Nigeria's Art Management Guru, Doyin Owobamirin Makes Nigeria Proud


   

Arts management in Nigeria is no doubt going through a positive transition and one man is flying the flag with such a passion that is increasingly difficult to ignore. I caught up with Doyin Owobamirin in London just a few hours after I spoke with him in Washington D.C.It was about Arts Management in Washington and in London, Doyin is on stage with the likes Olu Jacobs, Segun Arinze and Bimbo Akintola in “The King Must Dance Naked”. Doyin Owobamirin is a quiet achiever in many regards. At the rehearsals, he causes laughter with such easy that you might mistake him for a clown. The moment he shed the toga of the ‘actor’, his language and carriage transforms almost magically. The brief exclusive awards ceremony to sent- forth the 2012 cohorts of the Devos Arts Management Institute at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC again brings this to the fore. In his introduction, Bret Egan, Director of the Institute perhaps captured it better when he started by saying “Doyin is a troubleshooter, this man’s entrepreneurial approach to arts management is fascinating and I believe he’s going do some innovative things for the arts in Nigeria”.
From his time as resident artistic director of the Ogun State Performing Troupe to the years as Arts Fellow at the Olabisi Onabanjo University where he taught directing and Arts management and his work with Abuja Carnival as Communication and ICT Co-ordinator, Doyin has left no one in doubt of his Arts Management ingenuity. When he was selected to participate in the Fellowship Programme of Devos Arts Management Institute at the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C, he became a member of an exclusive network of some of the finest arts managers from over 30 countries.
Doyin consults for a number of arts organisations in Nigeria and abroad. He’s worked with the Abuja Metropolitan Music Society (AMEMUSO), consulted for MUSON Centre, Lagos, and a number of Arts Councils in Nigeria. In 2011 alone, he launched the Abuja Carnival Magazine, the Gateway Arts Society and packaged the First ever ‘Abeokuta Street Party’ for the Ogun State government. While acting in London, he is also quietly marketing his new pet project, the Nigeria Arts Awards. Mrs. Akpata, immediate past Chief Executive Officer of MUSON Centre sums it up when he noted that “Doyin is simply amazing when it comes to arts management matters, every member of management at MUSON will readily attest to that”. His Nigeria Arts Awards project scheduled to hold in 2013 in already making quiet waves. 

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Chris Kehinde Nwandu is the Editor In Chief of CKNNEWS || He is a Law graduate and an Alumnus of Lagos State University, Lead City University Ibadan and Nigerian Institute Of Journalism || With over 2 decades practice in Journalism, PR and Advertising, he is a member of several Professional bodies within and outside Nigeria || Member: Institute Of Chartered Arbitrators ( UK ) || Member : Institute of Chartered Mediators And Conciliation || Member : Nigerian Institute Of Public Relations || Member : Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria || Fellow : Institute of Personality Development And Customer Relationship Management || Member and Chairman Board Of Trustees: Guild Of Professional Bloggers of Nigeria

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