ABBY OGUNSANYA is a film and theatre buff, avid reader and lover of all genres of music. A marketing consultant by profession, Abby has been running her own company Purple PR for over ten years consulting for some of the biggest companies in Nigeria and abroad. She returned ‘back to base’ in Nigeria in 2001 having spent the best part of two decades studying and working in the UK.

Abby is camera shy and can often be found lurking behind the stage at Afropolitan Vibes. When not co-producing Afropolitan Vibes, Abby continues to earn her living as a Marketing Consultant and is also working as co- producer on several projects including Elders Corner (www.elderscornerfilm.com) – a documentary about the history of Nigeria since independence as told through the experiences of its foremost music legends.

Olasunkanmi Adebayo, Actor and Director, was best-graduating student of his Theatre Arts class at the University of Ibadan where he majored in directing. He won the Zulu Sofola memorial prize and the Nigerian breweries prize as best student director in the University.

He has also directed and written television commercials, documentaries and TV shows.  Olasunkanmi was content director and writer for Malta Guinness street dance Africa, Nigerian Idol, Celebrity takes two, MTN Project Fame West Africa and Amstel Malta Box office as well as Post-production co-coordinator on the talk show, Moments with MO, produced by Inspire Africa for M-net Television

He is passionate about film and theatre and loves to teach and impact knowledge. A practical oriented thespian, resourceful and willing to learn more and push the frontiers of arts and culture in Nigeria. He is comfortable teaching, acting and directing for television, film and stage.

Ayodele Ogundare is a professional sound engineer who studied Electrical Electronics at the Lagos State Polytechnic (OND) obtained a BSc in the same discipline at Kingdom Audio College.

He is a member of AES; He has completed numerous training programs in the United State including MAIDAS PRO SERIES OPERATIONAL AND TECHNICAL TRAINING in Las Vegas, NABB SHOW and more. Ayodele is a certified user of MIDAS Digital console and has functioned as an application engineer in NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES.

Ayodele has engineered lots of events and has over the years provided excellent sound reinforcements for event organized by some of the most prominent companies in Nigeria including Etisalat Nigeria, MTN, Airtel, Keystone Bank, Marketing World, Total Consult, Awesome Treasures, French Consulate and Goethe institute and The Fashion Association of Nigeria.

Born in Lagos – Aderemi Adegbite is a documentary photographer/video artist. He considers photography as a tool, to engage society in discourse. His photo “N65,” won the Emerging Human Rights Activists award of the World Youth Movement for Democracy 2012 Photo Contest. And with this, he participated at the Seventh Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy which held in Lima, Peru in 2012.

Aderemi’s photographic and video works have been exhibited at the LagosPhoto Festival in Nigeria, FRAMES Projecting International Photography Festival in Scotland, Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Egypt, One Minutes Foundation in Amsterdam, Slade Centre for Electronic Media in London, Skoto Gallery in New York, Centre for Contemporary Art in Poland among others. His latest work was featured as a solo exhibition “Through My Eyes” during the recently concluded Bundesfach Kongress held in Mannheim, Germany. Also, he was the official photographer of the international theatre festival: Schwindelfrei Theater Festival held in Mannheim in September, 2014.

Vernacular Art Laboratory (VAL, Lagos)
T: +234 708 428 7828
E: adegbiteaderemi@gmail.com
W: http://www.africaseeyouseeme.com; http://www.aderemiadegbite.com

Graeme Arendse has been a doodler since he could clutch a pencil. Over the years he has developed his skill in design and illustration, with particular influence from his love for the art of comics. He currently applies this in a more professional setting as the design editor at Chimurenga (www.chimurenga.co.za), and also provides design and illustrative work for a number of clients including Afropolitan Vibes, Sauti Za Busara, Ake Arts and Book Festival, District Six Museum and Botsotso Publishers. His passion for music (which sees him occasionally appear as alter ego selector Boeta Gee) has led him to provide poster designs for a number of music related events, such as the Pan African Space Station, Jazz In The Native Yards, Fong Kong Bantu Sound System and Future Nostalgia. He has however never abandoned his doodling.

View a selection of his design and illustration work at his Facebook page, Boeta Gee.
Listen to a selection of his mixes at http://www.mixcloud.com/graemearendse/
Email: boeta.gee@gmail.com