An activities lined up for this year’s Ogidi Day holding in Ogidi-Ijumu, Kogi State on Saturday.
Activities lined up for the event include a medical outreach to be conducted by Ripples Charity, a United Kingdom based organisation and a grand finale at which Senator Dino Melaye as Chairman and Chief Mrs. Modupe Jemibewon as Chairperson.
The exhibition tagged “Back to My Roots” will be Okundaye’s first show in her home town since she found fame with indigo art over 40 years ago.
National Public Relations Officer of the Ogidi Development Union, Mr Oladipo Akande, in a statement said the works of 45 other artists in the various genres of the visual arts will feature at the exhibition which is being jointly coordinated by Okundaye and Mrs Ngozi Akande, President of the Female Artists Association of Nigeria.
The Director-General, National Gallery of Art, Mr Abdullahi Muku, is expected to declare the exhibition open.
The statements said over 1,000 persons were expected to benefit from the medical outreach at which free medical tests would be conducted and free drugs given out, up from over 600 beneficiaries last year.
The grand finale holding at the Community Hall Grounds, Agegbe, Ogidi would feature a display of the community’s rich cultural heritage, the presentation and blessing of the new yam as well as performances by visiting cultural troupes from Lagos, Osun and Ondo States.
An appeal fund for the rehabilitation of the two dilapidated secondary schools in the community as well as other decayed educational infrastructure will be launched at the event.