Over the following 4 weeks you'll be listening to loads about #AWCABIG60 till the top of the 12 months, just because there's a sequence of enjoyable occasions that we predict you ought to be part of.
This 12 months's #AWCABIG60 covers cultural imports and exports, bodily by way of crates, containers, textures; visually by way of pictures and conceptually by way of the senses of style and sound, and a hashtag.
The boundary that evokes our patriotism was a conceptual idea drawn mechanically on paper with a ruler. Creating divisions the place none existed and forcing straight traces the place there have been already circles. Borders unusually restrict us on the one hand and thereby free us from sure duties. However a world with out borders makes us extra weak by making us extra conscious of the restrictions of our present buildings and forces us to query our personal perceptions, politics and cultural narratives.
Utilizing cellular artwork, music, pictures and literature. In any case, these artwork varieties cross borders.
The 2015-2016 version is sort of right here. #AWCABIG60: 2015
Theme: Crossing borders
Dates: Lagos December 3–31, 2015, a white area, 58 Raymond Njoku, Ikoyi, Lagos
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Now in its fourth 12 months, Huge 60 is a pop-up set up that showcases the most effective of up to date Nigerian tradition by way of meals, movie, artwork, illustration and music.
This 12 months the set up is supported by the British Council as a part of the UK-NG cultural season and can happen in each Lagos and London, making a dynamic cultural change between two main international cities. Actions embrace a bakery-bookshop café, exhibitions, movie screenings, debates, poetry, spoken phrases and a particular meals menu developed in collaboration with Nigerian and British cooks.
The set up was designed in collaboration with MOE+ Artwork Structure and is impressed by London's parks and delivery containers.
This 12 months's occasion is supported by the British Council's UK-NG Season and media companions Guardian Life Journal and Type Vitae
Huge 60 will happen at Whitespace Lagos in December 2015 after which in London in Could 2016.
For extra info, electronic mail big60@aw-ca.com
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