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ARTCORE MOBILE FESTIVAL 2026

A Festival for Truth, Resistance & Collective Transformation

- A PLACE FOR TRUTH -

The Festival brings local and international artists, communities, children and adults together in the neighbourhoods of Warri and Lagos. Through exhibitions, workshops, performances, film and conversations, we explore Truth as both lived experience and a plurality of perspectives. Rooted in Ifá, Yoruba knowledge and spiritual philosophy, we also explore truth as inner integrity, wisdom and spiritual attunement.

WARRI

24.11 - 28.11

LAGOS

2.12 - 6.12

WHAT WILL COME :

GATHERING

Artists, activists, elders, youth, and communities will converge to share stories, grief, memory, and hope. In our gathering, fragmentation gives way to collective presence and isolation is replaced by solidarity.

WORKSHOPS

 Our Workshops aim to create intimate spaces for shared learning and embodied exchange. Participants engage with indigenous epistemologies, ritual practices, movement, storytelling, and collective reflection. Collective knowledge cultivated together, grounded in lived experience and communal intelligence.

STREET PERFORMANCES

We will reclaim public space as a site of embodied truth. Through street performances in pop up spaces, we create a site for testimony and resistance. Our movement and dance gesture will interrupt everyday rhythms and invite collective witnessing as it  transforms into a living shrine where truth is not hidden but enacted.

EXHIBITIONS

We will host collective exhibitions that are accessible in local communities, avoiding elite spaces. Through image, installation, and material experimentation, artists challenge erasure while constructing new visual languages that express ancestral continuity and engage in political critique.

SYMPOSIA

Symposia provides a platform for rigorous dialogue and critical inquiry. Scholars, thinkers, and cultural practitioners interrogate systems of power, epistemic violence, and the politics of truth. These conversations bridge theory and practice, ensuring that intellectual discourse remains accountable to community realities.

HEALING

Healing is central to the festival's vision. It acknowledges wounds historical, political, spiritual and creates space for restoration. Through ritual, dialogue, art, and shared presence, we reconnect to ancestral memory and to one another, cultivating balance and continuity for the future.

WE NEED YOU!  

Join a movement of artists, activists & truth seekers speaking to the most urgent questions of our time.

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