Public culture
The Live Show, Film Festival, slams and seasonal experiences where artists, audiences and ideas meet—and leave a record.
Explore programmes↗African cultural institution · Creative practice
Exceptional voices deserve more than a moment.
Orange Poetry Africa is building the home where exceptional spoken-word voices are developed, produced, presented and remembered—and where brands and institutions meet the culture with care.
Artist careers · Public culture · Creative workFounded in Nigeria · Building for Africa
Stories
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Spoken-word performance · Nigeria
ARTIST CAREERS ✦ LIVE EXPERIENCES ✦ FILM & PRODUCTION ✦ CULTURAL STRATEGY ✦ ARCHIVE & MEMORY
Our North Star
What changes in an artist’s life because Orange Poetry exists?
We began by making exceptional voices easier to see and hear. The next chapter asks what happens after visibility: stronger work, durable assets, credible opportunities, fairer economics and careers that can continue.
Read our direction↗One institution, three tracks
Public culture, creative work and artist careers.
Each track has a different purpose. Together, they keep Orange Poetry close to artists and audiences while building the capability and partnerships required for work that lasts.
Commissioned work
Films, campaigns, live experiences, talent and cultural strategy built for brands, institutions, NGOs and festivals.
See what we make↗Career infrastructure
A research-led pathway connecting identity, development, production, distribution, opportunity and sustainable income.
See the working framework↗What we make
One creative partner.
Several ways to move a story.
Strategy, talent and production stay connected from the first idea to the public encounter.
Creative strategy
Campaign concepts, narrative strategy, cultural insight and story architecture.
Film & video
Brand films, documentaries, poetic commercials, social content and event coverage.
Live experiences
Festivals, launches, summits, poetry-led activations and audience-centred event design.
Talent & performance
Poet sourcing, booking, coaching, stage curation and creative direction.
Latest public work · Lagos
Harmattan, held in a room full of stories.
Harmattan Poetry Xperience brought poets and audiences together in a warm bookstore setting—an intimate seasonal expression of Orange Poetry Africa’s live practice.
- 0120 December 2025
- 0267 published photographs
- 03Poetry, performance and creative community
A documented practice
Claims are stronger when the work can be opened.
Eight public galleries preserve the people, stages and production choices behind the work.
08Public photo galleries
1,189Published photographs
100+Poets platformed
2019Year founded
Selected work
Made in public.
0120 Dec 2025
Harmattan Poetry Xperience
Live experience67 photos↗0220 Jul 2025Nezer’s House of Magic
Poetry musical theatre167 photos↗03Mar 2025The Wine Dresser
Orange Poetry Live Show118 photos↗0421 Feb 2025iMi Poetry Slam
Orange Poetry Live Show134 photos↗0529 Nov 2024Orange Poetry Film Festival
Film festival175 photos↗How we show up
Clear role. Concrete deliverables.
Selected signals from owned platforms, commissioned work and partnered cultural programmes.
African Creators Summit
Curated, wrote, staged and coordinated spoken-word, theatre, dance and screen-supported performances across the summit programme.
Agency-level event storytelling built around the summit’s themes.Orange Poetry Live Show
Developed the format, curated artists, produced the room, recorded performances and built the public archive.
Five public gallery collections and 780 published photographs across 2024–2025.H.E.R STORY Poetry Slam
Supported slam curation, performance documentation and digital amplification around women’s voices and social action.
Eight featured contestants and a ₦200,000 prize platform.Selected partners & collaborators
Good cultural work is built with people.
Organisations and creative communities that have supported, commissioned, hosted or built programmes with Orange Poetry Africa.
Apollo Endeavor
Savest Financial
Vic’Adex 60 Seconds Poetry
Tigray Coffee
Street Exchange
Konya Shamsrumi
Das UzeeNow
The next programme is being shaped.
New editions, artist calls and public events are announced through Orange Poetry Africa’s social channels. For commissions, productions and partnerships, start with a brief.