Calendar- The Festival Season: Art, Book And Drama

FRomoctober 5 - 8, 2017, SMO Art Gallery is showing the works of three irreverent Nigerian artists Olumide On a dipe, Nengi Omuku and Taiye Idaho rat the 1:54 Contemporary african art fair in London. Meanwhile, the same SMO opens The wheatbaker art collection at the Wheat baker Hotel in Ikoyi, from Sept 18- Nov 17 and presents Mo dupe ola Fadugba’s solo exhibition: Heads up, keep swimming at the Temple Muse from November 2 to November 30. Those are individual shows. The Film Festival Lights, camera, africa heralds the end-of-year Festival season in Lagos with its 2017 edition themed Reset, holding at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos from 29 September – 1 October, 2017. Felabration, a yearly event dedicated to celebrating the iconic musician Fela, runs from Oct 9,2017– Oct 15,2017. Artxlagos, the new, largely conceptual art exhibition, will run from Nov 3- nov 5. The Lag os book and art festival, tagged Africa’s largest culture picnic, will hold from November 6 to 12, 2017 and ake Book and art festival, in Abeokuta, will run from November 14 to 18,2017