PRESS RELEASE-POETS IN NIGERIA (PIN) INITIATIVE'S CROSS COUNTRY POETRY CELEBRATION

POETS IN NIGERIA (PIN) INITIATIVE'S

CROSS COUNTRY POETRY CELEBRATION

THEME: A NATION ON THE WINGS OF POETRY

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       Cross-country poetry celebration is an Initiative of Poets in Nigeria - a non-profit, non-religious, non-political, non-governmental literary body founded in 2015 with the core mandate of promoting the culture of reading, writing and performance of poetry, tourism, and the arts towards broadening creativity for literary excellence. With its vision of becoming our nation's foremost literary promoting organisation driven by poetry, PIN is poised to hold an unprecedented multi-locations, multi-hosts event across the country as follows:

Date: 21st October, 2023

Venues: 44 (across 32 states - including the FCT) - listed below

Time: 3pm across locations

No of hosts & co-hosts – 84

Objectives:

1. Promote reading and creativity via poetry.

2. Support identified talents towards honing their creative skills.

3. Promote new voices for poetry, the art for broadened nationalistic perspectives.

4. Enhance Nigeria's growing market for poetry and ancillary activities.

5. Connect poets for greater endeavours

PIN Philosophy - Poetry for service

Vision: To be Nigeria's foremost literary body driven by poetry

Grand patrons:

1. Very Rev. Fr. Professor Christian Anieke - VC, Godfrey Okoye University

2. Prince (Dr) Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon - Grand Donor, Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Arts, Pan Atlantic University, Lagos.

We are confident that this multi-locations event will open up new vistas for poetry and creativity in our land.

Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom

Executive Secretary, PIN