The Committee For Relevant Art has declared a two month-long "Book Season", beginning mid September and culminating in the Lagos Book and Art Festival, LABAF, in November.The season involves a series of events that would generate a buzz and raise public awareness for the festival. The first in the series of events is a BOOK PARTY, designed to host all the Nine nominees on the sortlist list of the 2009 Nigeria Literature Prize as endowed by the NLNG.
The Book Party is scheduled to hold on Sunday 20th September, 2009 at Goethe Institute, Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos from 2.00 p.m.
CORA intends to play host to the nine Poets in the short-list for the Award, which ceremony comes up in October.
The choice of a Book Party at this point is to generate public interest in an otherwise purely intellectual event, while drawing attention to the nominated works, which, by merely making of the Short-list, have registered their significance in the emerging body of literature of Nigeria.
The event, a garden- lagoon-front affair, will feature short reviews of each work, interspersed with performances, readings, photo-ops and writer-audience interactions. The interactive sessions, we envisage, will allow the public to engage the writers at several levels – from the elevated, such as gaining a peep into motive and motivations of the poets, to the mundane, such as finding out any plans for the prize money!
Further enquiries can be referred to KAFAYAT QUADRI 07029025583,
C/O CORA HOUSE, PLOT 95 BODE THOMAS STREET, SURULERE, LAGOS,
Or Toyin Akinosho (08057622415); jahman Anikulapo (08022016495); and Deji Toye (08023624647).
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