Life in My City repositions for 2013 festival

…creates Lagos zone
The new Board of Trustees and an Organsing Committee of Life in My City Art Festival (LIMCAF), the yearly celebration of creativity and fresh talent in the Nigerian art landscape, has outlined new measures for a successful hosting of this year’s festival.

The committee has created a zonal centre of the national youth art competition for Lagos with effect from this year. As a result, there will now be a special Lagos zonal exhibition of the best entries from the greater Lagos area at a venue to be announced later.
This was announced at a briefing with the festival’s friends and stakeholders including art editors, artists, photographers and officials at the Alliance Francaise centre in Yaba Lagos recently.
At the meeting, the Artistic Director of the Festival, Mr. Ayo Adewunmi gave a detailed presentation of the history of the festival now in its 7th year and explained that the organizers had since recognised that Lagos as the art capital of Nigeria must be given the pride of place it deserved in the scheme of things as far as the festival was concerned but this had not been possible before now because of logistic challenges in Alliance Francaise Lagos.
Mr. Adewunmi explained that a situation whereby entries by artists in Lagos had to be taken to Ibadan for adjudication and exhibition as had been the case since 2007 was obvious anomaly detrimental to the growth of the festival.
He expressed gratitude to the Director, Lagos who is also Delegate General of the Alliance Francaise network in Nigeria Madam Christine Deuve , for making the new arrangement possible and for making herself and her staff available to help create and sustain the new Lagos centre of LIMCAF.
According to Kevin Ejiofor, Executive Director of the Festival, the implication of the new Lagos centre was that Lagos would now serve as both a collection centre and an exhibition  zone and will therefore host a special  exhibition of the artworks selected from the Lagos area before the grand finale in Enugu.
According to the executive director, Kevin Ejiofor, submission of entries for the event  which is dubbed the largest gathering of artists and stakeholders of visual arts in Nigeria, kicked off on 12th of February and will end on July 1st, 2013.
According to him, the 2013 festival with the theme: Out of Frame, Out of the box,  will as usual, feature exhibitions, talent contest, symposia and  workshops. It will also feature the pan-African photo contest, the photo Africa competition and exhibition for young photographers which was introduced last year.
Life in My City commenced in 2007 to encourage artistic creativity and awareness of environmental issues. It provides space through art for young people to make meaningful statements about  the society. It also encourages and empowers young artists throughout Nigeria by promoting and commercializing their creative endeavours on national and international platform.