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Are you an artist or creative individual between 18 and 38 years of age? Are you interested in discovering ways of developing your creativity and how this might also benefit the wider society and the environment?  Have you ever longed for a space where your creativity and ideas can lead to many different, new and innovative ways of working?  Are you interested in participating on an international art, film and music project? If so, then you may want to participate in the creative project “BC1: Youth of Nigeria as Artists of the Future”!  The project is organized by Blazing Century Studios, Nigeria as part of my Doctoral Research in the School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom. For details of my cultural and artistic work see: www. artfuturelab.org , www.blazingcentury1.virb.com , Facebook: blazingcentury1 Project. SO, WHAT IS IT ABOUT? 12 young artists and creative people will participate in a two-part workshop, first for 4 day...

Artiste: MimiBram Long anticipated hit single 'UKANNA UN STOP' by MimiBram drops at last. Download the audio on NotJustOk here DOWNLOAD MP3 HERE Mimi’bram is here to raise the roof-top on African hiphop gospel music. She sings with flair, performs with passion, she’s dramatic and in her debut single, you can tell she means business. Listening to ‘Ukanna Un Stop’, you can immediately gather that this artist is bold, furious and graceful. The Afro-pop track will drop on Tuesday May 17 and marks her unveiling on a busy Nigerian music landscape. But it already holds much promise, thanks to years of passionate live performance and thanks to unpredictable music production by the maestro King Baseda.  Music lovers can look forward to sure fire grooving; while the gospel is not concealed as would have been feared for such heavily rhythmic piece. There is everything in this one: the music is contemporary; the lyrics are Rhema. Neither DJ nor Pastor will be di...

dr w ilfre d ukpong In an effort to bridge the boundaries between art and social life, multi-disciplinary social practice artist Dr Wilfred Ukpong is set for one of the most important private individual art project in Nigeria. The renowned Oxford-based Nigerian scholar returns home after several years abroad with Blazing Century 1 , an innovative social art project that is focused on environmental sustainability and youth empowerment and development. For Ukpong, his works of arts are beyond just aesthetics, but that of creating direct impact on the society, hence becoming an intervention system, especially for communities where oil explorations are being carried out. Asides the damage done by oil spillage, the environment is littered with giant self-floating hose deployed between oilrig and FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) Vessel or oil tanker for offloading crude oil. Blazing Century Project will help clean the environment by recycling and repurposi...

Ime Archibong of Facebook Inc Nigerians in general have very good representation in Africa’s creative industry influence; but the ratio of Akwa Ibom born creative talents to the State’s total freeborn population is striking. In every generation, there is always an Akwa Ibom born musician, fine artist, comedian, chef, Fashion designer, radio host or even creative sportsman of national repute. Now, Facebook Inc has a top staff, their ‘Music Big Boy’ of Akwa Ibom origin. He’s Ime Archibong. “ For music specifically -- I know I'm one of the "music" guys at Facebook, I've been tremendously bullish on it”, Ime said in an interview with Andrew Flanagan of Billboard in 2014. Ime is the head of strategic partnerships at Facebook Incorporated. Like most outstanding professionals of Akwa Ibom origin, he is a natural creative - which is reflected in the several roles he has played in the Tech Industry - but not without the counterpart potential that Akwa Ibom peop...