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📷 : @odunayoodedoyin by @0menogor

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a day ago

I’m usually not one to plan anything for my birthday, but this year I decided to celebrate me, and I’m so glad I did. Best birthday everrrrr! ❤️ So much love, so much laughter, and so much fun. Really blessed to have these people in my corner. 🥹❤️

📷: @ifebusola_s by @0menogor

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6 days ago

Reading New Culture, Session 003.

We started Reading New Culture with New Culture Magazine. This time, we moved further into the archive and encountered What’s On, a publication from the 1980s found within the New Culture archives.

Together, we read “That Ibadan 1980 Flood Disaster,” an account of the flood that swept through Ibadan on August 31, 1980.

What began as a reading about a city in crisis quickly became a conversation about the Ibadan we live in today: how the city has changed, what hasn’t changed, our relationship with the environment, public infrastructure, collective responsibility, and who is responsible for the cities we inhabit.

There was something particularly special about having this conversation at the Dominican Chapel, a space designed by Demas Nwoko and itself part of the wider story we continue to encounter through the New Culture archive.

The archive keeps leading us somewhere.
Thank you to everyone who came to read, remember, question and think with us. ❤️ taken in Ibadan, Nigeria by @0menogor

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10 days ago

The Reading Room returns for Session 003.

Reading New Culture began with New Culture Magazine, but the magazine was only our starting point. As we continue to explore the New Culture archive, we’re moving into the other publications, documents and stories preserved within it, following what we find and bringing these materials back into conversation.

For Session 003, we turn to What’s On, a publication encountered in the archive, to read “That Ibadan 1980 Flood Disaster,” a first-person account of the flood that swept through Ibadan on 31 August 1980.

This session takes us to Dominican Chapel, Ibadan, designed by Demas Nwoko. In a way, the space extends our encounter with the archive beyond the page: from reading ideas and histories connected to New Culture to gathering within a space shaped by the same creative world. We’ll also take a short tour of the chapel as part of the afternoon.

More than four decades after the flood, we return to the text together to think about Ibadan, the environment, collective responsibility, memory, and what the city might learn from its own past.

What can an old account of a city in crisis tell us about the city we inhabit today?

Join us for Reading New Culture: Session 003.
Registration link in bio. taken in Ibadan, Nigeria by @0menogor

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a month ago

The Reading Room — Session 002
We read New Culture Magazine @gasfoundation

For this session, we gathered around Volume 1, Issue 1 of New Culture Magazine, first published in November 1978, and spent the afternoon thinking through an article on architecture and environmental design.

The conversation took us from traditional African architecture and our relationship with the environment to waste, community, climate, and the question of what it might mean to look within our own histories and knowledge systems when imagining the places we live.

It was especially meaningful to have @amandaiheme co-host this session, bringing her own experience and research around architecture, African building practices, and her time at G.A.S. into the conversation.

A big thank you to G.A.S. Foundation for welcoming The Reading Room and creating the space for us to read, question, and think together.

We continue to return to the archive not to find definitive answers, but to see what these texts can still open up for us today. taken in Lagos, Nigeria by @0menogor

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2 months ago

The Reading Room is coming to Lagos.

For our next edition of Reading New Culture, we’ll gather at Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation to return to the pages of New Culture Magazine, beginning with its very first edition, published in November 1978.

We’ll read a selected text on architecture and the ways in which we build, using it as a starting point to think about culture, identity, materials, environment, and how African societies imagine and construct spaces from their own realities.

The reading will sit alongside related texts from the G.A.S. Library and Picton Archive, situated within G.A.S. Foundation, creating a wider reading environment around African modernism, Nigerian art and architecture, and the built environment.

Reading New Culture at G.A.S.
G.A.S. Foundation
August 28
2PM

Come read with us. taken in Lagos, Nigeria by @0menogor

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2 months ago

Hi, I’m Omenogor

I design experiences, build communities, tell stories, and generally love turning ideas into things people can experience and remember.

I’m always interested in projects that positively impact my community, especially the ones that create room for people to connect, learn, discover, express themselves, or just have a really good time.

Outside of work, I love dancing, I love being around good people, I love a good idea, and I have a very serious love for fried plantain.(my mum thinks it’ll grow on my head soon)

I’m also constantly learning and growing. A lot of what I’m doing now is very different from what I imagined for myself a few years ago, and I’m excited about that. I like that I’m still figuring things out, trying new things and becoming more of myself along the way.

So, here’s to growth, good ideas, beautiful experiences and my amazing community 💛

BTW my friend @ifebusola_s took these beautiful portraits of me and I love them by @0menogor

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2 months ago

Last year, we started with an idea: to create a space where emerging DJs in Ibadan could learn, practice, find their sound and grow alongside one another.

@rlfrsoundlab is a one-year development programme. The workshop is only the beginning. Over the next year, the cohort will have access to regular practice sessions, mentorship, artist development sessions, performance opportunities, equipment and gear support, and a community to grow with.

Our first cohort started with 24 participants, and today 12 of them are actively playing and taking up space in the scene.

This year, we selected 24 new DJs from 80 applications.

Being back in the room for a second cohort feels really special. There’s so much potential and I’m excited to see what they make of the next year. by @0menogor

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2 months ago

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📷: @salltherager @ife69 by @0menogor

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2 months ago

We read together.

Sunday marked the first session of The Reading Room, where we gathered around Volume 1, Number 2 of New Culture Magazine (January 1979).

What began as a reading became a conversation about culture, identity, responsibility, and the enduring relevance of archives when encountered collectively.

One of the ideas that stayed with us was the assertion that artists are nation builders, that creativity is not separate from society, but fundamental to shaping it.

My favourite line from the article was:

“It is common sense to say that in order to fully appreciate the beauty of an alien culture, one must first understand the beauty, quality and practical application of one’s own artistic and cultural achievement.”

A special thank you to @amandaiheme, whose thoughtful and captivating reading brought the text to life. She set the pace for the room and invited us all into the conversation.

Thank you to New Culture Studios for opening its archive and hosting the inaugural Reading Room, and to everyone who came with curiosity, listened generously, and contributed to the conversation.

📷: @odunayoodedoyin taken in Ibadan, Nigeria by @0menogor

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3 months ago

Nothing to see here, just me through people’s lenses by @0menogor

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3 months ago

Introducing The Reading Room Project: a curatorial practice for archival activation by Omenogor Udome.

The first iteration, Reading New Culture, centers on New Culture Magazine, first published in 1979.

Through collective reading and conversation, the project approaches the archive not as a static historical document, but as a living body of knowledge that continues to shape contemporary thought around culture, identity, architecture, and artistic practice.

Join us as we ask: What becomes possible when we read archives together?

RSVP link in bio taken in Ibadan, Nigeria by @0menogor

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3 months ago