As part of the Lagos State Government’s vision and support for the arts, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode would officially declare open the first edition of the Rasheed Gbadamosi Art Expo on Friday, January 27, 2017 at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island.

Date: January 27th-29th, 2017.

Venue: Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The 3-day art exhibition which holds from Friday, 27th to Sunday, 29th is set kick-start activities for the Lagos @ 50 celebrations, showcase the creativity of young and emerging artists and also honour the late Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi, who was a playwright and one of the notable art collectors in the country who also served as the co-chairman of the Lagos @ 50 Planning Committee before his death in November 2016. The Eko Art Expo been receiving favourable response from gallery owners, artists and art students all over Lagos, as hundreds of works were submitted and screened, and the very best have selected for the exhibition.

About 400 artworks and photographs would be on display at the exhibition, which will include artworks from 25 art galleries in Lagos. The exhibition would be curated by Sinmidele Adesanya, owner of MyDrim Gallery. While the Director of African Artists Foundation, Azu Nwagbogu, will curate the photographic component of the expo.The exhibition would be curated along three segments: the photographic part, which is a recreation of the works of several Nigerian artists that were exhibited at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium (Bozar) where Governor Ambode was a special guest in 2016. One hundred photographic artworks from that Bozar exhibition showing different aspects of Lagos under the theme “Dey Your Lane” will be on display at the Eko Art Expo in Lagos.It will also feature two other segments where paintings, sculptures and installations by students selected from various higher institutions in Lagos State; galleries, well known masters as well as less familiar emerging artists will be on display for three days.The art exhibition is open to all artists and art lovers.

Follow @ekoartexpo on twitter and @rgekoartexpo on Instagram to follow updates or join the conversation using the hashtag #EkoArtExpo.

Thursday, January 12, 2017

New Year, New Vibes

Happy New Year Lagos!

It's Finally 2017! The countdown is done, The Holidays are over! The Partying has ended or maybe not! And our friends from the other side of the world have all returned(almost sha)
I am still feeling very very lazy and unmotivated from the long holiday wHich was too lit by the way. If you had a boring holiday in Lagos then It's your fault cos I made sure I shared all the popping places in Lagos on here and my social media pages as well. And If you're giving excuses of not being an outdoor person, well I had pictures and videos on my instagram stories.

Anyway, We are all starting our new year on a new and hopeful note. Here's to the very best of 2017 I hope it treats you well and you take that shot this year! Yes! Lets go for it! The Lagos weekender would be clocking a year pretty soon ( its quite eerie its being a year already) I'll save my plans for later.

Here are the events I've stumbled upon to happening this weekend. Don't be left out!