May has been a busy month at Goethe-Institute Nigeria which occupies a section of City Hall, Lagos.
From the Spoken Word event to the Stakeholders’ Development Meeting and Afropolitan Vibes, the first half of May was also a fun and educative month at the German cultural institution. The fun and enlightenment will continue with film screening, children‘s day and much more whether in the institute’s organised events or partner ones.
According to the institute’s schedule there will be an Aspiration Workshop on Poetry event on Tuesday, May 26 at the organisation’s office. This is a Children‘S Day programme designed to stimulate children’s creative instinct, with poetry (Spoken Word) as this year’s focus. The Aspiration workshop, an invitation-only event is organised by DDL Marketing& Consultancy Services Ltd, under the auspices of Sweeties magazine and the Health is Wealth Children’s Book series. The project is co-ordinated by children’s books author Ndidi Chiazor-Enenmor in Partnership with Goethe-Institut Nigeria and will take place from 9am to 2pm.
Also on the same day there will be The Cultural Heritage Group roundtable event from 1pm to 3pm. Also invitation-only it will take place at Former Federal Government Printing Press, Broad Street, Lagos Island.
The roundtable is a follow up to a preliminary meeting convened in April at the Goethe-Institut, Lagos to review the current thinking and consider approaches to issues of architectural heritage in Nigeria. The said meeting called into action a working group capable of identifying and facilitating a number of key actions relevant to historical preservation.
A Normal Heart, a film directed by Ryan Murphy (USA; 2014) will screen on Thursday, May 30 from 3pm to 5pm at Goethe-Institut.
The film is a true life story depicting the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group.
Weeks prefers public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favoured by his associates, friends and closeted lover Felix Turner. Their differences of opinion lead to arguments that threaten to undermine their shared goals. It addresses issues based on stigma and discrimination to HIV/AIDS as it affects the LGBTI/MSM international community, which has resulted in heated political, social and religious debate. This screening is also invitation-only.
A day after on Sunday, May 31 at 2pm the Arthouse Cinema in Lagos roundtable, the second in the series will take place at Stranger Lagos, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos to further elaborate on issues raised during the first meeting.
FILM SUNDAYS will continue at the same venue at 4pm this time screening Factory Girl directed by Mohammed Khan (Egypt; 2014)
Ha yam is a factory worker living in a low middle class area, along with other factory girls. She thinks her feelings for her new supervisor can develop despite their class differences. When cruel reality calls, she has to pay a big price for dealing with a society that does not accept women who are not afraid to express themselves.
Film Sundays is a partner of Lagos Film Society, a Goethe-Institut initiative. Supported by Mokolo and Nothing to Do In Lagos? It holds monthly screenings of mostly independent films with interesting / controversial / enlightening topics and engaging plots with which the Nigerian audience can relate. It is organised by Blink Studios and holds on the last Sunday of every month.
