The Nigerian arts community is set to celebrate one of its own as he steps into the sixth floor of life.
Dr. Kole Ade-Odutola, poet, photographer, literary critic and lecturer at the University of Florida, Gainsville, clocks 60 this month and the art and culture community won’t allow either covid19 or the fact that the celebrant is in the United States to deny them the opportunity of honouring a worthy culture ambassador.
And so the Kole Ade-Odutola @ 60 (KA-O60 Committee) group will tomorrow Sunday August 2, 2020 host a virtual Arthouse Party in honour of this academic and poet, who is also a Countributing Editor/Advisor to TCN.
The online event, themed ‘Arts & Culture Administration In Pandemic Era’, will hold at 2pm Nigerian time in celebration of the man who was responsible for the formation of Coalition of Nigerian Artistes (CONA) in the early 1990s.
Supported by the Committee of Relevant Arts (CORA), The Culture Newspaper (TCN) and Arts and Culture Writers Association of Nigeria (ACWAN), the Zoom event will also examine consolidating unity and cooperation in the culture community as a sub-theme.
Trained as a botanist, Ade-Odutola is an academic, poet, journalist, photographer, literary critic, social activist and community mobiliser. He is currently a lecturer of Yoruba in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the University of Florida, USA.
He was instrumental to the formation of CONA, a collective of artists of diverse disciplines and culture workers, a short-lived initiative meant to serve as the umbrella body of all associations operating in the culture and creative industry space.
