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#Askthealmighty- 04 (CCAC PRESS RELEASE)

  ‘Tayo ISIJOLA Organizer- CCAC tayo@ccac.com.ng For Immediate Release   Conscious ‘n Creative Arts Challenge #AskTheAlmighty   The Conscious ‘n Creative Arts Challenge (CCAC) has instituted an Instagram artistic competition challenge that will bring vast online viewer audience in contact with performing and media artistes from Saturday 8 th August through Saturday 12 th September, 2020, with the advent of #AskTheAlmighty.   The Challenge holds on instagream @tayoisijola. There a six-stanza poem titled “Ask the Almighty,” as inscribed on scroll, has been provided as script for artistic creation in the prescribed categories of Music, Solo Acting, Animation and Audiovisual. From the volume of Challenge entries, 10 winners will emerge after a sequel of assessments by a selection committee, the viewer audience and a five-man panel of judges that comprise of the crème de la crème of the Nigerian creative industries- Sam Dede, Hilda Dokubo, Charles Inojie, Bimbo Akintol
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#Askthealmighty- 03

#Askthealmighty is not a puzzle. It is a 6-satnza poem excerpt from the epilogue of a solo drama titled Ask the Almighty, which has been provided as a scroll text on the Instagram @tayoisijola. It is this "scroll text" that seeks performing arts interpretation through  specified categories of Music, Solo acting, Animation and Audiovisual , to resonate a measure of consciousness in the viewer audience,  in an online creative art challenge.   This is not like the regular Challenge for some give-away or give-back-to-society endeavour  to keep fun seekers in touch with celebrities/brands,  which populates the social media  in the current globally challenging times. It is a call to consciousness; of creative artistes, and of the viewer audience, amid social anomalies. The Challenge consists in the participation of entrants and the assessors. As entrants create and submit artistic presentations in video for a maximum duration of THREE minutes, the viewer-audience will assess th
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#Askthealmighty- 02

Artistic creativity is not the preserve of trained and professional artistes only. It is also demonstrated in the instinct of everyone who takes interest in appreciating, appraising, criticizing, or responding to the performing arts. It is an instinct that ensues when there human imagination distills life’s undulating experiences for adaptation and survival. Hence artistic creativity is a survival instinct. This thinking therefore premises the fluidity of human identity. As every man is perceived to put up varying identities at instances of fright and fight, surplus and shortage, and other up-and-down varied situations - It is the artistic creative instinct that enables adaptation for survival through the swift navigating between “real-real” and “fictional-real” identities. Indeed, there is an artiste in every one.  This artistic creative instinct provides impetus for performing artiste in much the same way as it enables the viewer-audience to receive the performance communication smoo
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#Askthealmighty- 01

Every genuine creative artiste is motivated, first, by a flash that glows and ignites the imagination. This drives consciousness in the artiste, pressures available field of exposure, and allows for possible expressions in the creative arts. Further, the measure of consciousness in the artiste creates what may enable an endearment of the viewer-audience to the art. Ultimately, success is deemed when the artiste is able to stimulate a viewer-audience consciousness. All such creative arts works that were considered as evergreen remain evidences of how artistic consciousness has served to preserve the artiste’s legacies. In essence, this factor of consciousness can preserve a creative art work to outlast, and immortalize the curator. Conversely, the reverse is rife in the present age. There is an upsurge of emergent creative artistes and unparalleled technological possibilities are available to them, but a volume of present day creative works have become characterized by rather diminished
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REFLEXION #2

Acting, a dramatic art of character interpretation through role-playing, is the nexus of escapism. Every true actor does escape self to assume genuine role-playing, and to enjoin the audience into escapism. Sadly, acting has also become the means of exhibition for certain non-practitioners in public domain. They exploit the prestigious art in the reserve of performance communication for escapism when fixed in a critical situation. Remarkably, some Nigerian high profile public officers indulge in utilizing acting as ploy for escapism. In effect, they modify critical situations into dramatic happenings. Such high profile characters that have evinced the “escapist aesthetics” of acting include a serving Minister (2015), an incumbent Governor (2018), and a sitting Senator (2019)- all of whom made dramatic scenes that had enjoyed huge media reportage and considerable public traction.  A new stock on the list has emerged during the probe of ill-managed funds from the coffers of a juicy gover
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