Ajasin Foundation · Cohort 1 Grand Finale
The Children Have Something To Show You
After weeks inside an intensive residency in cultural and dramatic arts, the children of Cohort 1 take the stage in Owo. One afternoon. Dance, drama, and a message for the nation.
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WhenSaturday, 29 August 2026
Time11:00AM prompt · Red carpet from 11:00AM
WhereImade College Event Hall, Owo, Ondo State
AdmissionFree. Everyone is welcome.
Cohort 1 did not just learn a few songs and a dance step. Over the course of an intensive residency, a group of children and teenagers from Owo sat with tradition, picked up drama, and turned both into something they could perform with their own bodies and voices. This Saturday, that work leaves the rehearsal room and meets an audience.
Expect performances built around three ideas the young performers have lived with throughout the residency: the customs and values that make Owo what it is, the arts as a tool for peace rather than noise, and a call to national unity that these children are old enough to understand and young enough to perform without cynicism. There will be colour, drumming, storytelling, and a hall full of people who came to watch children take culture seriously.
This is a showcase, not a lecture. Come and see for yourself what a season of discipline and rehearsal can produce.
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Owo, Remembered
The residency roots the children in the traditions and values that shaped their own community, so they carry Owo forward rather than lose it.
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Arts As Peace
Every dance and scene was built to show that creative expression, not conflict, is how young people can be heard.
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One Nigeria, Their Way
Through performance, the children carry a message of unity and civic responsibility to an audience of their elders.
Inside The Residency
Drums beating. Voices rising. Feet moving. A moment from rehearsals in the run-up to Saturday.
The Official Invitation
The Ajasin Foundation invites the general public to the Grand Finale and Showcase of the Children's Cultural and Dramatic Arts Residency for National Citizenship.
The event is open to families, lovers of arts and culture, educators, and community leaders. Members of the public are encouraged to come and support the young ones as they demonstrate their commitment to the nation through art, drama and culture.
For further enquiries, call 08063030770.
Signed: Aderinboye Temitope, Manager/Coordinator, Ajasin Foundation.
Finding The Venue
Imade College Event Hall sits within Imade College, Owo, Ondo State. Coming from within Owo town, head toward the Imade College campus; the event hall is on the school grounds and easy to spot once you are on campus.
Parking is available within the school premises. For help finding the venue on the day, call 08063030770.
The venue
Imade College Event Hall
Imade College, Owo, Ondo State
On the day, call 08063030770 if you cannot find the hall. Someone will guide you in.
Tell Us You're Coming
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Continue What Pa Ajasin Started
Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin made education free so that a child's ability, not their parents' pocket, would decide that child's future. Every gift to the Ajasin Foundation keeps that same promise alive for the next child with more talent than opportunity.
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