2021 Abuja Literary and Arts Festival seeks to make art works
The 2021 Abuja Literary and Arts Festival billed to start in September is geared towards finding solutions to the challenges facing the literary space in Nigeria and in Africa.
The theme for the fourth edition of #ALitFest is ‘Making Art Works.’
While the festival features 100 books and art pieces, 50 authors and speakers and 20 topic and discussions, the Festival Director and Curator, Tayo Teniola, said the programming also covers genderrelated issues with a panel on the rise of women in African literary space.
The organisers said “We would like to take things a step beyond conversations by leveraging on our proximity to policymakers in Abuja to influence policymaking, and proactively equipping creatives with the skills they need to create sustainable livelihoods for themselves and others through their art. The festival will hold in mid-September.
“There shall be a series of workshops (poetry, fiction, and screenwriting), a boot camp for creatives, a roundtable on data available in the creative space, a poetry grand slam competition, a stage play, an art exhibition, and music concerts. This year will be a hybrid festival, with physical and virtual programming.
“At the end of this edition, we hope to have moved all involved closer to the objective of making art works for themselves, their societies and for the Nigerian and African economy,” the organisers said in a statement posted on their web page.