National Festival for Arts & Culture (NAFEST)

The National Festival for Arts and Culture (NAFEST) began in 1970 as a post civil war strategy on the concept of using the cultural festival to promote National Unity.

As an annual festival organized by NCAC, hosting rights rotate among the states of the nation. NAFEST has grown to be a veritable flagship of the celebration of Nigeria’s unity in diversity.

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African Arts and Crafts Expo (AFAC)

In pre-colonial times, Cultural Industries played critical roles in fast tracking the growth of rural economies through the abundant array of crafts and ancillary industries that served as adjunct to farming. These can be found in Ivory, Bronze, Brass, and Glass castings, Pottery, Leather works, Textiles, Basketry etc produced in different parts of the country and distributed largely by itinerant traders in what then served as long distance trade. read more >

Meeting Of Chief Executives Of Culture Of The Federation (CEC)

This is a forum for the meeting of Chief Executives of Culture of the Federation comprising all Chief Executives of the 36 States of the Federation and FCT Arts Councils/History and Culture Bureaux, Chief Executives of Federal Cultural Parastatals, the Director, Federal Department of Culture of the Ministry. The thrust of the meeting is to review and fine-tune strategies for implementing government cultural policies as well as set an agenda for moving the culture sector forward.

National Culture Quiz Competition for Secondary Schools

The National Culture Quiz Competition for Secondary Schools is a youth enlightenment and educational programme anchored on the cultural heritage and values of Nigeria. The forum attempts to inculcate in our youths the appropriate values and knowledge about our arts and culture, through quiz competitions among secondary schools across the country. The programme has gained great acceptance from all the states of the federation as well as platform in using cultural ethos as ingredients for leadership, nation building and development

NCAC Honours Lecture / Awards.

The NCAC Honours Lecture aims at Celebrating Nigerian culture by recognizing, acknowledging and paying homage to identified personalities that have contributed in the development of our collective heritage which have impacted on our national life as a people and as a nationThus, the NCAC Honours lecture is a celebration of our culture par excellence; a recognition of distinction and creativity in specific, aspects of human endeavour viz: bringing to the fore, the virtues of creativity and its impetus and contributions to meaningful and sustainable development in Nigeria. read more >

Culture of Peace and Dialogue Forum

This programme is deviced as a platform for social re-orientation on alternative perspectives among Nigerian youths on the issue of conflicts and their resolution.  The Culture of Peace and Dialogue Forum aims at entrenching dialogue as a viable alternative to violent means of resolving conflicts.  The forum draws speakers and experts in the area of peace and conflict resolution and some of the children themselves are made to be speakers at such forum.
The programme has a national spread as it holds in six geo-political zones of the country where participants are charged to become Ambassadors of peace in their respective schools and communities.

Exhibitions

The Council regularly organises Exhibitions of Arts and Crafts aimed at creating public awareness on the role of Arts and Crafts in national development. At such fora, creativity, indigenous skills and talents are displayed with a view to harnessing and updating them for contemporary usage and encouraging the consumption of Made- In-Nigeria products. This has great potentials in contributing to our pursuit for sustainable economic growth.  Furthermore, our participation at international exhibitions promote the Nigerian identity and creative advancement in the comity of nations.

Indigenous Games

The NCAC has over the years been in the fore front of promoting Nigerian Indigenous Games such as traditional wrestling, traditional boxing, catapulting, Abula, Langa, Ayo, Archery, Charapke etc. This is with a view to developing and standardizing our various indigenous games to make them gain international acceptance.

These indigenous games are regular features of NAFE5T competitive and non-competitive events and special championship and contests have also been organized in the past on some of them, when fully developed our indigenous games have great socia-economic potentials.

Collaboration with Nigerian Film Producers

It is heart warming to note that the Nollywood is fast growing and has become a thing of great pride to Nigeria.  Today, the industry has in a way marked our contribution to global culture, creating jobs for quite a large number of our youths as well as generated wealth for the country.

Looking at these remarkable feats of the industry as a reflection of our creative potentials as a people propels the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) to positively intervene in providing support for further development of the industry and rescue it from the short comings that it is facing as a result of the limitation of private entrepreneurship that has driven the industry so far. read more >