00:01Lagos, Nigeria's bustling economic hub, is famous for its creativity and constant motion.
00:07Now, street art is adding a bold new layer to the city's identity.
00:12For the first time, Lagos is hosting a major street art festival,
00:17transforming walls across the city center into colorful open-air canvases.
00:22From large-scale murals to graffiti and live art pop-ups,
00:26the festival brings creativity directly to the streets of Lagos.
00:31With a city that is vibrant, we cannot subtract street art.
00:36It has to be there as part and parcel of what this city is.
00:40There's a lot of walls that are plain and I feel like art should be there.
00:45I want Lagos to be an art city. When you come to Lagos, you know that you're going to see amazing art.
00:49For organizers, the festival is about creating space for artists
00:53who don't always fit into traditional galleries.
00:56We've also always believed in like the democratization of art,
00:59making sure that art is not limited to gallery spaces,
01:02but it can also be seen in public space.
01:04It's also an answer to just allowing community to be able to experience,
01:09you know, art in its truest, rawest form.
01:14Residents say street art is changing how they experience Lagos.
01:19Not everyone has the privilege to experience it because, you know, you have to go to the gallery,
01:23you have to see it in the museums and stuff like that,
01:25places that are really important and hard to get into,
01:28but having art on the street just makes it very inclusive.
01:31Organizers say it took years to secure approval,
01:35but the result is a growing movement that's reshaping Lagos' urban culture.
01:49You've written down the street.
01:51So you also, you can't do it in the museum.
01:55Here's what you're going to do.
01:56It's quite different.
01:59You can't go to the museum, you can just go to the museum.
02:02Let's go to the museum.
02:04Here's what you're going to do now for the museum.
02:06So the museum is the museum.
02:09It's very beautiful.
02:10The museum is the museum.
02:12It's very beautiful.
02:14You can check out the museum and I have to look out.
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