Artmosphere relaunches, shines spotlight on arts, culture

By Editor

ARTMOSPHERE, the eclectic platform for arts, culture, and social conversation projects, will be relaunched after a six-year hiatus. The culture project has fully moved its engagements with writers, poets, philosophers, artists and artistes to Lagos from Ibadan. The curators will be holding the event at the Aramide Arts Hub in Surulere on Sunday, November 24, 2024 in Surulere. The event also coincides with the birthday of the founder, Mr. Femi Morgan.

With the theme ‘Rediscovery’, the curators of Artmosphere have invited a creme of writers, creatives and corporate professionals, friends, culture activists and family members to savour a blend of artistic and cultural performance, wine and dine, while engaging and connecting with one another in a safe safe.

The relaunch of Artmosphere will also open up space for deep collaboration with both international and local artists while also engaging an exposed and robustly upwardly mobile community every month.

The Aramide Arts Hub, a space owned by the Aramide Consortium in Surulere, will leverage it’s location, as a hotspot of Nigeria’s entertainment, sports, tourism and arts to curate unique, valuable and memorable events, while also serving as a platform for established and emerging creatives.

Artmosphere will feature a dynamic lineup of artists and artistes, including live performances, interactive art displays, and an exclusive birthday tribute to the founder of Artmosphere, Morgan, who has long been a driving force behind the initiative.

Since 2011, Artmosphere Nigeria has hosted at least 100 artists and artistes including Niyi Osundare, Tanure Ojaide, Jumoke Verissimo, Burna Boy, Beautiful Nubia, Ade Bantu, Kent Oxygen, Victor Ehikhamenor, Abubakar Sidi, Iquo Diana Abasi, Tunde Adegbola, Chuma Nwokolo, Emmanuel Iduma, Romeo Oriogun, Olubunmi Familoni, Ahmed Maiwada and others. The project took a break in 2018, while providing curatorial support for festivals and art projects between 2019 and 2023 before its return in 2024. The events catered to various demographics and served as a platform to engage, educate and broaden ideas while growing a rich culture community.

Speaking on the projects, Co-founder of the Aramide Arts Hub, Babatunde Odubanwo said, “We are glad to have Artmosphere here at the hub. Having examined their past activities including readings, poetry performances, workshops, short theatre, music and social conversations, we found it worthy of our strategically located space and technical partnership. The relaunch is the beginning of a lot of things planned for the year 2025.”

For the Artmosphere team, Brenda Nwafor said, ‘”The art and culture space provides for freedom of expression and humanising the landscape. With our approach at Artmosphere, we are able to curate experiences, memory and community within the chaos of the landscape. It is therapeutic for both artists and audience. With the collaboration of international and local artists, institutions, partners and sponsors, we hope to keep it alive.”