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Past Editions
A decade of poetry, performance, and conversation in Lagos. Browse each festival year, explore the programme, and download archives from past editions.
LIPFest 2024 · Edition X
The Science of Things
October 24–27, 2024 · Alliance Française de Lagos, Mike Adenuga Centre
LIPFest 2023 · Edition IX
Sanctuary
October 26–29, 2023 · Lagos
Holding space for stillness and renewal in an age of acceleration.
LIPFest 2022 · Edition VIII
Babel… A New Language
October 27–31, 2022 · Lagos
Centering the mother-tongue and the reclamation of language from colonialism.
LIPFest 2021 · Edition VII
Ancestral Imaginings
October 21–24, 2021 · Lagos
Leaning into the wisdom and vision of the old and the young to guide us through the rubble of a pandemic.
LIPFest 2020 · Edition VI
Love & Light and Other Clichés
October 1 – November 1, 2020 · Online
Celebrated against the backdrop of a global pandemic, a mediation on the ‘tender gravity of kindness.’
LIPFest 2019 · Edition V
A Wild Beautiful Thing
October 30 – November 3, 2019 • Lagos
Celebrated expansiveness, curiosity, Black creativity, and the limitless possibilities of artistic expression.
LIPFest 2018 · Edition IV
Wide Awake
October 21–24, 2021 · Lagos
Leaning into the wisdom and vision of the old and the young, to guide us through the rubble of a pandemic.
LIPFest 2017 · Edition III
Bridges from Walls
November 1 – 5, 2027 · Lagos
Explored connections across differing divides using poetry to build dialogue, understanding, empathy, and community.
LIPFest 2016 · Edition II
Paging the Future
October 30 – November 3, 2019 • Lagos
Poets, thinkers, and artists imagine futures shaped by creativity, possibility, innovation, uncertainty, and hope.
LIPFest 2015 · Edition I
Borderless Words
October 28 – November 1, 2015 · Lagos
LIPFest launches, creating a vibrant platform connecting poets, audiences, ideas, performance, dialogue, and community.
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