Nigeria: A Place to Unleash Talents

26 January 2014

Penultimate weekend, the White Space, Lagos's artsy, form-shifting pop up space-for-hire transformed yet again into a time capsule on the occasion of the Modern Day School of Arts' arts and cultural showcase, a reach into technology of decades past and how same has partaken in the evolution of culture.

The school's presentation dovetailed into White Space's presumably annual event window, Big 60, a frothing Thursday to Sunday art/fashion/culture event rollercoaster that runs for 60 days. The tag line of the two months-long event reads, Eat. Drink. Play and this was the case and beyond at M.D.S.A.'s collaboration with the space - the added benefit being a crash course in visual arts, a re-education on just how much our culture as a people has changed, how much of it we may have lost, what we need to appreciate more of. The White Space's pristine floors were divided into six sections as was M.D.S.A.'s presentation and indeed the school's offering of course options, bar two. The school now a year into conceptualisation is working out the kinks of government accreditation, hoping to teach and offer certification in creative writing, fashion design, photography and visual arts. Its presentation was modelled these courses, some of which it currently offers workshops for.

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