This year’s Slum Party is taking a Big Leap.
First :it is happening in two different states in Nigeria.
Second: If I tell you, the team will not be happy with me. :)
Follow @_slumparty now. The juice is coming.
#SlumParty26 #CommunityDanceFestival #CommunityArt #AfricanDancers #spatialdesign
Beautiful moment yesterday as our artistic director @obiajuluozegbe was elected as the state chairman for the Guild of Nigerian Dancers (Gond Lagos).
Grateful for the support and we wish Valu strength and wisdom on this new journey.
#EnnovateDance #Valu #Gond #NigerianDance #NigerianCreatives
The Green House is Gone
The Green House is gone
The free school is gone
torn from the earth
like a name it has been erased from memory.
Farewell.
To everything that could have been born here
the unfinished songs, the dances still learning their own rhythm, to what could have been.
To the stories of resilience
we will never hear
Farewell
to the children
who, through this space,
wanted to dance
To dance like Valu
Farewell
to Loné Street Powerbase,
our home without walls of privilege,
but rich in belonging.
Mosafejo
An entire community’s memory wiped in hours.
not by flood,not by fire,but by the cold logic of machines, that do not know names, that do not greet elders, that do not pause for the cries from children.
The earth remembers,
even when maps pretend not to.
The soil knows who danced on it.
They can flatten houses,
but they cannot flatten spirit.
“Kiss From a Booze” by Obiajulu Ozegbe
Showing as part of The Other Order.
Opening Reception: 7th February 2026.
Commissioned by Apex Art New York.
#ContemporaryArt #DanceSoundInstallationPhotographyFilm #Curator #TheOtherOrder
I’m deeply grateful to receive this Award of Recognition from the Slum Party Community Dance Festival @_slumparty
To be acknowledged by a community that believes in dance as a tool for access, expression, and social connection means a lot to me. Slum Party continues to create spaces where movement meets community, where art becomes conversation, and where people are reminded of their power to gather, imagine, and heal together.
This recognition belongs not just to me, but to the communities, collaborators, and young creatives who continue to show up - with courage, curiosity, and care, and to the amazing creatives I work with at Hearts Heartist @thebranddavid@sarah_.strong@hearts_heartist
Thank you for seeing the work, for holding space, and for reminding us that when dance is rooted in community, its impact travels far beyond the stage.
Grateful. 🌿
#slumparty #communitydance #artforsocialimpact #creativecommunities #movementasconnection
It’s not just houses been brought down, it’s memories, it’s stories, it’s heritage, it’s futures, it is adults who will never be able to visit the places they once grew up. It is children who will never understand why they have to sleep outside in the open with everything that shares the night, it is lives that have had to pay the ultimate price.
🎥: Archive Footage | Slum Party promo February 2019. Lone Street Oworonshoki.
The Other Order opens on the 7th of February 2026.
Follow the page @the.otherorder
#Exhibition #ContemporaryArt #DanceSoundInstallationPhotographyPoetry #TheOtherOrder
The model of redevelopment that treats land as more valuable than life, and history as an inconvenience.
The other order.
7th February 2026.
Curated by: @obiajuluozegbe
Commissioned by @apexart
Featured artists: @dharmhie@eddielove_@thediniverse@_uhunoma@obiajuluozegbe
Footage: Archive | Slum Party November 2019.
#TheOtherOther #Exhibition #DanceSoundFilmPhotographyInstallation
The other order - Lagos, Nigeria.
Unveiling the artists.
Obiajulu Ozegbe
Piece: Kiss from a Booze.
Dancer, movement artist and community organizer Obiajulu Ozegbe is interested in using dance and movement as a tool for problem solving and a conversational catalyst. His approach to dance has earned him features on BBC World, Aljazeera, Euro News and other main stream media. He received the Prince Claus Seed award in 2021 and has showed his choreographic work at Right About Now Festival in Amsterdam and Hietnue Instituut in Rotterdam amongst other prestigious spaces. He is a 2024 Fellow of T’works Singapore.
Obiajulu Received the award of best contemporary dancer in Nigeria 2025 by the Grand awards. He is a board member of the Afrocan Community and a member of Oworo dance community.
He has performed, given classes and lectures in Greece, USA, Namibia, Guinea Conakry, France, Switzerland, Ghana, Germany and many other cities and countries.
He believes strongly in using dance as a tool for community development and speaking truth the power.
#TheOtherOrder #ObiajuluOzegbe #ApexArt
This groove is ancestrals @_slumparty Cypher
This Groove is Ancestral.
#slumparty #artist #dance #festival #community #lagoscreatives #thisgrooveisancestral #bboywe #bboywewisdom
