Lagos based Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies (CIAPS) is launching its 2014 Arts Festival with an Arts Exhibition dedicated to the life and works of the writer and playwright Wole Soyinka.
The event dubbed “WS in Arts”, slated for the last week of September 2014, will take place at CIAPS and will feature artists and students of Arts from Nigeria other African and European countries.
Exhibiting artists will be selected by an international panel of critics, academics, artists, gallery managers and art lovers. Interested artists have till 30 August to submit their works. The event will show case their paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography etc. on themes from books, poems, plays and essays of Wole Soyinka.
The exhibition is managed by scholars and students of CIAPS as part of their professional training. In a statement released by Olabisi Ojora and Cornelia Oseghale (both students of Journalism), the Centre’s director, Anthony Kila, a professor, said: “The aims of the exhibition are to let literature meet visual arts for the benefit of the general public and to let CIAPS graduands put into practice the skills and knowledge they have acquired in their professional programmes”.
The exhibition is treated as a project and is managed by a selected team of students of project management lead by Oreoluwa George, Nnennaya Uku, Faith Oki, Chukwuebuka Etumadu and Leye Fashipe.
It will also be an opportunity for talented emerging artists to showcase their work in an international context.
CIAPS is the first paperless institution in Africa and it is currently running career oriented programmes aimed at getting graduates into jobs in their chosen professions. The main areas of study are in Professional Certificate in Journalism | CIAPS Post Graduate Studies | Courses Start Sept 2013, Business Administration, Banking and Finance , Office management , Education and Project Management.
