More Than Entertainment: How Art Shapes Culture & Identity

📚Lecture: "More Than Entertainment: How Art Shapes Culture & Identity"

⏱️Time: 7-9pm (Lecture + Q&A and socializing)

🎤Speaker: Miss Yvvana (Prelaw Student, Cultural Curator and Editor in Chief of Ante Soso

This Tipsy Scholars lecture explores how art across the African diaspora from Nollywood and Afrobeats to fashion and internet culture reflects lived experience, migration, and identity, while helping communities preserve culture and build belonging across generations.

Using real-world case studies like Nollywood films, Afrobeats and Alte artists, fashion brands, and Toronto’s role as a West African cultural hub, this talk breaks down how nostalgia, relatability, populism, and migration shape contemporary Black art and culture today.

Miss Yvvana is a writer, curator, and freelance model based in Ottawa/Toronto. Her artistic expression is shaped by nostalgia, drawing from cultural archives of music, fashion, and multimedia to explore the intersections of art. Fascinated by how different mediums shape zeitgeist, she examines the ways in which art bends time, capturing overlapping themes across eras.

As the founder of the Ante Soso arts publication, she seeks to bridge the 'person' and the 'political' using storytelling and curation to reimagine cultural memory and identity.

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Art House, 555 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, Canada

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