ARTISTE CROSSROAD FESTIVAL
A community art festival
( using art as a tool for community development)
Background of Artiste crossroad festival
it is asserted that “ a house that stands against itself shall fall”. How do we create together when our bodies are separated from the brain? New beginnings ask us to re-examine. It is a brainer that if we must establish new frontiers, there is a need to forge lasting relationships across board and encourage international artistic familiarity, inviting different artists from around the world with the essence to manifest and enhance the experience of a global togetherness.
Artiste crossroad festival
ACF is a great outdoor event that is welcoming to people of all Races, Ethnicities, Ages, Genders and socioeconomic levels.
Artiste crossroad festival
ARTISTE CROSSROAD FESTIVAL is an annual community Art gathering that was first initiated in 2019 that creates no boundaries between the theatre and the street, we are using this medium to reincarnate our conventional ways of exhibiting art in Africa. we are creating a link for all kinds of Art makers, it’s a space where we gather creative thinkers to share the same space and time with creative artists, who are radically shifting the boundaries of knowledge in the field of creative arts (Dancers, Musicians, Actors, Poets, DJs, Visual Artistes, Video artists, writers, and everything in between.) All these different disciplines come together to work on ideas that don’t necessarily fit into one discipline.
Artiste crossroad festival
As Art makers, we all aren’t of the same disciples but interwoven to make sounding statements to correct, initiate and make provoking works that fester the growth of our community.
Artiste crossroad festival
Artiste Crossroad also tasks itself with the work of documentation and archiving, so each edition comes with a theme and a publication to go with it. The theme for our next edition is in-between the roots, it will focus on varied forms of expressing and highlighting our roots, in varied forms, that explores the body as a storehouse of memories and inherited traumas, as the living thing that has passed through the tunnel of history, the body as a prized possession, a battlefield and a space of freedom; knowing roots as an element of healing and reconstruction, to go beyond set limitations and communicate those in nonverbal, performative forms.
ACF OBJECTIVES
- To be an annual festival that offers a rare opportunity for the emerging thinkers and creators of diverse backgrounds, to meet one another and advance knowledge in the field of performance arts.
- Providing network and opportunity to emerging talent
- To leverage existing partnerships with the global arts community and be the bridge for collaborations between artists.
About the Organizer
OLUWAFEMI ADEBAJO
Curator
Adebajo Oluwafemi was born and bred in Bariga area of Lagos state. He is an indigene of Ogun State( Ijebu North Local Government area). A Co-founder and the artistic Director of the future of dance company, an energetic, passionate, creative artiste, performer, young director with proven track record of successful choreographic performances and artistic projects. Femi is a talented multidisciplinary artiste with focus on exploring art as a medium of connection to the human mind. this background as greatly influenced his art with a remarkable awareness of the potency of the arts as a veritable tool for social rejuvenation.
RASHEED RIDWAN
Co-Curator
Rasheed Ridwan is a native of oyo state from Nigeria , he was born and brought up in the bariga community .He is a dance Artist, art director , curator, choreographer and a total lover of the art. Fascinated by art at a very tender age with the idea of using art as a tool for social change and to tell usual stories in unusual ways. Particularly about storytelling and visualizing a broad range of cultural, literary, and philosophical beliefs that guide the art. Pathfinder of the FUTURE OF DANCE COMPANY
TEMITAYO D.M OKE
Festival Cordinator
Temitayo Derinsola oke is a Production Manager and emerging Art Administrator, he picked up his 5year experience working with the QDanceCenter, and with more experience from Switzerland @Frstival Antigel and @USA Bates Dance Festival and tour around different countries in Europe