Arts & Culture

By Alltimepost.com, As epic movie, invasion 1897 continues to draw attention around the world, the film producer, actor and director, Mr. Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen is being showered with various awards of excellence from various organizations in different parts of the globe. Within one month, precisely from August 7 till date he has received four different awards from Eghoba Global Association, …

Boston – By Alltimepost.com Invasion 1897, an epic film by Nigerian-born actor, film director and producer, Mr. Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, depicting the horror of an unimaginable proportion unleashed on Edo people of Benin Kingdom in 1897 by the British colonial masters will premiere in Massachusetts on Sunday August 16, 2015. The show, jointly sponsored by apex Edo socio-cultural Organization, The …

By Shannon Collins DoD News Features, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON – When Terri A. Dickerson, the director of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Civil Rights, was a little girl growing up in New Orleans, she attended a segregated Catholic school. As the school was desegregated, she witnessed violence, bombings and demonstrations. “I grew up with the unfairness, the slights, …

Washington, D.C. – United States Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, will present “Connecting the Gems of the Indian Ocean: Eastern Africa’s ‘Swahili’ Civilization, Oman and the Gulf” on Thursday, March 5, 2015. The event will hold from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Montpelier Room, …

The task of the theatrical designer—through machinery, lighting, scenery and costumes—is to transport Members of an audience from their time and place to an entirely different world. The Library of Congress exhibition “Grand Illusion: The Art of the Theatrical Design” will show how designers create their magic, with a behind-the-scenes look at stage productions, from the Baroque courts of Europe …

By Alltimepost.com United States Library of Congress will again participate in Washington’s annual celebration of its gift of cherry trees from Japan with two events during the 2015 National Cherry Blossom Festival. A lecture by National Mall and Memorial Parks Superintendent Robert A. Vogel will be presented by the Library’s Asian Division, the Library said in a press release on …

By Osaru Osayi-Osazuwa There is a large presence of Edo descendants in the United States of America. What I observed in the Edo community is that it is evident that parents are not teaching our youths the traditional Edo customs, such as greetings. At a function I noticed that one of my peers greeted an elder “Hi Auntie.” This bothers …

By Alltimepost.com, United States-based Human Rights Activist, Mr. Frank Ekhator has condemned in its strongest terms, the attack on Edo culture by some unscrupulous religious Ministers, describing it as not only diabolic, malicious and ignorance, but ideological and fanatically driven for soul-wining and financial gratifications. In a paper he delivered at a ceremony in Boston last Saturday, marking the celebration …

By Alltimepost.com. Premier Edo organization in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Benin Club of Massachusetts has described Oba Erediauwa’s reign as one that has witnessed peace and an unprecedented developmental stride in the history of Edo State. The organization made the remark in a message of goodwill to the Benin Monarch and Edo people on the celebration of …

Benin, Edo, Nigeria – By Oladipo Airenakho. Edo State Commissioner for Arts, culture and Tourism, Honorable Annena Jemitola disclosed to Journalists on Monday in Benin that the Oba of Benin Kingdom has donated a mascot for the first Edo State Festival of Arts, Culture and Tourism (EDOFEST) coming up between December 13 and 21, 2014. The Commissioner made the disclosure …