LIMCAF 2024 Application Opens

Ais now open for the 2024 edition of the largest and longest- running yearly art festival in Nigeria, Life In My City Arts Festival ( LIMCAF). LIMCAF commenced in 2007 to encourage artistic creativity through empowering aspiring young artists, male and female including persons living with disability not older than 35 years.

LIMCAF has been a special purpose vehicle for discovering young artists and a springboard into professionalism, while providing a platform for advocacy of social issues such as gender equity and domestic violence.

Featuring exhibitions, lectures, an art and craft fair and workshops, in addition to the fine art competition in various categories, it has a 1million Grand Prize.

The 2024 festival has as theme,

Humanism.

The theme seeks to explore the qualities that make us human. It demands the spirit of altruism and a determination in pursuit of the common good in all. It demands that we take our destiny in our hands by truly being human in our relationship to one another and the environment.

The festival competition is open to all artists who will not be more than 35 years of age on October 26, 2024 and who have been residing/ studying/ working in Nigeria for at least five years prior to the application. New categories have been added, specifically for female artists, persons with challenge and younger artists.

The categories are Painting/ Mixed Media, Sculpture/ Installation Art, Ceramics, Graphics/ Photography, Digital Art/ Video, Textile/ Fashion Design and Drawing.