The maiden edition of WORD UP (Spoken Word Poetry and Soul Music Event) was held on August 18, 2012. It took place at the UNILAG Guest House Lecture Theatre, Akoka, Lagos, and it was a delightful success.

The next edition of our event, Word Up (a Spoken Word Poetry and Soul Music Event) is scheduled to take place on November 17, 2012 at the UNILAG Guest House Lecture Theatre, Akoka, Lagos.

If you wish to partner with us through sponsorship to showcase your products and services as we have the ability to deliver the following benefits:

· Branding Opportunity
· Media Exposure
· Product/ Services Experience
· Speaking Opportunity
· Database Acquisition

Performance Poetry and Spoken Word Events is the next tidal wave that will sweep through our country, especially among the youth; do not miss the opportunity to ride on the waves.

Hi people,

My blog is all about promoting Spoken Word, Performance Poetry and other forms of literary activities.

http://wordup411..com/

Its made up of articles, poems, videos of poets on stage, and pictures of poetry events held in Nigeria.

Hope you enjoy it as you view it, and do leave a comment or two.

Cheers

Check out the pixs and videos from WORD UP (Spoken Word Poetry and Soul Music Event) Volume 1 which held on August 2012 in Unilag, Akoka, Lagos.


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Spoken Word Poets that will kiss words and make them dance at WORD UP August 2012



Olulu, the King not from Zulu
is a Writer, Poet and Spoken Word Artist. He loves reading, writing, dancing, making people happy and generally having fun. He is passionate about Spoken Word Poetry and his dream is to make it a big industry where poets can earn a very decent living from their performances.

He co-organizes Chill and Relax (a performance poetry event), and is a regular performer at Freedom Hall (V/i and Ikeja). He also performs at other poetry events which includes Taruwa and Anthill.
He is the editor in chief of an online satire magazine, F-FACTOR Magazine (www.f-factormagazine.com) and is currently building an entertainment website, www.wordup411.com, which will have core focus on Poetry and literary events.




Atilola
is a multi-faceted entrepreneur. She is a Writer, Editor, Neighbourhood Magazine publisher, and popular writing blogger on atilola..com.She also edits books for fellow writers and bloggers and gets them ready for publishing.
Graduating from University of Lagos at the age of 21, where she studied Computer Engineering, she was started consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers at a very young age. Because of her style of writing, which most times borders on the reality of the societal ills around us, she has been tagged so many names, ranging from social writer to social commentator. But she sometimes calls herself The Character Thief.
Transiting from consulting into the literary world, she has made giant strides in a very short period. She is the author of Antonyms of a Mirage, the now popularly trending short stories collection in Nigeria, and is currently working on her second novel.
When not writing, or editing books for other writers, she makes natural hair products for women, which she calls her kitchen business.




Tofarati
is a writer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He has two published books of poems, ORIKI (PRAISE POETRY) and TOWN CRIER and over fifty unpublished manuscripts. He also writes for Acada magazine, Film Afrique, and he is also the past Editor of Inside OOU magazine, a campus based journal.






WORD UP

(A Spoken Word Poetry and Soul Music Event)


It will be an evening of Poetic Expressions in Words and Sounds.

Venue is Lecture Theatre, UNILAG Guest House, Akoka, Lagos

Date is 18th of August 2012

Time is 3pm to 6pm

ATTACHED IS THE FLIER FOR THE EVENT. IT CONTAINS ALL THE DETAILS YOU NEED.

i2X Media Company Limited presents


WORD UP (a Spoken Word Poetry and Soul Music Event)[b][/b]

We will be having all the A-List Poets in Naija, likes of Sage Hasson, Efe Paul Azino, Plumbline, Olulu, Bob Ekat, Chiedu Ifeozo, Uche Uwadinachi, Atilola, Nini Efem, Enigmatic Olumide, Ndukwe Onuoha and many others.

Soul Music by: D Tone, Kafayat Quadri and Etcetera

We will also have Celebrities who will perform poetry on stage.

It will be an evening of Poetic Expressions in Words and Sounds.

Venue is Lecture Theatre, UNILAG Guest House, Akoka, Lagos

Date is 18th of August 2012

Time is 3pm to 6pm

Stay tuned for more details.

Good day,

Hope your day is going on great.

We are the promoter of Performance Poetry and Spoken Word Events in Nigeria. We are very passionate about the Art as a genre of entertainment, tool to increase literacy level, and as a means of communication, education and information.

Our goal is to create a Performance Poetry and Spoken Word industry (just like the Comedy Industry in Nigeria) where people can earn a decent living as Performance Poets. A Performance Poetry and Spoken Word industry will help reduce unemployment in the Country as awareness and sponsorship of the Art form increases. This Art form would also improve the literacy level in Universities and Secondary Schools, and generally amongst the populace, as a good Poet needs to be able to read and write, and must also be intellectually sound to be able to pass the message inherent his/her poetry performances to the audience,

We want to outline the benefits that will accrue to your organization for sponsoring Spoken Word Poetry Events. Based on our market research, we have come to know that the key aims of sponsoring events by your Organization would include the following:

• Brand Awareness

• Encourage usage of the Organization’s products

• Increase patronage by using events and sponsored activities as a platform to get new customers and retain old customers..

• Using innovative ideas to build the Organization’s brand via the activities and the events being sponsored.

• Ensure maximum impact of the Organization’s CSR activities by the targeted populace.

In meeting with the above key aims, we will ensure we deliver the following:

• Branding Opportunity: credit in event advertising, programs, invitations, mailings, flyers, and posters

• Speaking Opportunity: verbal recognition onstage at the events

• Hospitality : complimentary tickets to events and VIP receptions and the Organization’s employee get discounts to the events. In addition, the
Organization has the opportunity to supply branded gift bags and/or gift-bag items at the events,

• Media Exposure: credit in event advertising, programs, invitations, mailings, flyers, and posters.

• Database Acquisition: there will be an event register at the door to take names, profession, phone numbers, email address and bb pin of visitors to the events

• Product Experience : visitors to the events will get to register for mobile money transfer services, and also account opening forms, with follow up visits by Relationship Managers.

In addition to the above, there are some additional benefits that will accrue to the Organization, and they include the following:

1. The Organization will be associated with patronage of the Art and with important and successful educational work in schools as Poets tour Secondary Schools and Universities all over the Country.

2. The Organization enjoys the benefits of association with important cultural events and will be seen as an organisation with a strong charitable brand.

3. Sponsorship of Spoken Word Poetry events brings significant marketing and promotional benefits to the Organization in terms of exposing youths in the Universities and Secondary Schools to the Organization’s brand. This will increase the likelihood of getting to become customers of the Organization as they will perceive the Organization’s brand as supportive of the youths.

4. It will save the Organization cost in terms of tax by qualifying for exemption under CSR for contributing/ sponsoring such Literacy developing events

5. It also fulfills important corporate CSR objectives and associates the Organization in Arts and with the youth community.

6. The Organization’s gets name placement in all marketing materials, on the stage and even around the venue.

7. Special poem(s) about the Organization’s brand can be performed at the beginning and end of the events and possibly used in the Organization’s advert campaigns.

8. More Organization’s products and services aligned towards this Art form can be developed to further increase the bottom line of the Organization.

We hope with the above, you can see the immense potential inherent Performance Poetry and Spoken Word as an Art form, CSR activity, Employment Opportunity, Education and Literacy Tool, Brand Awareness, Product and Services development, and Profit Generating Mechanism.

Thank you for your time.

Kind Regards,

Olumide Holloway
+2348038315055
olulu4ever@gmail.com
i2xmedia@gmail.com

Poetry is not what I do,
It’s what I have become.
So y poetry?
Y not Singing, Banking or Trading?
Well, because, first,
God is a poet,
for it is written
"In the beginning was the word…….......and the word was GOD !!!!"
I am yet to read where Jesus sang, instead he spoke Words.
He had his bank in a fish,
and Judas was his account officer (and well, we all know what happened to him).
He never had to buy and sell,
cos He had all He needed,
for He owns everything.
He went around teaching,
and not trading,
talking in parables aka CODES,
cos not everyone will understand except for those who sought to understand.
So if you hear a poem from me and you don't understand it,
or maybe you don't even understand poetry,
well, I guess I am doing a pretty good job   .
After all, I must do the work of my Father in Heaven while I am still here on earth.

CHANGE is the only permanent thing in life, and change always has to change.
You either Live life, or life will leave you.

The law of motion states that, “Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.”
However, at that point of impact, such an object can never define, limit or determine the position it will end up in.

No matter how good a president is, he must vacate after a number of years, failure to do so, usually turns his good deeds sour.
That’s why we should always be like the boy scout, “be prepared.”
Don’t assume you would be where you are for the rest of your life.
Life itself has seasons, so you don’t have to wait for the raining season before you buy an umbrella.

The fact of life is that no condition is permanent, for one day, u will have to change or change will change u.
You can’t have 100 friends, and not have one enemy.
You can’t be the highest goal scorer every league season.
You can’t always be the best performer.
And you can’t always be in the good books of everyone forever.
So, should we now wait to be changed? or be the change itself?

The good book says, he who is unafraid to lose his live, will keep it, while he who is afraid to lose his life, will surely lose it.
Usually, you are afraid of losing something when you don’t have a backup, an alternative or someone/ something to depend on.
For if you had an alternative, you would not want to “ku sibe,” for you will know that “when some go, some will come, so, there will always be some.”

Most people have generator at home, incase NEPA takes the light.
They have fuel stored at home, in case they run out of fuel unexpectedly.
They make copies of their original certificates in case they lose the originals.
Some even have two or three partners, in case the other one(s) refuses to play ball.
However, and unfortunately, most people never have a Plan B, for the eventuality of a job loss.
Waiting till doomsday, before you get ready, is like jumping into the middle of the Ocean in order to start swimming lessons.
Some people will say, you don’t test the depth of a water with both feet.
Others will say, practice makes perfect.

Preparing for Change is about a lot of things.
It’s about increasing your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual abilities.
It’s about increasing your earning power.
It’s about purpose, knowing what God has destined for you and going for it.
It’s about action, trying new things and challenges to know your capability.
It’s about having a safety net to catch you when you fall.
It’s about staring at FEAR and knowing, FEAR fears you.

One of the biggest birds in the world, the Ostrich, would rather hide his head in the sand than fight or take flight when danger looms.
The funny thing is that, the bird is one of the fastest land animals, and it also has a very strong kick, yet it always limits its own potential itself.
Unfortunately, some of us will rather play the Ostrich in the face of a “coming eventuality.”
Change will come, whether you like it or not.
For some people that used to work in Banks, it has come already.

The questions is not when will it come, the question is, who is next?

Thank you.

signed
Olulu, the King not from Zulu.

Attend many open mic shows such as

1. Freedom Hall, Terra culture Hall V/I, every thursdays from 7pm
2. Freedom Hall, Rodizzio Ikeja, every saturdays from 7pm
3. TARUWA, Bogobiri House, IKoyi, every last tuesday of the month from 7pm
4. Chill and Relax, a monthlty show

Attend, listen, observe, watch, and learn.
Then pratise, rehearse, go on stage and do your thing.

Poetry: A Powerful Medium for Literacy and Technology Development

By Dr. Janette Hughes

University of Ontario Institute of Technology



Traditional notions of literacy were once related more or less exclusively to competence in reading and writing. We have expanded these notions to include usage and comprehension skills in speaking, listening, viewing, and representing – by which we mean communicating through a variety of media, including visual art, drama, and multimedia performances. In this context, our definition of literacy extends to fluency in reading and creating electronic media. In a time when the focus is on improving literacy, what role might poetry, a genre that is often marginalized in the English language arts classroom, play in literacy development? How can poetry be taught in ways that engage students, so that we can tap into its literacy-enhancing power?

This monograph discusses poetry’s important role in improving literacy skills and suggests a variety of ways to make poetry teaching effective. These include creative applications of new media that build on the literacies students have already developed outside of school through their immersion in digital technologies.



The Transformative Potential of Poetry

Poetry should have a central place in all of our lives, not only for the aesthetic pleasure it affords, but also for its ability to awaken our senses, connect us with ourselves and others, and lead us to think in synthesizing ways, as required by its use of the language of metaphor.

Poetry’s conciseness, its brevity, and its power to convey so much in such a limited space is its appeal. Peacock2 calls poetry “the screen-size art” that provides a “quick dive in a deep pool,” offering “depth in a moment, using the depth of a moment” (page 13). Poetry encourages an economy and precision in language that transfers to other types of oral and written communication.

Michaels4 suggests, “Reading and writing poems can help us discover profound truths we didn’t realize we knew” (page 3).

Poetry evokes feelings and provokes thoughts about complex social issues. Poetry is more than a vehicle for expression; it is also a way of knowing. Poetry both requires and facilitates a concentration of mind or sustained attention to which our hectic lives have unaccustomed us. The linking of the strange with the familiar through the image or even through well-placed line breaks is perhaps what makes poetry so powerful. Poetry transforms the way we see the commonplace through new perspectives.



The Challenges of Teaching Poetry

Much has been written about the problems associated with teaching poetry. More than other genres, poetry seems to elicit the most groans from students. Often language arts teachers report feeling uncomfortable teaching poetry, either because they aren’t sure how to teach it effectively (owing to lack of pedagogical role models), or because they find it elusive themselves.

The dominant model of poetry teaching, particularly for older students, has been to teach poetry through print text and to focus on finding one meaning to be dissected. In contrast, poets emphasize the importance of hearing the poem read aloud (lifting the poem from the page), engaging with it, and probing for deeper meaning through discussion with others. If we want our students to understand how literature, and poetry in particular, brings them to a deeper understanding in life, we need to find meaningful ways to engage them with poetry.



Poetry’s Power to Improve Literacy

It is important for students to be able to read and write or construct texts in multiple genres. Moving beyond pen and paper and using a variety of representing strategies (including visual arts or drama, for example) provide students opportunities to express themselves and demonstrate their understanding in alternate ways. A focus on oral language development through the reading and performing of poetry acknowledges that sound is meaning. When we hear the sound of the words in a poem read aloud, we gain a better understanding of the meaning of the writing. We can involve students in the dramatic exploration of poems in a variety of ways, including choral reading, readers’ theatre, dance drama, shared reading, or role play. Such approaches provide opportunities for students to play with the words of a poem and to experience it lifted from the page.

This kind of attention to the language and rhythms of a poem serves to expand oral and written vocabulary. Research tells us that children with well-developed oral skills are more likely to have higher achievement in reading and writing as well. It also helps evoke a sensorial response to the poem. Students should be encouraged to express the kinds of connections to feelings and senses that they experience, ideally in small or large groups where they can discuss these responses among themselves.



By involving their students in such performances and discussions, as well as in the reading and writing of poetry, teachers can support the multiple goals of literacy development, including making inferences, identifying the main idea, making judgments and drawing conclusions, clarifying and developing points of view, and making connections.



Poetry in a Digital Age

Literacy includes an understanding of how texts are constructed (taking into consideration the author’s assumptions, the targeted audience, and the medium used) and how a variety of forms of representation work together to convey meaning. Kress argues that very soon the screen (whether TV, computer, cell phone, or other emerging technology) will govern all of our communication practices. Students will understand language use within an electronic medium. In digital environments, different modes of expression or “modalities” – aural, visual, gestural, spatial, and linguistic – come together in one environment in ways that re-shape the relationship between printed word and image or sound. This change in the materiality of text – that is, the media that are used to create the text – inevitably changes the way we read/receive the text and has important implications for the way we construct/write our own texts.

Consider a group of students in an Ontario school who used Corel Presentations to create a Seuss-like poem for a class project. The students combined sound/music, text, and images to synthesize their ideas. In one student’s words, not only was the project “fun” but students were able to “see poetry differently” when they created their poems on screen. The use of new media adds multiple layers of meaning and interpretation of a poem in ways that are not available with a conventional textual format.



Exploring Poetry Through New Media

Our students come to school with literacy experiences and skills that remain largely untapped in the classroom setting.15,17,18,19 They are accustomed to reading texts that combine image, sound, and words, which are often found in digital spaces that are bound up in social practices. Consider how many hours students log on MSN, MySpace, Facebook, or Runescape. How might we help our students further develop their visual and digital literacy skills to think more critically about how images, sounds, and print text work together to communicate meaning?

Poetry is meant to be lifted from the printed page and explored in multi-modal ways (visually, gesturally, aurally). The use of new digital media for reading, writing, and representing poetry encourages an exploration of the relationship between text and image and how images and sound might be used to mediate meaning-making. New media have an immersive and performative potential that encourages students to get inside a poem and play with it. Giving students opportunities to create poems or respond to and annotate existing poems using new media provides them with opportunities to use the technology in meaningful ways. Following are two examples of how teachers with even minimal technology skills might use new media to explore poetry:



• Writing hypermedia responses:

Students can use HyperStudio4 or the hyperlinking function in PowerPoint or Corel Presentations to create links from key words or phrases in an existing poem or a poem that they have written. Students might create links that take their reader/viewer to a written personal response, to a definition of a poetic convention used in the poem, to an image that the student feels illuminates the poem, to an external link providing an oral reading or biographical information about the poet, or even to a video clip that shows a dramatic performance of the poem. Adding visual or auditory components to poetry opens up new ways of using language and experiencing literature.



• Creating digital poetry:

Students can use PhotoStory3 or MovieMaker to create their own digital poems or to represent an existing poem through multimedia. These programs are very simple to use and provide students with simple instructions through the creation process. Students can use scanned or downloaded images or, even better, take their own photos with a digital camera. They organize their images and use the voice recording feature to read the poem aloud. They can add sound effects, a soundtrack of music they have created, or clips of music that come with the program. Most significantly for the study of poetry, these new media allow students to have oral readings linked with their print version of the poem, an approach that honours the multimodal nature of poetry and students’ multiple literacies.



Digital Poetry Performance

Poetry – the “screen-size art” – lends itself nicely to the kinds of digital explorations and applications outlined above. The emergence of new technologies allows us to expand our ideas about how poetry might be performed in the classroom. Performance, many would argue, is what is breathing new life into poetry in contemporary society. A poem accompanied by visual images and annotations can be seen as a new text, a different way of performing the poem. Creating poetry using new media views performance as a vehicle for exploration and learning, rather than as a fixed product to be rehearsed and delivered as a final event.

Our students are already immersed in new media and the question is no longer whether we should use digital technologies in the classroom, but rather how they are being integrated into the curricula. Although access to resources continues to be an issue, principals need to encourage and support classroom teachers in developing digital skills to improve literacy learning. In addition, teacher preparation programs need to ensure that teacher candidates are fully equipped to integrate new media in a classroom context.





Research Tells Us

Poetry awakens our senses, helps us make connections to others, and leads us to think in synthesizing ways, as required by the use of metaphor.

• Paying attention to the language and rhythms of poetry helps build oral language skills.

• Children with well-developed oral language skills are more likely to have higher achievement in reading and writing.

• Creative applications of new media that build on the literacies students have already developed outside of school can help teachers tap into the literacy-enhancing power of poetry.



Literacy and New Media

• Our definition of literacy extends to fluency in reading and creating electronic media.

• It is important for students to be able to read and write or construct texts in multiple genres.

• The use of new media adds multiple layers of meaning and interpretation of a poem in ways that are not available with a conventional textual format.

• By involving students in performances and discussions, as well as the reading and writing of poetry, teachers can support the multiple goals of literacy development.




http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/inspire/research/Hughes.pdf



Kind Regards,



Olulu
+234-0838315055

olulu4ever@gmail.com

i2xmedia@gmail.com

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PLEASE READ NEW INFORMATION!!!!!!
The contest has been extended to June 27th! Please upload your video at http://www.battabox.com! Video Response to Youtube no longer required. Check us out at Battabox.


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Here are the rules to the contest. I'll keep you updated on the details via twitter and Facebook fan page. Please read this carefully before you ask any questions. Please read the comments to make sure your question hasn't already been asked.
Good luck! See you soon.

Rules:
1. The theme of the contest is "home".

2. Submit an original poem that is at least half in English.

3. Video submissions should be no more than 2 minutes long

4.You can enter the competition from anywhere in Africa but you will cover your costs should you be chosen. That means if you want to participate, you have to get to Lagos on your own.

5.The video must be recorded specifically for the competition. One camera; one poet. No live performance videos. No special effects.

6. Before you begin your video, state your name and where you're from. Please include that info as well as an email address in the information box of YOUR video.

7. Upload your video as a video response to THIS video. That means that if you don't have a Youtube channel or account, you need to get one. If you have a gmail account, then you have a Youtube account. Please don't ask me how to set up a gmail or Youtube account.

8. Share with your friends and get them to 'like' your video for a chance to be picked as the audience favourite

9. Make sure you follow me on Twitter and like my Facebook fanpage for updates to the contest. And leave a comment down below after you upload your video response just to make sure I got it. I will comment on the video after I've viewed to let you know it's been viewed.

10. Contest ends at 11:59PM (EST, US) 27, May 2012. Any video received any time after the contest ends will not be considered for the contest.

Good luck! Let me know if you have any questions that I Haven't already answered.

Twitter: @basseyworldlive Official Hashtag: #NaijaPoetrySlam









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CHILL and RELAX: a Spoken Word, Performance Poetry and Soul Music Event.

presents

THE MAY SWAG

Date is May 13, 2012

Time is 3pm

... Venue is The COCOON Sports Bar

No. 4 Oguntona Crescent, Gbagada phase 1, 1st Pedro, off Gbagada Express Way.

Featuring Lagos Finest Poets

Plumbline, Efe Paul Azino, Ndukwe Onuoha, Enigmatic Olumide, Meteorite, RezThaPoet, Torpedo, Olulu, Olamipo, Yommy Bishop, Double O.J, Oyin, Atilola, Dheji, Don Fabrino, chinelo, Bede Okoro, Nini Efem, Ivori, Faidat and many others.

Its a free entry show, just sit down, buy a drink for yourself and your friends, and enjoy the show.

Jah bless.

We are very passionate about Performance Poetry and Spoken Word as a genre of entertainment, tool to increase literacy level, and as a means of communication, education and information. We would like to point out how Performance Poetry and Spoken Word would fit into an organisation's CSR and the list of events to sponsor, and this is as follows:

1. The dream is to create a Performance Poetry and Spoken Word industry (just like the Comedy industry in Nigeria) where people can earn a decent living as Perfromance Poets.

2. We have so many talented youths in our Nation, unfortunately, we have more unemployed youths than the employed and like the saying goes, "the idle mind is the devil's workshop." Thus, having a "Performance Poetry and Spoken Word" show would give them something to focus their time and energy on and in a way provide employment for them as awareness and sponsorship of the art form increases.

3. The more the increased awarenes of the art form, the more the attraction towards it, especially among the youths, children and the young at heart. And in order to be a very good poet, you need to be well read and also be a good writer. Thus, this art form can help improve literacy level in Universities and Secondary Schools, and generally amongst the populace.

4. For your organisation sponsoring "Performance Poetry and Spoken Word" shows will increase the brand awareness as a youthful brand and also enable the organisation to capture as customer, youths who are art inclined. For as the awareness of the organisation's brand grows, the more products and services that are aligned towards this art form can be developed to further increase the bottom line of the organisation.

5. Being different, is uniqueness itself. Thus, while every other corporate organisations are going after the actors, musicians and the likes as brand ambassadors. The organisation can choose to use poets as its own brand ambassadors, and poems (both written and performed) can be done in respect of the organisation and further increase the brand.

I hope with the few points above, you can see the immense potential inherent Performance Poetry and Spoken Word as an art form, CSR activity, employment opportunity, education and literacy tool, Brand awareness, product and services development, and profit generating mechanism.

Thank you for your time.



Kind Regards,
Olulu
+2348038315055
olulu4ever@gmail.com

CHILL and RELAX: a Spoken Word, Performance Poetry and Soul Music Event.

presents

THE MAY SWAG

Date is May 13, 2012

Time is 3pm

Venue is The COCOON Sports Bar No. 4 Oguntona Crescent, Gbagada phase 1, 1st Pedro, off Gbagada Express Way.

Featuring Lagos Finest Poets

Plumbline, Efe Paul Azino, Ndukwe Onuoha, Enigmatic Olumide, Meteorite, RezThaPoet, Torpedo, Olulu, Olamipo, Yommy Bishop, Double O.J, Oyin, Atilola, Nini Efem, Ivori, Faidat and many others.

CHILL and RELAX: a Spoken Word, Performance Poetry and Soul Music Event.

presents

THE MAY SWAG

Date is May 13, 2012

Time is 3pm

Venue is The COCOON Sports Bar No. 4 Oguntona Crescent, Gbagada phase 1, 1st Pedro, off Gbagada Express Way.

Featuring Lagos Finest Poets

Plumbline, Efe Paul Azino, Ndukwe Onuoha, Enigmatic Olumide, Meteorite, RezThaPoet, Torpedo, Olulu, Olamipo, Yommy Bishop, Double O.J, Oyin, Atilola, Nini Efem, Ivori, Faidat and many others.

CHILL and RELAX: a Spoken Word, Performance Poetry and Soul Music Event.

presents

THE MAY SWAG

Date is May 13, 2012

Time is 3pm

Venue is The COCOON Sports Bar No. 4 Oguntona Crescent, Gbagada phase 1, 1st Pedro, off Gbagada Express Way.

Featuring Lagos Finest Poets

Plumbline, Efe Paul Azino, Ndukwe Onuoha, Enigmatic Olumide, Meteorite, RezThaPoet, Torpedo, Olulu, Olamipo, Yommy Bishop, Double O.J, Oyin, Atilola, Nini Efem, Ivori, Faidat and many others.

CHILL and RELAX: a Spoken Word, Performance Poetry and Soul Music Event.
presents

THE APRIL THRILL
Date is April 15, 2012
Time is 3pm
Venue is The COCOON Sports Bar No. 4 Oguntona Crescent, Gbagada phase 1, 1st Pedro, off Gbagada Express Way, Lagos, Nigeria.

Featuring Lagos Finest Poets: Plumbline, Efe Paul Azino, Ndukwe Onuoha, Enigmatic Olumide, Meteorite, RezThaPoet, Torpedo, Olulu, Olamipo, Yommy Bishop, Double O.J, Chinelo, Bede Okoro, Dheji, Oyin, Atilola, Nini Efem and many others.

Emcee: Don Fabrino

The APRIL THRILL,
where we will use words to make all things real.
Using words swiftly and perfectly like swords,
yet gentle and tender enough to tickle your heart’s chords.
And if we stutter like thunder,
well, we will still rock the whole of Lagos with words from Gbagada.

Miss it, miss out..!!!![b]

CHILL and RELAX: a Spoken Word, Performance Poetry and Soul Music Event.
presents

THE APRIL THRILL
Date is April 15, 2012
Time is 3pm
Venue is The COCOON Sports Bar No. 4 Oguntona Crescent, Gbagada phase 1, 1st Pedro, off Gbagada Express Way, Lagos, Nigeria.

Featuring Lagos Finest Poets: Plumbline, Efe Paul Azino, Ndukwe Onuoha, Enigmatic Olumide, Meteorite, RezThaPoet, Torpedo, Olulu, Olamipo, Yommy Bishop, Double O.J, Chinelo, Bede Okoro, Dheji, Oyin, Atilola, Nini Efem and many others.

Emcee: Don Fabrino

The APRIL THRILL,
where we will use words to make all things real.
Using words swiftly and perfectly like swords,
yet gentle and tender enough to tickle your heart’s chords.
And if we stutter like thunder,
well, we will still rock the whole of Lagos with words from Gbagada.

Miss it, miss out..!!!![b]

Poets will be at The cocoon,
doing poems and not tatoo.
Raw arts are being finetuned,
cos definitely we'll be on top soon,
and leading the charts too,

Its the March Invasion. Miss it, Miss Out

It is The MARCH Invasion, !!!

Wordsmiths, Poeticians, and soul singers are making a move on Gbagada.

How? When? Where?

CHILL and RELAX: a Spoken Word, Performance Poetry and Soul Music Event.

March 11, 2012 by 3pm

COCOON RECREATIONAL
SERVICE (Sports Bar) No. 4 Oguntona Crescent, Gbagada phase 1, 1st Pedro, off Gbagada Express Way.

Featuring Lagos Finest Poets, Plumbline, Efe Paul Azino, Bede Okoro, Ndukwe Onuoha, Eleri, Enigmatic Olumide, Meteorite, RezThaPoet, Torpedo, Olulu, Olamipo Yommy Bishop and many others

The March Invasion, miss it, miss out!!!

@ poster

why not go a step higher and start to perform your poems.

I have been writing for more than 20 years now, only to discover a year and half ago that people react immediatly to what they see and hear faster than what they read. Reason being, they can always postpone reading it, but nobody postpones a show or tv program cos

1. They are not sure or don't know when next they will watch it
2. once it catches their fancy, they will take glued to the end.

I only started performing like a year and a half ago and its now easy to get people to read my poems.
However, if performing is not your thingy, u can start a blog and consistently post d line on social medias like facebook , twitter and d likes.
u can also post your poems on facebook notes.

The show was great, some of Lagos finest poets such as Efe Paul, Torpedo, Plumbline, RezThaPoet, Meteorite and so many others, were on stage to thirll and dazzle the crowd

These are the links to some of the Poetry Performances of the event


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynaaDIHALQ&sns=fb


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ-tyagXUck&sns=fb


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzS1XS9LCD8&sns=fb

Kindly check out CHILL and RELAX with the Proles on facebook for the pictures.

And on MARCH 11, 2012, the 2nd edition of CHIL and RELAX in Gbagada will take place.

Stay tuned for more details.