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International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year (IYMEY) is an award designed by the British Council to champion and celebrate the notion of creative leadership; specifically the need to identify and nurture future leaders of the music industry.
Last year, Nigeria’s Audu Maikori, CEO Chocolate City represented Nigeria in London and beat off fierce opposition to emerge International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year globally.
This year, over seventy applications were received nationwide and Wale emerged winner following a keenly contested shortlisting and interview process which was done by a distinguished panel comprising Olisah Adibua (Cool FM, Storm Records), Tjoe (Tjoe Records), Audu Maikori (Chocolate City and IYMEY 2007), Tunde Kuboye (Jazz 38), Jahman Anikulapo (Editor, Sunday Guardian), Sam Harvey (Director, Programmes, British Council Nigeria) and Ojoma Ochai (Art Project Manager, British Council)
Wale Ewedemi popularly called the BIG W is a music journalist and has had a career in music on Radio and TV. He for the last 12 years of his career on radio discovered over 100 talents, especially while presenting the Most Popular radio show on 96.9 Cool FM, Abuja, The Good Morning Nigeria Show from 2004.
Last year Wale, a Graduate of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism put together the first ever Nigerian International Music Summit in Abuja for which he got numerous awards including one from the UN recognising him as a Youth Peace Ambassador amongst others.
At the end of the Summit in Abuja which had representation from all stake holding sectors, including the Federal Legislature, the Copyright Commission, the Broadcast Commission etc a Communique was issued that recommended the Music Industry needed a new association and the Music Industry Association of Nigeria was born. Wale coordinates this association.
Wale will take part in a 10-day tour of the UK music industry and will compete with nine others from Colombia, Estonia, India, Jordan, Kenya, Latin America and the Caribbean (1 place for region), Lithuania, Malaysia and Poland for the global award and a cash prize of Seven Thousand Five Hundred pounds (£7,500) to be spent on a collaborative project with the British Council.
The winner will be announced at London Calling (the UK’s biggest music trade event) where incidentally, Audu (last year’s global winner) will be taking a Nigerian contingent using his prize money and support from various corporations in Nigeria.
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Creative Lives |
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Creative Lives is focussed on the knowledge economy and creativity, with clear links to democratic Africa and the possibility also of contributing to intercultural dialogue and understanding. The content of the programme is focussed around the creative economy and the impact of cultural and creativity on society and the sector’s ability to act as a catalyst for helping society understand the challenges it faces and develop ways to respond to these. It provides an important platform for using the arts and young new creative talent to debate issues around social exclusion, freedom of expression.
Creative lives has the following components
WAPI events, piloted in Nairobi and recently extended to Dar Es Salaam, are a platform that makes it possible for visual and verbal artists in the underground to showcase their art (in words and/or pictures). We take the underground to mean the upcoming, the undiscovered, those who, by design or default, are not part of the mainstream. WAPI brings undiscovered talent to the fore for the discerning public through a regular (monthly) WAPI programme. WAPI also aspires to become a talent-spotting platform – the place where tomorrows best acts and today’s best-kept secrets are identified and enjoyed.
The artists that WAPI aspires to engage work in a cross-section of creative fields that use words and pictures. These include writers, poets, rappers & hip hop artists, musicians, filmmakers, graffiti artists, painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers, etc.
To perform at WAPI, e-mail wapi@one1mgt.com. To see more on WAPI and drop suggestions and comments, visit wapilagos.blogspot.com
- Business training (from April 08)
- Mentoring (from April 08)
- Networking events/opportunities (from April 08)
- Seminars/Talks about issues pertinent to the sector (from April 08)
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Africa 2007 is a long-term programme of cultural interaction to connect people in Africa and the UK. It begins by marking two anniversaries. Two hundred years ago the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in the UK and fifty years ago Ghana gained independence. Ghana was the first country in Africa to achieve independence, a moment in history that began an ongoing process of empowerment and decolonisation in Africa and elsewhere in the world. These anniversaries are significant moments of change in the relationship between Africa and the UK and present us with an opportunity to explore our relationship in its many manifestations, past, present and future.
It includes:
Belongings creates the opportunity for young people from Africa and the UK to explore identity and community through a series of international exchanges. It uses a bold, simple design to provide creative individuals with the opportunity to have life-changing experiences and then to share these with their home communities.
Young people taking part in the exchanges record experiences in their communities at home, pack bags with objects reflecting those experiences, and then share these with others on their journeys.
Exchanges have taken place and the young people involved are currently doing their post-exchange activities.
Whether you’re into Baba Maal or Dizzie Rascal, the chances are that music plays an important part in your life. Bring the Noise brings together musicians, artists and film makers from Africa and the UK to collaborate, create, and perform. Artists explore issues of identity, culture and heritage in new pieces of work performed across Africa and in the UK. Bring the Noise aims to increase appreciation of African music in the UK and to highlight the power and beauty of creative fusions in the arts resulting from the criss-cross of influences between Africa and the UK.
13 artistes are currently touring with performances produced as part of the project.
Different Lives takes a fresh and innovative approach to increasing the number of professional relationships between countries in Africa and the UK. Around 200 people from business communities will participate in international job swaps and contribute to the development of a professional development module in intercultural management with universities in Africa and the UK. The project aims to challenge perceptions about who we are and explore the issues we face in building our societies in an increasingly global context. It will focus on professional and personal development, management and leadership.
The programme aims to explore notions of culture and identity to generate fresh ideas and create new understandings between individuals and communities in Africa and the UK. It will focus on current identities and future possibilities, enabling people in Africa and the UK to explore relationships, trace journeys in the past and understand them from new perspectives.
Participants from 7 countries in East and West Africa and the UK have traced their family trees to pre-independence times and are producing digital stories to showcase their findings.
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INTERNATIONAL YOUNG CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURS (IYCE) |
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Creativity is at the root of intellectual property, and industry, or productivity, at the root of economic growth and so the creative industries – a notion still provoking much debate around the world – are one of the key components to sustainable economic development, successful economic transition and broad economic and social regeneration, everywhere.
The impact of the creative industries is quite clear: in the UK, they are the fastest growing sector of the economy. The UK also leads the rest of the world in terms of creative economies. The British Council has therefore harnessed this opportunity of being the Cultural Organisation of the leading creative economy, to start the International Young Creative Entrepreneur Programme globally.
The IYCE award programme is unique in that it rewards the talent and initiative of young creative entrepreneurs from across the creative industries. Award programmes for creative talent are common but this programme is unique because it recognises the central role of young creative entrepreneurs in the development of a competitive and sustainable creative economy. The programme reflects an understanding of the creative economy as a tool in extending cultural engagement and supporting cultural diversity, through the development of a strong independent creative sector.
All finalists for the IYCE awards must be aged between 25 and 35, already work in their sector (as defined specifically for each award) and have demonstrated through their character and drive their ability to promote their creative sector within Nigeria.
For the purposes of these awards, we define that an International Young Creative Entrepreneur must possess Entrepreneurial Ability which includes a passion for their creative sector, originality of ideas, understanding of their market, risk taking and corporate as well as interpersonal skills. They are also expected to show Character and Leadership Ability through their self confidence, market awareness, international outlook, leadership ability and their ability to make a difference.
Our definition of International Young Creative Entrepreneur can be applied to both the profit and not for profit sectors.
In 2007 we participated in four of the IYCE awards – International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year (IYMEY), International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year(IYDEY), International Young Screen Entrepreneur of the Year(IYSEY) and International Young Fashion Entrepreneur of the Year(IYFEY).
The IYCE also includes awards in Publishing, Communications, Interactive media and Visual Arts
In 2004, Patience Okekwe represented Nigeria at the International Young Publisher of the Year Award (IYPY), in 2005, Nigeria’s Lanre Lawal emerged winner of the International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year Award (IYDEY) and in 2006 Emem Ema represented Nigeria at the International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year Award (IYMEY) in London. This year, Nigeria has made it again as one of ten countries participating in the International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year (IYDEY), International Young Film Entrepreneur of the Year (IYFEY) and International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year Award (IYMEY). Audu Maikori, CEO of chocolate City, a record label and artiste management company, has emerged the Global winner for IYMEY, making Nigeria the 1st country to win two of the global awards.
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New Writing In Drama Project |
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