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Introducing | 2020 Canadian Women Artists’ Award Recipients Destinie Adelakun and Sara Jimenez

The Canadian Women Artists’ Award is offered by NYFA with funding from the Canadian Women’s Club of New York.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced interdisciplinary artists Destinie Adelakun and Sara Jimenez as its 2020 Canadian Women Artists’ Award recipients. The $5,000 award is designed to provide financial support to women-identifying emerging or early career artists working in any discipline, and can be used in any manner the recipient deems necessary to further their artistic goals. The award program is supported by funding granted to NYFA by the Canadian Women's Club (CWC) of New York as a way to continue its philanthropic work when it disbanded. This year, in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the creative community, the CWC and NYFA decided to award two prizes.

“We’re proud to partner with the Canadian Women’s Club to offer this award, and are especially grateful to recognize not one but two artists,” said Michael L. Royce, Executive Director, NYFA. “Destinie Adelakun and Sara Jimenez are exceptionally talented cross-disciplinary artists, and we are excited to hear more from them as they continue to push their careers forward,” he added.

Destinie Adelakun is a Lagos, Nigeria-born, Nagpur, India-raised Canadian artist whose work extends from mixed-media, painting, and photography to film and sculpture, and explores topics ranging from African history, mythology, and spirituality. She utilizes individuals in her work as a personification of principles and ideas, and a way to re-illustrate African and Indian mythological tales. Adelakun, who received a BFA degree in Fashion Production from The London College of Fashion, celebrates women of the African diaspora and plays with the adornment that embodies the creative direction of the work. She has collaborated with noted art world icons such as Renee Cox, Mickalene Thomas, and Taha Clayton to name a few, and curated several art shows in the New York region before recently transitioning to showing her own art and photography work. She currently lives and works in New York, NY.

Said Adelakun upon receiving a 2020 Canadian Women Artists’ Award: "As a biracial daughter of the diaspora, life has thrown countless battles on my path to success. I recently became a mother during this global pandemic, and just when I felt overwhelmed and buried by the challenges of life I received this ray of opportunity. This award means that I have the opportunity to continue to create work. It is an opportunity for me to allow other young women of color, especially mothers, to see that creativity and achievement doesn't end after childbirth. This award and its recognition will elevate my career to a whole new level, and it's an affirmation to continue working and believing in myself."

Sara Jimenez explores the material embodiment of deep transcultural memories. As an interdisciplinary Filipinx-Canadian artist, she is interested in materializing existing global narratives around concepts of origins and home, loss and absence. She works in collage, sculpture, installation, and performance to create visual metaphors that allude to mythical environments and forgotten artifacts. Jimenez is a collector and alchemist: among other things, she collects familial narratives, abandoned objects, debris, compost, colonial texts and photos, maps, and textiles. Through material experimentation, she combines and rearranges elements from her collections to complicate pre-existing narratives of place, lineage, and temporality. Her work has been exhibited at the Pinto Art Museum (Philippines), El Museo del Barrio, Brooklyn Museum, and others, and she has performed at numerous venues including The Dedalus Foundation, The Noguchi Museum, and Dixon Place. Upcoming, Jimenez will have solo shows at Irvine Fine Arts Center and The Center for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, England, and will participate in the 2021 Cornell Biennial curated by Tim Murray. Jimenez received her BA degree from the University of Toronto and her MFA degree from Parsons the New School for Design. She teaches at Parsons, New York University, and Borough of Manhattan Community College and mentors graduate students at the Vermont College of Fine Art and School of Visual Arts. Jimenez is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Said Jimenez upon receiving a 2020 Canadian Women Artists’ Award: "I am incredibly honored to receive this award. It is humbling and moving to be gifted resources to pursue my vision and share it with the world. I want my work to be of service to the public and to shift the paradigm of visual culture."

Lorraine Bell, Board Director Bridgemarq Real Estate Services, Hot Docs Foundation USA, the University of Toronto Associates, Inc., and former Canadian Women’s Club member, spoke about the rationale behind giving two awards in 2020: "I know the financial struggles that artists face during the best of times can be difficult, but layer a global pandemic onto that and it can be overwhelming. So the decision to award two worthy Canadian recipients in 2020 was made and we are thrilled with the selections of artists Adelakun and Jimenez."

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Images from top: Destinie Adelakun and Sara Jimenez, Photo Credits: Sheridon Poyer and Sara Jimenez; Destinie Adelakun, ADE - Oshun and Oya's crown, 2020; and Sara Jimenez, Cenotaph, 2018

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Once upon a long time ago, Women were treated as Goddesses, revered for their wisdom, healing skills, nurturing abilities, their  compassion, love and understanding, in return Women offered their womb as a gateway to intimacy, happiness, prosperity and abundance, using flower essences, herbal tonics, healing stones, crystals, shells, beautifully balanced words of encouragement and affection. Sacred women opened themselves to spiritual receptivity, creative expression and creativity for clearer insight to bring forth light, hidden or buried emotions, cleansing, alignment, strength and trust. I am being  channelled to say, Sacred women must  re-introduce womb wellness. Sacred women must create dis-ease free body and mind temples, removal of toxic behaviours and patterns starts from the womb. For a while now, I am being shown angry wombs. Sex with lower frequency partners, insertion of aids that have been harvested from an angry Mother Gaia, heavy periods, intermittent periods, cramps, traumatic unnecessary removal of wombs, miscarriage, terminations, depression, anxiety, unconsenual sex, fibroids, endometriosis, fertility issues etc, stem from an angry womb. Teach your children to revere the womb. Break the cycle. The womb is packed with power, recognise and start to harness it's endless possibilities. Sacred woman you are so special. Heal. There is nothing wrong with him as a Divine Masculine and nothing wrong with you as a Divine Feminine, you are a Divine couple by nature. We are just acting out of our natural Divinty. Dear Divine Source, help me heal my  sacred womb, help me to break free of the bondage that keeps me locked into what no longer serve me. Help me to find the love, peace, harmony and beauty of my sacred womb. Please forgive me. I release now. So mote it be. X Anything you need to know Just ask. X (C) 2020 Oshun Healing #reikimaster #intuitive #womb #sacredwomb #healing #divinemasculine  #transformation #connection #angels #ancestors #psychic #medium #sacredshells #divinesource #oshun #powerful #magic #witch https://www.instagram.com/p/CBVqDLZHLDZ/?igshid=zi2f6rzmcngf

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Lagos Assembly Moves To Eradicate Environmental Challenges

BY TAIWO OGUNMOLA-OMILANI   Lagos State House of Assembly has expedited actions in other to further enhance Lagos State Waste Management Agency, (LAWMA) regulatory roles in order to eradicate the environmental challenges in the State. This is sequel to the recommendations of the report on Environmental Degradation in the State chaired by Hon. Moshood Oshun, Chairman, 6-Man Ad Hoc Committee. Oshun had earlier presented the report to the House stating that the Committee had visited affected canals and water channels which were blocked due to the indiscriminate dumping of refuse by residents; thereby causing blockage of drainages and flood. Hon. Tunde Braimoh indicated that Odo-Iya Alaro, Alapere, Ogudu and Ajegunle were among the exempted areas in the project. He advised that the House should look into the letter of contracts awarded to the contractors and suggested that the Office of Drainage Services, ODS be re-introduced for monitoring of Canals and drainages in the State. Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, the Majority Leader of the House stressed the need for the re-introduction of the Office of Drainage Services to critically monitor contractors and the creation of Sanitary Inspectors. He however, noted that the Ministry of Water Resources and Environment has created Environmental Corp for people to adhere to Environmental Laws. Hon. Rasheed Makinde, in his remarks, admonished residents on condemning the government on blocked drainages, when they are the defaulters of the Law by engaging in refuse dumping in drainages. He emphasized on the need for thorough understudy of the issue of odour and the health effect on residents living at the Igando dumpsite, stressing need for environmental empowerment assessment. According to Hon. Wahab Jimoh ”adequate result of the report cannot be assessed as the largest Canal which is the System 5 has been exempted from the project which therefore hinders the free flow of water from other Canals.” Hon. David Setonji expressed that there were major over-sight from the contractors which must be reviewed. Adding his voice, Hon. Bisi Yusuf added that most canals are blocked due to illegal building structures on them and drastic actions must be taken against defaulters. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, the Speaker, in his concluding remarks approved the amended recommendation of the 6-Man Ad Hoc Committee on Environmental Degradation as resolution of the House. ​ Read the full article

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After re-checking rules, I'm going to introduce you the updated version of duel between Lorgar and Oshun.

First turn

Lorgar attacks 4 times with his mace (5 on the charge), inflicts 3 Hits (3.75 on the charge) and 1.667 Wounds (1.851 on the charge), causes 0.417 Wounds after saves (0.463 on the charge) and IWND decreases damage to 0.083 Wounds (0.13 on the charge).

Oshun attacks 8 times with her sabre (9 on the charge), inflicts 4 Hits (4.5 on the charge) and 3.333 Wounds (3.75 on the charge), causes 0.833 Wounds after saves (0.938 after saves on the charge) and IWND decreases damage to 0.5 wounds (0.604 wounds on the charge)

Second turn and thereafter

Lorgar attacks 4 times, inflicts 3 Hits and 1.667 Wounds, causes 0.417 Wounds after saves, IWND decreases damage to 0.083 Wounds.

Oshun attacks 8 times, inflicts 4 Hits and 3.333 Wounds, causes 0.833 Wounds after saves, IWND decreases damage to 0.5 Wounds.

My mistakes was caused because I thought that the Forewarning save can stack with Lorgar's innate Invulnerable save. Oshun is victorious in 10 turns.

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Re-Introducing Oshun Narrative, Performance and Visual Art Exhibition

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'Re-Introducing Oshun' Exhibition in London Will Explore Black Women's Bodies, Gender, and Sexual Expression through the Lens of the Orisha, Oshun.

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Dopeness happening soon in London, UK! 'Re-Introducing Oshun' is "an interdisciplinary exhibition in style of Art Nude, discussing black women's bodies, gender and sexual expression through the lens of the Orisha, Oshun." Creative director Janine Francois allowed us to premiere some of the images right here on AFROPUNK. She tells us that this series, called 'Exotic Fruits', "aims to be a critique of European colonial and anthropological gaze of African women by giving back their agency".  [Continue reading article at AfroPunk.]

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June 12: Kola Abiola got it wrong on Tinubu, says Nyiam

National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) chieftain, Col. Tony Nyiam (rtd), yesterday cautioned against what he described as the penchant for twisting the facts about the ‘June 12’ struggle, particularly the roles and contributions of freedom fighters, who laboured for democracy. He said the story of the epic battle against the military can be told without elevating falsehood and fabrication over and above truth which, he maintained, will remain sacred. Nyiam, who was a key actor in the Great Ogboru/Gideon Okar coup against military President Ibrahim Babangida before joining the pro-democracy forces, objected to the claims by the late Chief Moshood Abiola’s son, Kola, that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu made some demands from former Military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, to be made administrator, deputy administrator and commissioner in Lagos State. Decrying what he described as Kola’s reactionary tendencies, the retired soldier said the media statements credited to him were made in bad faith, adding that Tinubu did not compromise his principles during the struggle. Nyiam said although he had parted with the former Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart four years ago, he decided to set the records straight on Tinubu’s involvement and contributions in good conscience. In his reckoning, Kola should be grateful to Tinubu and other committed leaders of the democratic struggles instead of disowning their heroic contributions to the cause. Nyiam said: “Let me begin by saying this: guided by good conscience, and intuition-led reasoning which proceeds therefrom, I will begin with this warning: no matter the temptation we are being tempted with, let no one be as ungrateful to another who sacrificed almost his existential life to work for the persons directly or his immediate family as Chief Kola Abiola has recently done to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. “In spite of my personal disappointment with Asiwaju, I cannot be a witness to Kola Abiola’s ungratefulness to the lowest depth. We need to set the record straight. It is noteworthy to see that I have for over four years distanced myself from my hitherto close friend, Asiwaju. Those who are close to Asiwaju and my humble self know that. “Chief Kola Abiola’s questioning of the integrity of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s early support for his father, Chief MKO Abiola, on doubtful demand from Gen. Sani Abacha is completely unnecessary and so uncalled for. To what end is Kola’s negative observation directed? Who is Kola Abiola trying this lie to give comfort to?” The NADECO chieftain, however, noted that Kola Abiola is unlike Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, who is trying to shift the spotlight on his June 12 commission or omission. He said: “The reference to the intelligence community by the ambassador stems from the outing of himself as an informant of what or who. Kingibe is shielding himself from the defence of the grievous allegation that he was the most dangerous betrayer of Chief MKO Abiola. “Baba Gana Kingibe adopted diversionary tactics by saying that Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo knew about the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election. And so what? This begs the question on the sincerity of the so-called spy master during the June 12 tragedy. “There is also the allegation that the dagger-drawn Kanuri man was the one who misled Gen. Muhammadu Buhari most. This allegation still needs to be defended instead of diverting attention to ‘Obasanjo did this and that.’ “Every devilish statecraft technique must in the name of Allah be rejected by President Muhammadu Buhari. Nigerians have experienced enough of extra-judicial killings in a bid to preserve one’s political power.” Nyiam maintained that Kola’s unnecessary negative observation on Asiwaju Bola Tinubu underscored his lack of knowledge of the true facts and records, pointing out that his views ran contrary to his father’s commendation of Tinubu at the time in question. He recalled that during the dark moments of the struggle, he worked actively with Tinubu at the instance of the late winner of the historic election. Nyiam said: “It was actually at Kola Abiola’s father, Chief MKO Abiola’s instance that I was first introduced to Tinubu. Chief MKO was full of praises for Senator Bola Tinubu and said that I and Tinubu will work well together. “All these happened in Chief MKO Abiola’s London home. It was in the presence of the former Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) chairman, the late Alao Aka-Bashorun. This was when MKO flew to London to re-energise his international connection. “Like MKO had commended Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s role in support of June 12 cause, apart from Prof. Wole Soyinka, who contributed through his leadership of NALICON and gave us a link to the leaders of Norway, Canada, followed by Gen. Alani Akinrinade and, of course, the leader of all of us, Chief Anthony Enahoro, no one else had more contributions than Asiwaju.” The retired soldier said Tinubu sold some property to get funds for the pro-democracy project in the United Kingdom and sponsored many activities that shook the military regime of Gen. Sani Abacha. He stressed: “I was a witness to Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s selling of his London property for the struggle. In fact, the last one he sold was the one which his uncle, Wale Tinubu’s father and former Police Commissioner, gave him to manage while he was on exile. “The property in London, Tinubu sold it. What was left for Tinubu was his own flat in London where we used to visit. “The real operative activities against Sani Abacha were numerous. From Western Europe and North America, Tinubu was involved. Tinubu organised and funded the training of our men, ‘SAS’ agents. “Tinubu funded my trips to meet with Y. Museveni in Uganda; to take advantage of MKO’s goodwill. Museveni was ready to train our chaps. I went to see the Chief of Army Staff of Uganda. All that was funded by Tinubu. “Tinubu was reliable during the pro-democracy action against Gen. Sani Abacha’s dictatorial rule. That reliability is unchallengeable. If you doubt me, you can ask the present governor of Ekiti. Most of the funding for Radio Kudirat came from Tinubu through Ola Soyinka, son of Prof. Wole Soyinka. And I can say that Tinubu’s other son can also bear witness to that. “The internationally eminent professor, Segun Gbadegesin, can testify to Tinubu’s support for those operations in the United States of America.” Nyiam recalled that there was a similar allegation of betrayal against him by one of Abiola’s daughters, adding that the late symbol of the struggle did not believe it. He said: “I myself was once accused by one of Chief MKO’s daughters that I was working for Gen. Sani Abacha. This allegation against my person to the British Authorities was debunked by an unexpected official of the then Federal Government. “I go to know this through Chief MKO Abiola’s United Kingdom business manager, a gentleman. He told me, and this was confirmed by the person. And the person who brought up the allegation was the High Commissioner, His Excellency, Alhaji A. A. Abubakar. I told them it cannot be Col. Tony Nyiam. “My Nigerian Defence Academy combatant mate, His Royal Majesty, the Emir of Gwandu, Alhaji Mustapha Jokolo, His Excellency Tripple A, by virtue of being a true descendant of Dan Fodio, will always speak the truth. They did not believe it.” Nyiam said those who risked their lives during the period deserved commendation and not condemnation, adding that their names will be written in gold. He added: “I have nothing to do with Tinubu, but it will be against my conscience to see him being disowned despite his sacrifices. “Apart from Gen. Alani Akinrinade, Tinubu made so much sacrifice. So was Beko Ransom-Kuti. So was Governor Kayode Fayemi. He was a young man then; younger than all of us. He did so much. “So were Commodore Dan Suleiman, Ambassador Ralp Nwachie, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Hon. Wale Oshun, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi and Dr. Amos Akingba, whose posh-like majestic two storey mansion, off Opebi Street, Ikeja, was an operational base, Solicitor Dele Ogun, Dr Ola Soyinka, Makin Soyinka, Bolu Atijosan, Taiwo Akinola, and the veteran journalists: Nosa Igiebor, Chuks Illugbunam, Doyin Iyiola, Mr. Johnson and George Noah, Dr Femi Folurunsho and Dele Momodu, who joined us later. “There was also from Canada the reliable Otunba Jumoke and Ralph Obiora. “Kola Abiola appears too sunk in worldliness to appreciate the principles and sacrifices MKO manifested, including the ultimate sacrifices made by all of us for June 12. Two come to mind: the very resourceful Engineeer Nelson and Dr. Omotoso, who died in the pro-democracy action, deserve immortalisation by a true progressive government. “I can tell you that Kola has always been reactionary and often acted in ways that undermined MKO’s cause. I tell you of a real life story pertaining to ‘The Concord’ owned by his father. I am aware that at some point in 1999 after the restoration of democracy on May 29, and Tinubu had assumed office as Lagos State governor, the Concord management, led by Dr. (Mrs) Doyin Abiola, needed N25 million to fully recapitalise the operations of Concord Press after five years of subversion by the Abacha junta. “As governor, I am aware that Tinubu was willing to help Concord back to its feet. He offered to buy a giant generator earlier bought by MKO for Concord Workers Housing Estate and lying idle for N35 million for the Water Corporation of Lagos State. Tinubu was willing to buy this and pass the generator to the Lagos State Water Corporation then. “The deal was almost concluded, only for the same Kola to come and place a caveat emptor in the newspapers suddenly against the sale of the generator by Concord management to the Lagos State Government, thereby leaving Concord to continue to suffer in serious financial difficulties. “No surprise, it did not take long before Concord finally went under. These are historical facts.” Read the full article

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Re-Introducing Oshun - A live narrative, performance and visual show at the Lyric Hammersmith.