The Committee for Relevant Art, CORA, is kicking of its 2024 culture season with the opening of its CORA Library & Resource Centre, located at the Lagos city’s culture space, Freedom Park, Lagos Island.
The flagship Library is set for opening on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 4.00 p.m.
Special Guest of Honour is Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka.
The library, located in a section of the monumental space for creative production and expression, Freedom Park, is expected to serve the interest of the general public, in particular students and youths.
The intention is to continue to encourage the citizenry to see Education as the singular key to enlightenment and empowerment – all in the cause of nation-building and human capital development.
The library will hold regular literary activities, especially the flagship CORA BOOKTrek, the literacy campaign project, which brings authors into direct encounters with readers of their works.
The LR &C will also stage regular programmes on such key literacy-improvement engagements as workshops and seminars on writing, reading, speechmaking among others.
It will be a home to fellow artist organisations committed to deepening literacy in the national consciousness.
The project enjoys the support of several organisations and individuals, notably Freedom Park, Chief Kayode Aderinokun (Chair CORA Trustee), the esteemed CORA Board members, subscribers and volunteers, and, especially the support of Hawthornden Foundation.
Essentially, it benefits from donations by authors, publishers, bookstores, and members of the public in general.
